[Amended 9-20-2011 by Ord. No. 657]
The purpose of the Mixed-Use (MU) District is as follows:
A. Encourage innovations in residential and nonresidential development
and redevelopment that make use of a mixed-use form of development
so that demand for residential and certain nonresidential development
and redevelopment may be met by greater variety in type, design, and
layout of development sites and by more effective use of developable
lands and effective conservation open space.
B. Extend greater opportunities for better housing and diversity of
housing types, recreation, and access to goods, services, and employment
to citizens of the Borough of Slippery Rock.
C. Allow for the development and redevelopment of fully integrated,
mixed-use pedestrian-oriented development, providing residential spaces,
shopping, employment, business, and personal services.
D. Minimize traffic congestion, infrastructure costs, and environmental
impacts through compact development modeled after smart growth principles.
E. Promote the implementation of the objectives of the Borough of Slippery
Rock Comprehensive Plan for guiding the location of growth and redevelopment.
F. Provide opportunity to meet development potential in a manner responsive
to particular market demands and in a manner consistent with the preservation
of property values within the existing residential and nonresidential
areas of the Borough.
G. Promote an efficient, compact land use pattern to promote easy access
among stores and services by pedestrians, to shorten trips, and to
lessen dependence on the vehicle.
H. Encourage developments that produce a relationship between individual
buildings, the circulation systems of a particular area of the Borough,
and adjacent areas.
I. Encourage development sites to be designed to create a compact, clustered
development pattern using rectilinear building layout and interconnected
street systems.
J. Minimize the number of access points along arterial and collector
streets to maintain the long-term mobility function of a roadway and
to improve service to adjacent properties.
A. Permitted principal uses. Permitted principal uses shall be as follows:
(1) Single-family detached dwelling.
(4) Two-family dwelling, duplex.
(5) Churches and other places of worship, including parish houses, educational
facilities, and required parking and landscaping, all located on a
public street.
(8) The keeping of domestic animals in this district shall be limited
to house pets, as defined, and shall not include any activity of a
commercial nature such as a kennel, stable, or coop.
(9) Mobile food vendors, permitted only on a parcel that abuts Franklin
Street or Grove City Road.
[Added 5-14-2019 by Ord.
No. 708]
B. Permitted accessory uses. Permitted accessory uses shall be as follows:
(2) Other accessory structures and uses customarily appurtenant to a
permitted use.
(3) Private swimming pools, permanent and portable, regulated as follows,
except that these regulations shall not apply to portable swimming
pools which shall not be more than three feet in height nor more than
15 feet in length.
(4) Public and private garages and parking areas.
(6) Game courts, erected on the same lot as the principal structure,
shall be set back 15 feet from all property lines and constructed
only in the rear yard of the lot.
Conditional uses shall be as follows:
C. Eating and drinking establishments, without drive-in or drive-through.
D. Personal and professional services and clinics.
E. Retail sales and services, excluding automotive; maximum size of
any one tenant space to be 10,000 square feet.
F. Combination commercial/residential uses with dwelling units above
the first floor.
I. Delicatessens and coffee shops.
K. Specialty retail; maximum size of any one tenant space to be 10,000
square feet.
[Amended 2-7-2012 by Ord. No. 662]
A. Building height:
(1) Minimum building height: two stories or 20 feet.
(2) Maximum building height: three stories, up to 35 feet.
[Amended 2-4-2014 by Ord.
No. 678]
B. Residential density and land use mix:
(1) Minimum lot sizes:
[Amended 2-4-2014 by Ord.
No. 678]
(a) Single-family detached: 7,260 square feet.
(b) Two-family dwellings: 8,412 square feet.
(c) Townhouses: 10,890 square feet.
(d) Multifamily dwellings: 14,520 square feet.
(2) A mix of compatible land uses within developments of all sizes is
encouraged.
(3) Where a development is 20 acres or larger in gross acreage, a mix
of two or more residential use types (e.g., single-family, townhouse,
apartment) within a development is required.
(4) Where a development is 20 acres or larger in gross acreage, a mix
of mixed residential use types and compatible nonresidential uses
is required. A minimum of 30% of the development square footage must
be dedicated to compatible nonresidential or residential uses.
C. Setbacks:
(1) Minimum yard setbacks:
(b)
Side: 10 feet. The side yard may be reduced to zero feet when
the side lot line is located along a shared common wall between building
uses or between separate buildings that directly abut one another.
(2) Buildings that are three stories in height shall be set back from
properties in the R-A Residential Zoning District 150 feet.
[Amended 2-4-2014 by Ord.
No. 678]
D. Building layout and design:
(1) Maximum building facade length: 200 feet.
(2) Buildings shall be located and arranged in a manner that creates
compact, clustered development patterns.
(3) All buildings within a development shall reflect a continuity obtained
by maintaining a consistent building scale and material.
(4) At least 50% of at least two sides of nonresidential buildings must
be transparent. In particular, building facades facing public or private
streets.
(5) The front building facade of every building shall face a street,
plaza, or landscaped walkway that is visible and directly accessible
from a street.
(6) Mechanical equipment and utilities such as furnaces, air conditioners,
elevators, transformers, and utility equipment, whether on the roof
or mounted on the ground, shall be completely screened from adjacent
properties and adjacent streets. Screening shall be compatible with
the architectural treatment of the principal structure and/or adjacent
area landscape treatments.
(7) To illustrate conformity with the requirements herein, submission
of architectural elevations for any proposed building may be required.
(8) Mixed-use buildings are encouraged. Such buildings house nonresidential
uses on the ground floor and residential or office uses on upper floors.
(9) Mixed-use development and mixed-use buildings are intended to service
needs of the surrounding neighborhood. They are to be buffered from
adjacent residential areas while incorporating design features that
are compatible with surrounding residential neighborhoods. Mixed-use
developments shall provide a gradual transition between adjacent residential
districts and commercial areas or major roadways.
E. Vehicle and pedestrian access.
(1) An internal street network shall be provided. The street network
internal to the development site may connect at one or both ends to
a perimeter public street or adjacent development. The internal street
system is intended to provide vehicle and pedestrian access and circulation
to all uses within a development site and provide connections to adjacent
development. The internal street system shall provide access to parking
via a minimum number of curb cuts.
(2) Sidewalks shall be constructed along any side of a public or private
street that is within or adjacent to the development.
(3) Access to residential units via alleys at the rear of buildings is
encouraged.
(4) Convenient and safe pedestrian circulation shall be provided through
a system of walkways, paths, and/or sidewalks between parking areas
and buildings and to adjacent developments and residential neighborhoods.
(5) Pedestrian circulation shall be separated from vehicular traffic.
(6) Sidewalks shall connect buildings with all parking areas and sidewalks
along nearby streets.
(7) Sidewalks parallel to parking lots and/or streets shall be separated
from such areas by a curbed landscaped area measuring a minimum of
four feet in width.
(8) Crosswalks shall be constructed to move people safely to and from
buildings and parking areas and shall be constructed of a material
that provides strong contrast with the vehicular travel surface, such
as stamped concrete with integral coloring.
(9) Curb cuts along streets shall be minimized. Where possible, shared
vehicle access between adjacent properties shall be used.
F. Parking.
(1) Off street parking areas shall be designed to reduce the negative
impacts of large paved areas and contain landscaped areas and defined
pedestrian walkways.
(2) Parking lots shall be divided by landscaped strips into smaller parking
areas of no more than fifty parking spaces. Such landscape strips
shall be a minimum of 10 feet wide and shall contain a minimum of
one canopy tree (minimum 2.5 inches caliper in size) every thirty
feet.
(3) All parking lots that serve multifamily buildings and nonresidential
buildings shall be screened from streets and adjacent properties through
the use of landscaping and/or decorative walls or fences along the
parking lot perimeter. The perimeter screening shall be continuous
and include masonry walls, decorative fencing, or a row of shrubs
and one shade tree planted every 30 feet, or a combination of wall,
fencing, or landscaping. The walls, fencing, or landscaping (at time
of planting) must be between approximately 42 inches and 48 inches
in height, such that the headlights from parked vehicles are screened
from view.
(4) A maximum of one bay of parking having a maximum depth of 65 feet
may be placed between a public street and the front facade of a building.
(5) Parking areas shall be designed to allow for logical interconnections
to abutting properties for the purpose of providing effective and
safe circulation that supports access management strategies for collector
and arterial roadways.
G. Outdoor eating areas.
(1) Restaurants or other similar food services may provide outdoor seating
in sidewalk areas, provided that a four-foot clear pedestrian passage
is maintained and building access is not impaired.
H. Accessory structures. Accessory structures in the Mixed-Use District
shall be regulated as such structures are regulated in the R-3 Residential
District.
[Added 6-7-2016 by Ord.
No. 692]
[Added 6-7-2016 by Ord.
No. 692]
A. Rental of single-family detached residential buildings: Each single-family
detached residence may include no more than one dwelling unit for
rent. Where a single-family detached residence includes a dwelling
unit for rent, the maximum occupancy of the dwelling unit by adult
unrelated persons shall be no greater than one more than the number
of bedrooms within the dwelling unit.
B. The number of adult unrelated persons occupying a dwelling unit for
rent shall not exceed four except as may be permitted for the rental
of single-family detached dwellings.