Overlay districts shall be used in accordance with the following:
A. For the purpose of this article, the sections within this article
shall be overlays to the underlying districts as shown on the Chester
Heights Borough Zoning Map, and as such, the provisions for each of
these sections shall serve as supplements to the underlying zoning
district provisions.
B. In those areas of the Borough where a section of this article applies,
the provisions of the section shall be imposed in addition to the
requirements of the underlying zoning district(s).
Borough Council shall administer the provisions of this article, which administration shall include the approval, modification or disapproval of any development plan pursuant to the provisions of Article
XXIV, §§
185-137 and
185-138, related to conditional uses.
[Amended 8-5-2013 by Ord.
No. 194; 7-7-2014 by Ord. No. 195; 7-7-2014 by Ord. No. 197]
No application for tentative approval of townhouses or semidetached
dwellings shall be considered or approved unless the following conditions
are met:
A. The tract shall be located in the Mobile Home Park District, or in
both a Residence District and either a B Business District or an LI
Limited Industrial District, as those districts existed at the time
of enactment of this chapter.
B. A tract which does not qualify for eligibility under §
185-142A is eligible if it is located in an R 1 Residence District and has an institutional use on it which use lawfully existed at the time of the enactment of this chapter.
C. The proposed development or plan consists of one or more contiguous parcels of land under one ownership. If the tract is comprised of more than one parcel, each parcel shall meet the eligibility requirements of §
185-142A or
B.
D. The proposed development or plan will be connected to public water
and public sanitary sewer systems. Both water supply and sewage disposal
systems shall be operational at the time of occupancy of the first
completed structure.
E. The proposed development or plan is found to be consistent with the
Comprehensive Plan for the Borough of Chester Heights.
A building may be erected or used and a lot may be used or occupied
for any of the following purposes by conditional use and no other:
Accessory uses shall be as follows:
Unless specifically stated otherwise, the following shall be
minimum requirements:
A. Tract area: three acres (areas in the one-hundred-yard floodplain,
wetlands and existing public road rights-of-way shall be excluded
from calculation of tract area).
B. Density: Six units per gross acre exclusive of floodplains, wetlands
and existing public road rights-of-way shall be permitted on eligible
tracts which are located in a Mobile Home Park District or in both
a Residence District and a B Business or LI Limited Industrial District.
A maximum of three units per acre shall be permitted on those tracts
which are eligible solely because they are located in an R 1 Residence
District and have an institutional use on them which use lawfully
existed at the time of the enactment of this chapter.
[Amended 7-7-2014 by Ord.
No. 197]
C. Lot area: 2,000 square feet minimum for townhouse; 3,000 square feet
minimum, for semidetached.
D. Setbacks:
(1)
From exterior road and tract boundaries: 40 feet (30 feet to
decks) for townhouse or semidetached.
(2)
From internal road: 20 feet.
(3)
For tracts larger than 10 acres, from exterior roads and perimeter
parent tract boundaries: 100 feet from exterior roads and 60 feet
from perimeter parent tract boundaries for townhouse or semidetached
dwellings.
[Added 7-7-2014 by Ord.
No. 195]
E. Distance between principal buildings: 20 feet for townhouse or semidetached
buildings.
F. Unit width: 20 feet minimum for townhouse and semidetached.
G. Tract road frontage: 300 feet (development shall be on a collector
or arterial road).
I. Impervious cover: 60% maximum for twin and the end unit of a townhouse
group; 70% maximum for an interior unit of a townhouse group.