[Added 5-20-1998 by Ord. No. 163]
In expansion of the legislative intent and community development objectives contained in Article
I, §§
150-2 and
150-3, of this chapter and in support of the goals and recommendations of the Worcester Township Comprehensive Plan, it is the intent of this article to:
A. Allow retail commercial uses, including auto-oriented
uses, that will meet the local, neighborhood shopping needs of the
Township's residents.
B. Limit the potential adverse effect of commercial development
on abutting properties, the Township's character and the Township's
roads by controlling the location and nature of commercial development.
A building may be erected or used and a lot
may be used or occupied for any one of the following purposes and
no other:
A. Retail store selling or leasing for local neighborhood
use one or more of the following items at retail: food, groceries,
meats, vegetables, fruit, drugs, cosmetics, hardware, clothing, jewelry,
watches, optical goods, nursery stock, musical, professional or scientific
instruments.
B. Office, bank, financial institution.
C. Personal service shop of a dressmaker, shoe repairer,
tailor, hairdresser.
D. Medical offices of a private practitioner, other than
a clinic.
E. Undertaker, not including crematorium.
F. Baker, confectioner or custom shop for the production
of articles to be sold only on the premises.
G. Restaurant, catering operation, ice cream shop or
other food service operation, provided not more than four persons
are employed by the same, and provided that no alcoholic beverages
are served.
H. Any similar use to those specified in this section
above, when authorized as a special exception by the Zoning Hearing
Board and when not employing more than five persons.
I. Special exceptions. The following uses are permitted
when authorized as a special exception by the Zoning Hearing Board.
(3)
Motor vehicle service or repair, employing not
more than three persons.
(4)
Motor vehicle rental or leasing.
(5)
Gasoline service station when limited to three
bays and customary sales room and including sanitary toilet rooms,
provided that any outdoor display of merchandise is kept within 25
feet of the building or on the pump islands, and provided that between
the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., prevailing time, it will be
closed, with no illumination evident excepting a dim nightlight indoors.
(6)
Hotel, motel or similar lodging facility.
(7)
Wholesale merchandise establishment.
(8)
Multiple use office building.
(10)
Parking lot incidental to any of the uses under
this subsection.
[Amended 8-21-1996 by Ord. No. 150]
(11)
Nursing homes, personal care facilities and residential life-care
facilities, provided that a residential life-care facility is located
on a lot 100 acres or larger.
[Added 12-15-1999 by Ord. No. 176; amended 5-16-2018 by Ord. No. 277]
(12)
Hospitals.
[Added 12-15-1999 by Ord. No. 176]
J. Municipal use as defined in Article
III.
[Added 9-15-1993 by Ord. No. 133]