[Ord. 88-7, 5/12/1988]
The Light Industrial District is designed to provide for certain
types of manufacturing and industrial uses. Regulations are designed
for this District in order to minimize their incompatibility with
other districts and for the mutual protection of the surrounding area
from detrimental impacts.
[Ord. 88-7, 5/12/1988; as amended by Ord. 2001-3, 10/18/2001,
§ 2]
1. All nonresidential uses permitted in any Commercial District.
2. Auto salvage yards, body shops, painting, tire retreading or recapping
and welding shops.
4. Building materials storage and lumber yards.
6. Contractor's equipment, sales, service and storage.
7. Laundries, cleaning, dyeing, steam laundries, carpet and rug cleaning.
9. Electric and telephone public utility transmission and distribution
facilities, including substations, telephone central offices, water
pumping stations and reservoirs.
10. Municipal buildings or uses.
11. Electrical, optical and textile manufacturing.
12. Uses and buildings customarily accessory and incidental to any permitted
use.
13. The above permitted uses shall be permitted only under the following
conditions:
A. Such stores, shops and businesses shall be conducted within an enclosed
building.
B. Such uses, operations or products are not obnoxious or offensive
by reason of the emission of gas, odor, dust, smoke, noise, vibration,
refuse matter or other causes in accordance with Part 14 herein.
C. Such uses and/or buildings uses in the storage of flammable and combustible
liquids; the handling, processing and storage of hazardous substances
and the temporary and permanent storage of hazardous waste, shall
be permitted in accordance with standards and criteria as set forth
in Part 14 herein.
14. Metal fabrication and machine shops.
[Added by Ord. No. 2017-4, 11/16/2017]
15. Medical
marijuana academic clinical research centers.
[Added by Ord. No. 2019-3, 8/15/2019]
16. Medical
marijuana grower/processors.
[Added by Ord. No. 2019-3, 8/15/2019]
17. Medical
marijuana transport vehicle offices.
[Added by Ord. No. 2019-3, 8/15/2019]
18. Medical
marijuana dispensaries.
[Added by Ord. No. 2019-3, 8/15/2019]
19. Smoke
shops and tobacco stores.
[Added Ord. No. 2022-2, 6/16/2022]
[Ord. 88-7, 5/12/1988; as amended by Ord. 2002-3, 7/18/2002,
§ 2; and by Ord. 2016-1, 7/21/2016]
1. The following
special exceptions may be permitted by the Zoning Hearing Board, following
review and comment by the Planning Commission, pursuant to standards
and criteria as set forth in Part 21 herein.
A. Special Exceptions.
(1)
Permitted uses which require outside storage.
(2)
Wind energy conversion systems (WECS).
(3)
Radio and television antennas.
(4)
Adult-oriented business, as defined in Part 2 herein.
(5)
Other uses which, in the opinion of the Zoning Hearing Board,
are of the same general character as uses set forth in the definitions
and which will not be detrimental to the intended purpose of this
chapter.
B. Conditional Uses.
(1)
Tower-based WCF subject to the conditions of Part 22 herein.
(2)
Non-tower WCF that do not fall under the Pennsylvania Wireless
Broadband Collocation Act, subject to the conditions of Part 22 herein.
[Ord. 88-7, 5/12/1988]
Minimum lot area and width shall be based upon required setbacks,
coverage, parking, loading/unloading and other applicable standards.
[Ord. 88-7, 5/12/1988]
Each lot shall have front, side and rear yards of not less than
the depth or width indicated below:
1. Front yard. The minimum front yard setback shall be not less than
30 feet. In the case of a corner lot, there shall be two front yards.
2. Side yards. On an interior lot, the minimum side yard setback on
each side of a principal building shall be 20 feet.
3. Rear yard. The rear yard depth shall be no less than 30 feet.
4. Buffer yards/screen plantings shall be provided in accordance with
Part 14 herein.
[Ord. 88-7, 5/12/1988]
Off-street parking/access and loading/unloading shall be provided
in accordance with Parts 17 and 19 herein.