Limerick Township City Zoning Code

Ensure that institutions are suitably designed and sited so as to protect the character of adjacent neighborhoods.

Ensure that institutional development will be adequately served by public facilities and services.

Govern the expansion of existing institutional uses in the Township.

Promote the development of safe and affordable housing for elderly persons and to ensure that such housing provides accessibility to essential community facilities and services.

Provide the elderly individual with a variety of structural housing options within a single development, including the opportunity to transfer from an independent living situation to a semidependent or dependent care environment, should the need arise.

The tract shall be at least 10 acres in size and have direct access to an arterial or collector street.

The proposed use shall be served by public sewer and water service.

A traffic study shall be performed in compliance with § 184-84 herein. Mitigation of traffic impacts on surrounding roads may be required by the Board of Supervisors.

For uses listed under § 184-184C below, the applicant shall guarantee occupancy only by persons 55 years or older, if the housing meets the criteria of federal and state law:

The development shall be designed with unified standards for building design, landscaping, lighting and access to interior roads. These standards shall be submitted in the form of protective covenants which shall be binding upon developers of individual lots.

Medical and surgical hospitals or clinics, convalescent homes and other health care facilities of a similar nature.

Retirement communities, nursing homes, personal or intermediate care facilities and similar uses providing elderly care.

Individual dwelling units may be developed only when permitted in the underlying districts and shall be restricted to the types of dwellings permitted in the district where they are to be located.

Customary accessory uses, including cafeterias, gift shops, newsstands and other small retail operations intended primarily for the occupants, visitors and employees of the institution.

Minimum lot area: 10 acres.

Minimum lot width: 300 feet.

Minimum front yard: 100 feet.

Building setback from side or rear lot lines: 100 feet.

Maximum impervious coverage: 50% of net area or NBA, whichever is less.

Maximum building coverage: 20% of net area.

Maximum building height: 35 feet.

Minimum separation between buildings: 25 feet, or the height of the taller building, whichever is greater.

The maximum density of any dwelling units developed under this article shall be equal to the density that would otherwise be permitted for such dwellings in the applicable zoning district, plus a bonus of 20% for dwelling units that are permanently restricted to persons age 55 or older. This bonus is intended to recognize the fact that senior citizen households typically generate less community impacts than other types of households.

Institutional uses shall meet the property line buffer requirements of § 155-27.1C of Chapter 155, Subdivision and Land Development, as well as all other applicable landscaping requirements.