[Added 7-10-2007 by Ord. No. 308]
A.
The following uses shall be permitted in the Highway Commercial
III District:
(1)
Professional offices/doctor's office.
(2)
Hospitals.
(3)
Retail stores (with or without drive-up service).
(4)
Business services (banks).
(5)
Automotive sales and service (no semi-truck sales or service).
(6)
Service stations.
(7)
Repair garage (no semi-truck repair facilities).
(8)
Hotels (no motel).
(9)
Bed-and-breakfast.
(10)
Restaurants.
(11)
Shopping centers.
(12)
Health club/spa.
(13)
Commercial recreation.
(14)
Mini warehouses, provided that the following requirements are
complied with:
(a)
Tree screening is required from adjacent properties. If the adjacent
property is used for mini warehousing, then screening shall not be required
on the common property line. Screening shall not be required along the road
frontage. Screening shall be with trees (not fences or walls) as defined in
this chapter.
(b)
The facade of the mini warehouses shall be constructed of a decorative
brick or masonry material that is conducive to the adjacent businesses.
(c)
All drive areas shall be an asphalt material.
(d)
Mini warehousing shall not be located adjacent to or within 1,000
feet of the following roadways: Grindstone Hill Road, Interstate 81, Molly
Pitcher Highway, Leitersburg Road, and Walter Avenue/Nova Drive.
(15)
Light manufacturing.
(16)
Precision manufacturing.
(17)
Laboratory or scientific research (safe research), including
but not limited to the activities described in (a) through (e) below.
(a)
Mechanical testing of materials that are not volatile or explosive.
(b)
Electrical testing and assembly of computers, their parts and
(computer) processing.
(c)
The design, research, assembly and testing of complex components
consisting of electrical, mechanical, computer, and transmission pieces as
long as limited use of fuels or explosive materials* is used (*i.e., gasoline,
diesel, biodiesel, ethanol, oil, photovoltaic and batteries of all types).
(d)
The standard testing of home or commercially used products (not
industrially used products) as a result of manufacturing, distribution or
importing of said products, as long as it is not the primary use of the facility.
(e)
Any type of information research which could include the use
of small package assembly, storage and distribution of common items like paper
and other household or commercially used items.
(18)
Public utilities (i.e., sewer, water, gas, etc.).
(19)
Federal, state and local government offices and accessory uses,
and other municipal essential services (i.e., fire, police, nonprofit recreational
facilities, etc.).
(20)
Public schools and essential uses, provided that all outside
active play areas are screened from adjacent properties.
B.
Prohibited uses. Laboratories and scientific research centers
that do biotech, materials testing and other types of chemical design and
development are prohibited in this district. This shall include, but not be
limited to, operations that involve the use and/or production of fertilizers
and related products, fireworks manufacture, operations that have the potential
to spread noxious chemicals and cause biological hazards in the air or water.
Highway Commercial III and related uses permitted in the Highway Commercial
III District shall be subject to the following conditions:
A.
No commercial driveway entrance or exit shall be located within
75 feet of intersecting street rights-of-way.
B.
All storage must be located inside or be stored in an approved
outside area as shown on a land development plan, which shall be buffered
by three times the front yard setback from the front lot line and be fully
screened so that the storage product is not visible from the street line
All uses located in the area outlined on Exhibit C and highlighted in
orange on Exhibit D shall comply with the standards listed in Subsections
A and B above and the standards itemized in the Professional District, § 150-22.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The exhibits referenced as Exhibits C and D are on
file in the Township offices.
