Single-family detached dwellings.

Two-family dwellings and duplexes.

Parks, playgrounds and other noncommercial recreational uses.

Schools and churches.

Conversion apartments, provided that:

Home occupations, provided that:

Private garages or parking areas.

Only household pets.

Other accessory uses customarily incidental to a permitted principal use.

Signs as hereafter provided in Article IX.

Minimum lot area requirements.

Minimum lot width requirements.

Minimum front yard requirements.

Minimum side yard requirements.

Minimum rear yard requirements.

Maximum building height.

Maximum lot coverage requirements.

Single-family detached dwellings.

Parks, playgrounds and other noncommercial recreational uses.

Schools and churches.

Two to six family dwellings, including townhouses, duplexes and garden apartments.

Funeral and nursing homes.

Private clubs, lodges and meeting halls.

Professional offices.

Conversion apartments.

Municipal, civic and cultural buildings.

Home occupations, provided that:

Private garages or parking areas.

Only household pets.

Other accessory uses customarily incidental to a permitted principal use.

Signs as hereafter provided in Article IX.

Minimum lot area requirements, except as provided by § 205-34.

Minimum lot width requirements: 50 feet, except as provided by § 205-34.

Minimum side yard requirements.

Minimum front yard requirements: 20 feet.

Minimum rear yard requirements.

Maximum building height requirements: three stories or 35 feet.

Maximum lot coverage requirements.

Single-family detached dwellings.

Parks, playgrounds and other noncommercial recreational uses.

Schools and churches.

Two- to six-family dwellings, including townhouses, duplexes and garden apartments.

Funeral and nursing homes.

Private clubs, lodges and meeting halls.

Professional offices.

Conversion apartments.

Municipal, civic and cultural buildings.

Multifamily residential structures, including high-rise apartments.

Hospitals, medical centers and clinics.

Private and public garages or parking areas.

Other accessory uses customarily incidental to a permitted principal use.

Signs as hereafter provided in Article IX.

Minimum lot area requirements, except as provided by § 205-34.

Minimum lot width requirement: 60 feet, except as provided by § 205-34.

Minimum front yard requirement: 20 feet.

Minimum side yard requirement.

Minimum rear yard requirements.

Maximum building height requirement: six stories or 75 feet.

Shopping areas consisting of integrated business centers for the conducting of normal retail functions.

Retail businesses, banks and offices when all are conducted entirely within buildings.

Restaurants, cafes, motion-picture theaters, bowling alleys and other places of public amusement conducted entirely within buildings.

Service establishments, including barbershops and beauty shops, custom tailor shops, laundry agencies, self-service laundries, hand laundries, shoe repair, electrical and plumbing sales and service, dry-cleaning, pressing or tailoring shops, in which only nonexplosive and noninflammable solvents and materials are used and where no work is done on the premises for retail outlets elsewhere.

Bakery, candy, pastry, confectionery or ice cream retail sales with manufacturing permitted only for sales on the premises.

Automobile sales conducted entirely within buildings.

Hotels and motels.

Police, fire protection and municipal buildings and uses.

Dwelling units over commercial establishments when private yard areas are provided.

Gasoline stations, automobile repair and other drive-in uses, provided that:

Parking lots and garages.

Accessory uses customarily incidental to a permitted principal use.

Signs as hereafter provided in Article IX.

Minimum lot area: 1,500 square feet.

Minimum lot width: 20 feet.

Minimum side yard: 20 feet when adjacent to a residential district.

Minimum front yard: none.

Minimum rear yard: 15 feet.

Maximum building height: three stories or 35 feet.

The party applying for a conditional use shall submit five copies of a site plan and supporting data which shows the size, location, and topography of the site, the use of adjacent land, the proposed size, bulk, use and location of buildings; the location and proposed function of all yards, open spaces, parking areas, driveways, storage areas and accessory structures; the location of all utilities, the provisions for parking, moving or loading of vehicles and the timing of construction proposed to the Zoning Officer.

The Zoning Officer shall forward copies of the application to the Board and to the Planning Commission for review and approval.

The Planning Commission shall make a recommendation to the Board in advance of the public hearing to be conducted on the application. Failure to make such a recommendation shall be deemed to be a favorable recommendation.

The Board shall conduct public hearings on applications for conditional uses in accordance with the provisions established for public hearings, as set forth in the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, as amended. The Board may attach such conditions as they deem necessary to the approval, either tentative or final, of any conditional use. The approved site plan and all attached conditions shall be recorded by the applicant within 90 days of final approval. All development, construction and use shall be in accordance with the approved plan, unless a revised plan is submitted, approved and recorded. Any development contrary to the approved plans shall constitute a violation of this chapter.

A conditional use shall be approved if, and only if, it is found to meet the following criteria:

All conditional uses shall comply with the requirements of this section. In order to determine whether a proposed use will conform to the requirements of this chapter, the Board may obtain a qualified consultant to testify, whose cost for services shall be borne by the applicant.

Automotive sales outside of a building.

Warehousing and indoor storage facilities.

Building material supplies, except stone crushing or concrete mixing.

Beverage bottling and/or distribution.

Laboratories devoted to research, design, experimentation, processing and fabrication incidental thereto.

Printing, publishing and allied processes.

Utility operations (electric and gas company operations).

Highway freight, transportation and distribution facilities.

Food and kindred products packaging, storage and distribution.

Light manufacturing and fabrication processes which emit no noise, dust, fumes or other objectionable or hazardous nuisances and where all such activities take place within fully enclosed buildings.

Carpenter, electrical, plumbing, heating or sheet metal shop, furniture upholstering shop, laundry and clothes cleaning or dyeing establishment, printing shop or publishing plant.

The manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of such products as bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, toiletries and food products.

Parking lots and garages.

Accessory uses customarily incidental to a permitted principal use so long as it is of the same as uses intended for the district and does not create a nuisance or hazard to the surrounding properties.

Signs as hereafter provided in Article IX.

Minimum lot area: 7,500 square feet.

Minimum width: 70 feet.

Minimum side yard requirement: 15 feet per side yard.

Minimum front yard requirement: 25 feet.

Minimum rear yard requirement: 40 feet.

Maximum building height: four stories or 50 feet.

Maximum lot coverage for structures shall not exceed 50% of the lot area.

Sexually oriented businesses may be established only in the I-1 Light Industrial District.

Any person who intends to open a sexually oriented business must obtain from the Borough of Freedom a license to operate such an enterprise and must pay the Borough of Freedom any fees as may be set from time to time by resolution of the Borough Council. In addition, such persons or owners must supply to the borough detailed information as to the ownership and financing as required on the licensing application form. This form can be obtained at the office of the Borough Secretary.

No sexually oriented business can operate if the establishment would be within 500 feet of a preexisting school, hospital, nursing home, personal care home, group care facility, park, church, recreation center, day-care facility, senior citizens center, public library, cemetery, convalescent home, establishment which is licensed to and does sell alcoholic beverages, other adult businesses or any area zoned, residential or historical.

A sexually oriented business shall be initially licensed, where it has met the requirements set forth in the Freedom Borough Code of Ordinances, through December 31 of the year in which the license is issued. For each year thereafter that the adult business intends to continue its business as an adult commercial enterprise, it must seek from the office of the Secretary of Freedom Borough a renewal of the license. The application for renewal is due in the Secretary's office no later than November 1 of the year preceding the year in which the license renewal is sought. The lack of a license or the failure to seek license renewal on a timely basis shall be a proper basis for the borough to deny or revoke an occupancy permit to an adult bookstore, adult movie theater or similar adult commercial enterprise or other adult establishment.

Any sexually oriented business establishment found to be in violation of this chapter shall be subject to the enforcement remedies provisions of § 205-63 and the penalty provisions of § 205-62 of Chapter 205 of the Code.

Warehousing and indoor storage facilities.

Building material supplies, except stone crushing or concrete mixing.

Beverage bottling and/or distribution.

Laboratories devoted to research, design, experimentation, processing and fabrication incidental thereto.

Printing, publishing and allied processes.

Utility operations (electric and gas company operations).

Highway freight, transportation and distribution facilities.

Food and kindred products packaging, storage and distribution.

Light manufacturing and fabrication processes which emit no noise, dust, fumes or other objectionable or hazardous nuisances and where all such activities take place within fully enclosed buildings.

The manufacture, compounding, assembling or treatment of articles of merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: bone, canvas, cellophane, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastics, precious or semiprecious metals or stone, shell, textiles, tobacco, wax, wood and yarn.

The manufacture of ceramic products, using only previously pulverized clay and kilns fired only by electricity or gas.

The manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties, rubber or metal stamps and other small moulded rubber products.

The manufacture or assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices.

The manufacture of crude oil and its associated products.

Railroad freight yards, transportation and associated functions.

Other manufacturing, compounding, processing, packing or treatment excluding such uses or processes which produce or emit dust, smoke, refuse matter, toxic or noxious odors, gases or fumes, excessive noise or vibration or similar substances and conditions.

Abattoirs or slaughterhouses.

Dead animal of offal reduction.

Junkyards.

Fertilizer manufacture.

Parking facilities.

Accessory uses customarily incidental to permitted principal uses.

Signs as hereafter provided in Article IX.

Minimum lot area: 20,000 feet.

Minimum lot width: 100 feet.

Minimum side yard requirement: 25 feet per each side.

Minimum front yard requirement: 30 feet.

Minimum rear yard requirement: 50 feet.

Maximum building height: six stories or 60 feet.

Maximum lot coverage for structures shall not exceed 50%.

Recreational uses.

Tree nurseries.

Areas of excessive slope, inaccessible or remnants of land not suited for general use and areas subject to frequent flooding may be used for the following purposes or comparable purposes, if, in the opinion of the Zoning Hearing Board, the uses are suited to the characteristics of the land and are considered compatible with adjacent land uses.

Single-family residence may be permitted, provided that: