Retail store for the sale of dry goods, variety merchandise, clothing, groceries, retail bakery, beverages, flowers, plants, drugs, books, furnishings or other household supplies, sale and refinishing of antiques, hardware, sale and repair of jewelry, clocks, optical goods, cameras, home appliances, electronic equipment, video rental stores, furniture rental stores, appliance rental stores, scientific and professional instruments, and/or similar goods. Shopping centers, as defined in this chapter, are only permitted as a class two conditional use.

Convenience store, without fuel pumps.

Personal service shop, including but not limited to barbershop and/or hairdresser, shoe repair, tailor, dry cleaning (pickup establishments only).

Business or professional office.

Doctor, dentist office.

Studio for dance, art, music, photography or exercise.

Business services establishment, including copy center, retail printing and duplication services, computer rental and copying center, mailbox rental and shipping, cartage, express and parcel delivery services.

Bank or financial institution, excluding drive-through facilities.

Establishment serving food or beverages to the general public, such as restaurant, cafe, taproom, tavern, retail baker, confectionery or ice cream shop, including walk-up windows, but excluding drive-through facilities.

Bar or tavern.

Outdoor dining.

Municipal building, office and uses.

Open space and low-intensity outdoor recreational use such as ball fields and bicycle and pedestrian paths, provided that proposed uses do not exceed a maximum building coverage of 1% or a maximum impervious coverage of 10%.

Laundromat, provided that there are adequate provisions made for water disposal.

Post office.

Bed-and-breakfast, provided that:

Club or fraternal organization.

Day-care center; elder care.

Accessory use on the same lot with and customarily incidental to the use permitted and utilized. Accessory uses shall meet all requirements for permitted uses.

Indoor entertainment.

Other similar uses to those mentioned above.

Transit facility.

School.

All uses permitted by-right in Article X, TC Town Center District, or Article XI, NCR Neighborhood Commercial Residential District are permitted, provided that those uses not listed above [Subsection A(1) through (22)] must conform to the dimensional and design standards of the district in which they are originally permitted by right and may not use the dimensional or design standards of this Gateway District.

Class one conditional uses. On lots with a minimum area of 40,000 square feet and a minimum width at the build-to line of 100 feet, the following uses are permitted as class one conditional uses:

Class two conditional uses. On lots with a minimum area of 100,000 square feet and a minimum width at the build-to line of 200 feet, the following uses are permitted as class two conditional uses:

Class three conditional uses: Off-premises advertising sign, when constructed and maintained in a manner consistent with § 181-141 of this chapter.

Demolition of buildings included on the community's local historic resource inventory. In addition to the class one, class two and class three conditional uses as set forth above, for all lots located within the G Gateway Commercial District regardless of lot size, a community historic structure cannot be demolished unless following a conditional use procedure as described in § 181-97. Community historic structure is defined in § 181-4, Definitions and word use, and an inventory of such structures is held at the Jenkintown Borough Hall and updated from time to time, as appropriate. In order for a building to be demolished that is included on the community historic structure inventory, the following criteria must be demonstrated in addition to the general conditional use standards set forth in §§ 181-98 and 181-99:

Rear and side facades shall be of finished quality and shall be of color and materials that are similar to the front facade and blend with structures within the development as well as with structures in the surrounding area. Any property with more than one building on the site shall have a common and coherent architectural theme throughout the development.

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If the primary building frontage facade exceeds 100 feet, it shall include design elements to break up the facade no less than every 100 feet. The design elements incorporated into the primary building frontage facade shall include any one or a combination of the following: i) awnings, porches, canopies, towers, balconies, bays, changes in building materials, gables, planted trellises; ii) offsets of three feet or more (continuous from grade to roofline); or iii) transparency (windows). Notwithstanding, the ground floor of the primary building frontage facade shall include some form of transparency along 35% of its linear footage. The upper floors of the primary building frontage facade shall include some form of transparency along 25% of its linear footage. For buildings with secondary building frontage facades, the design elements shall be included and shall wrap around on the ground floor of the secondary building frontages for a minimum distance of at least 25% of the length of the secondary building frontage facade as measured from the corner intersection of the primary and secondary frontages.

Principal buildings shall have clearly defined, highly visible customer entrances with features such as canopies, porticoes, arches and integral planters that incorporate landscaped areas and/or areas for sitting.

Rooflines shall be varied to add visual interest, to reduce the scale of larger buildings, and to create consistency with buildings in the surrounding area.

All shopping centers and other retail establishments with 100,000 square feet or more in gross floor area shall meet the following additional requirements:

It shall generally be located between the street and the front facade of the primary shopping center or large retail establishment building within 200 feet of this building.

It shall be equal to or greater in size than 5% of the gross floor area of the shopping center or large retail establishment.

It shall be directly connected to the sidewalk in front of the shopping center or large retail establishment, without intervening driveways or streets.

It shall consist of one contiguous area, and the shape and location of the common use area shall be approved by the Borough Council in consultation with the Borough Planning Commission.

It shall be improved with a gazebo, pavilion, clock tower, or paved patio area with a fountain to help identify this area as the central gathering place for the development. This improvement shall be a minimum of 300 square feet in size.

It shall contain shade trees, ornamental plantings, and seating; it may also contain outdoor dining areas.

The ends of all parking rows shall be divided from drives by planting islands.

There shall be no more than 15 contiguous parking stalls in a row without a planting island.

Planting islands shall be a minimum of nine feet wide by 18 feet long or measure a total of 162 square feet in area and contain at least one shade tree. Notwithstanding, planting islands may contain pedestrian walkways and if, as a result, a shade tree may not be accommodated within the planting island, then the shade tree(s) may be planted elsewhere on the site.

Parking lots shall be divided by planting strips placed at intervals of one for every four or fewer rows of parking for parking lots. These planting strips shall meet the following requirements:

A perimeter planting area of at least five feet in width shall be provided between property perimeter curb line (or property line if there is no curb) and building/parking areas, which may be reduced or eliminated to provide pedestrian or vehicle connections to the building/parking areas. A perimeter planting area of at least 10 feet in width shall be provided along property lines adjacent to residential zones.

The maximum depth of a parking area located within the front yard of a Gateway Commercial building with less than 20,000 square feet of building area shall be 65 feet, measured perpendicular or radial to the street ultimate right-of-way line.

Each commercial use shall provide access easements for its parking aisles and driveways guaranteeing access to all abutting lots zoned Gateway Commercial, unless all possible interconnections between two abutting lots must cross 20 linear feet or more of wetlands or floodplain or 15% or more of natural slopes. Parking areas on adjacent lots shall be directly connected by a driveway. These interconnections shall be constructed during the initial land development.

Large retail uses and shopping centers with over 100,000 square feet of gross building floor area shall provide the following:

Properties with frontages of 600 feet or less on any individual street are permitted only one driveway intersection per street. Properties with frontages greater than 600 feet may be permitted a maximum of two driveways per street frontage, provided that such driveways are at least 300 feet apart. Regardless of frontage, a development may be restricted to a single driveway, depending on usage and interior and exterior traffic patterns.

Parking areas containing 50 or more cars shall have a minimum driveway length of 50 feet provided between the road ultimate right-of-way line and the first parking space or uncontrolled internal driveway intersection. Parking areas containing less than 50 cars shall have a minimum driveway length of 20 feet provided between the road ultimate right-of-way line and the first parking space or internal driveway intersection.

There shall be clear grade separating pedestrian connections between all parking areas and all buildings. The sidewalks required within planting strips by § 181-61C(4) under parking and driveway design standards may be used to meet this requirement.

Continuous internal pedestrian walkways, no less than five feet in width, shall provide a direct link from the public sidewalk or street right-of-way to the principal customer entrance of all principal retail establishments on the site. Walkways shall also connect focal points of pedestrian activity, such as, but not limited to, transit stops, street crossings, and building and store entry points. The sidewalks required within planting strips by § 181-61C(4) under parking and driveway design standards may be used to meet this requirement.

Unobstructed sidewalks, no less than six feet in width, shall be provided along the full length of the building along any facade featuring a customer entrance and along any facade abutting public parking areas. Along facades with building entrances, the required six-foot side sidewalk area shall be set back from the facade by a three-foot area that either contains planting beds or additional sidewalk width.

All internal pedestrian walkways and crosswalks shall be distinguished from driving surfaces through the use of durable, low-maintenance surface materials such as pavers, bricks or scored concrete to enhance pedestrian safety and comfort.

Buildings and sidewalks shall be handicapped accessible.

Lighting shall be shielded to meet the following requirements:

Where abutting property is residentially zoned or exists as a residential use, nonresidential uses shall direct luminaires toward the proposed development and shall be appropriately shielded so that no incidental lighting greater than 0.2 footcandles, measured horizontally at grade, shall fall onto the abutting residentially zoned or used property. The luminaires used for the purpose of illuminating parking or pedestrian surfaces shall have an uplight rating of U0 per the Luminaire Classification System (LCS), as defined by the Illuminating Engineer's Society (IES).

No ground surface parking lot lighting standard or fixture shall exceed 25 feet in height from the grade level of ground surface parking and no pedestrian lighting standard shall exceed 16 feet in height from the grade level of ground surface parking. For elevated parking lots or structured parking lots such as parking garages or roof top parking areas, no parking lot lighting standard or fixture shall exceed 20 feet in height from the top grade level of the elevated or structured parking surface and no pedestrian lighting standard shall exceed 16 feet in height from the top grade level of the elevated or structured parking surface, provided that no parking light standard or pedestrian light standard is located along the perimeter of the elevated or structured parking surface.

Light fixtures located closer to a side or rear lot line than the side or rear yard setback, shall be no more than 10 feet high, and shall direct the light source away from the property line.

Luminaires shall be specified, placed, and oriented so as not to create a nuisance to adjacent residential properties. Fixtures situated within 20 feet of an adjacent residential property line shall additionally meet the following:

No streamers or festoon lighting, comprising a group of incandescent light bulbs, shall be hung or strung on a building or any other structure.

No flashing or intermittent or moving lights, including lights on signs, shall be permitted.

No person shall cause, suffer, allow or permit the operation of any sound source on a commercial property or public space or right-of-way in such a manner as to create a sound level that exceeds the background sound level by 10 dBA during daytime (7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.) hours and by five dBA during nighttime (9:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.) hours when measured at or within the real property line of the receiving property.

No delivery, loading, trash removal or compaction or other such operations shall be permitted between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. unless the applicant submits evidence that sound barriers between all areas for such operations effectively reduce noise emissions to a level of 45 dBA, as measured at the lot line of any adjoining property.

Loading docks, utility meters, HVAC equipment, trash dumpsters and other service functions shall be incorporated into the overall design theme of the building so that the architectural design is continuous and uninterrupted by ladders, towers, fences and equipment. These areas shall be located and screened as much as possible so that the visual and acoustic impacts of these functions are mitigated and not in uninterrupted sight from adjacent properties and public streets. All trash dumpsters or refuse collection areas shall be screened through a combination of low walls, fencing or hedges.

Outdoor sales and storage areas shall conform to the following requirements:

Construction of new buildings.

Additions and alterations which increase or decrease the size of the building by at least 20% of the building's footprint.

Modification of the exterior design features of an existing building which involves a change in the exterior materials in existence on such building. "Modification of the exterior design features," as used herein, includes but is not limited to the addition, deletion or modification of surface materials (masonry, wood, brick, stucco), windows, doors, porches, porticos, chimneys, cornices, etc., that results in a change to the actual structure of the building. The replacement of elements that are currently part of the building's architecture for reasons of age, condition, etc., shall not require review.

Design review is not required for repainting of surfaces or the repair, restoration or reconstruction of exterior design features where such work maintains the outer dimensions and surface relationships of the existing building. Design review is not required for the replacement of doors, windows or other transparent surfaces that currently exist, provided windows and transparent surfaces are not replaced with nontransparent materials and the surface area of the replacement door, window or other transparent surface does not exceed the dimensions of the existing feature by more than 10%.