The Zoning Officer shall compile and maintain
a registration file or list of all nonconforming uses and structures
within Glenolden Borough. The Zoning Officer shall give notice of
the registration or refusal to register to the property owner and
any occupant or user thereof. Any person aggrieved by the Zoning Officer's
registration or refusal to register any nonconforming use or structure
shall appeal in the manner and within the time limits provided or
be forever barred therefrom.
Design standards for all areas shall be as follows:
A. Screening. A complete visual barrier consisting of
evergreen plantings at a minimum height of six feet or a suitable
landscape screen approved by the Zoning Officer shall be provided
and continually maintained between any industrial or commercial district
and contiguous residentially zoned districts and in a residential
district between an apartment or townhouse use and a contiguous R-1
or R-2 residential use. All uses permitted by special exception shall
require screening when so directed by the Zoning Hearing Board.
B. Storage. All storage shall be completely screened
from view from any public right-of-way and any R-1 or R-2 Residential
District which abuts the district. Screening shall consist of evergreen
planting or an architectural screen. All trash, garbage or rubbish
shall be contained in airtight, verminproof containers, which containers
shall be in an enclosed area and screened from view.
C. Landscaping.
(1) Any part or portion of the site which is not used
for buildings, other structures, loading or parking spaces and aisles,
sidewalks and designated storage areas shall be planted and continually
maintained with an all-season ground cover and shall be landscaped
in accordance with an overall landscape plan.
(2) No less than 10% of a parking area shall be landscaped
and continually maintained. Planting along the perimeter of a parking
area, whether for required screening or general beautification, shall
be considered as part of the 10% parking area landscaping.
(3) In parking areas large enough to have rows of parking
stalls placed back to back, each row of stalls shall be separated
by a five-foot planting strip of permeable surface to allow water
to percolate into the ground.
D. Access and traffic control. All accessways to any
public street or highway shall be located at least 80 feet from the
intersection of any street line and shall be designed in a manner
conducive to safe ingress and egress. The developer shall be responsible
for the construction of any necessary traffic control devices or additional
acceleration lanes required by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department
of Transportation.
E. Interior circulation.
(1) Interior drives shall be designed so as to prevent
blockage of vehicles entering or leaving the site. Drives may be one-way
or two-way.
(2) Areas provided for loading and unloading of delivery
trucks and other vehicles and for the servicing of shops by refuse
collection, fuel and other service vehicles shall be adequate in size
and shall be so arranged that they may be used without blockage or
interference with the use of accessways or automobile parking facilities.
F. Lighting. The parking, loading, ingress and egress
areas of any zoning district shall be provided with a minimum of 0.75
lumen at any point, with lighting standards in parking areas being
located not farther than 100 feet apart. All light sources shall be
completely shielded from traffic on any public right-of-way and from
any residential district.
G. Off-street loading regulations.
(1) Off-street loading and unloading space or spaces with
proper and safe access from a street shall be provided on each lot
either within a structure or in the open.
(2) Loading and unloading spaces shall be at least 12
feet wide, 45 feet long and shall have at least a fourteen-foot vertical
clearance.
(3) Loading and unloading spaces shall have all-weather
surfaces to provide safe and convenient access during all seasons.
(4) Loading facilities shall not be constructed between
the building setback line and a street right-of-way line.
(5) Required off-street parking space shall not be used
for loading and unloading purposes except during hours when business
operations are suspended.