Unless the regulations of the district in which
they are located require greater lot areas or lot widths, the following
regulations shall apply:
A. Lot not served by public water or sanitary sewer system
approved by the Department of Environmental Protection shall be not
less than 100 feet wide at the building line or less than 40,000 square
feet in area per dwelling unit.
B. Lots served either by public water or sanitary sewer
shall be not less than 100 feet wide at the building line nor less
than 15,000 square feet in area per dwelling unit.
C. Notwithstanding the above, lot areas shall be increased to the size deemed necessary by the Sewage Enforcement Officer after percolation tests and inspections to determine satisfactory compliance with the Township ordinance regulating individual sewage disposal systems (see Chapter
254).
[Added 10-13-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-04]
A. All
restaurants with drive-throughs shall provide for stacking for at
least 10 vehicles.
B. All
financial institutions or retail operations with drive-throughs shall
provide for stacking for at least five vehicles.
C. For
purposes of calculating stacking of vehicles in this section, a minimum
vehicle length of 18 feet shall be used.
D. Drive-through
aisles shall be designed in such a way as to avoid, where feasible,
conflicts with pedestrian movements, and pedestrian crosswalks shall
be provided where necessary.
E. Drive-through
facilities for restaurants shall provide a bypass lane.
F. Drive-throughs
for restaurants, retail operations, or financial institutions in the
Mixed-Use Zoning District shall have access onto a major or minor
arterial.
The minimum habitable floor area of a single-family
dwelling unit or any building or other structure erected or used for
living purposes shall be:
A. In the R-1, N-C, N-C/H, M-U, T-N and F-R Districts:
700 square feet.
B. In the R-7, R-10, R-20 and R-R Districts: 900 square
feet.
C. In the event the average floor area of the homes on abutting properties exceeds the minimum square feet of floor area required in Subsections
A and
B above, such homes shall be no less than 80% of the floor area of the homes on abutting properties, excluding the basement area. The floor area shall be determined using York County tax assessment data.
D. In the case of multifamily dwellings, the minimum
habitable floor area shall not be less than 450 square feet per dwelling,
except those dwelling units designed for and occupied exclusively
by one person, which apartments shall contain not less than 300 square
feet of habitable floor area.
Hotels and motels are a permitted use in the
C-H, F-D and B-I Districts subject to the following regulations:
A. A site to be used for a hotel or motel establishment
shall include an office and lobby and may include such accessory uses
as:
(5) Cafeteria dining halls provided for food and drink.
(6) Amusement and recreation facilities such as a swimming
pool, children's playground, tennis or other game sports and game
or recreation rooms.
B. The minimum lot area shall be one acre; the minimum
lot width shall be 150 feet; 800 square feet of lot area is required
for each guest room.
C. All principal and accessory buildings and structures
shall cover a total of not more than 35% of the site. A freestanding
restaurant, coffee shop, cafeteria or dining hall shall not cover
more than 10% of the site.
D. The maximum length of any building shall not exceed
200 feet. The total interior floor area of each guest room, inclusive
of bathroom and closet space, shall be not less than 250 square feet.
E. The maximum height of any building shall be as provided for in §
325-43F, Commercial Highway Zoning District, Area and Bulk Regulations.
F. Distance between buildings shall not be less than
25 feet.
G. Access shall only be by a major or minor arterial
street and points of vehicular ingress and egress shall be limited
to a total of one on any street.
H. All building areas shall be at least 50 feet from
street lines and all parking areas shall be at least 25 feet from
all street lines. All parking areas serving a restaurant, cafeteria
or coffee shop or dining hall shall be at least 30 feet from all guest
rooms.
I. Landscaping shall be provided according to the Springettsbury Township Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance (Chapter
289).
A public or private school, as it is defined
in this chapter, shall be a permitted principal use in the R-1, R-7
and R-10, R-20, N-C, N-C/H and M-U Zones, subject to the following:
A. Area, width and bulk requirements: As specified in
each zoning district, except that schools shall not be permitted on
lots without public water and public sewer service.
B. All courses of instruction must, as a general rule,
be conducted within the school building. Infrequent instruction in
a discipline normally conducted or operated out-of-doors will be permitted
so long as the remaining criteria of this section are complied with.
C. No course of instruction, whether conducted inside
or outside the school building, shall produce or result in any noise,
unreasonable sound or offensive odor discernible beyond the property
line.
D. No instructional material, equipment or supplies shall
be stored or, when not in use, be allowed to remain outside the school
building.
E. The school building shall comply in all respects with
state, federal and local health, safety and building codes.
Public utility facilities shall be permitted
in any district without regard to the use and area regulations; provided,
however, that buildings or structures erected for these utilities
shall be subject to the following regulations:
A. Front, side and rear yards shall be provided in accordance
with the regulations of the district in which the facility is located.
B. Height shall be as required by the district regulations.
C. Unhoused equipment:
(1) Shall be prohibited in any residential district and
the N-C and N-C/H Districts.
(2) Shall be enclosed with a chain link fence six feet
in height, topped with barbed wire in the M-U, C-H, B-I, G-I and F-D
Districts.
D. Housed equipment. When the equipment is totally enclosed
within a building, no fence or screen planting shall be required and
the yard shall be maintained in conformity with the district in which
the facility is located.
E. Landscaping and buffer yards shall be provided in accordance with the Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance (Chapter
289). Such buffer yards may be coterminous with any required yard in the district and, in case of conflict, the larger yard requirements shall apply.
F. The external design of the building shall be in conformity
with the buildings in the district.
G. Access for unhoused equipment where vehicular access
is across the front yard: The gate shall be constructed of solid materials
having not less than 50% solid in ratio to open space. In residential
districts, the permitted public utility facilities shall not include
the storage of vehicles or equipment used in the maintenance of any
utility or the installation of equipment causing hazardous effect.
H. No equipment causing noise, vibration, smoke or odor
beyond the property line shall be permitted.
I. Plans of the facility shall be submitted to the Township for review and approval as provided in the Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance (Chapter
289).
[Added 2-27-2020 by Ord.
No. 2020-01]
Adaptive reuse to mini storage facility shall be a permitted
use in the Town Center Overlay, subject to the following requirements:
A. No
advertising signs will be permitted on the property other than identifying
signs for the storage facility itself in accordance with this chapter.
B. All
lighting shall be shielded to direct light away from adjacent property
and streets.
C. All
storage shall be confined to the interior of the existing building.
D. The
following uses are strictly prohibited:
(1) Office activities, except for offices used in connection with the
management or operation of the storage facility.
(2) Establishment of a transfer business.
(3) Vehicle or trailer rental services.
(4) Repair, construction, reconstruction or fabrication of any item,
including but not limited to any boat, engine, motor vehicle or furniture.
(5) Auctions, wholesale or retail sales (including garage sales); provided,
however, that accessory retail sales of boxes, packing supplies, tape,
packaging materials, or other products customarily sold in connection
with a self-storage facility shall be permitted in the manager's office.
(6) Bulk storage of gasoline, diesel fuel, paint, paint remover and all
other flammable, combustible, explosive or hazardous materials and
chemicals. Nothing in this section is meant to prohibit the storage
of motor vehicles or equipment that contain a normal supply of such
fuels for their operation.
(7) The operation of power tools, spray-painting equipment or any other
use that is noxious because of odors, dust fumes, vibrations or emissions,
except as necessary to maintain the premises.
(8) Internet/phone service to individual units, although phone and internet
service to the facility office and pay phones within the facility
are permitted.
(9) Accessory buildings and/ or uses not incidental to operation of the
facility.
E. Building(s) renovated for mini storage pursuant to this section shall comply with all applicable provisions of Chapter
128 of the Code of Ordinances. Building(s) renovated for mini
storage that are structurally connected to existing retailers or other
uses shall specifically (but not exclusively) comply with the fire
separation requirements contained in the 2015 International Building
Code.