The Continuing Care Retirement Community Overlay
District is designed to promote a campus-setting continuing care retirement
community (CCRC) use on tracts of a minimum of 75 acres, as an overlay
to certain portions of the PIP Planned Industrial Park District and
incorporating a small area of the adjacent R-2 Residence District.
Section 605 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code permits
additional classifications to be made within any district for the
purpose of making transitional provisions at and near boundaries of
districts [Section 605(1)] and for the regulation of uses and structures
at, along or near major thoroughfares, their intersections and interchanges
and transportation arteries [Section 605(2)(i)]. The Township of Concord
has determined that there exists a need within the Township to provide
for a campus-setting CCRC use, consisting of mixed-use housing and
associated services for seniors, with integrated independent apartment
living, assisted living and skilled nursing alternatives, in close
proximity to the retail and commercial uses located along Route 1
and to major transportation thoroughfares such as Route 1 and Route
322, in order to promote the health, safety and welfare of the community,
including the easing of traffic congestion along arterial roads and
the providing of housing and health-care alternatives for seniors,
and to locate such CCRCs as a transitional use between the significantly
higher-density commercial and retail uses along Route 1 and the nearby
low-density residential housing. The overlay district is designed
to provide regulations and controls relative to size, density and
other area and bulk requirements.
Buildings and lots may be used or occupied for
the following uses:
A. Uses permitted by right:
(1)
Continuing care retirement community (CCRC).
(2)
CCRC independent living units.
(3)
CCRC assisted living facilities.
(4)
CCRC skilled care nursing facilities.
B. Accessory uses:
(2)
Off-street parking and loading.
All campus signs are subject to the approval
of the Board of Supervisors at the time of final plan approval.