Borough of Coopersburg, PA Allowed Uses in Primarily Nonresidential Districts

Unless otherwise provided by state or federal law or specifically stated in this Ordinance (including § 230-11), any land or structure shall only be used or occupied for a use specifically listed in these Articles III or IV as being allowed in the zoning district where the land or structure is located. Such uses shall only be allowed if the use complies with all other requirements of this Ordinance.

For manufacturing uses, the types of uses listed in this article correspond approximately to the categories of the North American Classification System, administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce. In case of question about the categorization, such system shall be consulted.

P	=	Permitted by right use (zoning decision by Zoning Officer)
SE	=	Special exception use (zoning decision by Zoning Hearing Board)
N	=	Not permitted
(See 230-26 or 230-27)	=	See Additional Requirements in §§ 230-26 or 230-27

Types of Uses (See definitions in Article XV)	Zoning Districts
Types of Uses (See definitions in Article XV)	CG	TC³	CN³	LIC	GI
a. Residential Uses
Single-family detached dwelling (Note - Manufactured/mobile homes shall meet the additional requirements of § 230-26)	P	P¹	P	N	N
Conversion of an existing single-family detached, single-family semi-detached or townhouse dwelling into additional dwelling units (See 230-26)	P	SE⁵	P	N	N
Single-family semi-detached dwelling (side-by-side)	N	P¹	P	N	N
Townhouse (single-family attached dwelling) (See 230-26)	N	P¹	P	N	N
Multifamily (apartment) dwellings (See 230-26), which may be in the same building or on the same lot as allowed nonresidential uses, but not including conversion of an existing one family dwelling into additional dwelling units	P	P¹	P	N	N
Boarding house (includes Rooming House) (See 230-26) (other than uses listed separately in this table)	SE	N	N	N	N
Conversion of an existing building that was constructed for Principal Institutional or Industrial Uses into Multifamily Residential Uses or Live Work Units (See 230-26)	P¹	P¹	P	SE²	SE²
Dormitories occupied by 5 or more students of a college or university (Note: Students may also occupy other allowed housing unit types, within the standards for a "family")	SE	N	N	N	N
Group home within a lawful existing dwelling unit (See 230-26), not including a treatment center	P	SE	P	N	N
Live/work unit (See 230-26)⁶	P	P	P	N	N
Manufactured/mobile home park (See 230-26)	N	N	N	N	SE
b. Commercial Uses
Adult use (See 230-26)	N	N	N	N	SE
After hours club - to the extent this use is not already prohibited by State Act 219 of 1990 (See 230-26)	N	N	N	N	SE
Airport (see also "Heliport")	N	N	N	N	SE
Amusement arcade	P	P	P	N	N
Amusement park or water park⁴	SE	N	N	P	P
Animal cemetery (See 230-26)	N	N	N	N	P
Animal day care (See 230-26)	P	SE	SE	P	P
Arena, auditorium (commercial), performing arts center or exhibition-trade show center	P	P	P	P	P
Auto body shop or auto repair garage (See 230-26), and provided that parking shall be prohibited on a sidewalk within the right-of-way	P	N	N	N	SE
Auto, boat or mobile/manufactured home sales (See 230-26)	P	N	N	N	P
Auto service station, which may occur with a convenience store, and which may also include fueling of vehicles using hydrogen, liquefied natural gas, propane or similar fuels (See 230-26); for a use that primarily serves tractor-trailer trucks, see "Truck Stop" in this table	P	N	N	N	N
Bakery, retail	P	P	P	P	P
Bed-and-breakfast inn (See 230-27)	P	P	P	N	N
Beverage distributor (wholesale and/or retail)	P	P	P	P	P
Bus maintenance or storage yard	P	N	N	P	P
Bus, taxi or passenger rail terminal	P	P	P	P	P
BYOB Club (Note-this use is limited to a use that is open after midnight and does not receive the majority of its revenues from food) (See 230-26)	SE	N	N	N	N
Car wash (See 230-26)	P	N	P	P	P
Catering, custom, for off-site consumption	P	P	P	P	P
Communications antennas, commercial (See 230-26), limited to accessory antenna attached to specified types of structures by § 230-26	P	P	P	P	P
Communications tower, commercial (See 230-26), or other antennas that are not allowed under the above accessory provision	N	N	N	SE	SE
Conference center or exposition center	P	P	P	P	P
Construction company or tradesperson's headquarters (including but not limited to landscaping, building trades or janitorial contractor) (See also as home occupation) (Accessory outdoor storage shall be permitted provided it meets the screening requirements of § 230-27)	P	P⁷	P⁷	P	P
Convenience store, which may be combined with a gas station only if the requirements for a gas station are met and if a gas station is allowed in the district.	P	P	P	N	N
Crafts or artisan's studio	P	P	P	P	P
Custom printing, copying, faxing, mailing or courier service and similar services to businesses	P	P	P	P	P
Exercise club	P	P	P	P	P
Financial institution; includes banks, which may include drive-through facilities in any allowed district (230-27), provided that a drive-through shall only allowed in the TC District if the applicant proves to the Borough that the access has been designed to minimize conflicts with pedestrian traffic along sidewalks	P	P	P	P	P
Flea market/auction house	P	P	P	P	P
Food truck (includes food trailer), other than operation at any location for less than 15 minutes per day and except for Borough-approved special events and except as accessory to an on-site restaurant (See 230-27)	SE	SE	SE	N	N
Funeral home (See crematorium listed separately under institutional uses)	P	P	P	P	P
Gaming facility, licensed, other than small games of chance allowed under state law and the state lottery	N	N	N	N	SE
Gas station - See "Auto Service Station" in this table.
Heliport (See 230-26)	N	N	N	SE	SE
Hotel or motel (See 230-26)	P	N	SE	N	N
Kennel (See 230-26)	N	N	N	SE	SE
Laundromat	P	P	P	P	P
Laundry, commercial or industrial	P	N	N	P	P
Lumber yard	N	N	P	P	P
Medical marijuana dispensary (See 230-26)	SE	N	N	N	N
Micro-brewery or micro-distillery (which may be in combination with a restaurant or tavern)	P	P	P	P	P
Motor vehicle racetrack, outdoor	N	N	N	N	N
Nightclub	SE	SE	N	N	N
Office (May include medical clinics or labs)	P	P	P	P	P
Pawn shop	N	N	N	N	SE
Personal services (includes tailoring, check cashing, custom dressmaking, haircutting/styling, dog grooming, travel agency, drycleaning, shoe repair, massage therapy, certified and closely similar uses)	P	P	P	P	P
Plant nursery (other than a retail store)	P	P	P	P	P
Propane retail distributor, other than pre-packaged sales, with a 150-foot minimum setback required between any storage or dispensing facilities and any residential district, and with fire company review.	N	N	N	N	SE
Recording studio, music	P	P	P	P	P
Recreation, commercial indoor (includes bowling alley, roller or ice skating rink, batting practice, and closely similar uses); other than uses listed separately in this Article IV	P	P	P	P	P
Recreation, commercial outdoor (including miniature golf course, golf driving range, archery, horseback riding, paintball and closely similar uses); other than uses listed separately in this Article IV	P	P	P	P	P
Repair service, household appliance	P	P	P	P	P
Restaurant (includes banquet hall) (See 230-26), other than a tavern or nightclub
- with drive-through service (See 230-27)	P⁹	N	N	N	N
- without drive-through service.	P	P	P	P	P
(Sidewalk cafes or food carts are listed separately below.)
Retail store (not including uses listed individually in this Article IV). Any drive-through facilities shall meet § 230-27 and shall be limited to the CG District, except a pharmacy drive-through shall be allowed in the CN District. This use may include rental of items or check cashing.	P	P	P	P	P
Self-storage development (See 230-26)	N	N	N	P	P
Shopping center	P	P	SE	P	P
Sidewalk cafe or food cart as an accessory use (See 230-27)	P	P	P	N	N
Target range, firearms
- Completely indoor, enclosed and soundproofed	SE	N	SE	SE	SE
- Other than above, with a barrier that the applicant proves is sufficient to protect public safety	N	N	N	N	N
Tattoo parlor or body piercing (other than temporary tattoos or ear piercing which are personal service uses)	P	N	N	N	P
Tavern, other than a nightclub	P	SE	SE	N	N
Television or radio broadcasting studios	P	P	P	P	P
Theater, indoor movie or live theater, other than an adult establishment	P	P	P	P	P
Trade/hobby school	P	P	P	P	P
Truck stop that primarily serves tractor-trailer trucks	N	N	N	N	SE
Veterinarian office (See 230-26)	P	P	P	P	P
Visitor center providing education and promotional information	P	P	P	P	P
Wholesale sales - see under industrial uses
c. Institutional/Semi-Public Uses
Cemetery (See 230-26); see Crematorium listed separately	N	N	N	N	N
College or university - educational, recreational, office or support uses (See also residential uses, which are addressed separately)	P	P	P	P	P
Community recreation center (limited to a government sponsored or non-profit facility) or library	P	P	P	P	P
Crematorium (See 230-26)	N	N	N	N	SE
Criminal halfway house or day reporting center (See 230-26)	N	N	N	N	SE
Cultural center or museum	P	P	P	P	P
Day-care center, adult or child (See 230-26) (See also as an accessory use)	P	P	P	SE	SE
Emergency services station or training facility	P	P	P	P	P
Hospital or surgery center or related testing and treatment facilities	P	P	P	P	P
Membership club meeting and noncommercial recreational facilities, provided that such use shall not be open between 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. and provided that such use shall only be allowed in combination with another use if the other use is allowed in that District and if the requirements for that use are also met. (See 230-26)	P	P	P	P	P
Nursing home or personal care home/assisted living facility or hospice (See 230-26)	P	P	P	P	SE
Place of worship (See 230-26) (includes Church)	P	P	P	P	P
School, public or private, primary or secondary (See 230-26)	P	P	P	N	N
Temporary and/or emergency shelter (See 230-26)	SE	N	N	N	SE
Treatment center (See 230-26)	SE	N	N	N	SE
d. Public/Semi-Public Uses
Borough government uses and facilities, such as public works facilities	P	P	P	P	P
Government facility, other than offices and other than uses listed separately in this article	P	P	P	P	P
Prison or similar correctional institution	N	N	N	N	SE
Publicly owned or operated park	P	P	P	P	P
Public utility facility, other than Borough-owned facilities and other than uses listed separately in this article See also § 230-83	SE	SE	SE	SE	P
Sewage pump stations	P	P	P	P	P
Swimming pool, non-household (See 230-26)	P	P	P	P	P
U.S. postal service facility or substation	P	P	P	P	P
e. Industrial Uses
Asphalt plant	N	N	N	N	SE
Assembly or finishing of products using materials produced elsewhere (such as products from plastics manufactured off-site)	SE	N	N	P	P
Building supplies and building materials, wholesale sales of	P	N	P	P	P
Distribution as a principal use (other than trucking company terminal)	N	N	N	N	SE
Electric power generating plant (other than putrescent solid waste to energy, solar energy or wind turbines)	N	N	N	N	SE
Industrial equipment sales, rental and service, other than involving trucks and trailers primarily intended to be operated on public streets	P	N	N	P	P
Incineration of hazardous or toxic waste, other than may have been previously approved within an existing waste-to-energy plant	N	N	N	N	SE
Junk - outdoor storage, display or processing of, other than within an approved junkyard or solid waste disposal facility	N	N	N	N	N
Junkyard (See 230-26) (includes scrapyard)	N	N	N	N	SE
Liquid or gas fuel storage, bulk, for off-site distribution, which shall require a 150-foot setback from a Residential District and review by the Fire Department of any proposed facilities, other than: auto service station, propane distributor as listed separately, pre-packaged sales or fuel tanks for company vehicles	N	N	N	N	SE
Manufacture and/or bulk processing of the following, provided manufacturing occurs only indoors:
- Agricultural chemicals, fertilizers or pesticides	N	N	N	N	SE
- Apparel, textiles, shoes and apparel accessories (see also crafts studio)	P	N	P	P	P
- Cement manufacture	N	N	N	N	SE
- Ceramics products (other than crafts studio)	N	N	N	P	P
- Chemicals, manufacture or bulk processing of, other than pharmaceuticals and types listed separately	N	N	N	N	SE
- Clay, brick, tile and refractory products	N	N	N	P	P
- Computers; electronic and microelectronic products	P	N	P	P	P
- Concrete, lime and gypsum products, other than actual manufacture of cement	N	N	N	N	P
- Electrical and electronic equipment, appliances and components	P	N	N	P	P
- Explosives, fireworks or ammunition	N	N	N	N	SE
- Fabricated metal products (except explosives, fireworks or ammunition) and/or machine shops	N	N	N	P	P
- Food and beverage products, at an industrial scale as opposed to a clearly retail scale (which may include aquaculture)	P	N	P	P	P
- Glass and glass products (other than crafts studio)	N	N	N	P	P
- Jewelry and silverware	P	N	N	P	P
- Leather and allied products (other than crafts studio or tannery)	N	N	N	P	P
- Machinery or gaskets	N	N	N	P	P
- Manufactured or modular housing manufacture	N	N	N	P	P
Manufacture and/or bulk processing of the following, provided manufacturing occurs only indoors:
- Medical equipment and supplies	P	N	N	P	P
- Metal products, primary	N	N	N	SE	P
- Mineral products, nonmetallic (other than mineral extraction)	N	N	N	P	P
- Paper and paper products (including recycling, but not including manufacture of raw paper pulp)	P	N	N	P	P
- Paper - raw pulp	N	N	N	N	P
- Paving materials, other than bulk manufacture of asphalt	N	N	N	N	P
- Pharmaceuticals and medicines	N	N	N	P	P
- Plastics, polymers, resins, vinyl, coatings, cleaning compounds, soaps, adhesives, paints, or ink	N	N	N	SE	P
- Products from previously manufactured materials, such as glass, leather, plastics, cellophane, textiles, rubber or synthetic rubber	P	N	N	P	P
- Roofing materials and asphalt saturated materials or natural or synthetic rubber	N	N	N	SE	P
- Scientific, electronic and other precision instruments	P	P	N	P	P
- Sporting goods, toys, games, musical instruments or signs	P	P	P	P	P
- Transportation equipment, including installing mechanical additions to trucks and trailers	N	N	N	P	P
- Wood products and furniture (not including raw paper pulp)	P	P	P	P	P
- See § 230-26 for uses that are not listed	-	-	-	-	-
Medical marijuana grower/processor (See 230-26)	N	N	N	SE	SE
Mineral extraction (See 230-26) and related processing, stock-piling and storage of materials removed from the site, other than as part of preparation of a development site	N	N	N	N	SE
Packaging	P	P	P	P	P
Package delivery services distribution center	P	N	N	P	P
Petroleum refining or manufacture or bulk storage of ethanol or similar fuels for off-site use	N	N	N	N	SE
Pipeline compressor station (such as for natural gas), which shall be constructed within an enclosed structure with sound absorbing walls	N	N	N	N	SE
Printing or bookbinding	P	P	P	P	P
Recycling center, bulk processing, provided all operations of an industrial scale occur within an enclosed building (this use does not include a solid waste disposal or transfer facility)	N	N	N	SE	P
Research and development, engineering or testing facility or laboratory (other than medical laboratories, which is considered an office use) and related manufacture of prototypes	N	N	N	P	P
Sawmill/planning mill	N	N	N	N	P
Slaughterhouse, stockyard or tannery, with a 400-foot minimum setback from all lot lines	N	N	N	N	SE
Solid waste landfill	N	N	N	N	N
Solid waste transfer facility or putrescent waste to energy facility (See 230-26)	N	N	N	N	SE
Trucking company terminal	N	N	N	N	SE
Warehousing or storage as a principal use	N	N	N	N	SE
Warehousing or storage as an on-site accessory use or serving principal uses located or allowed within the same zoning district	P	P	P	P	P
Welding	P	N	N	P	P
Wholesale sales (other than motor vehicles)	P	SE	P	P	P
f. Accessory Uses
See list of additional permitted uses in § c, such as "Residential Accessory Structure or Use"
See additional requirements in § 230-27 for specific accessory uses
Bus passenger shelter, which may only include an advertising sign in the CG District (See 230-27)	P	P	P	P	P
Composting, other than leaves, vegetation or materials generated on-site which are permitted by right	N	N	N	SE	P
Day-care center accessory to and on the same lot as an existing lawful place of worship	P	P	P	P	P
Day-care (See 230-27) as accessory to a lawful dwelling, of the following number of persons, in addition to children or grandchildren of the on-site caregiver:
- Day care of a maximum of 3 persons; this use does not need a zoning permit	P	P	P	P	P
- Group day-care home (7 to 12 persons)	P	P	P	P	N
- Family day-care home (4 to 6 persons)	P	P	P	P	N
Donation bin, outdoor (See 230-27)	P	P	P	P	P
Furnace, outdoor (See 230-27)	N	N	N	N	N
Home occupation, general or low-impact (See 230-27)	P	P	P	P	P
Outdoor storage and/or display as accessory to a business use (See buffer yard provisions) (See 230-27)	P	P⁸	P	P	P
Outdoor storage and/or display as principal use, other than uses listed separately in this table (See buffer yard provisions in § 230-64)	N	N	N	SE	P
Retail sales as accessory to a principal industrial use, limited to items produced or distributed on the premises, and limited to a maximum of 5% of the floor area of the principal use	P	P	P	P	P
Short-term rental of an existing dwelling (See 230-27)	P	P	P	P	P
Temporary commercial uses - see § 230-27, as well as "Food Truck" which is listed separately
Unit for care of relative (See 230-27) on the lot of an existing dwelling	P	P	P	N	N
g. Miscellaneous Uses
Crop farming, community garden, greenhouse, or hydroponics	P	P	P	P	P
Forestry (See 230-26)	P	P	P	P	P
Livestock or poultry, raising of (See 230-26)	N	N	N	P	P
Nature preserve/environmental education center	P	P	P	P	P
Parking lot or structure as an accessory or principal use:
- parking of trucks that haul putrescent or hazardous waste	N	N	N	N	SE
- overnight parking that primarily serves two or more tractor-trailer trucks and/or their trailers	P¹⁰	N	N	P	P
- other than above, such as municipal parking lots and customary accessory parking for on-site uses	P	P	P	P	P
Recycling collection center	P	N	N	P	P
Solar energy collection systems
- Which cover areas equal to a maximum of 20% of the lot area, plus areas on top of building roofs and parking areas	P	P	P	P	P
- Which cover larger areas than above, and which include evergreen vegetation with an initial height of 3 feet between ground-mounted solar collectors and any abutting dwelling	N	N	N	N	P
Wastewater treatment plant (other than customarily accessory pre-treatment facilities)	N	N	N	N	P
Wind turbines:
- Maximum of one on a lot that is an accessory use (See 230-27)	SE	SE	SE	SE	SE
- One or more wind turbines, other than above (See 230-26))	N	N	N	N	SE
All uses that will be unable to comply with the performance standards of this ordinance. See the "Environmental Protection" requirements of Article X	N	N	N	N	N

¹	=	Such housing shall be limited to being in the same building as a principal business use(s) that occupies the majority of the street level.
²	=	Shall be limited to a building on a lot that is abutting or directly across a street or alley from a Residential or TC zoning district.
³	=	See limits on hours of operation in § 230-18.
⁴	=	The use shall not be open to customers after 10:00 p.m. if the use is not within an enclosed building and is within 300 feet from an existing dwelling. Outdoor recreation areas shall be enclosed by 6 feet high fencing and/or a building.
⁵	=	Shall only be allowed in combination with a principal business use that occupies the majority of the street level, and shall be limited to one dwelling unit in a 2 story building and two dwelling units in a 3 story building.
⁶	=	Shall be limited to one dwelling/live work unit in a one or two story building, and two such units in a 3 story building.
⁷	=	A maximum of 25% of lot shall be used for outdoor storage.
⁸	=	Provided the use is setback a minimum of 200 feet from the nearest residential use on another lot.
⁹	=	If the use will be open between 12:00 midnight and 6:00 a.m., the use and its parking areas shall be set back a minimum of 200 feet from any existing or approved dwellings.
¹⁰	=	Minimum lot area of 3 acres.