In an SC Shopping Center District, the following
regulations shall apply.
[Amended 12-13-2008 by Ord. No. 512; 4-28-2009 by Ord. No. 515; 10-27-2015 by Ord. No. 566]
In an SC Shopping Center District, a building or combination
of buildings may be erected or used and a lot area may be used or
occupied for any of the following purposes and no other:
A.
Retail stores, including retail outlets or showrooms for uses permitted in Subsection I hereof, but not including automobile sales agencies, provided that no goods shall be displayed outside the building area or on that lot, except pursuant to Article IV, § 205-20, and provided that only incidental storage, including floor samples, shall be permitted. "Building area" shall be defined as that area covered by the principal roof of the building.
B.
The following personal service shops, dealing directly with customers: beauty parlors, barbershops, massage therapist businesses, clothes cleaning establishments (not including cleaning and dyeing plants), automatic self-service laundries, dressmaking, millinery or similar shops, provided that all repair or processing work is conducted in accordance with Subsection I below.
C.
Theaters, not including outdoor motion-picture establishments, assembly
halls or community buildings, indoor recreational establishments,
fitness centers or libraries.
D.
Fast-food restaurants, fast-casual restaurants, full-service restaurants,
brewpubs and microbreweries.
E.
Bakeries, confectionery or custom shops for the production of articles sold at retail on the premises, provided that all baking or processing is conducted in accordance with Subsection I below.
F.
Banks, financial advisors, tutoring and educational uses.
G.
Passenger bus stations, electric substations and utility buildings.
I.
The following uses, provided that, if such uses are located on the
ground floor, they shall not be located within 20 feet of the front
of the building, and provided that they shall be effectively screened
from the front portion of the building by a wall or partition:
(1)
General servicing or repair.
(2)
Upholstering.
(3)
Carpentry or woodworking.
(4)
Electrical, radio and television repair.
(5)
Hand laundering, dry-cleaning or pressing, provided that no flammable
fluids are used.
(6)
Tailoring, dressmaking or repair.
(7)
Millinery repair.
(8)
Baking, confectionery making or similar processing.
(9)
Any similar use involving repair, processing or storage activity,
not including painting or body and fender repairs.
J.
Accessory uses customarily incidental to any of the above uses, including fencing in accordance with § 205-22.3.
K.
Any use of the same general character as any of the above permitted
uses, when authorized as a special exception by the Zoning Hearing
Board, provided that such use shall be permitted subject to such reasonable
restrictions as the Zoning Hearing Board may determine, and further
provided that no trade or business shall be permitted which is either
noxious or hazardous.
M.
If the development of the center is to be carried out in stages,
each stage shall be so planned that the foregoing requirements and
the intent of this chapter shall be fully complied with at the completion
of any stage. The initial stage of development shall comprise a total
ground-floor area of not less than 4,000 square feet.
N.
Additionally, the following uses, when authorized as special exceptions
by the Zoning Hearing Board, shall be permitted in this district:
O.
Residential units located above the first floor of a nonresidential
use, subject to the following standards:
(1)
Residential uses shall be permitted only on the second floor and
above.
(2)
Residential uses shall not be located on the same floor with other
permitted uses.
(3)
Second-story residential construction shall be permitted to extend
to the limits of the existing building footprint and only beyond where
required setbacks can be maintained.
(4)
Each second-story dwelling shall contain a minimum of 650 square
feet of gross floor area.
(5)
Site plan approval shall be required prior to the issuance of any
building permit to construct a second-story dwelling.
(6)
Second-story dwellings shall be limited to a maximum of two bedrooms.
(7)
Parking shall be located within 300 feet of the building entrance.
(8)
Ingress and egress for residences shall be separate from nonresidential
uses.
P.
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.
The general plan for a shopping center or any
additions thereto shall include evidence and facts showing that it
has considered and made provision for, and the development shall be
executed in accordance with, the following essential conditions:
A.
The development shall consist of harmonious selection
of uses and grouping of buildings, service and parking areas, circulation
and open spaces, planned and designed as an integrated unit, in such
manner as to constitute a safe, efficient and convenient retail shopping
center.
B.
The proposed development shall be constructed in accordance
with an overall plan with appropriate landscaping.
C.
The total area shall be not less than two acres.
D.
No more than 20% of the lot area shall be occupied
by buildings. The total allowable floor area when divided by the lot
area shall not exceed 0.4 (40%).
E.
The distance at the closest point between any two
buildings or groups or units of attached buildings shall not be less
than 30 feet.
F.
The maximum height of any building or structure erected
in this district shall be 35 feet.
G.
Adequate area shall be provided for loading and unloading of delivery trucks and other vehicles; servicing of shops by refuse collection, fuel, fire and other service vehicles; and automobile accessways. The requirements of Article XVIII of this chapter shall also apply.
H.
Provision shall be made for safe and efficient ingress
and egress to and from public streets and highways serving the center
without undue congestion to or interference with normal traffic flow.
All points of vehicular access to and from public streets shall be
located not less than 200 feet from the intersection of any public
street lines. The Planning Commission shall satisfy itself as to the
adequacy of the thoroughfares to carry the additional traffic engendered
by the shopping center.
I.
No building may be located closer than 50 feet to
the ultimate right-of-way of any public street, no closer than 50
feet of a side or rear property line adjacent to a residential or
institutional district or within 25 feet of any property line.
J.
No parking, access or service area may be located
closer than 25 feet of a side or rear property line adjacent to a
residential or institutional district.
K.
Lighting facilities shall be arranged in a manner
which will protect the highway and neighboring properties, whether
contiguous or not, from unreasonable direct glare or hazardous interference
of any kind.
L.
(Reserved)
M.
Landscaping, including conservation of existing trees and woodlands, street trees, stormwater basin landscaping and site element screens, shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 175, Subdivision and Land Development.
N.
No shopping center permitted in an SC District shall
be erected or used that is not adequately served with both sanitary
sewers and public water.
O.
For the purpose of calculating the minimum area lot
dimension and yard requirements established by this section, a single
planned shopping center district cannot lie on two sides of a public
street or alley. Any area designated as being an SC District and lying
on both sides of a public street shall be deemed to be two SC Districts,
and all minimum requirements shall be met by buildings on each side
of said public street as separate districts.
In addition to the requirements of the East
Norriton Township Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance,[1] the following requirements shall be submitted for approval:
A.
Architectural plans for any proposed buildings.
B.
The location, size in square feet, dimensions and
arrangement of areas and buildings devoted to any purpose.
C.
A description of the commercial uses proposed, including
approximate number of employees, and an indication of the number of
customers in sufficient detail to indicate the effects of those operations
in producing traffic congestion, noise, glare, air pollution, water
pollution, fire hazards or safety hazards.
