According to the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, “Zoning is intended to promote, protect, and facilitate the public health, safety, morals, general welfare, coordinated and practical community development, proper density of population, civil defense, the provisions of adequate light and air, police protection, vehicle parking and loading space, transportation, water, sewerage, schools, public grounds and other public requirements as well as preventing the overcrowding of land, light danger and congestion in travel and transportation, loss of health, life or property from fire, flood, panic, or other dangers. More specifically these broad purposes are designed to clearly achieve the objectives of the North East Regional Comprehensive Plan and the North East Regional Comprehensive Plan updates.”
Zoning does not address building construction codes or property maintenance requirements. Those standards and requirements, while possibly related, are not part of zoning and are administered separately from zoning.