Avondale City Zoning Code
ARTICLE VIII
TC Town Center District
§ 430-33 District purpose.
The TC District is intended to:
A.
Recognize the historic commercial center of the Borough;
B.
Provide a wide range of commercial and mixed-use opportunities that are compatible in a business district setting;
C.
Facilitate pedestrian travel for residents of the Borough;
D.
Promote the use of off-site or shared parking facilities; and
E.
Maintain adequate light, air and privacy for the residential community by reasonably controlling the spacing and height of buildings and other structures.
§ 430-34 Use regulations in the TC District.
In TC District, a building may be erected or used, and a lot may be used or occupied, for any one of the following purposes, and no other:
A.
Uses by right. The following uses, and no others, shall be permitted by right in the TC District:
(1)
Individual offices.
(2)
Personal service shop, including barbershop, beauty shop, tailor shop, dressmaking shop.
(3)
Store for retail purposes only, provided the maximum sales area does not exceed 2,000 square feet, except where a proposed use shall use an existing structure, in which case the maximum sales area shall not exceed 5,000 square feet per use.
(4)
Rooming, boarding, or tourist home.
(5)
Confectionery or bakery shop, provided that all products shall be sold at retail on the premises.
(6)
Small-scale printing establishment.
(7)
Contractor or general service shop, including plumbing, heating, carpentry, welding, cabinetmaking, furniture repair; the production of craft products, and those accessory uses reasonably necessary for such production.
(8)
Post office.
(9)
Police, fire, or emergency medical service station.
(10)
Commercial garage or commercial parking facilities as a principal use.
(11)
Municipal uses.
(12)
Restaurant, without drive-through service.
(13)
Accessory use on the same lot with and customarily incidental to any of the above-permitted uses.
(14)
Residential use within a preexisting building, subject to the following:
[Added 2-20-2017 by Ord. No. 258]
(a)
Such residential use shall not be located within any portion of the first floor of a multistoried building;
(b)
Such residential use within a multistoried building shall not have direct pedestrian access to the residential unit from the frontage of the building along Pennsylvania Avenue, First Street or West State Street. Residential access shall be from the rear of the building;
(c)
Such residential use shall be permitted within the first floor of a single storied building if a portion of the building is utilized for one of the preceding uses by right in the TC District, and provided that the residential unit (including access) does not front along Pennsylvania Avenue, First Street or West State Street.
B.
Uses permitted by conditional use. A building may be erected or used and a lot may be used or occupied for any one of the following uses, and no other, when approved as a conditional use (see §430-110, Conditional use procedures):
[Amended 2-16-1999 by Ord. No. 184; at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
(2)
Club or lodge organized for civic, fraternal or social purposes, provided that the chief activity shall not be one which is customarily carried on as a business, and provided that the buildings and services shall be for the use of members and their guests only.
(3)
Hotel.
(4)
Catering establishment.
(5)
Laundromat, or automatic self-service laundry.
(6)
Laundry or dry-cleaning store, where cleaning occurs off-site.
(7)
Office building.
(8)
Medical offices.
(9)
Gas station.
(10)
Automotive repair station.
§ 430-35 Area and bulk regulations.
The following area and bulk regulations shall apply to all uses in the Town Center District.
A.
Minimum lot area: 3,000 square feet.
B.
Maximum building coverage: 70%.
C.
Maximum lot coverage: 90%.
D.
Yard setback requirements. Front, side and rear yards shall be provided on each lot as follows:
(2)
Minimum side yard: none required for a building used for commercial purposes, except that where a lot abuts a Residential District, or a street on the side lot line, a side yard shall be provided which shall not be less than 10 feet in width. In any case where side yards are provided although they are not required, each such side yard shall not be less than five feet in width.
(3)
Minimum rear yard: 10 feet.
E.
Maximum height regulations: 45 feet. Accessory structures shall not exceed 16 feet in height.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
§ 430-36 Additional standards.
All uses in the TC District shall comply with the following additional standards:
§ 430-37 Front yard exception.
The front yard setback of a proposed building may be decreased in depth to the average alignment of existing buildings within 100 feet on each side of the proposed building, and within the same block, if such alignment of existing buildings is less than the front yard required for the district.