[Ord. 01-09-18-1, 9/18/2001, § 400]
1. 
The purpose of the Resource Protection District is to protect areas containing sensitive natural features and areas of natural scenic beauty such as the Tohickon Creek, the Delaware River, and the Delaware Canal. Agricultural and low-intensity uses are permitted with standards and densities designed to encourage the preservation of natural resources. This District is regulated in accordance with the Township's support of the Lower Delaware River Wild and Scenic River Management Plan. This District is designed as a rural resource area, that the Municipalities Planning Code[1] defines as an area within which rural resources uses, including agriculture, timbering, mining, forest and game lands, and recreation and tourism, are encouraged and enhanced, development that is compatible with or supportive of such uses is permitted, and public infrastructure services are not provided except in villages.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.
2. 
A building or structure may be erected or altered, to be used either in whole or in part, and lots may be used or occupied for the following uses and no other, provided that such use, buildings, or structures shall comply with such regulations as yards, lot sizes, lot width, building area, heights, impervious surface, easements, bufferyards, off-street parking, and other requirements as specified by this chapter.
[Ord. 01-09-18-1, 9/18/2001, § 401]
1. 
Uses Permitted by Right.
[Amended by Ord. 2017-05, 11/28/2017; Ord. No. 2020-04, 9/8/2020; and by A.O.]
A1
General Farming
A2
Agricultural Retail
A4
Forestry or Timber Harvesting
A8
Riding Stable and Horse Boarding
B1
Detached Dwelling
B9
Life-Care or Full-Care Facility
B11
Accessory Dwelling
B12
Home Occupations
B14
Residential Accessory Building, Structure or Use
B17
Short-Term Rentals
C7
Municipal Use or Municipal Buildings
D1
Public Recreational Facility
D6
Private Camp
G28
Small Wireless Communications Facility, co-located
G28
Small Wireless Communications Facility, requiring installation of new wireless support structure
2. 
Uses Permitted by Conditional Use.
[Amended by Ord. No. 2020-07, 11/10/2020; and by A.O.]
C1
Place of Worship
B18
Event Venue Use
G28
Non-Tower-Based Wireless Communications Facility
3. 
Uses Permitted by Special Exception.
[Amended by Ord. No. 2021-07, 12/14/2021]
B13
Bed-and-Breakfast
D5
Golf Course
E1
Utilities, as modified by this Part
E2
Emergency Services
H18
Solar Energy Systems Off-Site Usage
H19
Wind Energy Systems Off-Site Usage
[Ord. 01-09-18-1, 9/18/2001, § 402]
1. 
All uses shall comply with the area and dimensional requirements listed in this section, unless a greater area or dimensional requirement is stated in § 27-304, Use Regulations, for the specific use, in which case the requirements of § 27-304 shall apply.
A. 
Use B1, Single-Family Detached Dwelling.
[Amended by Ord. No. 2023-02, 2/14/2023]
Minimum lot area
2 acres
Minimum lot width
200 feet
Maximum impervious surface coverage per lot
10%
Maximum impervious surface coverage per site (applicable to a developer)
12%
A developer constructing one or more single-family detached dwellings upon a site must comply with the following increased restrictions applicable to every lot within the site: The maximum lot impervious surface requirement shall be reduced by 2% points. These increased restrictions do not apply to the purchaser of the new dwelling who subsequently resides within this new dwelling, and the land freed from these additional restrictions may be used to construct further improvements upon the lot after the new construction has been completed and the lot has been transferred to the purchaser.
Minimum yards
Front
50 feet
Side
25 feet
Rear
50 feet
B. 
Other Permitted Uses.
[Amended by Ord. 2010-09, 11/3/2010, Art. III]
Minimum lot area
10 acres
Minimum lot width
200 feet
Maximum impervious surface coverage
10%
Minimum yards
Front
50 feet
Side
25 feet
Rear
100 feet
[Ord. 01-09-18-1, 9/18/2001, § 403; as amended by Ord. 2008-14, 10/7/2008]
1. 
Within the RP District, Use E1, Utilities, shall not exceed a height of 35 feet, and towers, switching stations, pumping stations, public water supply facilities, community sewage systems, municipal public sewer systems, community sewage treatment plants, and single-family, small-flow treatment plants shall not be permitted.
2. 
Within the RP District, the following additional resource protection standards shall apply. Where these standards differ from § 27-2401, the more stringent requirement shall apply.
A. 
Floodplains and Floodplain Soils. Areas within the 100-year floodplain shall not be altered, regraded, filled or built upon.
B. 
Streams, Watercourses, Waters of the Commonwealth, Waters of the U.S., Lakes or Ponds. No disturbance, grading, altering, filling, piping or development is allowed.
C. 
Wetlands. No disturbance, grading, altering, filling, piping or development is allowed.