The purpose of establishing the following Business District is to provide within the Borough of Collingdale a full range of business activities needed by Borough residents, employees and visitors in appropriate locations and accessible to all. It is also the intent of this district to encourage a sound environment for maintenance and expansion of job opportunities as well as to stabilize the tax base. It is further the intent of this Article IV to provide these commercial facilities in locations and configurations which are served by mass transit and by the regional highway system and in locations which will not permit incompatible relationships of uses and which will not permit encroachment upon sound residential environments of the Borough and which are consistent with the Comprehensive Plan.
A.
Use regulations.
(1)
Permitted uses.
(a)
All uses permitted in the "B" Residence District, subject to the requirements of § 610-20; however, this use shall not be mixed with any other use under this article.
(b)
Retail store.
(c)
Office, bank or other financial institution or telephone exchange.
(d)
Commercial service shop such as plumbing, heating, electric,
air conditioning, upholstery, printing shops, excluding vehicle sales,
service and repair.
(e)
Restaurant, except drive-in or drive-through restaurant, which
shall be permitted only in the case where a special exception is granted
by the Zoning Hearing Board.
(f)
Railway or motor transport freight station.
(g)
Personal service shop such as tailoring, shoe repairing, barber,
beauty shop, jewelry repair, watch and clock repair.
(h)
Hotel or motel.
(i)
Funeral home.
(j)
Educational, religious or philanthropic use, excluding hospital,
sanitarium, correctional institutions and a dormitory of an educational
institution.
B.
Lot area. Commercial uses shall require a lot area of not less than 3,000 square feet, and residential uses shall be the same as required in § 610-20.
C.
Lot width. Lot width as measured at the building line shall be a
minimum of 75 feet.
D.
Street frontage. Street frontage shall be a minimum of 75 feet as
measured at the street line.
E.
Height. A maximum of three stories or 35 feet, whichever is less.
F.
Front yard. A front yard is not required except when the business
use is in the same block frontage with a residential use; the business
shall then be set back a distance at least equal to that of the residential
use.
G.
Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard of at least 10 feet in depth.
H.
Side yard. Side yards are not required, except for detached buildings,
which require two side yards, neither of which shall be less than
10 feet in width.
I.
Coverage. Coverage may be 85%, except that, in meeting all other
requirements of this chapter, the coverage by buildings may have to
be reduced.
