In expansion of the legislative intent and community development objectives contained in Article
I, §§
150-2 and
150-3, of this chapter and in support of the goals and recommendations of the Worcester Township Comprehensive Plan, it is the intent of this article to:
A. Permit a range of research, manufacturing, warehousing, and other
industrial uses.
B. Provide local job opportunities for Township residents.
C. Limit the potential adverse effect of industrial development on abutting
properties, the Township's character and the Township's roads by controlling
the location and nature of the industrial development.
A building or combination of buildings may be erected or used,
and a lot may be used or occupied, for any of the following purposes
and no other:
A. Manufacturing, industrial and research facilities.
C. Administrative offices accessory to a permitted use.
D. Any other legitimate use not otherwise permitted expressly or by
implication elsewhere in this Zoning Code when authorized as a conditional
use by the Board of Supervisors and after the imposition of conditions
designed to eliminate (to the extent reasonably possible) adverse
effects upon neighboring properties and the general public health,
safety and welfare.
E. The following uses shall not be permitted:
(2)
Acetylene gas manufacture and/or storage.
(3)
Acid manufacture (hydrochloric, nitric, picric, sulphuric, sulphanous,
carbolic).
(5)
Ammonia, bleaching powder or chlorine manufacture.
(6)
Ammunition manufacture and/or storage.
(8)
Asphalt manufacturing or refining.
(12)
Cement, lime, gypsum or plaster of paris manufacture.
(15)
Creosote treatment or manufacture.
(16)
Dead animal and offal reduction.
(17)
Distillation of bones, coal, petroleum, refuse grain or wood
(except in the manufacture of gas).
(19)
Explosives, fireworks and gunpowder manufacture or storage.
(25)
Incineration, reduction, storage or dumping of slaughterhouse
refuse, rancid fats, garbage, dead animals or offal.
(26)
Oilcloth or linoleum manufacture.
(28)
Petroleum or kerosene refining, distillation or derivation of
by-products and/or storage.
(30)
Power forge (riveting, hammering, punching, chipping, drawing,
rolling or tumbling of iron, steel, brass or copper, except as a necessary
incident of manufacture of which these processes form a minor part
and which are carried on without objectionable noise outside the plant.
(32)
Steel furnace, blooming mill or rolling mill.
(34)
Tar distillation or manufacture.
F. Municipal use as defined in Article
III.
Building height. The maximum height for buildings or other structures
erected or enlarged in this district shall be 45 feet with the exception
of parking garages, which shall be limited to 24 feet. Chimneys, spires,
towers, elevator penthouses, tanks, solar energy apparatus and similar
projections shall not be included in the height, provided that such
projections shall be permitted to extend not more than 10 feet above
the allowable building height. Notwithstanding the foregoing, such
projections may extend more than 10 feet above the allowable building
height when authorized by the Board of Supervisors by conditional
use. Any such structure must be located at least two feet back from
the edge of the roof for every one foot or fraction thereof it projects
above 45 feet.