It is the purpose of this district to provide
areas for coordinated commercial centers which adhere to unified architectural,
building and land use standards. Overall appearance and control mechanisms
are important to assure compatibility with surrounding areas. Such
a development shall be a contiguous land area of not less than five
acres designed to contain multifacility structures used for cultural,
commercial, entertainment and/or recreational purposes.
[Amended 10-27-2010 by Ord. No. 23-2010]
In any SC Shopping Center District, land, buildings
or premises shall be used by right only for only one of the following:
A.
A planned community shopping center.
B.
All of the permitted uses in § 285-100A(1) through (12) for the HC Highway Commercial District.
C.
Automobile service centers, excluding gas stations
and auto body works.
Only accessory uses on the same lot with, and
customarily incidental to, any of the above permitted uses shall be
permitted.
Area and bulk regulations shall be as follows:
A.
Any application for development under the terms of
this article shall provide initially at least for the construction
of either a minimum of 10,000 square feet of ground floor area or
a minimum of three of the permitted main uses.
B.
The minimum lot size shall be five acres.
C.
The minimum lot width shall be 200 feet. The minimum
lot depth shall be 100 feet.
D.
No more than 30% of the gross land area shall be covered
by buildings.
E.
No structure shall be closer than 50 feet to any perimeter
property line. Buffers, if required, shall be in addition to the 50
feet.
F.
No building, parking access or service area may be
located within 50 feet of a side or rear property line. Buffers, if
required, shall be in addition to the 50 feet.
G.
No building shall be more than 65 feet in height.
[Amended 7-26-2007 by Ord. No. 19-2007]
A.
All shopping center projects shall be subject to all of the standards and requirements set forth in Chapter 199, Site Plan Review.
B.
The minimum width, pavement edge to pavement edge,
of interior streets within the development not to be used as through
streets shall be 24 feet for two-way traffic and 14 feet for one-way
traffic. These widths will accommodate twelve-foot lanes and the necessary
width for trucks and emergency vehicles.
C.
There shall be no parking on any interior streets.
D.
The proposed development shall be constructed in accordance
with an overall plan and shall be designed as a single architectural
scheme, with appropriate common landscaping. The buildings, sizes,
shapes, site positions and architectural design may be considered
along with the landscaping and natural features.
E.
Parking, loading or service areas used by motor vehicles
shall be physically separated from public streets by a buffer strip
or other effective and suitable barrier against unchanneled motor
vehicle access or egress and shall not have more than two accessways
to any one public street. All such areas shall be arranged to facilitate
proper and safe internal circulation and shall be paved with an acceptable
hard surface.
F.
All accessways to a public street or highway shall
be located at least 200 feet from the intersection of any street lines
and shall be designed in a manner conducive to safe ingress and egress.
G.
Areas provided for loading and unloading of delivery
trucks and other vehicles and for the servicing of shops by refuse
collection, fuel and other service vehicles shall be adequate in size
and shall be so arranged that they may be used without blockage or
interference with the use of accessways or automobile parking facilities.
H.
Along each side or rear property line which adjoins
existing residences or a residence district, a buffer planting strip
shall be provided, which shall not be less than 30 feet in width and
on which shall be placed shrubbery, trees or other suitable plantings
sufficient to constitute an effective visual and noise abating screen.
Along each street line bounding the district, a twenty-foot line buffer
strip shall be provided, suitably landscaped, except for necessary
sidewalks and accessways. Nothing herein provided shall prohibit the
erection of a suitable fence or wall on the required buffer areas.
Buffers shall be 100% evergreen, planted six feet apart in two rows
within a 10 foot width, and shall be six to eight feet high at time
of initial planting. Such planting shall provide a thick, dense visual
buffer from the ground to a height of eight feet.
I.
Appropriate provisions shall be made for private garbage
and trash collection and for the private maintenance of all interior
roads and streets, including snow removal, and all buildings and land
areas not dedicated to the Township. Such services shall be performed
at the owner's expense.
J.
All trash or garbage disposal facilities shall be
totally screened, and plans shall be submitted as part of the developmental
site plan showing the location and types of screening.
Notwithstanding the requirements of this chapter,
the following off-street parking standards shall apply in the SC Shopping
Center District, except that these standards may be reduced to the
extent that combined use of parking lots makes such reduction feasible
in the judgment of the approving authority.
A.
For shopping centers, retail sales, trade, personal
and business services the minimum number of off-street automobile
parking spaces required is five spaces for each 1,000 square feet
of gross leasable area. Gross leasable area is the total floor area
designed for tenant occupancy and exclusive use, including basements,
mezzanines and upper floors, if any, expressed in square feet measured
from center lines of joint partitions and exteriors of outside walls.
B.
For all other freestanding uses the minimum number
of off-street automobile parking spaces required is as required by
the parking regulations of this chapter.
At the time of the submission of the concept
plat, the applicant shall submit a traffic impact study performed
and certified by a licensed engineer. The study shall include, among
other factors, the current vehicular volume and the width and capacity
of streets and highways in the nearby area of the proposed development.
Additional vehicular volumes to be generated by the development shall
be estimated and related to the current capacity of the roadway network
to determine the future adequacy or deficiency of the circulation
system. Additional information shall be provided to demonstrate that
satisfactory arrangements will be made to facilitate traffic movement
on the highways adjoining the development and to assure proper circulation
within the development. These arrangements shall include provisions
for necessary signalization, channelization, standby turn lanes, right
turn lanes, added highway width, adequate warning signs and adequate
storage area and distribution facilities within the development to
prevent the backup of vehicles on public streets.
For developments to be constructed over a period
of years, a phasing plan shall be submitted as part of the preliminary
plan.
A.
There must exist approved public water and public
sewer systems which shall be available to each unit prior to the issuance
of the building permits.
B.
All other applicable regulations of this chapter shall
be followed as required.
C.
The buildings' sizes, shapes, site positions and architectural
design may be considered along with the landscape and natural features.
