The Business Campus District is hereby established
as a district in which regulations are intended to permit and encourage
small-scale business, office, nonmanufacturing development and uses
compatible therewith in locations that are harmonious with adjacent
areas of the Township.
A building or group of buildings may be erected
or used and a lot may be used or occupied for any of the following
purposes:
A.
Scientific research laboratory (research, testing,
experimental).
B.
Business, professional or governmental office.
C.
Place of religious worship.
D.
Library or museum.
E.
Trade or professional school, music or dancing school.
F.
Office or clinic for medical or dental examinations
or treatment of persons as outpatients, including laboratories incidental
thereto.
G.
Electric substation or telephone exchange.
H.
Ten percent of the land area zoned in Business Campus
may be devoted to ancillary commercial needs. Buildings may be erected
or used for the following purposes:
(1)
Restaurant.
(2)
Community center, adult education or similar facility.
(3)
Entertainment and recreation facilities operated as
a business within a building, consisting of any of the following uses:
sauna, health club, exercise, squash, racquetball and tennis courts.
(4)
Bank or similar financial institution.
I.
Day-care center when authorized by special exception
by the Zoning Hearing Board.
J.
High technology business use including offices, display
areas, and sales areas for the design, research, engineering and assembly
of computer-based equipment and systems, provided that such use or
uses result in no objectionable dust, fumes, noise, odors, smoke,
glare and vibration, and further provided that neither industrial
uses nor outside storage shall be permitted. In addition, for every
building devoted to this use, no more than 50% of the building shall
be utilized for assembly.
K.
Municipal building.
[Added 12-23-2002 by Ord. No. 1153]
A.
Lot area and width. Every lot on which a building or combination of buildings is hereafter erected or used shall have a lot area of not less than 30 acres and such a lot shall be not less than 250 feet in width at building line. Under this article, ancillary commercial uses, as defined in § 230-173H herein, shall only be permitted where the tract provides at least 1,000 feet of frontage along and abutting an existing arterial roadway as defined in the Township Comprehensive Plan of 1969, and, further, provided that a substantial portion of the proposed ancillary commercial area be served by said artery. The location of the ancillary commercial area within the Business Campus District shall be consistent with good planning concepts and the location of such area, if otherwise permitted, shall not be changed from developer's initial submission of a development plan without express written approval of the Township Council.
B.
Building and lot coverage. No more than 40% of the
developable area of any lot may be occupied by buildings, and a total
of not more than 65% of the developable area of any lot may be occupied
by buildings, parking areas, unloading areas, and access roads or
other impervious surfaces.
[Amended 9-16-1998 by Ord. No. 1147]
C.
Building placement. No building shall be located less
than 100 feet from a street right-of-way line, nor less than 75 feet
from a side or rear property line, and no parking, loading, or service
area shall be located less than 50 feet from a street right-of-way
or other property line.
D.
Height regulations. No building shall be more than
35 feet in height.
