To accommodate industrial activities of an intrusive nature
that are not normally compatible with, or that detract from, the viability
of other use activities because of high levels of traffic generation,
noise, adverse aesthetic conditions and related circumstances and
further to permit adult-oriented entertainment and businesses.
A.
M-2 uses permitted by right.
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Uses by right in M-1 District
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Foundry
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General manufacturing and fabrication
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Mini warehousing
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Supply yard
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Trucking terminal
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Contractor's plant: sales, storage
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Coal mine, underground
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Coal mining adjunct facility
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Gas processing facility accessory use
[Added 9-4-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-2] |
B.
M-2 conditional uses.
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Waste recycling center
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Business campus
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Adult businesses
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C.
M-2 special exception.
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Junkyard
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The following conditional uses may be authorized by the Township
Supervisors pursuant to the standards and criteria specified herewith:
A.
Waste recycling center.
(1)
Waste recycling and related handling activities shall be restricted
to nonhazardous materials and all activities and functions shall be
in accordance with applicable federal, state, county and Township
rules, regulations and directives.
(2)
No recycling activities and functions shall be established on a site
containing less than five contiguous acres.
(3)
All facilities shall have a chain-link fence at least six feet high
around all activity areas, and said areas shall be secured during
nonbusiness hours.
(4)
The perimeter of any site that borders a public highway or an adjacent A-1, R-1, R-2 or R-3 Zoning District shall be screened and landscaped consistent with the applicable requirements of Article XVII of this chapter.
(5)
Site access points shall be designed to preclude the stacking of
entering vehicles onto any adjacent public right-of-way.
(6)
All parking in association with on-site activities shall be accommodated
on site.
(7)
All materials brought to the site shall be processed and shipped
from the site in an expedient manner, consistent with commonly accepted
recycling procedures and practices. No extended-term storage or keeping
of materials shall be permitted in conjunction with recycling centers.
(8)
The applicant for the conditional use permit shall be responsible
for correcting any litter problems that occur within 1/2 mile of the
recycling center that are attributable to the center and related operations.
Failure to correct said problem shall be cause for revocation of the
conditional use permit.
C.
Adult businesses. This use shall be subject to the following express
standards and criteria and to any other standards and criteria generally
applicable to all conditional uses:
(1)
Adult businesses may be established only in a M-2 District.
(2)
Persons or owners who intend to open an adult business must obtain
from Carroll Township a license to operate such an enterprise and
must pay a five-hundred-dollar investigation fee in Carroll Township.
In addition, such persons or owners must supply to the Township detailed
information as to the ownership and financing as required on the licensing
application form. This form can be obtained at the office of the Township
Secretary.
(3)
No adult business can be located within 500 feet of a preexisting
residence, school, hospital, day-care center, nursing home, sanitarium,
retirement or convalescent home, group home, personal care home, public
park, church, establishment which is licensed to and does sell alcoholic
beverages or other adult business.
(4)
No adult business can be located within 1000 feet of an area zoned
residential.
(5)
An adult business shall be initially licensed, where it has met all
ordinance requirements, through December 31 of the year in which the
license is issued. For each year thereafter that the adult business
intends to continue its business as an adult commercial enterprise,
it must seek from the office of the Secretary of Carroll Township
a renewal of this license. The application for renewal is due in the
Secretary's office no later than November 1 of the year preceding
the year for which the license renewal is sought. The lack of a license
or the failure to seek license renewal on a timely basis shall be
a proper basis for the Township to deny or revoke an occupancy permit
to an adult business.
(6)
Any adult business found to be in violation of this chapter, as amended,
shall be subject to the enforcement penalties provided for in this
chapter and/or the Municipalities Planning Code.
The following special exceptions may be authorized by the Zoning
Hearing Board, pursuant to the standards and criteria specified herewith:
A.
Junkyards, subject to the standards, criteria and regulations of
Carroll Township and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The following requirements shall apply in the M-2 Heavy Industrial
District:[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The Table of Lot, Area and Dimensional Requirements
for M-2 Heavy Industrial Districts is attached to this chapter.
