Zoning, building permits and septic rules in Lower Salford Township, Pennsylvania

Lower Salford Township’s own rules

• Local zoningPresent (with conditions)

  Land inside Lower Salford Township.

  • Buildings and land uses must conform to Chapter 164.

  “no building shall be erected, altered or used and no land shall be used”

• Mandatory utility hookupConditional

  All residential and nonresidential uses in an R-1A golf course residential community inside Lower Salford Township.

  • Applies to golf course residential communities, which require a site area of at least 300 acres and no more than 500 acres.
  • Sewage may be public or approved community sewage disposal facilities.

  “All uses (residential and nonresidential) within the golf course residential community shall be served by public water and by public or approved community sewage disposal facilities.”

• Subdividing landRegulated (with conditions)

  Subdivision and land development inside Lower Salford Township.

  • The code includes preliminary-plan, final-plan, and minor-plan filing and review procedures.

  “§ 142-16 Preliminary plan filing and review procedure.”

Rules another office applies inside Lower Salford Township

Lower Salford Township does not set these itself; the county, a health district or the state does, and they apply to every address inside its limits.

• Minimum lot sizeSpecified

  R-1A Residence District inside Lower Salford Township.

  • Lot width may be reduced below 200 feet, but not below 150 feet, when authorized as a special exception by the Zoning Hearing Board.

  minimum net lot area: >= 80000 square feet · minimum lot width: >= 200 feet (May be reduced to at least 150 feet by Zoning Hearing Board special exception.)

  “net lot area of not less than 80,000 square feet”

• Lot coverageSpecified

  R-1A Residence District inside Lower Salford Township.

  maximum building coverage: <= 10 percent of net lot area

  “Not more than 10% of the net area of each lot may be occupied by buildings.”

• Building heightSpecified

  R-1A Residence District inside Lower Salford Township.

  maximum building height: <= 35 feet

  “The maximum height of buildings and other structures erected or enlarged in this district shall be 35 feet.”

Still unanswered

We looked and could not find an official answer yet. Silence is not permission; ask Lower Salford Township or Montgomery County directly.

• Building permit — Residential construction inside Lower Salford Township.
• Owner-builder exemption — Owner-builders inside Lower Salford Township.
• Building code adopted — Building-code adoption inside Lower Salford Township.
• Inspections — Building inspections inside Lower Salford Township.
• Certificate of occupancy — Certificates of occupancy inside Lower Salford Township.

Each answer was extracted from an official source and independently re-checked against that source by a second reviewer. That is an evidence check, not legal advice. Rules change; confirm with the authority before you buy or build.

Off-grid gear

Going off-grid in Lower Salford Township means bringing your own water and power. The kit we’d start with:

• Water Crystal Quest Filter any source — well, rain, or creek — to drinking-clean.
• Power Bluetti Solar generators and home battery backup for living off the grid.
• Septic Soil percolation test kit Run your own perc test before paying an engineer — the first thing a septic office asks about.
• Water Well water test kit Bacteria, nitrates, hardness — know what the well on a parcel is really pumping.

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