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Middletown Township Bucks
City Zoning Code

ARTICLE XX

OC Office Campus District

§ 500-2001 Purpose and intent.

The purpose and intent of the OC Office Campus District is to provide reasonable standards for the orderly development of an office campus and such uses as are related or accessory thereto, in those parts of the Township which have access to an arterial street.

§ 500-2002 Definition of office campus.

An office campus is a planned development designed as a complex of related structures, circulation patterns, utilities, landscaping and buffering to create an integrated and coordinated whole.

§ 500-2003 Use regulations.

[Amended 10-2-2001 by Ord. No. 01-13]
A building may be erected or used and a lot may be used or occupied for any of the following purposes and no other:
A. 
Professional, business, medical and government offices.
B. 
Retail sales and commercial services.
C. 
Personal service shops.
D. 
Eating places, including restaurants, cafes and taverns which serve for the purpose of on-premises consumption only.
E. 
Financial institutions.
F. 
(Reserved).
G. 
Accessory use on the same lot with and customarily incidental to any of the above permitted uses which is not detrimental to the neighborhood. Accessory uses may include:
(1) 
Storage within a completely enclosed building in conjunction with a permitted use.
(2) 
A cafeteria or other service facility located within the building and operated for the exclusive use of occupants of the building.
(3) 
A recreational area for occupants.
(4) 
Living quarters for watchmen, caretakers or similar employees.
H. 
Accessory outside storage or display of materials, goods or refuse shall not be permitted within an office campus.
I. 
Signs, when erected and maintained in accordance with Article XXVIII.
J. 
Forestry/timber harvesting, pursuant to the regulations set forth in § 500-402M of this chapter.

§ 500-2004 Area, dimensional and design requirements.

Unless a greater area or dimensional regulation is stated in § 500-2003, Use regulations, for a specific use, all uses in the OC District shall meet the following requirements:
A. 
At least 70% of the total floor area of the office campus shall be utilized for offices.
B. 
Area and dimensional requirements.
(1) 
Minimum site area: 10 acres.
(2) 
Minimum frontage at street line-site: 150 feet.
(3) 
Minimum building setback-site:
(a) 
Street lines: 100 feet.
(b) 
Other property lines: 75 feet.
(4) 
Maximum floor area ratio: 28%.
(5) 
Maximum impervious surface ratio: 55%.
(6) 
Minimum building spacing: for adjacent buildings, a spacing equal to the taller of the two buildings but in no case less than 20 feet.
(7) 
Minimum building setback, internal streets: 50 feet.
(8) 
Maximum building height: 50 feet.
C. 
Buffer yard. Along any adjacent land zoned for or in residential or agricultural use, a buffer yard shall be provided which shall not be less than 75 feet in width, measured from the site property line or site street line. The buffer yard shall be in accordance with the provisions of § 500-2605 of this chapter.
D. 
Parking. One off-street parking space for each 250 square feet of gross floor area. Parking areas must be adequately screened when situated within 50 feet of land zoned for or in residential, agricultural or recreational use. All other parking, loading, access facilities and service areas shall comply with the provisions of Article XXVII.
E. 
All buildings shall be arranged in a group or groups. Individual uses may be located in detached and attached structures.
F. 
Adequate areas shall be provided for loading and unloading of delivery trucks and other vehicles; servicing of offices and shops by refuse collection, fuel, fire and other service vehicles; automobile accessways and pedestrian walks.
G. 
All uses within an office campus shall take access from an internal roadway. Access for the campus shall be from an arterial roadway except for office campuses located on Swift Road between Woodbourne Road and Banks Road, where said access shall be permitted from Swift Road.
H. 
Lighting facilities shall be provided and arranged in a manner which will protect the highway and neighboring properties from direct glare or hazardous interference of any kind.
I. 
All commonly owned elements shall be owned and maintained in accordance with the Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See 68 Pa.C.S.A. § 3101 et seq.
J. 
A traffic and transportation impact study prepared in accordance with the requirements for said study set forth in the Middletown Township Subdivision Regulations (Chapter 440) shall be required for the development of an office campus.