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Beaver County commission adopts ordinance to streamline subdivision approvals
Summary
The Beaver County Commission voted to adopt Ordinance 2025-01, aligning local subdivision procedures with a recent state law and shifting final approval for many subdivisions away from the commission to planning staff or a zoning administrator.
The Beaver County Commission on March 4 adopted Ordinance 2025-01, a rewrite of county subdivision procedures intended to implement recent state requirements and shorten review timelines.
County staff told commissioners the ordinance updates the county code to comply with a state bill referred to in the meeting as “bill 174,” which sets deadlines and limits on what jurisdictions can require during subdivision review. The changes remove the county commission from final approval of many subdivisions and give approval authority to planning and zoning or to a designated zoning administrator once required technical…
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