Intended purpose. Certain uses, including but not limited to churches,
schools, hospitals, penal institutions, government uses and certain
public utility uses, have many related attributes raising common problems
in their location and municipal requirements within the Township.
In addition, these uses are, for various reasons, incompatible with
many other permitted uses within the Township area; in some instances,
are incompatible even within the same district. Their use within the
district may or may not be appropriate at any specific location and
could have, within the district, certain detrimental effects to the
public health, safety, morals and welfare by reason of a particular
location and the impact upon surrounding uses and facilities. Accordingly,
it is the intent of this article to permit certain of the uses, herein
defined as conditional uses, subject to specific enumerated standards
and not as mere uses of right. In particular, it is recognized that
the uses provided herein generally are uses involving substantial
traffic, major concentrations of people (either transient or resident)
and a need for access, both for vehicular and pedestrian traffic,
as well as special emergency facilities for health, fire and police
protection.