Zoning District C-1 is designed for commercial
uses and other consumer-related needs in areas accessible from major
roads and mass transportation routes. It is further designed to provide
opportunities for planned commercial centers when conventional commercial
uses are clustered in a building to form a neighborhood shopping or
convenience shopping center and to provide opportunities for planned
office and/or professional office centers. The intent of this Article
is to restrict automotive repairs and gas stations.
A building may be erected, altered or used and a lot or premises may be used or occupied subject to Article X, Floodplain Regulations, for any of the following uses and no other.
A.
Permitted principal uses.
(1)
Business, professional, medical or other offices.
(2)
Restaurants.
(3)
Banks, including drive-in banks or other financial
institutions.
(4)
Shops and stores for the retail sale of such items
as antiques, books, bicycles, art and drafting equipment and supplies,
furniture, flowers and plantings, gifts, garden supplies, hardware,
household appliances, jewelry, notions, paint, periodicals, records,
shoes, stereos, stationery, tobacco, toys, wearing apparel and other
like merchandise.
(5)
Personal retail service shops, including beauty parlors
and barbershops dealing directly with customers on the premises.
(6)
Retail dry-cleaning shops only if nonflammable and
nonexplosive cleaning fluids are used and automatic self-service laundry
and pressing shops.
(7)
General service or repair shops, including such shops
as watch or clock repair, jewelry or optical repair, radio or television
repair, electrical household appliance repair, shoe repair, tailor,
dressmaker, photographer, travel agency and locksmith, provided that
each of the foregoing is on a retail basis.
(8)
Bakery, pastry, candy, confectionery or ice cream
shop making goods only for sale on the premises, specifically excluding
lunch wagons or other similar vehicles, road stands or booths or any
other movable, transient or temporary structure from which food or
food products are sold.
(9)
Professional services such as offices or realtors,
physicians, lawyers, dentists, architects, engineers, accountants,
insurance agents, opticians and like services.
(10)
Church or other building used for public worship by a congregation, excluding buildings used exclusively for residential, educational, recreational or other uses not normally associated with worship, subject to the height regulations of § 70-25, area and bulk regulations of § 70-26 and parking regulations of Article XII.
[Added 6-11-1996 by Ord. No. 1177, approved 6-11-1996]
A.
Permitted principal uses.
(1)
Lot area. Lot areas of not less than 2,500 square
feet shall be provided for every principal permitted building erected
or used for any permitted use.
(2)
Lot width at street line. A lot width or lot frontage
at the street line of not less than 25 feet shall be provided.
(3)
Setbacks.
(a)
There shall be a setback on each street on which
the lot abuts, the depth of which shall be at least 25 feet.
(b)
Side yard: none, except that where a side lot line abuts a residential district, a side yard at least 15 feet in width shall be provided which shall remain undeveloped and planted in accordance with the provisions of § 70-68.
(c)
Minimum rear yard setback shall be 20 feet.
(4)
Building coverage and impervious surface. Not more
than 60% of any lot area shall be occupied by buildings and not more
than 80% shall be covered by impervious surfaces.
B.
Conditional uses. The area and bulk regulation for a planned business center or for an office and/or professional office center shall be in accordance with Subsection A.
C.
Special requirements for planned business center or
office and/or professional office center. General standards.
(1)
The tract of land on which such use is conducted shall
be held in single ownership and shall be operated under unified control
and management. In the event of multiple ownership, a written agreement
between the parties and owners involved shall be submitted to evidence
that the development and management will be in accordance with a single
plan with common authority and common responsibility.
(2)
The use shall provide and maintain attractively landscaped
grounds and includes screen necessary to buffer adjacent properties
in accordance with a landscaping plan approved by the Borough Council.
(3)
All utility lines servicing the permitted buildings
and lot shall be placed underground within the lot lines of the property
on which the use is located.
(4)
All mechanical equipment which is not enclosed within
a building shall be fully and completely screened from view in a manner
compatible with the architectural and landscaping style of the overall
property.
(5)
The physical design of the site plan shall provide
for adequate control of the vehicular traffic, make adequate provisions
for public water, public sewer, erosion and sedimentation control,
stormwater management, fire protection and other public services and
further the amenities of light, air and visual enjoyment.
(6)
If there are more than two buildings on a lot, the
minimum distance between buildings shall be 50 feet.
(7)
A buffer planting strip of not less than 20 feet shall
be provided around the entire perimeter of the property except for
accessways from the street. The buffer planting strip shall be used
for no purpose other than planting and screening and shall be in accordance
with the landscaping plan approved by the Borough.
(8)
There shall be not more than two accessways to any one public street. Neither of such accessways shall be more than 50 feet in width. On major highways, adequate acceleration and deceleration lanes shall be provided. The intent of this provision is to encourage the use of common accessways in order to reduce the number and spacing of access points along the highway. Traffic control devices and acceleration and deceleration lanes shall be provided at the expense of the owner. Off-street parking and loading areas shall be provided in accordance with Article XII.
(9)
No goods shall be stored, set out or displayed within
the street or right-of-way line, and in the event that a sidewalk
has been constructed outside the street or right-of-way lines and
the same is open for public use, no goods shall then be stored, set
out or displayed.
(10)
All trash, garbage, rubbish and debris of every
kind and nature shall be stored within the building and fireproofed
rooms and shall be collected and disposed of as often as may be necessary
under the particular circumstances by private collectors and at no
cost to the Borough. If dumpster-type containers are used, said containers
must be concealed from public view and shall be in conformance with
the Fire Prevention Code.[1]
