[Ord. 1996-1, 1/23/1996, § 900; as amended by Ord.
2005-12, 12/13/2005, § 1, Part 15]
The HI-Heavy Industrial District is hereby established as a
district in which the regulations are intended to permit and encourage
appropriate sites to be used for industry and similar uses. Such district
is further intended to encourage the harmonious and appropriate physical
development of the Township by providing for graduate transitions
between adjacent land uses and to consolidate locations of industrially-related
land uses which, because of their shipping, storage and other requirements,
exert special demands on the Township. Further, the district is intended
to contribute to the soundness of the economic base of the Township
by encouraging the construction on and continued use of land for industrial
purposes. The establishment of this district is also intended to discourage
and minimize air and water pollution, noise, glare, heat, vibration,
fire and safety hazards and other detriments to the environment and
is the only area of the Township where large tracts are easily accessible
to public water and sewer. Further, this district is intended to create
conditions conducive to carrying out these and the general purposes
of this chapter.
[Ord. 1996-1, 1/23/1996, § 901; as amended by Ord.
2005-12, 12/13/2005, § 1, Part 15]
The following regulations shall apply to all areas designated
HI-Heavy Industrial District on the Zoning Map.
[Ord. 1996-1, 1/23/1996, § 902; as amended by Ord.
2005-12, 12/13/2005, § 1, Part 15; and by Ord. 2010-02,
3/9/2010, § 1]
[Ord. 1996-1, 1/23/1996, § 903; as amended by Ord.
2005-12, 12/13/2005, § 1, Part 15]
1. Setbacks of the following minimum depths and widths shall be provided,
however, in no case shall the front, side, rear yard depths be less
than 60% of the legal right-of-way of the street or streets on which
the lot abuts.
A. Front setback (yard) width: 30 feet; except when along major and
minor arterial type roadways designated and set forth in the Manchester
Township Comprehensive Plan, when such setback shall be 50 feet.
B. Side setback (yard) width: 30 feet.
C. Rear setback (hard) depth. 30 feet.
2. Buffer yard width and/or depth shall be provided as follows:
A. When adjacent to an A, RL, RM or RH District, a buffer yard shall
be provided in addition to the above yards, the depth of which shall
be not less than 100 feet. All such yards shall be provided and maintained
in accordance with the provisions of this chapter regulating buffer
yards.
B. When adjacent to a pre-existing residential use existing as of the effective date of the chapter located within the I-Industrial District, a buffer yard shall be provided in addition to the above yards required in Subsection
1, the depth of which shall be no less than 100 feet. All such buffer yards shall be provided and maintained in accordance with the provisions of this chapter regulating buffer yards.
C. When adjacent to a public street on which a Residential District
or preexisting residential use abuts on the opposite side, the dimension
of the right-of-way of the public street shall not be considered to
be a part of the depth of the buffer yard.
[Ord. 1996-1, 1/23/1996, § 904; as amended by Ord.
2005-12, 12/13/2005, § 1, Part 15]
No building shall be erected to a height in excess of three
stories, but not exceeding 50 feet in height. The height limit for
an accessory building shall be two stories but not more than 25 feet.
[Ord. 1996-1, 1/23/1996, § 905; as amended by Ord.
2005-12, 12/13/2005, § 1, Part 15]
Not more than 60% of the area of each lot shall be occupied
by buildings and no more than 70% of the area shall be occupied by
impervious surface.
[Ord. 1996-1, 1/23/1996, § 906; as amended by Ord.
2005-12, 12/13/2005, § 1, Part 15]
Thirty percent of the lot shall be vegetated open space. All
open spaces other than off-street parking lots, loading and unloading,
docks, and access drives, shall be covered with a vegetative material
and maintained in accordance with the terms of this chapter and any
other applicable laws or ordinances.
[Ord. 1996-1, 1/23/1996, § 907; as amended by Ord.
2005-12, 12/13/2005, § 1, Part 15]
The chart in §
27-9A03 shows permitted and special exception uses and the lot area requirements.
[Ord. 1996-1, 1/23/1996, § 908; as amended by Ord.
2005-12, 12/13/2005, § 1, Part 15]
1. The following uses are expressly prohibited in the HI-Heavy Industrial
District:
A. Residences, except dwellings only for use of bona fide caretakers
or watchmen and their families or dwellings located in a mobile home
park.
B. All uses that do not meet the requirements of §
27-1101, entitled "Performance Standards for All Uses."
C. The manufacture of rockets, projectiles, shells or other similar
missiles, gunpowder, fire works; however, the manufacture of component
parts thereof which have not been assembled with all of their explosive
or propellant components shall be permitted.
D. The tanning or storage or rawhides or skins and fat rendering.
E. Stockyards and piggeries.
F. No explosives shall be stored or used at any given time on any one
property unless authorized as a special exception.
G. Bulk storage of oil, gasoline nor similar flammable liquids or gases
above ground, unless authorized by special exceptions.