A building or combination of buildings may be erected, altered
or used, and a lot may be used or occupied, for any of the following
purposes and no others:
A.
Retail store, including retail outlet or showroom for uses permitted in Subsection I below, but not including automobile sales agency.
B.
Restaurant, cafe, soda or ice cream fountain, dairy bar, snack bar,
cafeteria, coffee shop, juice stand or cocktail lounge.
C.
Office or studio.
D.
The following personal service shops, dealing directly with customers: beauty parlor, barbershop, investment office, travel agency, transportation ticket office, automatic self-service laundry and automatic dry cleaning, dressmaking, millinery or similar shop, provided all repair or processing work is conducted in accordance with Subsection I below.
E.
Amusements:
(1)
Theater (not including outdoor motion-picture establishment), assembly
hall, community hall, town hall, library, skating rink, bowling alley,
billiard room, child day-care center, radio station, or television
station.
(2)
Amusement games in excess of three when allowed as a special exception
by the Zoning Hearing Board.
F.
Bakery, confectionery, or custom shop for the production of articles to be sold at retail on the premises, provided that all baking or processing is conducted in accordance with Subsection I below.
G.
Financial institution.
H.
Passenger bus station, taxicab stand, electric substation, telephone
and telegraph offices, or post office.
I.
The following uses, provided that, if such uses are located on the
ground floor, they shall not be located within 20 feet of the front
of the store, and provided that they shall be effectively screened
from the front portion of the store by a wall or partition:
(1)
General servicing or repair.
(2)
Upholstering.
(3)
Carpentry and woodworking.
(4)
Electrical, radio, or television repair.
(5)
Hand laundering, dry cleaning, or pressing, provided no inflammable
fluids are used.
(6)
Tailoring, dressmaking or repair.
(7)
Millinery repair or processing.
(8)
Watch or clock repair.
(9)
Baking, confectionery making or similar processing.
(10)
Frozen food lockers.
(11)
Any similar use involving repair, processing or storage activity.
J.
Stamp redemption center.
K.
Motel or motor court.
N.
Offices for administration, executive, professional, sales and other
similar uses, the normal attributes of which do not involve the actual
storage, exchange or delivery of merchandise on the premises.
O.
Tire, battery and accessory store.
P.
Heliport, when authorized as a special exception by the Zoning Hearing
Board.
Q.
Accessory use customarily incidental to any of the above uses.
R.
Any use of the same general character as any of the above-permitted
uses, when authorized by a special exception.
The general plan shall include specific evidence and facts showing
that it has considered and made provision for and the development
shall be executed in accordance with the following essential conditions.
A.
The development shall be consistent with the Comprehensive Plan upon
which this chapter is based and with the purpose of the chapter to
promote the health, safety, morals and the general welfare of the
Township.
B.
The development shall consist of a harmonious selection of uses and
grouping of buildings, service and parking areas, circulation and
open spaces planned and designed as an integrated unit, in such manner
as to constitute a safe, efficient and convenient retail shopping
center. The distance at the closest point between buildings or groups
of attached buildings shall not be less than 12 feet.
C.
The appropriate use of property adjacent to the center shall be safeguarded.
Where such center abuts any residential district, a suitable and uninterrupted
coniferous planting screen, not less than 25 feet in depth, shall
be provided and maintained by the owner of the shopping center.
D.
All buildings within the center shall be served by a central sanitary
sewage disposal system and public water supply.
E.
Adequate provisions shall be made for safe and efficient pedestrian
and vehicular traffic circulation within the boundaries of the center.
F.
Provision shall be made for safe and efficient ingress and egress
to and from public streets and highways serving the center without
undue congestion to or interference with normal traffic flow within
the municipality. All points of vehicular access to and from public
streets shall be located not less than 200 feet from the intersection
of any public street lines with each other.
G.
Adequate lighting and adequate off-street parking and loading spaces, as required in § 350-178, shall be provided and shall be set forth on the plan as an integral part thereof; except, however, that the required parking spaces for individual establishments need not be provided separately but may be a component part of such space jointly serving two or more establishments.
H.
All access roads, parking areas, service and other areas for vehicular
use shall be paved with bituminous or other concrete material to a
minimum standard of secondary roads of the Pennsylvania Department
of Transportation.
I.
All utility lines serving the center shall be placed underground.
J.
If the development of the center is to be carried out in progressive
stages, each stage shall be so planned that the foregoing requirements
and the intent of this chapter shall be fully complied with at the
completion of any stage. The initial stage of development shall comprise
a total ground-floor area of not less than 25,000 square feet and
at least three of the selected and designated uses.
The minimum tract size for a shopping center development shall
be six acres, excluding the rights-of-way of existing public roads,
except that the minimum lot size for low-rise or mid-rise multiple-family
dwellings in conjunction with a shopping center development shall
be 10 acres, excluding the rights-of-way of existing public roads,
and the maximum density of residential development shall be determined
by excluding the areas devoted to nonresidential uses and appurtenant
parking areas from the density calculation.
The building or buildings of a shopping center or related use
shall not cover more than 15% of the total area of the lot.
The ratio shall not exceed 60% of the total area of the lot.
