In C Commercial Districts, the following regulations
shall apply.
A building may be erected, altered or used,
and a lot may be used or occupied, for any of the following purposes
and no other:
A.
Retail establishment for the sale of dry goods, clothing,
foods, beverages, drugs, furnishings, or other household supplies;
sale and repair of jewelry, clocks, optical goods, musical instruments,
scientific or professional instruments.
B.
Business or professional office, studio, bank, savings
and loan or other financial institutions, municipal buildings, library,
museum.
C.
Restaurant, tap room, serving food or beverages.
D.
Personal service shops of a barber, beauty salon,
shoe repair, tailor, dressmaking and laundry.
E.
Bowling lanes and indoor theater.
F.
Bakery, confectionery, upholstery, or other custom
shop for the production of articles to be sold on the premises.
G.
Greenhouse, garden supplies.
H.
A group of retail stores and personal service shops
within a single building which shall be deemed a single use for the
purpose of this article.
I.
Undertaking parlor; not including crematorium.
J.
Motor vehicle sales agency for new vehicles.
K.
The following uses, when authorized as a special exception
by the Zoning Hearing Board:
[Amended 5-28-2008 by Ord. No. 569]
(1)
Gasoline sales, service station, car wash or
repair garage.
(2)
Animal hospital, kennel, pet shop.
(3)
Educational, religious and philanthropic use,
excluding correctional or penal institutions.
(4)
Hotel, nursing home, convalescent home, home
for the aged or hospital.
(5)
Wholesaling, storage and sale of lumber, plumbing
and other building material and supplies.
A.
Front yard. There shall be a front yard on each lot
which shall not be less than 50 feet in depth.
C.
Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard on each lot
which shall not be less than 20 feet in depth.
D.
District yard. No side or rear yard adjacent to any
single-family residential district shall be less than 50 feet in depth.
[Amended 4-9-1997 by Ord. No. 420HH]
The maximum height for any building or structure
erected or enlarged in this district shall be 30 feet, not exceeding
two stories.
A.
Parking and loading. For any permitted use within this district parking facilities shall be provided in accordance with Article XXIV, Off-Street Parking and Loading.
B.
Setbacks.
(1)
No parking, loading or driveway area shall be
located closer than five feet to any property line, except that portion
of the driveway required for normal ingress and egress.
(2)
For any permitted use adjacent to a residential
district, parking and loading areas shall be located no closer than
25 feet to any such property line.
B.
Landscaping. All development hereinafter initiated
in the C Commercial District shall have landscaping designed and maintained
in accordance with the applicable sections of the Subdivision and
Land Development Ordinance of Hatfield Township, as amended.[1]
C.
Utilities. All development in the C Commercial District
shall be served by public sewer and water. All utilities serving a
permitted use in this district shall be underground.
D.
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 and shall conform to the setback requirements of § 282-126.
E.
Hazardous use. No building may be erected, altered,
or maintained, and no lot shall be 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, or vibration.
F.
Site lighting. Exterior lighting provided in conjunction
with any building or use shall be placed not higher than 25 feet above
grade and shall be screened so as not to permit the source of illumination
to be seen from off the premises. Only incandescent or color corrected
types of illumination shall be used. The hours of operation of such
lights (except security lighting) shall be limited to normal business
hours and shall otherwise be extinguished between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00
a.m., prevailing time.