A building may be erected, altered or used, and a lot or premises may be used, for any of the following purposes and for no other, provided that such building or use does not create any substantial amount of noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odors, heat, glare or other objectionable influences, and provided, further, that, except for the uses specifically permitted, the detailed development plans for each building or use, other than those specifically permitted, shall be subject to a review by the Board of Township Commissioners, whose approval shall first be required:
(1) The manufacture, modification, compounding, processing, canning, containing, packaging, treatment, sale and distribution of such products as bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products, drugs, perfume, pharmaceuticals, toiletries and food products, provided, however, that the following uses shall not be permitted: manufacture of sauerkraut, vinegar or yeast; refining of soybeans; milling of flour; and drying, smoking, pickling, preserving or curing of meats or fish.
(2) The manufacture, compounding, assembly or treatment of articles or merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: sheet cellophane, canvas, cloth, rope, cord and twine, plastic feathers, fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, metals, precious or semiprecious stones, shell, tobacco, textiles, wood, excluding planing mill, yarns, machine shop.
(3) The manufacture of ceramic products, using only previously pulverized clay and plaster.
(4) Printing, publishing, engraving, lithographing, reproducing, binding and kindred arts.
(5) Central heating plant.
(6) Offices, office records storage.
(7) Electric transforming substations or other necessary public service uses.
(8) Service station and truck terminal.
(9) Manufacture and assembly of musical instruments, toys, novelties.
(10) Cold storage plant, frozen foot plant and lockers, beverage distribution plants, food commissaries, catering plants.
(11) Storage buildings and warehouses.
(12) Manufacture and assembly of electrical or electronic devices; home, commercial or industrial appliances and instruments, including the manufacture of accessory parts of assemblies.
(13) Experimental, manufacturing and research laboratories.
(14) Manufacture of textiles or textile products, including spinning and weaving, and excluding wool pulling or scouring, jute or burlap processing or reconditioning, or dyeing of any sort.
(15) Manufacture of paper or cardboard boxes, containers and novelties from previously prepared paper or cardboard.
(16) Radio and television stations or studios.
(17) Laundry, dry cleaning, provided that no inflammable fluids are used.
(18) Fabrication of hardware, cutlery, tools, scientific instruments and apparatus.
(20) Commercial greenhouse, nursery, wholesale florist.
(21) Assembly, sales, repairs and service of business and office machines, equipment and devices.
(22) Manufacture, preparations, containing, packaging, storage, sale and distribution of beverages.
(23) Sales, service, repairs of farm and garden machinery, equipment and supplies, feedstore.
(24) Mail-order store, house or business.
(25) Design, manufacture, distribution and sale of burial monuments and underground burial vaults.
(26) Laboratory and office.
(27) Any use of the same general character as any of the uses hereinbefore specifically permitted, when authorized as a special exception by the Zoning Hearing Board, provided, however, that before any application for a special exception shall be filed with the Zoning Hearing Board for any use alleged to be of the same general character as the uses hereinbefore specifically permitted, an application shall be first filed with the Board of Township Commissioners for approval. If the Township Commissioners shall determine that the use requested is of the same general character as the uses specifically permitted, and is reasonably unlikely to create any substantial amount of noise, vibration, smoke, dust, odors, heat, glare and other objectionable influences, the Board of Commissioners shall approve the application and the applicant shall then file application for a special exception with the Zoning Hearing Board, attaching to such application a copy of the application filed with the Board of Commissioners and a statement of the action taken by the Board of Commissioners on such application. No special exception shall be permitted for any use for which an application has been refused by the Board of Commissioners.
(28) No residential use shall be permitted in the IP District.
(Ord. 79-3. Passed 5-21-79.)