This article is enacted for the purpose of promoting
the health, safety and welfare of the Township in accordance with
the goals and objectives of the Joint Municipal Comprehensive Plan.
It is designed to preserve the rural atmosphere of the Township, to
lessen congestion on the roads and highways, to prevent overcrowding
of the land and to provide adequate light and air. The purpose of
establishing an Institutional District shall be to encourage the preservation
and subsequent logical and timely development of land for institutional
purposes; to assure the suitable design of institutions in order to
protect the environment of the adjacent and nearby neighborhood; and
to ensure that institutional development will take place only when
served by adequate public utilities and streets. The protective standards
in this article are intended to minimize any adverse effect of institutional
development on nearby property values.
In an IN Institutional district, the following
regulations shall apply.
A building may be erected, altered and/or used,
and a lot may be used and/or occupied, for any of the following purposes
and no other when authorized by a special exception.
A. Church, chapel, synagogue or other place of worship.
B. College, university or secondary school as defined by the Pennsylvania Department of Education in accordance with the regulations stated in §
145-100.
D. Medical and surgical hospitals or clinics, not including
drug and alcohol addiction or mental disorder treatment centers involving
temporary residency.
E. Personal care home (assisted living facility) or nursing
home.
[Amended 2-22-2022 by Ord. No. 416]
F. Public or private schools, including elementary, middle
school and junior high schools.
G. Cemeteries. A cemetery may be permitted as an accessory
use to one of the above uses.
H. Accessory uses customarily incidental to the above
uses, such uses being limited to a maximum of 10% of the gross space
devoted to the principal use.
[Added 2-22-2022 by Ord. No. 416]
A building may be erected, altered and/or used, and a lot may
be used and/or occupied, for any of the following purposes and no
other when authorized by conditional use:
A. Continuing
care retirement community consisting of an integrated use of independent
living dwellings, assisted living facilities, memory care facilities,
skilled nursing facilities and administrative offices.
B. Accessory
uses customarily incidental to the above use, such use being limited
to a maximum of 10% of the gross space devoted to the principal use.
[Added 2-22-2022 by Ord. No. 416]
A. Lot
area. A lot area of not less than five acres shall be provided for
every use or building erected thereon.
B. Lot
width. A lot width of not less than 200 feet shall be provided at
the building setback line for every use or building erected thereon.
C. Front
yard. There shall be a front yard on every lot which shall not be
less than 50 feet in depth.
D. Side
yards. There shall be two side yards on every lot, each of which shall
not be less than 50 feet in width.
E. Rear
yard. There shall be a rear yard on each lot which shall not be less
than 50 feet in depth.
F. Corner
lots. There shall be a front yard on every street frontage, and all
remaining yards shall be treated as rear yards.
G. Accessory
structures. Accessory structures shall be subject to the dimensional
restrictions cited herein.
H. Building
coverage. The maximum building coverage on a lot shall be 25%.
I. Impervious
coverage. The maximum impervious coverage on a lot shall be 50%.
J. Height
restrictions. The maximum height for buildings or structures erected
or enlarged in the IN Institutional District shall be 55 feet, not
exceeding four stories.
K. Parking.
Parking areas shall be set back from all property lines adjacent to
or across from a residential district a minimum of 25 feet and shall
be planted with an opaque screen buffer of 80% adjacent to all residential
districts. Parking areas across from municipal uses shall be set back
a minimum of four feet from the legal right of way.