Lower Pottsgrove Township
City Zoning Code
City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XIV
NC Neighborhood Commercial District 1
§ 250-91 Declaration of legislative intent.
The purposes of this article are to provide for the orderly and well-planned establishment of commercial facilities needed to meet the day-to-day convenience shopping and personal service needs of the neighborhoods of the Township and to assure that the types and amount of commercial development in the Township are compatible with the needs and demands of its population. The regulations of this chapter are designed to provide attractive, well-designed neighborhood commercial facilities, to minimize conflicts between neighborhood commercial facilities and adjacent residential properties, and to provide ample parking in neighborhood commercial developments.
§ 250-92 Use regulations.
A building may be erected, altered or used and a lot or premises may be used for any of the following purposes and no other:
A.
Retail sale of dry goods, variety and general merchandise, clothing, food, flowers, beverages, drugs, household supplies or furnishings, sale or repair of jewelry, watches and clocks, optical goods or musical, professional or scientific instruments.
B.
Radio and television repair services.
C.
Restaurant, tea room, cafe, taproom, confectionery or similar establishment serving food or beverages.
D.
Beauty salons, barbershops and hair styling salons.
E.
Hand or automatic self-service laundry, provided there is adequate provision made for water disposal.
F.
Pickup stations for dry cleaning, pressing or laundry operations, provided that none of these actual operations are performed on the site.
G.
Professional office, studio, bank and financial institution, telephone exchange or other public utility office, and postal stations.
§ 250-93 Development regulations.
[Amended 12-3-2007 by Ord. No. 274]
In an NC Neighborhood Commercial District, the following area, width, yard and height regulations shall apply:
A.
Lot area. A lot area of not less than 10,000 square feet shall be provided for every use group or group of uses permitted in the NC Neighborhood Commercial District.
B.
Lot width. A lot width at the street line of not less than 100 feet shall be provided.
D.
Building density and size. There shall be a maximum building density of 10,000 square feet per developable acre, with individual buildings being no larger than 10,000 square feet.
E.
Building height. The maximum height of any building erected or used in this district shall be 35 feet.
F.
Building coverage.
(1)
Not more than 65% of the area of any lot may be occupied by buildings.
(2)
In the case of a building used in whole or in part for residential purposes, not more than 45% of the lot area may be occupied by buildings, provided that, in the case of a building of which the first story is used principally for nonresidential purposes, the building area shall be computed on the level of the window sills of the second story, subject to the provisions of Subsection A above.
G.
Impervious coverage. A minimum of 20% of the area of any lot shall remain covered by vegetation, exclusive of parking lot landscaping.
H.
Sewage facilities. Any proposed use in the NC Neighborhood Commercial District, shall connect to public sewer.
§ 250-94 Water and sewage facilities.
For any proposed use in an NC Neighborhood Commercial District, public water and public sewage facilities shall be required.
§ 250-95 Special design requirements.
In order to minimize traffic congestion and hazard and to encourage the appropriate development of highway frontage:
A.
No parking lot or area for off-street parking shall be permitted closer than 10 feet to any street ultimate right-of-way line. Each area shall be separated from a street or highway by unchanneled motor vehicle entrances or exits except for necessary accessways and driveways.
B.
Each separate use or group of buildings constructed as part of a integral plan should not have more than two accessways to any one street or highway and shall have acceleration and deceleration lanes where the volume of traffic generated by the proposed use(s) so warrants.
C.
Each use or group of uses shall be subject to the off-street parking and loading requirements of Article XXVII herein, provided that any restaurant, tea room, cafe, taproom, confectionery or similar establishment serving food or beverages shall have a minimum of 20 paved, all-weather parking spaces designed in accordance with the requirements in Article XXVII of this chapter.