A.
The specific uses permitted in this district shall be the erection, construction, alteration or use of buildings or premises for any and all of the purposes set forth in § 350-102 for I Limited Industrial Districts and no others, to be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building or in a court enclosed on all sides by buildings, except for on-site parking and loading incidental thereto, and then approved by the Zoning Hearing Board, and public utility facilities normally enclosed within a building.
B.
Adult or sexually oriented business uses, as defined in Chapter 57, shall be permitted within the S-Small Limited Industrial Zone.
[Added 9-13-2010 by Ord. No. 1592]
C.
Vehicle impoundment lots, when authorized by conditional use, and
subject to the following conditions:
[Added 9-12-2011 by Ord. No. 1603]
(1)
A vehicle impoundment lot is a parcel of land designated for
the storage, retrieval or sale of vehicles impounded by police or
other lawful governmental direction, or by lawful towing operations.
The vehicle impoundment lot may be operated outdoors as stated herein.
(2)
The lot shall be fenced with a solid or other opaque fence,
at least six feet in height, which shall be maintained in good order,
and the lot shall be landscaped so that its activities are effectively
shielded from neighboring properties and passersby.
(3)
Periodic sales of vehicles impounded at the vehicle impoundment
lot shall be permitted.
(4)
No vehicle may be stored for more than 180 days, and the operator
of the vehicle impoundment lot shall keep adequate records of ownership
and duration of the vehicles on the lot to ensure that no vehicle
may be stored on the lot for more than 180 days.
(5)
Vehicle parts, trash, and waste fluids shall be stored inside
a building.
(6)
The vehicle impoundment lot may not be operated in conjunction
with a junkyard.
(7)
Any vehicle impoundment lot that borders on a residential district
shall have a one-hundred-foot setback of the parking/storage area
from the residential district boundary, and the setback area shall
be maintained as green area.
(9)
The parking/storage area shall be paved.
(10)
The vehicle impoundment lot shall be subject to such other reasonable
conditions as the Commissioners may deem reasonable at the conditional
use hearing in light of the location of the lot and the character
of the district as well as nearby properties.
No building may be erected, altered or used and no lot or premises may be used for any trade, industry or business that is noxious or offensive by reason of odor, dust, smoke, gas, vibration or noise, and no public garage shall be permitted unless authorized and permitted as a special exception by the Zoning Hearing Board, as set forth in §§ 350-241 through 350-247 of this chapter.
The following area and height regulations shall apply:
A.
There shall be a minimum lot area of not less than two acres.
B.
Front yards. The required minimum depth of a front yard shall be 25 feet; subject to exception in Subsection F hereinafter set forth.
C.
Side yards. There shall be two side yards, one on each side of the building erected, each of which shall be not less than 20 feet in width, subject to exception in Subsection F hereinafter set forth.
D.
Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard, the depth of which shall be
at least 35 feet.
E.
Not more than 35% of the area of any lot may be occupied by buildings,
and a total of not more than 70% of the area of any lot may be occupied
by buildings, parking areas, unloading areas and access roads.
F.
Exception for front, side and rear yards. In no case shall any building
or structure be erected closer than 200 feet to any residential district
nor any parking area to be closer than 100 feet to any residential
tract; which two-hundred-foot or one-hundred-foot area shall be maintained
as a green area entirely covered by grass, shrubs or trees by the
owner.
G.
Height regulations. No building shall exceed two stories or be more
than 40 feet in height.
H.
The following appurtenances of buildings may be erected above the
permitted 40 feet in height, when authorized as a special exception
by the Zoning Hearing Board:
A.
No smoke shall be emitted from any chimney or other source visible
gray greater than No. 1 on the Ringelmann chart, as published by the
U.S. Bureau of Mines.
B.
Smoke of a shade not darker than No. 2 on the Ringelmann Smoke Chart
may be emitted for not more than four minutes in any 30 minutes.
C.
These provisions, applicable to visible gray smoke, shall also apply
to visible smoke of a different color but with an equivalent apparent
opacity.
A.
No emission shall be made which can cause any damage to health, to
animals or vegetation or other form of property or which can cause
any excessive soiling at any point.
B.
No emission of liquid or solid particles from any chimney or otherwise
shall exceed 0.3 grains per cubic foot of the covering gas at any
point.
C.
For measurement of the amount of particles in gases resulting from
combustion, standard correction shall be applied to a stack temperature
of 500° F. and 50% excess air.
At no point on the boundary of a residential or business district
shall the sound pressure level of any operation exceed the maximum
of that permitted as established by resolution of the Board of Commissioners
of the Township, which resolution shall be considered a part of this
chapter for all intents and purposes, the same as if it was from time
to time included as a provision of this chapter.
There shall be no emission of odorous gases or other odorous
matter in such quantities as to be offensive at lot boundary line.
Any process which may involve the creation or emission of any odors
shall be provided with a secondary safeguard system, so that control
will be maintained if the primary safeguard system should fail. The
guide for determining the quantity of offensive odors shall be established
by resolution of the Board of Commissioners.
Any operation producing intense glare or heat shall be performed
within an enclosed building or behind a solid fence in such manner
as to be completely imperceptible from any point along the lot lines.
[Added 9-13-2010 by Ord. No. 1592]
Regulations pertaining to adult or sexually oriented business uses, as defined and regulated in Chapter 57, are subject to the following requirements:
A.
Location of sexually oriented businesses.
(1)
No sexually oriented businesses shall be located within 1,000 feet of the property line of a lot used for the following uses unless separated from the adult use by the Pennsylvania Turnpike or railroad. A person commits a violation of this chapter and Chapter 57 if the person operates or causes to be operated a sexually oriented business within 1,000 feet of:
(a)
A church, synagogue, mosque, temple or building which is used
primarily for religious worship and/or related religious activities;
(b)
A public or private educational facility, including but not
limited to child day-care facilities, nursery schools, preschools,
kindergartens, elementary schools, private schools, intermediate schools,
junior high schools, middle schools, high schools, vocational schools,
secondary schools, continuation schools, special education schools,
junior colleges and universities. A school includes the school grounds,
but does not include facilities used primarily for another purpose
and only incidentally as a school;
(c)
A public or privately owned park or recreational area which has been
designated for park or recreational activities, including but not
limited to passive or active park or parkland, playground, nature
trails, swimming pools, reservoir, athletic field, basketball or tennis
courts, pedestrian/bicycle paths, wilderness areas, or other similar
public land; and
(d)
A licensed premises, licensed pursuant to the alcoholic beverage
control regulations of the commonwealth.
(2)
No sexually oriented business shall be located within 500 feet of the following uses. A person commits a violation of this chapter and Chapter 57 if the person operates or causes to be operated a sexually oriented business within 500 feet of:
(3)
An adult use or sexually oriented business may not have frontage
on Pioneer Road or Easton Road, or be located within 300 feet of the
legal right-of-way of Welsh Road, York Road, Fitzwatertown Road, Terwood
Road, Davisville Road, Byberry Road, County Line Road, Pioneer Road
or Easton Road.
B.
Signage. Any adult establishment or sexually oriented businesses are subject to the following signage requirements in lieu of signage otherwise permitted in the zoning district under Article XXIV.
(1)
Wall signs are limited to a total of 40 square feet and any
such wall sign must face the street frontage on which access to the
building is located;
(2)
No roof signs are permitted;
(3)
One freestanding sign, not to exceed 40 square feet per face
in area or 20 feet in height is permitted;
(4)
No internally illuminated, LED or digital signs are permitted;
and
(5)
No flashing elements, rotating, pulsing, marching, video, lasers,
beacons, strobe lights, streaming video, moving pictures or animated
graphics are permitted.
