In HB Highway Business 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 store, excluding the sale of food prepared
upon the premises.
B.
Restaurant, provided that sufficient seating shall
be provided for customers to consume food or drink in the building
and that, if customers are to be served at a counter rather than at
their seats, indoor seating for all seasons shall be provided at least
at the rate of eight seats per 100 square feet of building area not
intended for customer use. All food and drink shall be prepared, served
and consumed within the building.
C.
Personal service shop, such as barber, beauty, shoe
repair or dressmaking shop; tailor pickup agency; self-service laundry;
or similar establishment.
D.
Theater or other indoor place of amusement, recreation
or assembly.
E.
Business or professional office, agency, studio, bank
or other financial institution.
F.
Club or lodge.
G.
Bakery, confectionery or other custom shop for making
articles or products sold at retail on the premises, such as custom
clothing and art needlework, provided that all processing activities
shall, if located on the ground floor, be effectively screened from
the front portion of the building by a wall or partition.
H.
Motor vehicle service station, public garage, automobile
sales agency (but not to include automobile or farm equipment sales
agency as a main use), provided that all facilities shall be located
and all services shall be conducted within the confines of the lot,
no service station shall be located within 500 feet of another service
station on the same side of the highway between any two crossroads
and all repair work, lubrication or washing shall be performed within
a completely enclosed building or shall be screened or located so
as not to be visible from a public highway.
I.
Motor vehicle parking lot.
J.
Storage within a completely enclosed building in conjunction
with a permitted use or for products of manufacturing uses permitted
in the Township.
K.
Newspaper or job printing establishment.
L.
Mortuary.
M.
Tourist house.
N.
Township or governmental use, telephone central office,
electric substation, railroad or bus passenger shelters or station,
utility or similar use.
O.
The following additional uses, when authorized by the Zoning Hearing Board as a special exception, subject also to the requirements of § 139-122:
(1)
Outdoor place of amusement, recreation or assembly,
provided that satisfactory provisions are made to safeguard highways
from congestion and hazard.
(2)
Automobile or farm equipment sales agency; general
express, distributing or hauling station, provided that where required,
adequate planting or other buffer arrangements are made to safeguard
the character of the surrounding area and satisfactory provisions
are made to safeguard highways from undue congestion and hazard.
(3)
Contractor, craftsmen's or general service shop, including
plumbing, electrical, heating, carpentry, welding, tool and similar
small shop.
(4)
Laboratory for research and testing, not involving
commercial production or danger from fire or explosion.
(5)
Laundry, tailor shop.
(6)
Yard for storage, sale or distribution of coal, building
materials or products of manufacturing uses permitted in the Township,
or automobile parts yard, provided that the area used for storage
is located so as not to be visible from an adjacent property or is
enclosed and suitably screened from the surrounding area by satisfactory
planting or other barrier not less than six feet in height.
(7)
Commercial greenhouse.
(8)
Wholesale establishment.
(9)
Animal hospital.
P.
Multifamily dwellings shall be permitted as part of a mixed-use building,
provided the residential use only occurs above the nonresidential
use. Gross square footage of a single floor used for multifamily dwellings
shall be no greater than that of the first-floor nonresidential use.
[Added 2-13-2017 by Ord.
No. 2-2017[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also redesignated former Subsection
P as Subsection Q.
[Amended 4-24-1984 by Ord. No. 3-1984]
Every lot and every building hereafter erected
or used in whole or in part for dwelling purposes shall for each principal
use comply with the area and height regulations prescribed for the
most restricted abutting residence district. For commercial and other
principal buildings, no part of which is used as a dwelling, the following
area and height regulations shall apply:
A.
Lot area and lot width. A lot area sufficient in size
to assure adequate water supply and sewage disposal facilities shall
be provided, and the water supply and sewage disposal arrangements
shall be approved by the Township or other appropriate governmental
agency. In no case, however, shall the lot area for each principal
use be less than 10,000 square feet in size and the lot width be less
than 50 feet. Lot width at the street line shall not be less than
40 feet.
B.
Building area. Not more than 60% of the lot area required
for each use may be occupied by buildings.
C.
Yards. Front, side and rear yards shall be provided
on each lot as follows:
(2)
Side yards: two, neither less than 10 feet in width, except that where a lot abuts a street on the side lot line or a residence district or similar district in an adjoining municipality, such yard shall be not less than 40 feet in width and shall be maintained as a buffer planting strip, as defined in § 139-6. This requirement shall not prevent the erection of a series or row of attached buildings exclusively for commercial use on one or several adjoining deed lots, provided that the group of attached buildings as a single unit meet side yard requirements.
(3)
Rear yard: one yard, not less than 25 feet in depth.
D.
Height. No building shall exceed 30 feet in height.
F.
Impervious coverage. Not more than 80% of the lot
area may contain impervious surfaces.
[Added 5-14-2001 by Ord. No. 1-2001]
