[Amended 12-8-1975 by Ord. No. 1623; 5-9-1977 by Ord. No. 1666]
In addition to the goals listed in § 182-102 of this chapter, the districts established in this Article are intended to achieve the following:
A. 
To provide sufficient space, in appropriate locations, to meet anticipated future needs in Haverford Township for office-laboratory development.
B. 
To ensure that the land most suitable for office, laboratory and related activities will be available by prohibiting the use of such land for new residential development and at the same time to protect residences by separating them from such activities.
C. 
To protect modern laboratory and office use against congestion by limiting the bulk of buildings in relation to the land around them and to one another and by providing sufficient off-street parking and loading facilities for such developments.
D. 
To promote the most desirable use of land and guide the direction of building development in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan, to strengthen the economic base, to protect the character of the area, to conserve the value of land and buildings and to strengthen the local tax base.
E. 
To provide sufficient space in appropriate locations for light industrial development to meet the present and future needs of Haverford Township.
F. 
To establish reasonable standards of areas and bulk, off-street parking and loading and performance standards so as to provide for a safe and orderly use of land.
G. 
To strengthen and to guide the development of the economic base of the Township and to conserve and protect the value of land and buildings in and near the Light Industrial District.
A. 
Specific intent. It is the purpose of this district to make special provision for selected modern laboratory and office establishments, which can be designed for attractive large sites with low lot coverage. In addition, this district will encourage development which is free from offensive noise, vibration, smoke, odors, glare, hazards of fire or other objectionable effects. Firms which can meet the standards imposed in this section shall be permitted to locate in districts adjacent to residential districts, provided that adequate landscaping and screening are provided.
B. 
Use regulations.
(1) 
Uses by right. In any OL District, land, buildings or premises shall be used by right for one or more of the following:
(a) 
Scientific or industrial research or engineering laboratories, testing or experimental laboratories or similar establishments for research or product development.
(b) 
An office building or offices of an administrative, executive, governmental or similar agency.
(2) 
Accessory uses. Only the following accessory uses shall be permitted:
(a) 
Restaurant or cafeteria facilities for employees.
(b) 
Recreational facilities for employees and occupants.
(c) 
Storage within a completely enclosed building in conjunction with a permitted use.
(d) 
Signs as permitted in § 182-701.
(e) 
Other accessory uses on the same lot with and customarily incidental to any of the above-permitted uses and not detrimental to the neighborhood.
(f) 
Solar energy equipment.
[Added 3-12-2012 by Ord. No. 2657]
(3) 
Uses by special exception. The installation and/or construction of satellite dishes, earth station satellites and television satellites shall be permitted when authorized as a special exception.
[Added 9-30-1985 by Ord. No. 1934]
C. 
Area and bulk regulations. The following regulations shall be observed:
(1) 
Lot size: four acres minimum.
(2) 
Street frontage: 300 feet minimum.
(3) 
Building coverage: 20% maximum.
(4) 
Front yard: 50 feet minimum.
(5) 
Side yards: 50 feet minimum each.
(6) 
Rear yard: 50 feet minimum.
(7) 
Distance between buildings: 50 feet minimum.
(8) 
Height: 45 feet maximum or three stories.
(9) 
Impervious surface ratio: 60% maximum.
[Added 12-13-1993 by Ord. No. 2189]
D. 
Off-street parking regulations. Off-street parking regulations shall be as required by § 182-707 of this chapter.
E. 
Off-street loading regulations. Off-street loading regulations shall be as required by § 182-708 of this chapter.
F. 
Performance and design standards. Performance and design standards shall be as required by §§ 182-717 and 182-718 of this chapter.
G. 
Special procedural and plan requirements. In an OL Office-Laboratory District, the procedural and plan requirements as set forth in § 182-720 shall apply.
A. 
Specific intent. It is the purpose of this district to make special provision for office, research and light industrial development in appropriate areas of the Township. The LIN Light Industrial District classification is designed to provide a compatible environment for nonnuisance, light industrial development which is free from offensive noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odor, glare, hazard or other objectionable effects and which is subject to special requirements relating to tract size, low lot coverage, building placement, landscaping and buffering and to strengthen and diversify the Township's property tax base.
B. 
Use regulations.
(1) 
Uses by right. In any Light Industrial District, land, buildings or premises shall be used by right only for one or more of the following, provided that such building or use does not create any (substantial) hazard or amount of noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odors, heat, glare or other objectionable influence as set forth in § 182-717 and meets other provisions of this chapter:
(a) 
Scientific or industrial research, testing or experimental laboratories or product development.
(b) 
An office building or offices of an administrative, executive, governmental or similar agency.
(c) 
Repair, assembly, distribution and service of home, commercial and industrial electrical appliances, supplies and equipment not in excess of 50 cubic feet and manufacturing, repair, assembly, distribution and service of the following: electrical appliances, supplies and equipment not in excess of 25 cubic feet; electric or electronic instruments and devices, such as precision instruments and measuring and control devices; medical, dental, drafting and similar scientific and professional instruments; optical goods and equipment; clocks and watches; office machines and equipment; sporting goods; jewelry; cameras and photographic equipment other than film; musical instruments; toys; and novelties.
(d) 
Printing, publishing, bookbinding, engraving, lithographing, reproducing, photofinishing, film processing or similar establishments.
(e) 
Indoor storage buildings, warehouses and distribution centers and packaging and crating.
(f) 
Community center, governmental or utility uses of buildings as permitted in § 182-202B(1)(c).
[Amended 12-13-2010 by Ord. No. 2612]
(g) 
Monument establishments.
(h) 
Cold storage plants, frozen-food plants and lockers and catering plants.
(i) 
Cinema studios and radio and television stations.
(j) 
Laundries, laundry services and cleaning and dyeing plants.
(k) 
General service or contractor's shops and lumber, millwork, carpenter, cabinet-making, furniture repair, light metal-working, electrical, plumbing, roofing or similar shops.
(l) 
Automobile repair shops, including auto body work and painting.
(m) 
Mail-order merchandise businesses.
(n) 
Manufacture, compounding, assembly, processing and distribution of confections, candy, chewing gum and food products (excluding meat and fish and excluding the manufacture, compounding, assembly and processing of beverages, but permitting the distribution of beverages), cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, ink, hat bodies, textiles and hosiery.
(o) 
Manufacture, compounding, assembly, processing and distribution of products from the following previously prepared materials: sheet cellophane, polyethylene and similar material, canvas, cloth, rope, cord, twine, glass, china, plastic, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, hair (excluding washing, curling and dyeing), leather, paper, cardboard, ceramics, textiles, wood (excluding chemical treatment or preservation), rubber and synthetic treated fabrics (excluding all rubber and synthetic processing).
(p) 
Commercial greenhouses, nurseries and wholesale florists.
(q) 
Any use of the same general character as any of the uses hereinbefore specifically permitted when authorized as a special exception by the Zoning Hearing Board.
(2) 
Prohibited uses. All industrial uses which are not of the same general character as those enumerated above and which do not meet the test defined above in Subsection B(1) shall be construed to be heavy industrial uses and shall be prohibited in any LIN District.
(3) 
Accessory uses. Only the following accessory uses shall be permitted:
(a) 
Accessory uses on the same lot with and customarily incidental to any of the uses permitted in the district, including signs as permitted in § 182-701, off-street parking facilities as required by § 182-707, living quarters for watchmen and restaurant or cafeteria facilities for employees and occupants of the permitted use, subject, however, to such safeguards as are necessary to ensure that any such use shall comply with the requirements of § 182-717 and shall not be detrimental to the surrounding area.
(b) 
Solar energy equipment.
[Added 3-12-2012 by Ord. No. 2657]
(4) 
Uses by special exception. The following uses shall be permitted as a special exception when authorized by the Zoning Hearing Board after review by the Planning Commission as to conformance with the Comprehensive Plan, adequate provision for egress and ingress, for impact on surrounding vehicular circulation patterns and for proper site design:
(a) 
The manufacture, compounding, processing, bottling and canning of nonalcoholic beverages.
(b) 
The installation and/or construction of satellite dishes, earth station satellites and television satellites.
[Added 9-30-1985 by Ord. No. 1934]
(c) 
Adult commercial use, either as a primary or accessory use in a building or structure with more than 75 square feet of floor space or 2% of the total floor area, whichever is less, devoted to said adult commercial use, provided that:
[Added 8-8-1994 by Ord. No. 2208]
[1] 
The building, lot or structure of such use shall be located no closer than 500 feet, measured in any direction, from any other building, lot or structure having a school, church, recreational, religious, institutional and/or educational use.
[2] 
No such use shall be located within 2,000 feet, measured in any direction, of a similar use.
[3] 
No entertainment or materials sold within shall be visible from any window, door or exterior of the building or structure.
[4] 
No person under the age of 18 years of age shall be permitted to patronize an adult commercial use or sold any pornographic material.
(d) 
Telecommunications equipment of a licensed carrier providing telecommunications service, provided that the Zoning Hearing Board finds that the provisions of § 182-728 have been met.
[Added 6-9-1997 by Ord. No. 2271]
(5) 
Conditional uses. Subject to the general standards set forth in §§ 182-1201, 182-1202, 182-1203, 182-1204 and 182-1205 governing conditional uses, the following uses shall be permitted as conditional uses when authorized by the Board of Commissioners after review by the Township Planning Commission as to conformance with the Comprehensive Plan and this chapter:
[Added 6-12-2017 by Ord. No. 2810]
(a) 
Medical marijuana grower/processor. A medical marijuana grower/processor use shall be permitted as a conditional use in accordance with the specific standards set forth in § 182-1208, Standards applicable to medical marijuana grower/processor uses, of this chapter.
C. 
Area and bulk regulations.
(1) 
The following regulations shall be observed with regard to the entire district considered as a whole, even though the individual parcels of land within the district may be held in single and separate ownership:
(a) 
District size: five acres minimum.
(b) 
Street frontage: 300 feet minimum, all perimeter streets.
(2) 
The following regulations shall be observed with regard to individual tracts or parcels within the LIN District:
(a) 
Lot size: 1/2 acre minimum.
(b) 
Street frontage: 65 feet minimum.
(c) 
Lot width at building line: 75 feet minimum.
(d) 
Building coverage: 30% maximum.
(e) 
Front yard: 35 feet minimum.
(f) 
Side yard: 25 feet minimum, each yard, and 35 feet minimum where property adjoins a residential district.
(g) 
Rear yard: 35 feet minimum.
(h) 
Height: 35 feet or two stories, except that the permitted height may be increased to a maximum of 45 feet or three stories if all building setback lines specified above are increased one foot for each additional foot of elevation. This height may be increased a maximum of 10 feet to accommodate rooftop heating and air-conditioning equipment, provided that said equipment is set back from all roof edges one foot for each one foot in height.
(i) 
Impervious surface ratio: 60% maximum.
[Added 12-13-1993 by Ord. No. 2189]
(3) 
Expansion of nonconforming lots or structures.
(a) 
Lots or structures in any LIN District which existed at the time of the enaction of this chapter in an LIN District or at the time of any subsequent zoning change which creates an LIN District but which do not conform to the area and bulk requirements of this subsection may be expanded if the following conditions are met, in addition to those specified in Article VIII of this chapter:
[1] 
Landscaping and buffer planting strips shall be provided in accordance with the requirement of § 182-718B and D if possible, but in no case shall the required planting strip be less than three feet in width.
[2] 
Lots lacking street frontage shall be connected to a public street by means of a paved driveway. Said driveway shall have a minimum width of 10 feet for each direction of traffic flow, and assurance shall be made to the Township that said driveway will be kept in a good state of repair into perpetuity.
(b) 
All other requirements of this chapter, including parking, loading and outdoor storage, shall be complied with.
D. 
Off-street parking regulations. Off-street parking regulations shall be as required by § 182-707 of this chapter.
E. 
Off-street loading regulations.
(1) 
Off-street loading regulations shall be as required by § 182-708 of this chapter.
(2) 
Wherever possible, off-street loading facilities shall not be located on exterior walls facing a residential district. Where no alternative is feasible, off-street loading facilities may be located on a wall facing a residential district, provided that the buffer requirements as stated in § 182-718B are provided initially in sufficient density to screen said loading activities from view. Said screening shall be in place prior to the granting of a certificate of occupancy.
F. 
Performance and design standards. Performance and design standards shall be as required by §§ 182-717 and 182-718 of this chapter, Chapter 76, Environmental Performance Standards, and by other applicable regulations.
G. 
Special procedural and plan requirements. Special procedural and plan requirements shall be as required by § 182-720 of this chapter.