In a C Commercial District, the following shall
apply.
[Amended 12-23-2008 by Ord. No. 512; 1-3-2011 by Ord. No. 533; 10-27-2015 by Ord. No. 566]
A. A building may be erected, altered or used and a lot or premises
may be used for any of the following purposes and no other:
(1) Retail store: stores engaged in selling goods or merchandise to the
general public for personal or household consumption, including, without
limitation, the sale of antiques, books, gifts, garden supplies, hardware,
household appliances and electronics, jewelry, notions, periodicals,
stationery, tobacco, paint, wearing apparel, food, beverages, and
other similar goods; and rendering services incidental to the sale
of such goods.
(2) Service business: establishments engaged in providing services involving the care of a person or apparel, such as barber, beautician, massage therapist business, laundry and dry-cleaning, shoe repair, or tailor. A service business shall not include psychic readings, massage parlors, body piercing, branding, or tattooing of persons, all of which are defined and regulated herein as limited personal service (§
205-22.4).
(3) Repair service: shops for small appliances, watches, bicycles, or
personal items, but excluding repairs of cars, machinery, or engines.
(4) Fast-food restaurants, fast-casual restaurants, full-service restaurants,
brewpubs and microbreweries.
(5) Clubs, fraternal organizations and lodges; health clubs or fitness
centers.
(6) Greenhouses and nursery sales yards.
(7) Indoor theaters, bowling alleys, billiard rooms or similar indoor
amusements.
(8) Wholesaling and sale of lumber, plumbing and other building materials
and supplies.
(9) Accessory uses on the same lot with and customarily incidental to
any of the above permitted uses, including dwellings, provided that
such accessory uses shall be located at or above the second-story
level.
(10)
The following uses, when authorized as special exceptions:
(a)
Any use of the same general character as any of the above permitted
uses that is not specifically prohibited elsewhere in this article.
(b)
Gasoline filling stations or public garages and automobile repair
shops.
(d)
Undertaking establishments.
(e)
Animal hospitals and kennels.
(f)
Hand or automatic self-service laundries, provided that there
are adequate provisions made for water disposal.
(g)
Automobile sales and service agencies.
(i)
Taprooms, bars, taverns and liquor stores.
(11)
Day-care centers, provided that any state licensing requirements
are met.
(12)
The following uses when authorized as conditional uses:
(b)
Offices for administration, executive, professional, insurance
or other similar uses which do not involve the actual storage, warehousing,
exchange or delivery of merchandise on the premises.
(13)
The following uses shall not be permitted: storage or warehousing
of materials or supplies unless such items are associated with a business
or operations located at the property which is a use permitted in
this zoning district.
(14)
Municipal uses and police stations.
(15)
Fire stations and ambulance stations that are occupied by a
provider designated by the East Norriton Township Board of Supervisors
to provide fire or ambulance service to East Norriton Township.