[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. Permit a range of manufacturing and other industrial
uses.
B. Provide local job opportunities for Township residents.
C. Limit the potential adverse effect of industrial development
on abutting properties, the Township's character and the Township's
roads by controlling the location and nature of industrial development.
A building or combination of buildings may be
erected or used and a lot may be used or occupied for any of the following
purposes and no other:
C. Industrial use or commercial kennel.
[Amended 4-17-1996 by Ord. No. 146]
D. Administrative offices and research facilities accessory
to a permitted use.
E. Any use similar to those enumerated above, when authorized
as a special exception by the Zoning Hearing Board.
F. Any other legitimate use not otherwise permitted expressly
or by implication elsewhere in this Zoning Code when authorized as
a conditional use by the Board of Supervisors and after the imposition
of conditions designed to eliminate (to the extent reasonably possible)
adverse affects upon neighboring properties and the general public
health, safety and welfare.
[Added 2-16-2005 by Ord. No. 204]
G. The following uses shall not be permitted:
(2)
Acetylene gas manufacture and/or storage.
(3)
Acid manufacture (hydrochloric, nitric, picric,
sulphuric, sulphanous, carbolic).
(5)
Ammonia, bleaching powder or chlorine manufacture.
(6)
Ammunition manufacture and/or storage.
(8)
Asphalt manufacturing or refining.
(12)
Cement, lime, gypsum or plaster of paris manufacture.
(15)
Creosote treatment or manufacture.
(16)
Dead animal and offal reduction.
(17)
Distillation of bones, coal, petroleum, refuse
grain or wood (except in the manufacture of gas).
(19)
Explosives, fireworks and gun powder manufacture
or storage.
(24)
Incineration, reduction, storage or dumping
of slaughterhouse refuse, rancid fats, garbage, dead animal or offal.
(25)
Oilcloth or linoleum manufacture.
(27)
Petroleum or kerosene refining, distillation
or derivation of by-products and/or storage.
(29)
Power forge (riveting, hammering, punching,
chipping, drawing, rolling or tumbling of iron, steel, brass or copper,
except as a necessary incident of manufacture of which these processes
form a minor part and which are carried on without objectionable noise
outside the plant).
(31)
Steel furnace, blooming mill or rolling mill.
(33)
Tar distillation or manufacture.
H. Municipal use as defined in Article
III.
[Added 9-15-1993 by Ord. No. 133]
Building height. The maximum height for buildings or other structures erected or enlarged in this district shall be 35 feet; provided that for the purposes of this Article
XIX, chimneys, spires, towers, elevator penthouses, tanks, solar energy apparatus and similar projections shall be included in the height, and provided further that such projections shall be permitted to extend not more than 10 feet above the allowable building height only when authorized as a special exception by the Zoning Hearing Board.