[Amended 5-21-1991 by Ord. No. 884]
The purpose of this district is to permit general,
corporate and professional offices, sales offices, personal service
establishments and retail uses. Within this district no lot or building
shall be used and no building shall be erected or altered to be used,
in whole or in part, unless it complies with the regulations set forth
in this article. The following retail and service uses and those uses
which are similar to the enumerated permitted uses shall be permitted
in this district:
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Antique shops, provided that there is no display
of merchandise outside the building
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Bakery or confectionery shops for retail sales
on the same premises
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Banks, savings and loan associations and other
fiduciary institutions. Drive-up facilities may be permitted, provided
that such facilities do not adversely impede or conflict with the
safe traffic flow required by the principal use on or off the site.
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Bookstores, stationery stores, jewelry stores
and watch repairing
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Buildings and structures owned and operated
by the Borough of Haddon Heights for municipal purposes
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Clothing stores, gift shops and sporting goods
stores
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Interior decorating establishments
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Job printing
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Musical instrument stores or studios, including
retail sale of recordings and tapes
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Office buildings, office complexes and professional
offices
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Offices and shops of an artisan, such as carpenter,
electrician and plumber, provided that all facilities and supplies
are in a completely enclosed building and all shop work is performed
therein
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Offices for professional services such as physicians,
lawyers or architects; small commercial offices such as realtors,
insurance or travel agencies; small governmental office, including
post office branch or social security; and offices incidental to uses
permitted in this section
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Personal service shops, such as beauty, barber-,
tailor and dressmaking shops, retail dry-cleaning, laundry and shoe
repair shops
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Photographers' and artists' studios
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Picture-framing shops
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Repair, sale and servicing of radio, television
and other home appliances
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Repair, sale and servicing shops for typewriters
and other office equipment
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Sales offices, including the office of a manufacturer's
representative or catalog-ordering establishment
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Stamp or coin stores
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Supermarkets, grocery stores, meat markets,
delicatessens, fish markets, drugstores and hardware stores
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Travel bureaus
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Veteran, fraternal and lodge organizations
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Videotape rental and sales
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[Amended 5-21-1991 by Ord. No. 884]
The following uses are specifically prohibited
in the Highway Commercial District:
A.
Billiard parlors, poolrooms, bowling alleys or commercial
amusement establishments.
B.
Welding shops.
C.
Pet shops, kennels or other commercial establishments
for breeding or sale of animals.
D.
Display, outside the building, of articles for sale.
E.
Any kind of manufacturing, fabricating, altering,
finishing or assembling, except as necessarily incidental to retail
trade or service.
F.
Any machinery used incidental to any permitted use
that is powered by other than electric motive power. In no one store
or separate establishment shall there be permitted more than 10 horsepower,
exclusive of refrigeration and air conditioning. If steam is required,
no more than 15 pounds of steam pressure shall be permitted.
G.
Any internal-combustion engine or gas generator, unless
operated for a particular temporary use or where essential for the
emergency use of a public utility.
H.
Heavy-trucking transport.
I.
The storage of furniture, building materials or solid,
liquid or gaseous fuels or chemicals, unless incidental and subordinate
to a permitted use.
J.
Uses conducive to potentially high hazard in the form
of fire, explosion, radiation, contamination or other elements dangerous
to human beings.
K.
Warehouses.
The following accessory uses shall be permitted
in the Highway Commercial District:
The following conditional uses shall be permitted
in the Highway Commercial District:
A.
Restaurants, excluding fast-food, drive-in and take-out
service establishments.
A.
Lot area. A minimum lot area of 12,000 square feet
shall be provided for every use hereafter erected.
B.
Lot width. Each lot on which highway commercial uses
shall be erected shall have a width of not less than 100 feet.
C.
Building coverage. The maximum building coverage shall
not be greater than 25% of the gross lot area.
D.
Lot coverage. The maximum lot coverage, including
all structures, shall not be greater than 80% of the gross lot area.
E.
Front yard. A front yard setback shall be provided
to be not less than 15 feet. Where there is an existing building on
each of two lots adjacent to a lot on which a proposed building is
to be erected and both buildings have an alignment nearer to the street
than the required front yard and where both buildings are within 100
feet of the proposed building, the average of the existing front yard
depths of each adjacent lot shall be the minimum required front yard
depth of the lot on which the proposed building is to be erected.
F.
Side yards. There shall be yard setbacks of not less
than 15 feet on each side.
G.
Yards. Where the lot in question adjoins a residential
district, there shall be a yard adjacent to the common boundary line
to provide at least 40 feet between the building and said boundary
line.
H.
Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard to be not less
than 40 feet.
I.
Building orientation. No building permitted in the
Highway Commercial District shall front on the following streets:
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Bryn Mawr Avenue
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Maple Avenue
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Narbeth Avenue
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New Jersey Avenue
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Prospect Ridge Boulevard
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South Park Avenue
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Sycamore Street
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Wayne Avenue
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West High Street
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J.
Height. A structure shall not have a greater height
than two stories or 30 feet measured from the average grade line perimetering
the building to the top of the main roof cornice line, excluding necessary
utility-type roof structures.
