Permit a more creative, efficient and economical development pattern which results in less impact on local resources and the required support facilities for public services.

Provide for adequate parking.

Provide for safe and efficient travel by vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians.

Reduce potential problems resulting from conflicts between proposed development, including land use changes, and adjacent lands, properties and uses.

Reduce impervious surface and the loss of vegetation, help replenish groundwater supplies and minimize sedimentation/erosion problems.

Control stormwater and have the proper management of stormwater.

Encourage a mixed use of land development compatible to the existing uses to allow for modified use of existing properties in a manner that maintains the character of the area.

Provide for residential and nonresidential uses, with nonresidential uses being of the type and size to satisfy the needs of the surrounding area and community, avoiding the appearance of commercial centers, but promoting the revitalization and use of present structures and infrastructure while controlling and managing growth.

An existing building may be converted or altered to allow any one of the following uses as a conditional use when authorized by the Board of Supervisors subject to the standards set forth herein and in § 265-260 of this chapter.

The following accessory uses are permitted.

The development, use or change of use and the structure for such use or development shall meet the design criteria of § 265-168. The design conditions shall be used by the Township in determining the appropriateness of the proposal during the conditional use process in addition to the conditional use standards under this chapter.

The property shall not be capable of further subdivision and a covenant running with the land shall be established to require the same. Any portion of the property that is capable of being further subdivided under the district regulations shall be included and that area shall be limited by deed restriction or by agreement in form acceptable to the Township and duly recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds in and for Montgomery County.

The property shall consist of one lot and shall be held in single and separate ownership.

Appropriate driveway or driveways shall be required to assure safe traffic movement onto and off of the property, including necessary improvements to Swamp Pike by way of deceleration or acceleration lane, if necessary, to assure the safe movement. Each lot shall have appropriate turnaround capability for traffic on the property for emergency vehicle access and for full, complete and safe circulation of traffic from Swamp Pike onto the site and off of the site to Swamp Pike. The parking and vehicle access design standards in § 265-92 of the LC Limited Commercial District shall apply to conditional uses in the LOR Overlay District.

Appropriate landscaping, buffering, fencing and architectural features shall be required to assure compatibility with existing residential uses and the reduction of any impacts on neighboring uses and/or properties.

Such conditions and restrictions to assure the design considerations as set forth in § 265-168 are met shall be required.

Such conditions, restrictions and controls to assure that the site design meets the goals and objectives of this chapter after the site impact assessment has been presented and evaluated shall be required.

Existing buildings may be expanded by no more than 50% of the residential building floor area that existed at the time of passage of this article. Building additions must be the rear or side of the existing principal building. All building additions shall comply with the design criteria of § 265-168.

Dimensional standards.

Additional conditional use regulations.

Consistency with the goals and objectives of the Douglass Township Comprehensive Plan and the Pottstown Metropolitan Regional Comprehensive Plan.

The incorporation and preservation of existing vegetation, such as woodlands and hedgerows into the project design and appropriate landscaping and buffering. Landscaping in the front yard areas shall be preserved.

The preservation of historic resources.

The compatibility with adjacent existing or potential residential land areas.

A design to assure stormwater management for the development.

A design to assure safe vehicular movement in, through and out of the proposed development.

The incorporation of pedestrian circulation opportunities into the site design.

Signs shall meet the requirements of Article XXIV, Sign Regulations.

Lighting shall meet the requirements of § 230-66, Outdoor lighting.

No outdoor storage is permitted, and trash must be kept inside a principal building until collection.

All conditional use buildings and additions must have a residential character, as demonstrated through elevations and other architectural drawings, and must include the following features:

Purpose. The following shall be submitted to provide sufficient information of proposed site features to evaluate effectively the impacts and site design to establish such criteria as is necessary to assure that the goals and objects of the LOR Overlay are achieved.

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