[Added 5-20-1998 by Ord. No. 163[1]]
In expansion of the legislative intent and community development objectives contained in Article I, §§ 150-2 and 150-3, of this chapter and in support of the goals and recommendations of the Worcester Township Comprehensive Plan, it is the intent of this article to:
A.
Allow retail commercial uses, including auto-oriented
uses, that will meet the local, neighborhood shopping needs of the
Township's residents.
B.
Limit the potential adverse effect of commercial development
on abutting properties, the Township's character and the Township's
roads by controlling the location and nature of commercial development.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also provided
for the repeal of former § 150-111, Applicability.
A building may be erected or used and a lot
may be used or occupied for any one of the following purposes and
no other:
A.
Retail store selling or leasing for local neighborhood
use one or more of the following items at retail: food, groceries,
meats, vegetables, fruit, drugs, cosmetics, hardware, clothing, jewelry,
watches, optical goods, nursery stock, musical, professional or scientific
instruments.
B.
Office, bank, financial institution.
C.
Personal service shop of a dressmaker, shoe repairer,
tailor, hairdresser.
D.
Medical offices of a private practitioner, other than
a clinic.
E.
Undertaker, not including crematorium.
F.
Baker, confectioner or custom shop for the production
of articles to be sold only on the premises.
G.
Restaurant, catering operation, ice cream shop or
other food service operation, provided not more than four persons
are employed by the same, and provided that no alcoholic beverages
are served.
H.
Any similar use to those specified in this section
above, when authorized as a special exception by the Zoning Hearing
Board and when not employing more than five persons.
I.
Special exceptions. The following uses are permitted
when authorized as a special exception by the Zoning Hearing Board.
(1)
Public garages.
(2)
Motor vehicle sales.
(3)
Motor vehicle service or repair, employing not
more than three persons.
(4)
Motor vehicle rental or leasing.
(5)
Gasoline service station when limited to three
bays and customary sales room and including sanitary toilet rooms,
provided that any outdoor display of merchandise is kept within 25
feet of the building or on the pump islands, and provided that between
the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., prevailing time, it will be
closed, with no illumination evident excepting a dim nightlight indoors.
(6)
Hotel, motel or similar lodging facility.
(7)
Wholesale merchandise establishment.
(8)
Multiple use office building.
(9)
Laundry or dry cleaning.
(10)
Parking lot incidental to any of the uses under
this subsection.
[Amended 8-21-1996 by Ord. No. 150]
(11)
Nursing homes, personal care facilities and residential life-care
facilities, provided that a residential life-care facility is located
on a lot 100 acres or larger.
[Added 12-15-1999 by Ord. No. 176; amended 5-16-2018 by Ord. No. 277]
(12)
Hospitals.
[Added 12-15-1999 by Ord. No. 176]
A.
Minimum lot area. Twenty-five thousand square feet shall be the minimum
lot area that shall be provided for every building and use, except
a residential life-care facility, which shall be located on a lot
100 acres or larger.
[Amended 5-16-2018 by Ord. No. 277]
B.
Minimum lot width. A lot width of not less than 100
feet shall be provided for every building or use.
A.
Front yard. Forty-five feet shall be the minimum size
of the front yard on each lot.
B.
Side yards. There shall be two side yards on each
lot, neither of which shall be less then 20 feet.
C.
Rear yards. There shall be a rear yard on each lot
which shall not be less than 50 feet.
D.
District yard. In the case of any side or rear yard
adjacent to any single-family residential district, such yard shall
not be less than 75 feet.
A.
Parking and loading. All-weather parking and loading facilities shall be provided in accordance with Article XXII.
B.
Setbacks.
(1)
No parking, loading or driveway area shall be
located closer than five feet to any side property line and no closer
than 20 feet to any front or rear property line, except as required
for normal ingress and egress.
(2)
In the case of any property line being adjacent
to a single-family residential district, no parking, loading or driveway
area shall be located closer than 50 feet to that property line, except
as may be required for normal ingress and egress.
B.
Gross building floor area.
(1)
No building, whether containing a single or
several uses, shall contain a gross building area greater than 6,500
square feet, excluding unoccupied basements.
(2)
No request for a variance from this provision
of the requirements of this section shall be granted without a proportionate
or equivalent increase in the yard areas as determined by the Zoning
Hearing Board.
C.
Landscaping.
(1)
All development in the Commercial District shall
be designed and maintained so as to provide a complete and effective,
year-round landscape buffer between itself and any development of
any other adjacent district.
(2)
In addition to the above, there shall be a suitable
and effective landscape barrier at the edge of the property adjacent
to any public street; such buffer strip shall be at least 10 feet
wide and shall channel motor vehicle ingress and egress from the property
providing a maximum of one access road per 100 feet of frontage and
in no case more than two access roads per property.
D.
Utilities. All utilities serving a permitted use in
this district shall be underground.
E.
Outdoor land use. There shall be no outdoor storage
or display of goods or materials, other than nursery stock plants,
for marketing, storage or any other purpose. The outdoor storage of
trash shall be designed and maintained to be completely screened from
view by a landscape buffer.
F.
Hazardous use. No building may be erected, altered
or maintained or lot used for any purpose, trade or business that
is noxious, offensive or potentially injurious to health by reason
of odor, noise, dust, smoke, heat, gas, radiation, vibration or hazardous
substance.
G.
Building spacing. The distance at the closest point
between any buildings shall be not less than 30 feet.
H.
Site lighting. Exterior lighting provided in conjunction
with any building or use shall be placed not higher than 12 feet above
grade and shall be screened so as not to permit the source of illumination
to be seen from off the premises. Only color corrected types of illumination
shall be used. Such lights and of any illuminated signs shall be extinguished
between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., prevailing time.
