In addition to the definitions contained in §
275-8 of the Zoning Ordinance, the following additional definitions shall apply to the SU-1A Mixed Use District:
CONFERENCE CENTER
A facility with or without overnight lodging, at which meetings,
seminars, expositions, trade shows and/or conferences are conducted.
Conference facilities may also include ancillary entertainment facilities,
a fitness and health center and retail stores and services primarily
for conference center guests.
CONVENIENCE STORE WITH FUEL PUMPS
A retail store of not less than 3,000 square feet or more
than 12,000 square feet of building area exclusive of canopy and fuel
pump areas, for the sale of food and beverages, personal care items,
self-service gasoline and other similar items, which may include ATM
banking machines. A convenience store with fuel pumps shall not include
the provision of automobile service or repair and shall not allow
tractor-trailer fueling.
EXISTING FRANKLIN MINT PARCELS
Those existing parcels, as defined by separate tax parcel
numbers, which contain or contained buildings or structures operated
in connection with the Franklin Mint.
HOTEL
A facility offering for compensation temporary overnight
lodging accommodations to the general public, in which such lodging
accommodations are accessed from common entrances to an interior lobby,
corridor or hallway, and which may include additional accessory use
facilities and services, such as restaurants, meeting rooms, personal
services, and recreational facilities. Such establishments shall provide
guests with customary hotel services such as maid service and the
furnishing and laundering of linen. A hotel may include an accessory
conference center.
MAN-MADE STEEP AND VERY STEEP SLOPES
Topographic conditions characterized by a change in elevation equal to or greater than 15%, as determined and delineated by the process described in Article
XXX, which are the artifact of human land use and earthmoving activity, including, but not limited to, the construction and/or maintenance of transportation infrastructure; agricultural or industrial operations; mineral extraction; building construction; stormwater and floodwater management; sewage control; energy production; military operations; refuse deposit (landfill); and the like. Proof of whether a slope is man-made may be provided through comparisons of historic aerial photographs, soil borings, USGS maps, development plans, field survey, and the review of other maps and documentation.
MULTITENANT OFFICE BUILDING
A building containing general and/or professional office
uses but which may also contain meeting facilities, seminar facilities
and/or accessory dining, fitness and retail facilities, health and
fitness centers, cultural, religious or charitable uses, conference
centers (without either overnight lodging or ancillary entertainment
uses), governmental uses, medical laboratories, research and testing
facilities and parking structures.
[Added 2-11-2013 by Ord. No. 736]
NATURE TRAIL
An unpaved path through wooded areas and meadows that is
marked and maintained for walking or hiking, and which is connected
at both ends to other such paths, or sidewalks, or common open space.
RESEARCH OR TESTING FACILITY
A facility for product investigation, testing or development,
including food products, prototype store development.
RETAIL STORE
An establishment engaged in selling goods or merchandise
to the general public for personal or household consumption and rendering
services incidental to the sale of such goods including, but not limited
to, pharmacy, book store, florist shop, gift shop, jewelry store,
or picture framing shop, home improvement store. Retail stores may
include a supermarket component.
STREETSCAPE
The cartway, and the space adjacent to the cartway that may
be embellished with curbs, grass strips, sidewalks, street trees,
streetlights, and amenities such as benches, waste receptacles and
the like.
SUPERMARKET
A retail establishment, typically in the range of 50,000
to 180,000 square feet of gross floor area, selling food, including
alcoholic beverage sales, prepared foods for on premises or off premises
consumption, and also selling other convenience and household goods,
clothing, electronics and other products sold in general merchandise
stores, and providing ancillary services, including but not limited
to pharmacy and banking services, and restaurants. Supermarkets shall
not include wholesale membership clubs and/or discount department
stores.
TRACT
One or more contiguous or noncontiguous lots, assembled for
the purpose of unified development in accordance with the regulations
of the SU-1-A Mixed Use District.
Buildings may be erected, altered or used and land may be used
or occupied for the following uses:
A. Minimum tract size: 100 acres.
B. The following residential uses are permitted as of right within the
SU-1-A Mixed Use District:
[Amended 2-24-2014 by Ord. No. 746; 9-26-2016 by Ord. No. 771]
(1)
Single-family semidetached dwellings;
(2)
Single-family attached dwellings;
(3)
Single-family detached dwellings;
C. The following nonresidential uses are permitted as of right within
the SU-1-A Mixed Use District:
(2)
Convenience store with fuel pumps;
(3)
Bank or other financial institutions, with or without drive-up
window and/or accessory ATM facilities;
(4)
Commercial greenhouse, nursery or garden center;
(6)
Cultural, religious or charitable uses;
(7)
General or professional offices;
(9)
Health and fitness centers, including ancillary services such
as wellness, physical rehabilitation facilities and prevention health
education activities;
(11)
Medical laboratories, outpatient or training facilities or offices
for doctors and other medical personnel;
(13)
Pharmacy, with or without drive-up window;
(14)
Research and/or testing facility;
(15)
Restaurants and taverns, including those with musical entertainment,
dancing (excluding adult entertainment or dancing), and/or outdoor
service of food and/or alcohol;
(17)
Retail stores, including discount department stores;
(18)
Supermarket, with or without drive-up window(s);
(20)
Public transit facilities;
(21)
Wholesale membership club.
(22)
Stand-alone assisted living, memory care facilities, skilled
nursing and/or rehabilitation centers.
[Added 9-26-2016 by Ord.
No. 771]
(23)
Day care.
[Added 9-26-2016 by Ord.
No. 771]
(24)
Communication antennas mounted on an existing public utility transmission tower, building or other structure and communications equipment buildings, subject to the regulations set forth in §
275-216 of Article
XXXIV.
[Added 10-22-2018 by Ord.
No. 796]
(25)
Indoor storage building or warehouse, to include warehousing
known as "mini storage," consisting of multiple warehouses which are
either leased or sold.
[Added 10-22-2018 by Ord.
No. 796]
D. Permitted accessory uses within the SU-1-A Mixed Use District:
(1)
Uses customarily incidental to the uses permitted in §
275-117.3A and
B.
E. Conditional uses.
(1)
Communication towers, subject to the standards for communications towers as conditional uses set forth at §
275-216.1, and communications equipment buildings, subject to the regulations set forth in §
275-216 of Article
XXXIV.
[Added 10-22-2018 by Ord.
No. 796]
The maximum height of buildings within a SU-1-A Mixed Use development shall be as follows, except as provided in the special provisions in Article
XXXIV of the Zoning Ordinance which provides for exceptions to height regulations for certain structures:
A. Single-story buildings: 35 feet.
B. Multistory residential and nonresidential buildings, other than office
buildings or hotels: 50 feet.
C. Office buildings and hotels: 60 feet.
D. No new buildings located within 100 feet of the right-of-way of Baltimore
Pike shall be more than 40 feet in height.
All uses within the SU-1-A Mixed Use District shall comply with all environmental controls of §
275-207, Subsections
A through
K, pertaining to noise, smoke, dust, fumes, vapors and gases, heat and glare, air quality, odor, vibration, soil erosion, sedimentation and grading control, and storage and waste disposal. An environmental impact assessment (EIA) report meeting the standards contained in §
275-215 of the Zoning Ordinance shall be submitted at the time of preliminary plan submission for the development of any new buildings within the SU-1-A Mixed Use District.
In connection with development within the SU-1-A Mixed Use District,
individual lots may be created for purposes of financing and/or conveyancing.
Such individual lots shall not be required to comply on an individual
basis with the dimensional requirements of this article, provided
that the tract complies with such requirements on an overall basis,
and further provided that the deeds conveying such separate lots contain
covenants requiring the purchasers to, at all times, operate and maintain
such lots in good order and repair and in a clean and sanitary condition;
that cross easements for parking areas and all appurtenant ways, pedestrian
access, and utilities shall be maintained between such lots; and that
such covenants shall be subject to the approval of the Township Solicitor.
The purchaser of any such lot shall so covenant and agree thereby
to be bound by such conditions as set forth herein. Where a financial
subdivision is proposed, a financial subdivision plan shall be submitted
at the time of final plan submission and shall be approved by Township
Council prior to recording.