Vacating Streets In Pennsylvania

Developers may encounter public or private streets running through land on areas where it wishes to build or provide open space. This is especially true when developing a number of adjacent parcels with roads traversing in between the parcels. In Pennsylvania, in order to remove the street and develop the land over it, the street must be properly vacated by the municipality in which it lies.

Boroughs

Pursuant to the Pennsylvania Borough Code, 8 Pa.C.S.A. § 101, et seq., a borough has the authority, by ordinance, to vacate or close any street or portion of a street previously opened or laid out in the borough. It can do so on its own volition or by petition of any owner of property abutting the street to be vacated.