[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 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.
C.
Encourage well-designed, planned shopping areas for
the Township.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also provided
for the repeal of former § 150-119, Applicability.
A building or combination of buildings may be
erected or used and a lot may be used or occupied for any of the following
purposes, or combination of 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 or studio.
C.
Personal service shop of a dressmaker, shoe repairer,
tailor, hairdresser, laundry or dry-cleaning agency.
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, retail baker, confectioner,
ice cream shop or other food service operation.
H.
Theater, assembly hall, community building, library
or child day-care center.
I.
Any similar use to those specified in this section
above, when authorized as a special exception by the Zoning Hearing
Board.
J.
Special exceptions. The following uses are permitted
when authorized as a special exception by the Zoning Hearing Board:
A.
Front yard. One hundred 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 than 50 feet.
C.
Rear yards. Fifty feet shall be the minimum size of
the rear yard on each lot.
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 100 feet.
B.
Gross building floor area.
(1)
No building, whether containing a single or
several uses, shall contain a gross building area greater than 19,000
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 SC Shopping Center 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 development in the SC Shopping Center
District shall be served by public sewer and public water. 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.
