[Amended 8-28-2007 by Ord. No. 497]
For the purpose of this chapter, the Township is hereby divided into districts, which shall be designated as follows:
AR
Residential District
BR
Residential District
BR-1
Residential District
MR
Medium-Density Residential District
GA
Garden Apartment Residential District
CR
Residential District
HR
High-Rise Residential District
HR-1
High-Rise-1 Residential District
RR
Residential Retirement District
RP
Residential and Professional District
RO
Residential Office District
ATR
[Added 5-26-2009 by Ord. No. 517]
Age-Targeted Residential District
IN
Institutional District
BP
Business and Professional District
EC
Executive Campus District
ECII
Executive Campus II District
C
Commercial District
C-1
Commercial District
SC
Shopping Center District
I
Industrial District
LI
Limited Industrial District
HI
Heavy Industrial District
FP
Floodplain Conservation District
The boundaries of said districts shall be shown upon the maps attached to and made a part of this chapter, which shall be designated the "Zoning Map" and "Floodplain Overlay Map." Said maps and all notations, references and other things shown thereon shall be made a part of this chapter, as if the matters and things shown by said maps were all fully described herein.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The Zoning Map and Floodplain Overlay Map are on file in the Township offices and may be examined there during regular business hours.
Where uncertainty exists with respect to the boundaries of the various districts shown on the Zoning Map, the following rules shall apply:
A. 
The district boundaries are center lines of roads unless otherwise shown.
B. 
Where the district boundaries are not shown to be roads, the boundaries shall be construed to be property lines or dimensions from streets or roads as shown on the Zoning Map and Floodplain Overlay Map.
C. 
When a district boundary line passes through a parcel of land with no indication of distance, the scale of the map shall determine the location of such line.
D. 
District boundaries shall be construed to be the centerline of any public or private right-of-way.
[Added 5-25-2010 by Ord. No. 526]
In any case where a tract has for one of its boundaries a Township boundary line, then, for the purpose of this chapter, the existing zoning classification of the adjacent property in the neighboring municipality shall be determined and related to the most similar East Norriton Township zoning district. If the zoning classification in the neighboring municipality as related to the East Norriton Township Zoning Ordinance is more restrictive than the zoning classification of the property in East Norriton Township, then the East Norriton Township Zoning Ordinance regulations shall apply as if the neighboring property were in East Norriton Township.
Whenever federal- or state-owned property or property owned by any federal or state agency or political subdivision thereof, as well as public utilities, is included in one or more zoning districts, it shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter only insofar as permitted by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.