The purpose of this district is to provide and
require a unified and organized arrangement of buildings, service
and parking areas, together with adequate circulation and open space,
all planned and designed as an integrated unit, in a manner so as
to provide and constitute an efficient, safe, convenient and attractive
shopping area. This district also recognizes that the PC District
is mostly developed and that it adjoins heavily traveled roads, necessitating
careful vehicular access control.
Permitted by right uses shall be as follows:
A.Â
Routine changes of establishments within an existing
structure, for retail sales of goods, restaurants and/or personal
or business services.
B.Â
Routine changes of establishments within an existing
structure for business, professional and medical offices and financial
institutions.
C.Â
Accessory use and structure that is customarily incidental
to a lawful principal use.
D.Â
Exercise club.
E.Â
Artisan's or crafts studio.
F.Â
Forestry.
[Added 2-19-2001 by Ord. No. 2001-299]
G.Â
Business professional office, provided it is in a
previously approved land development.
[Added 5-20-2002 by Ord. No. 2002-316]
H.Â
Retail sale of goods, commercial recreation, restaurant
and/or personal or business services involving new construction of
structures or structural building addition, provided it is in a previously
approved land development.
[Added 5-20-2002 by Ord. No. 2002-316]
Special exception uses in the PC District shall
be as follows:
[Amended 5-20-2002 by Ord. No. 2002-316]
All of the following uses are conditional uses
in the Planned Commercial District which must meet the general and
specific standards governing conditional uses in this ordinance:
A.Â
Business, professional or medical/dental office or
financial institution that involves new construction of structures
or structural building additions, provided that said structure is
the subject of an approved land development plan.
B.Â
Retail sales, commercial recreation, restaurant and/or
personal or business services involving new construction of structures
or structural building additions, provided that said structures are
set forth on a previously approved land development plan.
Specifically prohibited uses shall be as follows:
A.Â
All exterior storage and exterior commercial display,
except exterior sales of nursery and gardening items.
B.Â
Adult bookstore, adult live entertainment use, adult
movie theater and massage parlor.
C.Â
All uses not permitted specifically either by right,
special exception, conditional use or accessory use are prohibited.
[Added 5-20-2002 by Ord. No. 2002-316]
Area and bulk regulations in the PC District
shall be as follows:
A.Â
Tract area: 20 acres minimum. Lots of a minimum area
of two acres may be created out of a twenty-acre-minimum tract, provided
that each lot would be fully integrated into the overall development
and that vehicular access is provided only as part of an integrated,
coordinated system throughout the entire tract, and not with any additional
exterior access points.
B.Â
Tract width: 1,000 feet minimum; a minimum lot width
of 100 feet, except that there shall be a minimum lot width of 250
feet for any lot having direct individual vehicular access onto a
major or minor arterial street, apart from the coordinated vehicular
access of a planned commercial center.
C.Â
Lot coverage: 35% maximum building coverage, except
that an additional 15% may be used as a parking garage; a maximum
of 80% impervious coverage, with a minimum of 20% of the lot area
being landscaped areas.
D.Â
E.Â
Side and rear yard setbacks. The same requirements as listed in § 190-82E(1) shall apply to side and rear yards.
F.Â
Parking lot setback.
(1)Â
All vehicular parking areas developed after the adoption
of this ordinance shall be set back a minimum of 60 feet from the
future right-of-way of PA Route 248 (Nazareth Road) and 40 feet from
the future right-of-way of all other minor arterial roads, including
Park Avenue.
G.Â
Height: 2 1/2 stories or 35 feet maximum, whichever
is more restrictive.
See Article XVII.
See Article XVIII.
No construction of structures, parking areas or access roads shall occur on any portion of and land with a slope prior to construction of greater than 15%. Vegetation shall remain substantially undisturbed on all areas of slope of greater than 15%. See § 190-150 regarding intrusion of construction areas into certain features.
No conditional use shall be granted within the
PC District if it will, in the opinion of the Board of Supervisors,
create a traffic hazard within the tract or exterior to the tract.
Additional access points from a PC tract that is currently most developed
onto public streets are prohibited, unless the applicant proves to
the satisfaction of the Board of Supervisors that such access is necessary
and would not adversely affect the smooth flow of through traffic.
See § 190-201.