Leacock Township City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XIIA
Limited Manufacturing-2 LM-2 Zone
§ 310-88.1 Purpose.
A.
This zoning district provides services and facilities to support the Township's larger-scale farm-related and cottage-industry-type businesses in addition to those uses permitted in the Limited Manufacturing Zone. This zoning district provides uses less intense than those permitted in the Light Industrial Zone.
B.
This zoning district also imposes design and performance standards to ensure that the larger-scale limited manufacturing uses are compatible with adjoining land uses. Finally, these zoning districts have been located along major roads to avoid the movement of commercial vehicles on local and narrow roads or along residential roads.
§ 310-88.2 Permitted uses.
The permitted uses shall be those uses permitted in § 310-85.
§ 310-88.3 Special exception uses.
The special exception uses shall be those uses permitted in § 310-86.
§ 310-88.4 Conditional uses.
The following uses are permitted when a conditional use is granted by written approval of the Board of Supervisors. In granting any conditional uses, the Board may attach such reasonable conditions and safeguards, in addition to those expressed in this chapter, as it may be deemed necessary to implement the purposes of this chapter.
A.
Large-scale limited manufacturing/retail subject to the provisions below:
(1)
The requirements of § 310-87 (Height and area regulations) and § 310-88 (Additional regulations) shall be in full force and effect except as modified below:
(a)
Minimum lot area: five acres.
(c)
Maximum coverage: 80% lot coverage with public sewer or 60% without public sewer.
(d)
Maximum building size: 50,000 square feet of gross floor area; however, maximum building size may be modified up to 100,000 square feet by conditional use approval by the Board of Supervisors.
(e)
No single building containing more than 50,000 square feet of gross floor area shall exceed 35 feet in height.
(2)
Retail sales shall be permitted subject to the provisions below:
(a)
Retail sales shall be limited to no more than 10,000 square feet of a 50,000 square foot building, and additional square footage of retail sales space may be approved by conditional use approval if the total building size has been approved to exceed 50,000 square feet.
(b)
Retail sales shall be limited to goods manufactured and services provided on the premises as well as supplies related to goods manufactured or services provided on the premises.
(c)
The above retail sale provisions may be modified by conditional use by the Board of Supervisors.
(3)
Off-street parking. Alternative off-street parking standards to those provided in § 310-239 may be modified by the Board of Supervisors in accordance with the conditional use provisions. The applicant shall establish by credible evidence that adequate parking is provided for all uses within the project. Such evidence shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, the following:
(a)
Estimates or required parking needs based upon actual traffic or parking surveys for existing similar land uses located in comparable settings.
(b)
Estimates of required parking needs for the project based upon actual traffic or parking needs of an existing business which is subject to the conditional use application.
(c)
Analysis of shared parking facilities with other uses that routinely experience peak parking demands at different times of the day, week, or season and where the parking spaces required by one use can accommodate another nearby use.
(d)
Analysis of the likelihood of public transportation or private transportation services by a significant volume of patrons or employees.
(e)
Any other significant characteristics of the proposed use that, in the opinion of the Board of Supervisors, justifies a different parking ration.