Retail store, including a convenience store, designed primarily to provide daily service to residents of the surrounding area. No drive-through facilities shall be permitted.

Restaurant, provided that quick-service restaurants shall not be permitted.

Personal service shop such as beautician, a laundry, dry-cleaning or clothes pressing establishment, provided that the equipment and materials used will not involve danger from fire or explosion.

Assembly hall, community building, indoor recreational establishment, library, child day center, theater, but not including outdoor motion-picture establishment.

Retail service shop such as bakery, ice cream, or similar shop, custom tailoring or millinery shop, clock, watch, or jewelry shop, or household appliance repair shop, provided that:

Office or studio.

Banks or similar financial institutions, drive-in teller window facilities when a minimum of eight automobile waiting spaces are provided.

Passenger bus station; electric substation, telephone and telegraph offices.

An automatic self-service laundry authorized only as a special exception.

An automobile parking lot not including sales, leasing, or servicing of automobiles.

Accessory use on the same lot and customarily incidental to the above permitted uses.

Municipal building.

Lot area and width. The lot area shall not be less than six acres and such lot shall have a minimum lot width at the building line of not less than 300 feet.

Building coverage. Not more than 25% of the developable area of each lot may be occupied by buildings.

Front yard. There shall be a setback on each street on which a lot abuts which shall not be less than 35 feet in depth.

Side yards. For any building or use there shall be two side yards not less than 50 feet in depth.

Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard on each lot which shall be not less than 50 feet in depth.

Height. All buildings shall comply with the regulations as contained in Article V, Performance Standards.

Lot coverage. No more than 75% of the lot area may be covered by buildings, parking lots, vehicular accessways, or impervious material.

In addition to the requirements of this article, the plan for development shall comply with the applicable regulations contained in Article IV, General Provisions, and Article V, Performance Standards.

No permanent storage of merchandise, articles or equipment shall be permitted outside a building and no goods, articles or equipment shall be stored, displayed, or offered for sale beyond the front lines of the building.

No outdoor vending machine, self-service station, or similar use shall be allowed in any required yard abutting a street or on a public sidewalk.

The development shall consist of a harmonious selection of uses and grouping of buildings, service and parking areas, circulation and open spaces, planned and designed as an integrated units, in such manner as to constitute a safe, efficient, and convenient retail shopping center. The distance at the closest point between buildings or groups of attached buildings shall not be less than 12 feet.

All buildings within the center shall be served by a public sanitary sewage disposal system and public water supply.

Adequate provision shall be made for safe and efficient pedestrian and vehicular traffic circulation within the boundaries of the center.

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 within the municipality and in accordance with Article V, § 230-36.

Adequate off-street parking and loading spaces shall be provided in accordance with and as an integral part of the plan, except that required space for individual establishments need not be provided separately but may be made a component part of such space jointly serving two or more establishments, provided that in no case shall the square foot relation of total off-street parking space to total usable floor space constitute a ratio of less than required in Article V, § 230-32.

If the development of the center is to be carried out in progressive 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 25,000 square feet and at least three of the selected and designated uses.

When three or more businesses are located on one property, in addition to signage permitted by this chapter for each individual business, shopping centers with frontage on Welsh Road may have one freestanding sign not to exceed 225 square feet and 30 feet in height. In the event the lot on which the shopping center is located is utilized by both a commercial use and a noncommercial use, then, in that instance, a second sign for the noncommercial use may be permitted up to a maximum of 60 square feet and 20 feet in height, and the square footage of the second sign will be deducted from the 225 square feet of freestanding signage for the shopping center. For businesses with more than one facade, the permitted sign square footage may be allocated between no more than two signs, one on each of two facades. All freestanding signs shall be surrounded by landscaping satisfactory to the Township.

To insure interconnections between uses and to improve traffic on arterial roads, when a retail use or uses are proposed on a property fronting on an arterial road, the owner of a developing property shall attempt to secure an easement from the adjacent retail property to allow pedestrian and vehicular interconnection if, in the opinion of the Township Engineer, an interconnection between the properties is possible, practical, and safe.

Developments along an arterial road shall include a streetscape buffer. The streetscape buffer shall consist of a unified landscape theme, including a mixture of street and parking lot softening buffer trees, shrub hedges, omamental groundcovers, annual/perennial flower beds, low berming, and other elements such as a kneewall or kneewalls, to recall, as may be directed by Council, landscape theme from adjacent retail property.

Council may permit a reduction in the size of parking stalls from 10 feet by 20 feet to nine feet by 18 feet if, in the sole discretion of Council, the reduction in the size of the parking stalls would not result in a dangerous condition or pose a threat of damage to automobiles. There shall no reduction in the size of parking stalls when the retail use includes a convenience store or grocery store.