The C-1 General Commercial District is intended
to provide areas for office, retail, specialty, personal service and
business uses, recognizing areas where such uses already exist and
assuring that new uses or changes in use will be compatible with existing
adjacent land uses; to provide for public convenience by addressing
circulation and parking needs; and to help assure an attractive setting
for permitted land uses.
A.
Use by right. In the C-1 District, land, buildings and premises may be used by right for any one or more of the following principal purposes and no others, subject to Article IV and Article XIA:
[Amended 12-1-1999 by Ord. No. 99-14]
(1)
Retail sales, except vehicular sales and/or service.
[Amended 6-16-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-2]
(2)
Personal service establishment, such as barbershop,
beauty salon, shoe repair, tailor or cleaning and pressing.
(3)
Restaurant, tearoom, cafe, bar, retail bakery, confectionary
or other places preparing, selling and/or serving food or beverages.
(4)
General business, professional, governmental and administrative
offices.
(5)
Studio for performing or visual arts.
(6)
Bank or similar financial institution.
(7)
Religious use.
(8)
Museum, library or other educational or cultural use.
(9)
Places of amusement.
B.
Accessory uses. Any accessory use on the same lot
with and customarily incidental to any of the foregoing permitted
uses shall be allowed.
C.
Uses by special exception. The following uses shall be permitted only upon the grant of a special exception by the Zoning Hearing Board, subject to the terms of this article and of § 287-145, and subject to Article IV and Article XIA:
[Amended 12-1-1999 by Ord. No. 99-14]
[Amended 12-1-1999 by Ord. No. 99-14]
Except as otherwise noted in § 287-37 above, the following regulations shall apply to all uses in the C-1 District, except as provided for in Article XIA:
A.
Minimum lot size: 2,500 square feet.
B.
Minimum lot width: none required.
C.
Minimum front yard: none required.
D.
Minimum side yards: none required except where no
rear access is available; there, one fifteen-foot side yard is required.
E.
Minimum rear yard: none required.
F.
Maximum building coverage: 50%.
G.
Maximum other impervious surface coverage: 30%.
H.
Minimum vegetative area: 10%.
I.
Maximum building height: four stories or 45 feet, whichever is less; except as shown on the Zoning Map for Zone 1 and Zone 2 of the Height Option Overlay Districts, taller buildings may be permitted in accordance with § 287-51D. Zone 1 buildings may be built by right up to five stories to a maximum of 75 feet; and up to seven stories to a maximum of 90 feet as a conditional use. Zone 2 buildings may be built by right up to four stories to a maximum of 60 feet to the extent shown in the Height Option Overlay Districts Map.
[Amended 8-1-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-10]
K.
Dwellings in combination with nonresidential use:
(1)
Any dwelling unit permitted under the terms of § 287-37C(2) above, shall have a floor area of not less than 442 square feet or as otherwise may be required by the Borough Building Code.[2]
(2)
Total floor area devoted to dwelling units within
the structure shall not exceed four times the total floor area of
the ground-floor nonresidential use or uses.
(3)
Entrance to any dwelling unit may be shared with another
unit or units, but shall be independent of the nonresidential use
or uses.
(4)
Off-street parking for each dwelling unit shall be provided in accordance with the requirements of Article XVIII of this chapter.
(5)
Where two or more dwelling units are to be created
above the second story, requisite approvals of interior layout, emergency
exits, etc., shall be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of
Labor and Industry.
The following design standards of this chapter
shall, as applicable, govern all uses within the C-1 District:
