[Ord. 2000-03, 9/14/2000, Art. XIV, § 1420]
The following standards apply to all uses designated as commercial uses in this chapter:
1.
Any proposed use proposing to generate water or sewer flow greater than 400 gpd/acre must be connected to public water and public sewer. Any proposed use creating process wastewater must be connected to public sewer.
2.
All permitted and accessory uses, except for off-street loading and parking, and signs shall be conducted within enclosed building except for those uses requiring outdoor exposure, such as nurseries.
3.
Traffic.
A.
All commercial uses shall have access and egress directly to a collector or nonresidential local road. Direct access to an arterial road is permitted only if the Board of Supervisors determines that no other means of access is physically possible and the applicant has performed all traffic upgrades, the Board of Supervisors has determined is necessary.
B.
All vehicle access and egress shall be controlled by the use of a landscape strip constructed parallel to the highway.
C.
All access and egress points shall be located not less than 200 feet from the intersection of any street right-of-way lines.
D.
Access and egress points must be separated from other access and egress points by two-hundred-foot minimums.
E.
Outbound traffic control shall be controlled so that vehicles move in defined traffic lanes. Physical barriers to prevent cutting across parking areas may be required by the Township.
4.
Trash dumpsters shall be contained within locking fences and screened from view by adjacent properties by fence type or landscaping and located a minimum of 25 feet from any lot line.
5.
Any property lines abutting an existing residential property or residentially zoned land shall be screened by a twenty-five-foot wide dense visual barrier of landscaping within the required buffer yard designed by a registered professional landscape architect. This screen must be permanently maintained by the property owner.
6.
Landscaping and all-season ground cover shall be included on all areas not covered by buildings, structures, parking areas, or access/egress drives.
8.
Off-street parking is permitted within the front, side and rear yards but must be a minimum of 25 feet from any lot line. If off-street parking is proposed in the front yard in combination with off-street loading, then the off-street parking must be a minimum of 40 feet (the buffer area) from the front lot line. An appropriately landscaped undulating berm, with a landscaping mix consisting of six different plant species (50% of which shall be evergreen), shall be installed in the forty-foot buffer area.
[Amended by Ord. 2017-02, 3/28/2017]
9.
All parking areas and driveways must be paved with a permanent hard surface.
10.
Off-street loading is permitted within the front, side and rear yards, if approved by the Board of Supervisors in its sole discretion, but the edge of the loading structure must be located at least 130 feet from the nearest lot line. If off-street loading is proposed in the front yard, then the off-street loading must be located at least 130 feet from the edge of the parking stall nearest to the structure or 170 feet from the front lot line if no parking is proposed in the front yard. An appropriately landscaped undulating berm, with a landscaping mix consisting of six different plant species (50% of which shall be evergreen), shall be installed in the forty-foot buffer area behind the front lot line.
[Amended by Ord. 2017-02, 3/28/2017]
11.
All parking areas and walking areas must be lighted in accordance with the standards in this chapter.
12.
The developer shall be responsible for the purchase and erection of any necessary traffic control devices and the construction of additional acceleration and deceleration lanes as may be required by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation or the Township. The developer may be required to prepare a traffic study for this determination whether the site accesses a Township or state highway, as determined by the Township.
13.
Any uses proposing shopping carts shall provide definite areas on the site for the storage of said carts. The storage areas shall be clearly marked throughout the parking areas.
14.
All organic rubbish shall be in airtight, verminproof containers.
15.
Outdoor storage is permitted within 20 feet of a property line and must not be visible from adjacent residentially zoned property or existing residentially used property.