CR-1 District: Country Residential I.

CR-2 District: Country Residential II.

MHP District: Mobile Home Park.

VC District: Village Center.

PC-1 District: Planned Commercial I.

PC-2 District: Planned Commercial II.

LI District: Light Industrial.

HI District: Heavy Industrial.

AQRC District: Age Qualified Residential Community.

RR District: Rural Residential.

Q District: Quarry.

Airport hazard zones.

Flood hazard zones.[1]

AVA Airport Utility Runway and Visual Approach Zone: the inner edge of the runways approach zone coincides with the width of the primary surface and is 250 feet wide. The approach zone expands outward uniformly to a width of 1,250 feet at a horizontal distance of 5,000 feet from the primary surface. Its center line is the continuation of the center line of the runway.

AT Airport Transitional Zone: the transitional zones are the areas beneath the transitional surfaces.

AH Airport Horizontal Zone: the horizontal zone is delineated by swinging arcs of 5,000 feet radii from the center of each end of the primary surface of each runway and connecting the adjacent arc by drawing lines tangent to those arcs. The horizontal zone does not include the approach and transitional zones.

AC Airport Conical Zone: the conical zone is delineated as the area that commences at the periphery of the horizontal zone and extends outward therefrom a horizontal distance of 4,000 feet and upward from the periphery of the horizontal zone at a slope of 20 to one.[1]

Country Residential I. The purpose of this district is to accommodate a variety of residential housing types to include single-family and multifamily and to insure a balance of housing types to meet the current and future housing needs of the Township. This district encourages conservation design with open space areas reserved for natural resource protection and recreation. The location of these districts are intended to insure that appropriate infrastructure and associated facilities are available for these types of uses and that the uses will blend well with other uses in the surrounding areas. This zoning district is intended to be the Township’s short-term residential development district.

Country Residential II. A few districts are shown on the Official Zoning Map as Country Residential II. These areas were specifically designated because they are served by public sewers but lie outside of the area which has been planned for public sewers. The use types permitted in the CR-2 District are the same as those permitted in the Rural Residential (RR) District, as further described in the RR section below. It is the intent of this district to contain the fringe sewer service areas within the CR-2 zone.

Mobile Home Parks. The purpose of this zoning district is to provide the opportunity for pleasant, well-planned mobile home park developments for affordable housing within the Township at an appropriate density. It is the further intention of this district to insure that proper facilities are present to service this use type and that this use will appropriately blend with surrounding land uses. Since there is sufficient room in these districts to allow for future expansion for mobile homes, it is not necessary to accommodate additional land for this use type at this time. The availability of land for mobile home parks should be reevaluated as these districts become built out.

Village Center. The Village Center District deals primarily with the existing villages within the Township. The intent of this district is to preserve the character of these historic villages by allowing limited mixed-use development to include: limited commercial uses, the construction of single-family dwellings, and the conversion of existing large structures into multifamily dwellings. New construction shall have a facade, which fits in with predominate historic architecture of the area. Only 1/3 of the total structures within Village Center are permitted to be commercial.

Planned Commercial I. This district is intended to provide for a wide range of commercial and service type uses in and along the Route 309 corridor and the south-western portion of the Township. The PC-1 District is intended to be the “regional” service district for the Township and surrounding municipalities. The uses and standards within the PC-1 zone are intended to be complementary to the existing commercial development located in the immediate vicinity. Careful consideration is to be given to access and circulation patterns in this district with access provided by means of marginal access roads, reverse frontage roads and/or limiting the number and locations of access points where deemed appropriate by the Township.

Planned Commercial II. The primary PC-2 commercial areas are located along the Route 313 corridor in the vicinity of Dublin Borough. A wide range of commercial and service type uses are to be encouraged in this district to serve the needs of the residents of the Township. The PC-2 District is intended to be the small scale “neighborhood” commercial zone. Careful consideration is to be given to access and circulation patterns in this district with access provided by means of marginal access roads, reverse frontage roads and/or limiting the number and locations of access points where deemed appropriate by the Township.

Light Industrial. This zoning district is intended to provide for commercial office, and laboratory research facilities. The intent of this district is to encourage high quality industrial development which relates to adjacent residential areas as a “good neighbor,” with appropriate design standards to avoid adverse impacts on neighboring residential uses.

Heavy Industrial. This district is also intended to encourage high quality industrial development, including manufacturing, and resource recovery uses. Tracts of land designated for these uses should be serviced by utilizing an internal network of streets and serviceways.

Age Qualified Residential Community. The Age Qualified Residential Community District is intended to provide for private residential community living and different housing options for older residents. The district requires both active and passive recreational facilities.

The areas shown within the Township’s conservation area are those portions of the Township which are generally not suited for, and therefore are not intended to, support intense development in the short-term. The conservation area includes all those areas in the Township which presently lack essential sewage disposal capabilities. These areas are primarily intended to serve low density residential development.

The purpose of this zoning district is to discourage the premature and haphazard development characterized by suburban sprawl. This district is intended to limit development opportunities in areas of the Township without public sewers, and by doing so, promoting the orderly growth of the Township by minimizing the health risks from potential on-site sewage system failures as provided by 53 P.S. § 10501 et seq. of the Municipalities Planning Code, Act 247, as amended.

The following zoning district is located within the Township’s conservation area:

Intent. The zone is intended to provide for the extraction of sand, clay, shale, topsoil, gravel, stone, and/or similar materials and is intended to include the construction and operation of concrete plants and asphalt plants or other related processing, manufacturing or industrial operations or activities, including, but not limited to, blasting, crushing and sorting as set forth below and as set forth in § 160-44 of Chapter 160 of the Code; provided, however, that in the event there is conflict between the provisions of this section and any provision of § 160-44 or any other provision of Chapter 160 the provisions of this chapter shall prevail and control.

Airport hazard zones:

Special flood hazard areas. Those areas of the Township classified as special flood hazard areas in the Flood Insurance Study (FIS) and accompanying Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM), dated March 16, 2015, and issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).