[Added 5-20-1998 by Ord. No. 1632)
In expansion of the legislative intent and community development objectives contained in Article I, §§ 150-2 and 150-3, of this chapter and in support of the goals and recommendations of the Worcester Township Comprehensive Plan, it is the intent of this article to
A. Allow retail commercial uses, including auto-oriented uses, that will meet the local, neighborhood shopping needs of the township's residents
B. Lest the potential adverse effect of commercial development on abutting properties, the township's character and the township's roads by controlling the location and nature of commercial development
A. building may be erected or used and a lot may be used or occupied for any one of the following purposes and no other
A. Retail store selling or leasing for local neighborhood use
one or more of the following items at retail food, groceries, meats, vegetables, fruit,- drugs; cosmetics, hardware, clothing, jewelry, watches, optical goods, nursery stock, musical, professional or scientific instruments
B. Office, bank, financial institution
C. Personal service shop of a dressmaker, shoe repairer, tailor, hairdresser
D. Medical offices of a private practitioner, other than a clinic
E. Undertaker, not including crematorium
F. Baker, confectioner or custom shop for the production of articles to be sold only on the premises
G. Restaurant, catering operation, ice cream shop or other food service operation, provided not more than four persons are employed by the same, and provided that no alcoholic beverages are served
H. Any similar use to those specified in this section above, when authorized as a special exception by the Zoning Hearing Board and when not employing more than five persons
I. Special exceptions The following uses are permitted when authorized as a special exception by the Zoning Hearing Board
(1) Public garages
(2) Motor vehicle sales
(3) Motor vehicle service or repair, employing not more than three persons
(4) Motor vehicle rental or leasing
(5) Gasoline service station when limited to three bays and customary sales room and including sanitary toilet rooms, provided that any outdoor display of merchandise is kept within 25 feet of the building or on the pump islands, and provided that between the hours of 10:00p.m and 6:00a.m, prevailing time, it will be closed, with no illumination evident excepting a dim nightlight indoors
(7) Wholesale merchandise establishment
(8) Multiple use office building
(9) Laundry or dry cleaning
(10) Parking lot incidental to any of the uses under this subsection [Amended 8-21-1996 by Ord. No. 1501
(11) Nursing homes, personal care facilities and life care facilities [Added 12-15-1999 by Ord. No. 176]
(12) Hospitals [Added 12-15-1999 by Ord. No. 176]
J. Municipal use as defined in Article III [Added 9-15-1993 by Ord. No. 1331
A. Minimum lot area Twenty-five thousand square feet shall be the minimum lot area that shall be provided for every building or use
B. Minimum lot width A lot width of not less than 100 feet shall be provided for every building or use
A. Front yard Forty-five feet shall be the minimum size of the front yard on each lot
B. Side yards There shall be two side yards on each lot, neither of which shall be less then 20 feet
C. Rear yards There shall be a rear yard on each lot which shall not be less than 50 feet
D. District yard In the case of any side or rear yard adjacent to any single-family residential district, such yard shall not be less than 75 feet
A. Building coverage The total building coverage shall not exceed 30%.
B. Impervious coverage The total impervious coverage shall not exceed 50%
A. Building height The maximum height for buildings erected or enlarged in this district shall be 30 feet, not exceeding two stones in height
B. Sign height The maximum height for any sign or other such structure erected in this district shall be twenty (20) feet
A. Parking and loading All-weather parking and loading facilities shall be provided in accordance with Article XXII
B. Setbacks
(1) No parking, loading or driveway area shall be located closer than five (5) feet to any side property line and no closer than twenty (20) feet to any front or rear property line, except as required for normal ingress and egress
(2) In the case of any property line being adjacent to a single-family residential district, no parking, loading or driveway area shall be located closer than fifty (50) feet to that property line, except as may be required for normal ingress and egress
A. Signs Signs shall be permitted in accordance with Article XXI
B. Gross building floor area
(1) No building, whether containing a single or several uses, shall contain a gross building area greater than six thousand five hundred (6,500) square feet, excluding unoccupied basements
(2) No request for a variance from this provision of the requirements of this section shall be granted without a proportionate or equivalent increase in the yard areas as determined by the Zoning Hearing Board
C. Landscaping
(1) All development in the Commercial District shall be designed and maintained so as to provide a complete and effective, year-round landscape buffer between itself and any development of any other adjacent district
(2) In addition to the above, there shall be a suitable and effective landscape barrier at the edge of the property adjacent to any public street, such buffer strip shall be at least ten (10) feet wide and shall channel motor vehicle ingress and egress from the property providing a maximum of one (1) access road per one hundred (100) feet of frontage and in no case more than two (2) access roads per property
D. Utilities All utilities serving a permitted use in this district shall be underground.
E. Outdoor land use There shall be no outdoor storage or display of goods or materials, other than nursery stock plants, for marketing, storage or any other purpose The outdoor storage of trash shall be designed and maintained to be completely screened from view by a landscape buffer
F. Hazardous use No building may be erected, altered or maintained or lot used for any purpose, trade or business that is noxious, offensive -or potentially- injurious to health by reason of odor, noise, dust, smoke, heat, gas, radiation, vibration or hazardous substance
G. Building spacing The distance at the closest point between any buildings shall be not less than thirty (30) feet
H. Site lighting Exterior lighting provided in conjunction with any building or use shall be placed not higher than twelve (12) feet above grade and shall be screened so as not to permit the source of illumination to be seen from off the premises Only color corrected types of illumination shall be used Such lights and of any illuminated signs shall be extinguished between 10:00p.m and 6:00a.m , prevailing time
I. Application procedure The procedure for making application under C Commercial District shall be in accordance with § 150-202 of Article XXIV, General Regulations, and § 150-214 of Article XXV, Administration
J. Additional regulations Lots in this district shall be subject to modified and/or additional regulations under Article XXIV, General Regulations, as applicable
