A. 
The Village Center (VC) District is intended to promote a mix of commercial, institutional, and recreational uses in Jamison Village [situated at and in the vicinity of the intersection of York Road (Route 263) and Almshouse Road].
B. 
The VC District is intended to promote an interconnected network of streets, service lanes and alleys.
C. 
The VC District is intended to promote walkability, with sidewalks on both sides of streets located close to streets and buildings, and with crosswalks and connections to existing sidewalks, trails, and pedestrian paths.
D. 
The VC District is intended to promote small-scale buildings in a compact arrangement so as to emulate the character of the villages of Warwick Township and Bucks County.
A. 
All development shall be served by public water and public sewer.
B. 
The VC District shall be as shown on the Warwick Township Zoning Map, as amended.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The Zoning Map is included at the end of this chapter.
A. 
Mix of uses.
(1) 
A mix of office, retail, service and civic uses is encouraged in order to enhance the village character of Jamison. The size and number of uses to be located on a tract shall be governed by the use regulations and the building coverage and the impervious coverage limits.
B. 
Building types.
(1) 
Small- to medium-sized buildings with up to 3,500 square feet on the ground story shall be governed by the regulations for permitted uses.
(2) 
Larger-size buildings of 3,500 square feet or more on the ground story shall be governed by the regulations for conditional uses.
C. 
Height regulations.
(1) 
No building shall exceed 35 feet in height.
[Amended 11-7-2011 by Ord. No. 2011-12; 4-2-2012 by Ord. No. 2012-3; 10-18-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-02]
A. 
Uses permitted by right, involving a building or buildings with a gross floor area on the first floor/ground floor of up to 3,500 square feet, may include:
A5
Commercial Forestry
A6
Nursery
B10h
No-Impact Home-Based Business
B11
Bed-and-Breakfast
C1
Neighborhood Place of Worship
C2
Community Place of Worship
C3
School
C4
Library/Museum
C9
Municipal Use
D1
Recreational Facility
D2
Private Club
D3
Community Center
D6
Miscellaneous Golf
E2
Emergency Services
F1
Medical Office
F2
Veterinary Office
F3
Office
F4
Business Park
G1
Commercial School
G2
Day-Care Center
G3
Retail Store
G5
Village-Oriented Shop/Service Business
G6
Adult Day Care
G7
Financial Establishment
G8
Funeral Home
G9
Eating Place
G11
Tavern
G14
Theater
G15
Indoor Athletic Club
G16
Amusement Hall/Arcade
G29
Dwelling in Combination
H7
Crafts
I8
Commercial Accessory Office
I9
Accessory Retail Use
I10
Geothermal Energy System
B. 
Uses permitted by conditional use:
(1) 
B4 Rooming or Boardinghouse.
(2) 
I11 Wind Energy Conversion System.
(3) 
All uses listed in § 195-41.3A (except I9 and I13), involving a building or buildings with a gross floor area on the ground story of 3,500 square feet or greater, subject to the design standards of § 195-41.5A, the special plan review requirements of § 195-41.6A, and the Corridor Overlay District, § 163-50.3, of the Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance.
C. 
Uses permitted by special exception:
B7
Residential Conversion
I13
Outdoor Furnace
A. 
Unless a different area and dimensional regulation is stated in the use regulations of § 195-16 for a specific use, all uses permitted by right in the VC District shall meet the following requirements:
Minimum Yards
(feet)
Uses
Minimum Lot Area
(square feet)
Minimum Lot Width
(feet)
Maximum Building Coverage
(percent)
Maximum Impervious Surface
(percent)
Front
Side
Rear
All permitted uses
30,000
85
40%
75%
15
15
25
B. 
Unless a different area and dimensional regulation is stated in use regulations of § 195-16 for a specific use, Conditional Use G19 in the VC District shall meet the following requirements:
Minimum Yards
(feet)
Uses
Minimum Lot Area
(acres)
Minimum Lot Width
(feet)
Maximum Building Coverage
(percent)
Maximum Impervious Surface
(percent)
Front
Side
Rear
Motel-hotel
4.0
150
25%
65%
25
50
100
C. 
The foregoing area and dimensional requirements shall be exempt from the Article XIX site capacity calculations of § 195-61.
A. 
Parking shall be located as follows:
(1) 
Parking lots shall be built and maintained in the rear of buildings or on the side of buildings. No off-street parking lots shall be built between any building and any street. If parking is located on the side of buildings, it shall be screened by a thirty-six-inch-high wall or evergreen hedge.
(2) 
Parking for mixed-use developments shall be provided on the basis of three parking spaces for every 1,000 square feet of gross floor area of nonresidential buildings.
(3) 
Parking may be on street in parking bays parallel to the curbline and along a lot that fronts upon a Township road. Any such on-street parking may be counted toward the total parking requirement for the use(s).
(4) 
On-street parking areas may only be counted along the frontage owned by the applicant or landowner, exclusive of any driveway or other curb cut and exclusive of any existing cartway and perpendicular street.
(5) 
A bona-fide on-street parking area shall measure at least seven feet in width and 22 feet in length, exclusive of any street cartway, and shall be parallel to the curbline.
(6) 
All eligible on-street parking areas shall be clearly depicted on a plan. Such parking areas shall not conflict with any turning movements off the cartway or obstruct access to any street, driveway, sidewalk, crosswalk, other accessway or fire hydrant.
B. 
A continuous sidewalk of at least four feet six inches in width shall be installed and maintained on both sides of all streets.
C. 
All streets, service drives, alleys, and sidewalks shall be connected to form an interconnected network. All such thoroughfares shall also be connected to any existing sidewalk or trail.
D. 
Whenever buildings are across from one another on opposite sides of a new street, they shall be located no more than 90 feet from one another, so as to create the built-to line and streetscape dimension as is found in other villages in Bucks County.
E. 
Whenever buildings are 3,500 square feet or more on the ground story but less than 30,000 square feet on the ground story, the following shall apply:
(1) 
The maximum building length shall be 150 feet.
(2) 
The width of the facade of any new building which exceeds 24 feet in width shall have vertical design elements such as pilasters, columns, piers, or recesses or projections of up to four feet so that no new vertical bay or section of a building facade exceeds 24 continuous feet in width.
(3) 
Building windows and openings shall constitute no less than 30% of all frontage walls on the ground floor.
(4) 
No building shall have opaque walls on the ground floor.
(5) 
No principal building shall have a flat roof.
F. 
Whenever buildings are 30,000 square feet or more on the ground story, the following shall apply:
(1) 
The maximum building length shall be 250 feet.
(2) 
The width of the facade of any new building which exceeds 32 feet in width shall have vertical design elements such as pilasters, columns, piers or recesses or projections of up to four feet so that no new vertical bay or section of a building facade exceeds 32 continuous feet in width.
(3) 
Building windows and openings shall constitute no less than 25% of all frontage walls on the ground floor.
(4) 
No building shall have opaque windows on the ground floor.
(5) 
No principal building shall have a flat roof.
(6) 
If buildings of 60,000 square feet or more on the ground story are proposed, then separate buildings shall be constructed such that no individual building under one roof exceeds 60,000 square feet. Each separate building shall be located at least 60 feet but not more than 90 feet from one another. The space between buildings shall have twelve-foot sidewalks adjoining each building.
G. 
At least 5% of the gross site area shall be devoted to civic or recreational use in the form of a park, plaza, memorial garden, sculpture garden, or like amenity.
H. 
All development shall be landscaped with street trees and shade trees as required in the Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 163, Subdivision and Land Development.
I. 
All utilities shall be installed underground.
J. 
The standards of § 163-50.3, Corridor Overlay District, shall apply, with particular emphasis on the standards for development in § 163-50.3D.
A. 
Prior to submission of a preliminary plan or a preliminary/final plan, the applicant is encouraged to submit a concept plan depicting the proposed layout of the development. The concept plan should illustrate the proposed village character in terms of such features as building placement, parking location, interconnected streets, alleys, sidewalks, and street trees.
B. 
The concept plan may be reviewed by Warwick Township. The Planning Commission may provide informal comments that may be useful to the applicant in preparing the sketch, preliminary, and final plans.