The specific intent of the this article is:
A.Â
To identify an area or district where recovery of minerals from the
earth is a permitted use.
B.Â
To recognize that in certain cases federal and state regulations
apply to the recovery of minerals.
C.Â
To provide additional safeguards deemed necessary to protect the
health, safety and welfare of the citizens of the Township.
The permitted uses are as follows:
A.Â
Nonresidential uses shall be permitted in accordance with the NAICS
as follows:
NAICS No.
|
Category
|
---|---|
21
|
Mining
|
22112
|
Electric Power Transmission, Control and Distribution
|
2212
|
Natural Gas Distribution
|
2213
|
Water, Sewage and Other Systems
|
23
|
Construction
|
324
|
Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing
|
327
|
Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing
|
562
|
Waste Management and Remediation Services
|
8113
|
Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment Repair and
Maintenance (except Automotive and Electronic)
|
B.Â
Timbering, processing, sales and restoration.
C.Â
Accessory dwellings for watchmen or caretakers employed on the premises.
D.Â
Public and private parks and recreation areas and appurtenant buildings
and improvements, when they are compatible with all other authorized
uses on the site and the reclamation of the site.
E.Â
Agricultural uses.
A.Â
An application shall be filed with the Zoning Officer prior to the
issuance of a use or zoning permit for the establishment or expansion
of the following uses:
(1)Â
Surface mining, processing, sales and restoration.
(2)Â
Storage, stockpiling, distribution and sale of minerals.
(3)Â
Installation and operation of plants or apparatus for rock crushing
or cement treatment of base materials and appurtenant screening, blending,
washing, loading and conveyer facilities.
(4)Â
Concrete batching plants and mixing plants for either portland cement
or asphalt concrete.
(5)Â
Manufacture of concrete and clay products and precast structural
units.
B.Â
Such application shall include the following:
(2)Â
A copy of all applications, plans, maps and related information filed
with any regulatory agency or body having jurisdiction and all permits
issued with respect thereto for review by the Planning Commission
and the Board of Commissioners.
(3)Â
The applicant shall post security, as permitted in the Surface Mining
Conservation and Reclamation Act,[2] in the amount of $1,000 per acre. If such security has
been posted with another regulatory agency or body having jurisdiction,
naming the Township as additional obligee, an additional bond shall
not be required.
[2]
Editor's Note: See 52 P.S. § 3301 et seq.
Yards of the following minimum depths and widths shall be provided, except as provided in § 220-212:
Unless otherwise provided for by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, the following special setback regulations shall apply to uses as contained within § 220-88:
A.Â
Activities shall not be nearer than 100 feet to any property line
or public street.
B.Â
Activities shall not be nearer than 300 feet to an occupied dwelling
unit or commercial or industrial building, unless released by the
owner thereof.
C.Â
Activities shall not be nearer than 300 feet to a public building,
school, or institutional building or a public park.
D.Â
Activities shall not be nearer than 100 feet to a cemetery.
E.Â
Activities shall not be nearer than 100 feet to a bank of a perennial
or intermittent watercourse.
F.Â
All activities shall be protected by a fence or wall six feet high
and shall have openings no larger than six inches.
G.Â
Quarry walls shall not be readily visible from public streets or
adjacent developed properties, except for ingress and egress roads.
Off-street parking, loading and unloading areas and access drives shall be provided in accordance with Article XXIV.
[Added 9-10-2018 by Ord.
No. 2018-08]
No building shall exceed a height of 75 feet. When adjacent
to a residential district or use, two feet in additional setbacks
along the adjacent property lines shall be provided for every foot
that the building height exceeds 50 feet. This building height limit
does not apply to unoccupied processing or manufacturing equipment
and structures associated with permitted mineral recovery district
uses.