[Amended 12-8-1975 by Ord. No. 1623; 5-9-1977 by Ord. No.
1666]
In addition to the goals listed in § 182-102 of this chapter, the districts established in this Article are intended to achieve the following:
A.
To provide sufficient space, in appropriate locations,
to meet anticipated future needs in Haverford Township for office-laboratory
development.
B.
To ensure that the land most suitable for office,
laboratory and related activities will be available by prohibiting
the use of such land for new residential development and at the same
time to protect residences by separating them from such activities.
C.
To protect modern laboratory and office use against
congestion by limiting the bulk of buildings in relation to the land
around them and to one another and by providing sufficient off-street
parking and loading facilities for such developments.
D.
To promote the most desirable use of land and guide
the direction of building development in accordance with the Comprehensive
Plan, to strengthen the economic base, to protect the character of
the area, to conserve the value of land and buildings and to strengthen
the local tax base.
E.
To provide sufficient space in appropriate locations
for light industrial development to meet the present and future needs
of Haverford Township.
F.
To establish reasonable standards of areas and bulk,
off-street parking and loading and performance standards so as to
provide for a safe and orderly use of land.
G.
To strengthen and to guide the development of the
economic base of the Township and to conserve and protect the value
of land and buildings in and near the Light Industrial District.
A.
Specific intent. It is the purpose of this district
to make special provision for selected modern laboratory and office
establishments, which can be designed for attractive large sites with
low lot coverage. In addition, this district will encourage development
which is free from offensive noise, vibration, smoke, odors, glare,
hazards of fire or other objectionable effects. Firms which can meet
the standards imposed in this section shall be permitted to locate
in districts adjacent to residential districts, provided that adequate
landscaping and screening are provided.
B.
Use regulations.
(1)
Uses by right. In any OL District, land, buildings
or premises shall be used by right for one or more of the following:
(2)
Accessory uses. Only the following accessory
uses shall be permitted:
(a)
Restaurant or cafeteria facilities for employees.
(b)
Recreational facilities for employees and occupants.
(c)
Storage within a completely enclosed building
in conjunction with a permitted use.
(e)
Other accessory uses on the same lot with and
customarily incidental to any of the above-permitted uses and not
detrimental to the neighborhood.
(f)
Solar energy equipment.
[Added 3-12-2012 by Ord. No. 2657]
(3)
Uses by special exception. The installation
and/or construction of satellite dishes, earth station satellites
and television satellites shall be permitted when authorized as a
special exception.
[Added 9-30-1985 by Ord. No. 1934]
C.
Area and bulk regulations. The following regulations
shall be observed:
(1)
Lot size: four acres minimum.
(2)
Street frontage: 300 feet minimum.
(3)
Building coverage: 20% maximum.
(4)
Front yard: 50 feet minimum.
(5)
Side yards: 50 feet minimum each.
(6)
Rear yard: 50 feet minimum.
(7)
Distance between buildings: 50 feet minimum.
(8)
Height: 45 feet maximum or three stories.
(9)
Impervious surface ratio: 60% maximum.
[Added 12-13-1993 by Ord. No. 2189]
D.
Off-street parking regulations. Off-street parking regulations shall be as required by § 182-707 of this chapter.
E.
Off-street loading regulations. Off-street loading regulations shall be as required by § 182-708 of this chapter.
A.
Specific intent. It is the purpose of this district
to make special provision for office, research and light industrial
development in appropriate areas of the Township. The LIN Light Industrial
District classification is designed to provide a compatible environment
for nonnuisance, light industrial development which is free from offensive
noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odor, glare, hazard or other objectionable
effects and which is subject to special requirements relating to tract
size, low lot coverage, building placement, landscaping and buffering
and to strengthen and diversify the Township's property tax base.
B.
Use regulations.
(1)
Uses by right. In any Light Industrial District, land, buildings or premises shall be used by right only for one or more of the following, provided that such building or use does not create any (substantial) hazard or amount of noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odors, heat, glare or other objectionable influence as set forth in § 182-717 and meets other provisions of this chapter:
(a)
Scientific or industrial research, testing or
experimental laboratories or product development.
(b)
An office building or offices of an administrative,
executive, governmental or similar agency.
(c)
Repair, assembly, distribution and service of
home, commercial and industrial electrical appliances, supplies and
equipment not in excess of 50 cubic feet and manufacturing, repair,
assembly, distribution and service of the following: electrical appliances,
supplies and equipment not in excess of 25 cubic feet; electric or
electronic instruments and devices, such as precision instruments
and measuring and control devices; medical, dental, drafting and similar
scientific and professional instruments; optical goods and equipment;
clocks and watches; office machines and equipment; sporting goods;
jewelry; cameras and photographic equipment other than film; musical
instruments; toys; and novelties.
(d)
Printing, publishing, bookbinding, engraving,
lithographing, reproducing, photofinishing, film processing or similar
establishments.
(e)
Indoor storage buildings, warehouses and distribution
centers and packaging and crating.
(f)
Community center, governmental or utility uses of buildings as permitted in § 182-202B(1)(c).
[Amended 12-13-2010 by Ord. No. 2612]
(g)
Monument establishments.
(h)
Cold storage plants, frozen-food plants and
lockers and catering plants.
(i)
Cinema studios and radio and television stations.
(j)
Laundries, laundry services and cleaning and
dyeing plants.
(k)
General service or contractor's shops and lumber,
millwork, carpenter, cabinet-making, furniture repair, light metal-working,
electrical, plumbing, roofing or similar shops.
(l)
Automobile repair shops, including auto body
work and painting.
(m)
Mail-order merchandise businesses.
(n)
Manufacture, compounding, assembly, processing
and distribution of confections, candy, chewing gum and food products
(excluding meat and fish and excluding the manufacture, compounding,
assembly and processing of beverages, but permitting the distribution
of beverages), cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, ink, hat bodies, textiles
and hosiery.
(o)
Manufacture, compounding, assembly, processing
and distribution of products from the following previously prepared
materials: sheet cellophane, polyethylene and similar material, canvas,
cloth, rope, cord, twine, glass, china, plastic, feathers, felt, fiber,
fur, hair (excluding washing, curling and dyeing), leather, paper,
cardboard, ceramics, textiles, wood (excluding chemical treatment
or preservation), rubber and synthetic treated fabrics (excluding
all rubber and synthetic processing).
(p)
Commercial greenhouses, nurseries and wholesale
florists.
(q)
Any use of the same general character as any
of the uses hereinbefore specifically permitted when authorized as
a special exception by the Zoning Hearing Board.
(2)
Prohibited uses. All industrial uses which are not of the same general character as those enumerated above and which do not meet the test defined above in Subsection B(1) shall be construed to be heavy industrial uses and shall be prohibited in any LIN District.
(3)
Accessory uses. Only the following accessory
uses shall be permitted:
(a)
Accessory uses on the same lot with and customarily incidental to any of the uses permitted in the district, including signs as permitted in § 182-701, off-street parking facilities as required by § 182-707, living quarters for watchmen and restaurant or cafeteria facilities for employees and occupants of the permitted use, subject, however, to such safeguards as are necessary to ensure that any such use shall comply with the requirements of § 182-717 and shall not be detrimental to the surrounding area.
(b)
Solar energy equipment.
[Added 3-12-2012 by Ord. No. 2657]
(4)
Uses by special exception. The following uses
shall be permitted as a special exception when authorized by the Zoning
Hearing Board after review by the Planning Commission as to conformance
with the Comprehensive Plan, adequate provision for egress and ingress,
for impact on surrounding vehicular circulation patterns and for proper
site design:
(a)
The manufacture, compounding, processing, bottling
and canning of nonalcoholic beverages.
(b)
The installation and/or construction of satellite
dishes, earth station satellites and television satellites.
[Added 9-30-1985 by Ord. No. 1934]
(c)
Adult commercial use, either as a primary or
accessory use in a building or structure with more than 75 square
feet of floor space or 2% of the total floor area, whichever is less,
devoted to said adult commercial use, provided that:
[Added 8-8-1994 by Ord. No. 2208]
[1]
The building, lot or structure of such use shall
be located no closer than 500 feet, measured in any direction, from
any other building, lot or structure having a school, church, recreational,
religious, institutional and/or educational use.
[2]
No such use shall be located within 2,000 feet,
measured in any direction, of a similar use.
[3]
No entertainment or materials sold within shall
be visible from any window, door or exterior of the building or structure.
[4]
No person under the age of 18 years of age shall
be permitted to patronize an adult commercial use or sold any pornographic
material.
(5)
Conditional uses. Subject to the general standards set forth in §§ 182-1201, 182-1202, 182-1203, 182-1204 and 182-1205 governing conditional uses, the following uses shall be permitted as conditional uses when authorized by the Board of Commissioners after review by the Township Planning Commission as to conformance with the Comprehensive Plan and this chapter:
[Added 6-12-2017 by Ord.
No. 2810]
C.
Area and bulk regulations.
(1)
The following regulations shall be observed
with regard to the entire district considered as a whole, even though
the individual parcels of land within the district may be held in
single and separate ownership:
(2)
The following regulations shall be observed
with regard to individual tracts or parcels within the LIN District:
(a)
Lot size: 1/2 acre minimum.
(b)
Street frontage: 65 feet minimum.
(c)
Lot width at building line: 75 feet minimum.
(d)
Building coverage: 30% maximum.
(e)
Front yard: 35 feet minimum.
(f)
Side yard: 25 feet minimum, each yard, and 35
feet minimum where property adjoins a residential district.
(g)
Rear yard: 35 feet minimum.
(h)
Height: 35 feet or two stories, except that
the permitted height may be increased to a maximum of 45 feet or three
stories if all building setback lines specified above are increased
one foot for each additional foot of elevation. This height may be
increased a maximum of 10 feet to accommodate rooftop heating and
air-conditioning equipment, provided that said equipment is set back
from all roof edges one foot for each one foot in height.
(i)
Impervious surface ratio: 60% maximum.
[Added 12-13-1993 by Ord. No. 2189]
(3)
Expansion of nonconforming lots or structures.
(a)
Lots or structures in any LIN District which existed at the time of the enaction of this chapter in an LIN District or at the time of any subsequent zoning change which creates an LIN District but which do not conform to the area and bulk requirements of this subsection may be expanded if the following conditions are met, in addition to those specified in Article VIII of this chapter:
[2]
Lots lacking street frontage shall be connected
to a public street by means of a paved driveway. Said driveway shall
have a minimum width of 10 feet for each direction of traffic flow,
and assurance shall be made to the Township that said driveway will
be kept in a good state of repair into perpetuity.
(b)
All other requirements of this chapter, including
parking, loading and outdoor storage, shall be complied with.
D.
Off-street parking regulations. Off-street parking regulations shall be as required by § 182-707 of this chapter.
E.
Off-street loading regulations.
(2)
Wherever possible, off-street loading facilities shall not be located on exterior walls facing a residential district. Where no alternative is feasible, off-street loading facilities may be located on a wall facing a residential district, provided that the buffer requirements as stated in § 182-718B are provided initially in sufficient density to screen said loading activities from view. Said screening shall be in place prior to the granting of a certificate of occupancy.
