Bristol Township City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XI
CS Shopping Center District
§ 205-46 Purpose.
The C-S Shopping Center District is designed to provide for the appropriate development of a modem, well-designed, integrated retail shopping center. The district is established so that the principal use of land is for commercial and service uses to serve surrounding residential areas and in which traffic and parking congestion can be reduced to a minimum in order to preserve residential values and promote the general welfare of the surrounding area. Among other things, the shopping center shall comprise:
A.
A group or groups of integrated buildings within which retail trade and related service activities shall wholly be conducted;
B.
Convenient, safe, and adequate vehicular and pedestrian accessways; and
C.
Safe and adequate off-street parking and loading facilities.
§ 205-47 Permitted uses.
A building may be erected or used, and a lot may be used or occupied, for any of the following purposes, and no other:
A.
Uses permitted by right. The following uses are permitted by right:
(1)
(B4) Library or Museum.
(2)
(BS) Private Club.
(3)
(B6) Community Center.
(4)
(B7) Day-Care Center.
(5)
(Bl2) Public Park/Public Recreational Facility.
(6)
(Cl) Office.
(7)
(C2) Medical Office.
(8)
(Dl) Retail Shop.
(9)
(D2) Large Retail Store.
(10)
(D3) Financial Establishment.
(11)
(D4) Sit-Down Restaurant.
(12)
(D5) Fast-Food Restaurant.
(13)
(D6) Repair Shop.
(14)
(D9) Indoor Entertainment.
(15)
(D10) Athletic Facility.
(16)
(D13) Tavern.
(17)
(Dl4) Veterinary Office or Clinic.
(18)
(D30) Forestry.
(19)
(G6) Nonresidential Accessory Building or Structure.
(20)
(Gll) Aerials, Masts, Radio and Television Towers.
B.
Conditional uses. The following uses may be permitted as authorized by Council in accordance with the standards contained in § 205-178 of this chapter:
(1)
(D29) Pawnshop/Check-Cashing Establishment.
(2)
(E2) Emergency Service.
(3)
(E3) Terminal.
§ 205-48 Area and dimensional requirements.
Unless a greater area or dimensional requirement is listed in Article III, Use Regulations, for a specific use, all uses in the CS District shall meet the following requirements:
A.
Minimum lot area: two acres.
B.
Minimum lot width: 200 feet.
C.
Maximum building area: 20%.
D.
Maximum impervious surface ratio: 70%.
E.
Minimum yards:
(1)
Front: 50 feet.
(2)
Side: 50 feet.
(3)
Rear: 50 feet.
(4)
Comer lot: two front yards, one along each street, each having a depth of not less than 50 feet.
(5)
Double frontage lot: two front yards, one along each street, each having a depth of not less than 50 feet.
(6)
Buffer yard: Buffer yards shall be provided in accordance with § 205-109 of this chapter.
F.
Height requirement: No building shall exceed 50 feet in height unless authorized as a special exception by the Zoning Hearing Board.
§ 205-49 Supplemental regulations.
A.
The proposed development shall be constructed in accordance with an overall plan, shall be designed as a single architectural unit with appropriate landscaping, and shall provide initially for the construction of either a minimum of 7,500 square feet of floor area, or a minimum of six of the uses listed in§ 205-47 of this chapter.
B.
All buildings shall be arranged in a group or groups.
C.
The distance, at the closest point, between any two buildings, or groups or units of attached buildings shall be not less than 12 feet.
D.
Adequate areas shall be provided for loading and unloading of delivery trucks and other vehicles; servicing of shops by refuse collection, fuel, fire and other service vehicles; automobile accessways; and pedestrian walks. Such areas shall be paved with an acceptable hard surface.
E.
Parking, loading or service areas used by motor vehicles shall be located entirely within the lot lines of the development, shall be physically separated from public streets, and shall have not more than two accessways to any one public street. All accessways shall be located at least 150 feet from the intersection of any street line.
F.
The proposed development shall be served by adequate public water and sewer systems, the adequacy of which shall be demonstrated and guaranteed to the satisfaction of Council.
G.
All parking, loading, access and service areas shall be adequately illuminated at night. Such lighting, including sign lighting, shall be arranged so as to protect the highway and adjoining property from direct glare or hazardous interference of any kind. All utility lines servicing the area shall be placed underground.
