Resource Library

The Resource Library contains a wide range of publications, references, and links to important governmental, civic, and community information.

Citizens & Local Government

Publications for Government Officials

Governmental Organizations

Fiscal Management

Taxation

Ordinances & Zoning

Property Maintenance

  • Local Government Commission Report: Property Maintenance Code Enforcement (2024)
  • Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania – From Blight to Bright (2016) – From Blight to Bright is the comprehensive toolkit for combating blight in Pennsylvania. It provides tools to prevent blight, eliminate blight, keep properties up to code, and how to address long-term vacant and abandoned properties. There is also an update from April 2018 regarding changes in laws used to prevent, remediate, and redevelop blight.
  • We Can Do This: A Five Step, Fast-Track Blight Plan (2016) – This publication walks you through five basic steps for developing a community or countywide blight strategy. “The Five-Step, Fast-Track Blight Plan” publication describes a systematic, proven, and inexpensive way for municipalities and counties to develop a comprehensive strategy to address blight,” according to Chris Gulotta, author of the publication. “It is a customized, stakeholder-driven process that develops a team approach for tackling blight.”Quick Guide: New Tools to Address Blight and Abandonment (2012) – The Quick Guide provides a comprehensive list of tools and authorities by level of government that were granted as of 2012, and recommendations for new tools as of that time. This publication succinctly and clearly breaks down 26 laws for combating blight and their applicability by government level, many of which are still in effect today as written in 2012.

Streets & Roadways

Public Health

Public Safety

Police

Fire

Emergency Management

Economic Development

Municipal 

Committees Online

Contact & Communication 

Services & Amenities

Neighboring Municipalities

County Government

Recreation & Tourism

Borough Code Enforcement

Borough Property Maintenance Ordinances

Pennsylvania Local Government Commission (Statewide Blight Task Force) 

Property Maintanance Code Enforcement Study (2024) – The Pennsylvania Local Government Commission, a legislative agency, is studying municipal property maintenance code enforcement on behalf of the Statewide Blight Reform Task Force. There is growing concern over the impact of blight on our communities and code enforcement is a key tool in mitigating and preventing blight. Because Pennsylvania does not have a statewide property maintenance code or any training program for code officers, the task force is interested in learning how municipalities manage property maintenance code enforcement.  The Commission is asking township officials to complete a survey that is expected to take about 15 to 20 minutes. Your input will help identify trends in code enforcement and will be used to develop recommendations on how to better address code enforcement and blight mitigation.

Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania

From Blight to Bright (2016) – From Blight to Bright is the comprehensive toolkit for combating blight in Pennsylvania. It provides tools to prevent blight, eliminate blight, keep properties up to code, and how to address long-term vacant and abandoned properties. There is also an update from April 2018 regarding changes in laws used to prevent, remediate, and redevelop blight.

We Can Do This: A Five Step, Fast-Track Blight Plan (2016) – This publication walks you through five basic steps for developing a community or countywide blight strategy. “The Five-Step, Fast-Track Blight Plan” publication describes a systematic, proven, and inexpensive way for municipalities and counties to develop a comprehensive strategy to address blight,” according to Chris Gulotta, author of the publication. “It is a customized, stakeholder-driven process that develops a team approach for tackling blight.”

Quick Guide: New Tools to Address Blight and Abandonment (2012) – The Quick Guide provides a comprehensive list of tools and authorities by level of government that were granted as of 2012, and recommendations for new tools as of that time. This publication succinctly and clearly breaks down 26 laws for combating blight and their applicability by government level, many of which are still in effect today as written in 2012.

Public safety is the responsibility of four key municipal agencies: 

  • Beaver Falls Police Department
  • Beaver Falls Fire Department
  • West Mayfield Code Enforcement
  • West Mayfield Emergency Management

Visit the Borough’s Emergency page

Community Related Organizations

About West Mayfield

Beaver County Election Bureau

PennDOT Guidance for Political Signs

Street Maps of West Mayfield