East Norriton Township
City Zoning Code

Retail stores, including retail outlets or showrooms for uses permitted in Subsection I hereof, but not including automobile sales agencies, provided that no goods shall be displayed outside the building area or on that lot, except pursuant to Article IV, § 205-20, and provided that only incidental storage, including floor samples, shall be permitted. "Building area" shall be defined as that area covered by the principal roof of the building.

The following personal service shops, dealing directly with customers: beauty parlors, barbershops, massage therapist businesses, clothes cleaning establishments (not including cleaning and dyeing plants), automatic self-service laundries, dressmaking, millinery or similar shops, provided that all repair or processing work is conducted in accordance with Subsection I below.

Theaters, not including outdoor motion-picture establishments, assembly halls or community buildings, indoor recreational establishments, fitness centers or libraries.

Fast-food restaurants, fast-casual restaurants, full-service restaurants, brewpubs and microbreweries.

Bakeries, confectionery or custom shops for the production of articles sold at retail on the premises, provided that all baking or processing is conducted in accordance with Subsection I below.

Banks, financial advisors, tutoring and educational uses.

Passenger bus stations, electric substations and utility buildings.

Day-care centers, pursuant to the requirements of § 205-22.1.

The following uses, provided that, if such uses are located on the ground floor, they shall not be located within 20 feet of the front of the building, and provided that they shall be effectively screened from the front portion of the building by a wall or partition:

Accessory uses customarily incidental to any of the above uses, including fencing in accordance with § 205-22.3.

Any use of the same general character as any of the above permitted uses, when authorized as a special exception by the Zoning Hearing Board, provided that such use shall be permitted subject to such reasonable restrictions as the Zoning Hearing Board may determine, and further provided that no trade or business shall be permitted which is either noxious or hazardous.

Signs, when erected and maintained in accordance with Article XIX of this Zoning Ordinance.

If the development of the center is to be carried out in stages, each stage shall be so planned that the foregoing requirements and the intent of this chapter shall be fully complied with at the completion of any stage. The initial stage of development shall comprise a total ground-floor area of not less than 4,000 square feet.

Additionally, the following uses, when authorized as special exceptions by the Zoning Hearing Board, shall be permitted in this district:

Residential units located above the first floor of a nonresidential use, subject to the following standards:

Offices for administration, executive, professional, insurance or other similar uses which do not involve the actual storage, warehousing, exchange or delivery of merchandise on the premises.

The development shall consist of harmonious selection of uses and grouping of buildings, service and parking areas, circulation and open spaces, planned and designed as an integrated unit, in such manner as to constitute a safe, efficient and convenient retail shopping center.

The proposed development shall be constructed in accordance with an overall plan with appropriate landscaping.

The total area shall be not less than two acres.

No more than 20% of the lot area shall be occupied by buildings. The total allowable floor area when divided by the lot area shall not exceed 0.4 (40%).

The distance at the closest point between any two buildings or groups or units of attached buildings shall not be less than 30 feet.

The maximum height of any building or structure erected in this district shall be 35 feet.

Adequate area 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; and automobile accessways. The requirements of Article XVIII of this chapter shall also apply.

Provision shall be made for safe and efficient ingress and egress to and from public streets and highways serving the center without undue congestion to or interference with normal traffic flow. All points of vehicular access to and from public streets shall be located not less than 200 feet from the intersection of any public street lines. The Planning Commission shall satisfy itself as to the adequacy of the thoroughfares to carry the additional traffic engendered by the shopping center.

No building may be located closer than 50 feet to the ultimate right-of-way of any public street, no closer than 50 feet of a side or rear property line adjacent to a residential or institutional district or within 25 feet of any property line.

No parking, access or service area may be located closer than 25 feet of a side or rear property line adjacent to a residential or institutional district.

Lighting facilities shall be arranged in a manner which will protect the highway and neighboring properties, whether contiguous or not, from unreasonable direct glare or hazardous interference of any kind.

(Reserved)

Landscaping, including conservation of existing trees and woodlands, street trees, stormwater basin landscaping and site element screens, shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 175, Subdivision and Land Development.

No shopping center permitted in an SC District shall be erected or used that is not adequately served with both sanitary sewers and public water.

For the purpose of calculating the minimum area lot dimension and yard requirements established by this section, a single planned shopping center district cannot lie on two sides of a public street or alley. Any area designated as being an SC District and lying on both sides of a public street shall be deemed to be two SC Districts, and all minimum requirements shall be met by buildings on each side of said public street as separate districts.

Architectural plans for any proposed buildings.

The location, size in square feet, dimensions and arrangement of areas and buildings devoted to any purpose.

A description of the commercial uses proposed, including approximate number of employees, and an indication of the number of customers in sufficient detail to indicate the effects of those operations in producing traffic congestion, noise, glare, air pollution, water pollution, fire hazards or safety hazards.