In O-P Office-Professional Districts, the following
regulations shall apply.
A building may be erected, altered or used and
a lot may be used or occupied for any of the following purposes and
no other:
A. Single-family detached or semidetached dwelling. A
semidetached dwelling shall be one which is in all respects within
the definition of a "single-family detached dwelling," except that
it may have one party wall with another semidetached dwelling, each
of which dwellings shall be for occupancy by one separate individual
or family.
[Amended 4-12-1983 by Ord. No. 4-1983]
B. Professional, governmental or business office or building,
subject to the following regulations, provided that no building shall
include a store or personal service shop, except such store or shop
designed and used primarily by occupants of the building in which
it is located; or any retail commercial characteristic which detracts
materially from the character of the district or the surrounding neighborhood.
[Amended 4-12-1983 by Ord. No. 4-1983]
C. Educational or religious uses (but not including hospitals,
sanatoriums or medical centers) on lots of not less than one acre.
D. Day-care center, when authorized by the Board of Supervisors as a conditional use as set forth in §
139-71.1 below.
[Added 6-16-1998 by Ord. No. 4-1998]
E. The following additional uses when authorized by the Zoning Hearing Board as a special exception, subject also to the requirements of §
139-122:
(1) Club or lodge for fraternal or social purposes, provided
that the principal activity shall not be one which is customarily
carried on as a business.
(2) Laboratory for research and testing, not involving
commercial production or danger from fire or explosion.
F. Motor vehicle parking lot, provided that such parking
lot or garage shall not be used for sale, servicing or the dead storage
of vehicles.
G. Accessory use on the same lot with and customarily incidental to any of the above permitted uses, which use may include living accommodations for one family in conjunction with office or permitted nonresidential use, and signs when erected and maintained in accordance with the provisions of Article
XVIII of this chapter.
H. Bank or other financial institution with drive-through lanes when authorized by the Board of Supervisors as a conditional use as set forth in §
139-71.1 below.
[Added 8-22-2005 by Ord. No. 3-2005]
I. Retail food market, provided the following requirements are met:
[Added 3-25-2013 by Ord. No. 1-2013]
(1) Lot area and width. The lot area shall not be less than 7,500 square
feet and the lot width at the building line shall be not less than
50 feet.
(2) Building footprint. For single-use buildings or mixed-use buildings,
the maximum gross floor area of the ground floor shall be 5,000 square
feet.
(3) Front yard. There shall be no minimum front yard setback, except
that distance necessary to provide the required sidewalks and streetscape.
(4) Side yards. A ten-foot side yard shall be required, except that where
a lot abuts a residential district in the Township or a residential
district in an adjoining municipality, a side yard shall be provided
which shall be not less than 20 feet in width.
(5) Rear yard. No rear yard shall be required, except that where a lot
abuts a residential district in the Township or a residential district
in an adjoining municipality, a rear yard shall be provided which
shall be not less than 20 feet in width.
(6) Sidewalks. Sidewalks shall be provided between a building and the
street.
(7) Food consumption shall only be permitted indoors and as an accessory
use to a food market.
(8) Trash receptacles and/or dumpsters shall only be permitted in the rear yard and must be screened or buffered pursuant to Article
X of Chapter
73.
(9) The following subsections of §
139-71 shall also apply: §
139-71D,
E, and
F. All parking shall be on the same lot as the principal building and shall be located no closer than five feet from any building.
[Amended 4-24-1984 by Ord. No. 3-1984]
Each building hereafter erected or used in whole
or in part as a dwelling shall comply with the area and height regulations
prescribed for R-3 Residence Districts. For offices and other principal
buildings, no part of which is used as a dwelling, the following area
and height regulations shall apply:
A. Lot area and lot width. A lot area sufficient in size
to assure adequate water supply and sewage disposal facilities shall
be provided and the water supply and sewage disposal arrangements
shall be approved by the Township or other appropriate governmental
agency. In no case, however, shall the lot area for each principal
use be less than 20,000 square feet or the lot width less than 100
feet at the building line or less than 80 feet at the street line.
Notwithstanding the lot area, lot width and yard requirements of this
section, a lot which was held in single and separate ownership as
of April 25, 1961, which is not of the required minimum area or width,
may be used for any one principal use permitted in the district.
B. Building area. Not more than 50% of the lot area required
for each use may be occupied by buildings.
C. Yards. Front, side and rear yards shall be provided
on each lot as follows:
(1) Front yard: one yard, not less than 50 feet in depth, subject to the provisions of §
139-103.
(2) Side yards: two, neither less than 10 feet in width,
except that where a lot abuts a street on the side lot line or a residence
district or similar district in an adjoining municipality, such yard
shall be not less than 20 feet in width.
(3) Rear yard: one yard, not less than 25 feet in depth.
D. Height. No building shall exceed 35 feet in height.
E. Access and off-street parking requirements. In O-P Office Professional Districts, the special provisions of §§
139-98,
139-99 and
139-100 relating to parking, loading and the development of highway frontage shall apply.
F. Impervious coverage. Not more than 70% of the lot
area may contain impervious surfaces.
[Added 5-14-2001 by Ord. No. 1-2001]
[Added 6-16-1998 by Ord. No. 4-1998]
In addition to the standards of this article and those of §
139-118.1 concerning procedures for conditional use applications, the Board of Supervisors shall require the following standards be met prior to granting approval of any conditional use application:
A. Freestanding conditional uses shall be permitted.
B. When a conditional use is located within a building containing a primary use permitted in §
139-39 herein, said conditional use shall be limited to 15% of the total leasable area of said building.
C. As deemed warranted by the Board of Supervisors, adjustments
to applicable parking standards may be required when a conditional
use is located within a building containing a primary use.
D. Conditional uses shall have hours of operation that coincide with primary uses permitted in §
139-39 herein, unless additional hours are deemed reasonable by the Board of Supervisors based upon the nature of use.