Myerstown, PA Zoning Ordinance

Myerstown City Zoning Code

PART 4

ALLOWED USES IN PRIMARILY NON-RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS

§ 27-401 Allowed Uses in Primarily Non-Residential Districts.

[Ord. 841, 5/22/2017; as amended by Ord. No. 865, 6/14/2022; and by Ord. No. 870, 6/13/2023]

Only the following uses are allowed in each respective Zoning District, except as may be allowed by Section 27-303:

For manufacturing uses, the types of uses listed in this Article correspond approximately to the categories of the North American Classification System, administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce. In case of question about the categorization, such system shall be consulted.

TYPES OF USES	ZONING DISTRICTS
(See definitions in Part 15)	TMN²	GB	TC	LI	GI
P = Permitted by right use (zoning decision by Zoning Officer)
SE = Special exception use (zoning decision by Zoning Hearing Board)
N = Not permitted
(See 27-602 or 27-603) = See Additional Requirements in Sections 27-602 or 27-603
a. RESIDENTIAL USES
Single Family Detached Dwelling (Note - Manufactured/mobile homes shall meet the additional requirements of Section 27-602)	P	P	P	N	N
Single Family Semi-Detached Dwelling (side-by-side)	P	P	P	N	N
Townhouse (Single Family Attached Dwelling) (See 27-602)	P	P	P	N	N
Multi-Family (Apartment) Dwellings (See 27-602)	P	N	P¹	N	N
Boarding House (includes Rooming House) (See 27-602) (other than uses listed separately in this table)	N	SE	N	N	N
Manufactured/Mobile Home Park (See 27-602)	N	N	N	N	SE
Group Home within a lawful existing dwelling unit (See 27-602), not including a Treatment Center	P	P	P	N	N
Live Work Unit (See 27-602)	P	P	P	N	N
b. COMMERCIAL USES
Adult Use (See 27-602)	N	N	N	N	SE
After Hours Club - To the extent this use is not already prohibited by State Act 219 of 1990 (See 27-602)	N	N	N	N	SE
Airport (see also "Heliport")	N	N	N	N	N
Amusement Arcade	N	P	P	N	N
Amusement Park or Water Park³	N	SE	N	P	P
Animal Cemetery (See 27-602)	N	N	N	N	P
Animal Day Care (See 27-602)	N	P	N	P	P
Arena, Auditorium (Commercial), Performing Arts Center or Exhibition-Trade Show Center	N	P	P	P	P
Auto Body Shop or Auto Repair Garage (See 27-602), and provided that parking shall be prohibited on a sidewalk within the right-of-way	N	P	N	N	SE
Auto, Boat or Mobile/Manufactured Home Sales (See 27-602)	N	P	N	N	P
Auto Service Station, which may occur with a convenience store, and which may also include fueling of vehicles using hydrogen, liquefied natural gas, propane or similar fuels (See 27-602) For a use that primarily serves tractor-trailer trucks, see "Truck Stop" in this table.	N	P	N	N	N
Bakery, Retail	P	P	P	P	P
Bed and Breakfast Inn (See 27-602)	P	P	P	N	SE
Beverage Distributor (wholesale and/or retail)	N	P	P	P	P
Bus Maintenance or Storage Yard	N	P	N	P	P
Bus, Taxi or Passenger Rail Terminal	N	P	P	P	P
BYOB Club (Note- definition is limited to a use that is open after midnight)	N	SE	N	N	N
Car Wash (See 27-602)	N	P	N	P	P
Catering, Custom, for Off-Site Consumption	P	P	P	P	P
Communications Antennae, Commercial (See 27-602), limited to accessory antenna attached to specified types of structures by Section 27-602	P	P	P	P	P
Communications Tower, Commercial (See 27-602), or other antennae that are not allowed under the above accessory provision	N	SE	SE	SE	SE
Conference Center or Exposition Center	N	P	P	P	P
Construction Company or Tradesperson's Headquarters (including but not limited to landscaping, building trades or janitorial contractor). See also as Home Occupation. Accessory outdoor storage shall be permitted provided it meets the screening requirements of Section 27-1303.4.	N⁴	P	P⁴	P	P
Convenience Store, which may be combined with a Gas Station if the requirements for a Gas Station are met and if a gas station is allowed in the district.	N	P	P	N	N
Crafts or Artisan's Studio	P	P	P	P	P
Custom Printing, Copying, Faxing, Mailing or Courier Service and similar services to businesses	P	P	P	P	P
Exercise Club	P	P	P	P	P
Financial Institution; includes banks, with Drive-Through facilities only allowed in the TC District if the applicant proves to the Borough that the access has been designed to minimize conflicts with pedestrian traffic along sidewalks and to meet Drive-Through Provisions in Section 27-603.	P	P	P	P	P
Flea Market/Auction House	N	P	P	P	P
Food Truck, other than operation at any location for less than 15 minutes per day (See 27-603)	N	P	N	N	N
Funeral Home (See crematorium listed separately under Institutional Uses)	P	P	P	P	P
Gaming Facility, Licensed, other than small games of chance allowed under State law and the State Lottery	N	N	N	N	SE
Gas Station - See "Auto Service Station" in this table.
Heliport (See 27-602)	N	N	N	SE	N
Hotel or Motel (See 27-602)	N	N	N	P	P
Kennel (See 27-602)	N	SE	N	SE	SE
Laundromat	P	P	P	P	P
Laundry, Commercial or Industrial	N	P	N	P	P
Lumber Yard	N	N	N	P	P
Medical Marijuana Dispensary (See 27-602)	N	SE	SE	SE	SE
Micro-brewery or Micro-distillery (which may be in combination with a restaurant)	SE	P	SE	SE	SE
Motor Vehicle Racetrack, Outdoor	N	N	N	N	N
Nightclub	N	SE	SE	N	N
Office (May include medical clinics or labs)	P	P	P	P	P
Pawn Shop	N	P	P	N	N
Personal Services (includes tailoring, check cashing, custom dressmaking, haircutting/styling, travel agency, drycleaning, shoe repair, "massage therapy, certified" and closely similar uses)	P	P	P	P	P
Plant Nursery (other than a Retail Store)	P	P	P	P	P
Propane Retail Distributor, other than pre-packaged sales, with a 150 feet minimum setback required between any storage or dispensing facilities and any Residential District, and with Fire Department review.	N	N	N	N	SE
Recording Studio, Music	P	P	P	P	P
Recreation, Commercial Indoor (includes bowling alley, roller or ice skating rink, batting practice, and closely similar uses); other than uses listed separately in this Article	N	P	P	P	P
Recreation, Commercial Outdoor (including miniature golf course, golf driving range, archery, horseback riding, paintball and closely similar uses); other than uses listed separately in this Part 4	N	P	P	P	P
Repair Service, Household Appliance	P	P	P	P	P
Restaurant (includes Banquet Hall) (See 27-602), other than a Tavern or Nightclub
- with drive-through service (See 27-603)	N	P⁸	N	N	N
- without drive-through service.	P	P	P	N	N
Sidewalk Cafes or Food Carts are listed separately below.
Retail Store (not including uses listed individually in this Section 1327). Any drive-through facilities shall meet Section 27-603 and shall be limited to the GB district. May include rental of items or check cashing.	P	P	P	N	N
Self-Storage Development (See 27-602)	N	P	SE⁷	P	P
Shopping Center	N	P	P	N	N
Short-term rentals (See 27-602)	P⁶	P	P	P	P
Sidewalk Café or Food Cart as an accessory use (See 27-603)	P	P	P	N	N
Target Range, Firearms
- Completely indoor and enclosed	N	P	P	P	P
- Other than above, with a barrier that the applicant proves is sufficient to protect public safety	N	N	N	N	SE
Tattoo Parlor (other than temporary tattoos which are a Personal service use)	N	P	N	N	N
Tavern, other than a Nightclub	N	SE	SE	N	N
Television or Radio Broadcasting Studios	P	P	P	P	P
Theater, Indoor Movie or Live Theater, other than an Adult Establishment	N	P	P	P	P
Trade/Hobby School	P	P	P	P	P
Truck Stop that primarily serves tractor-trailer trucks	N	N	N	SE	N
Veterinarian Office (See 27-602)	P	P	P	P	P
Visitor Center providing education and promotional information	P	P	P	P	P
Wholesale Sales - see under Industrial Uses
c. INSTITUTIONAL/SEMI-PUBLIC USES
Cemetery (S. 27-602); see Crematorium listed separately	N	N	N	N	N
College or University - Educational, Recreational, Office or Support Uses (See also Residential Uses, which are addressed separately)	P	P	P	P	P
Community Recreation Center (limited to a government sponsored or non-profit facility) or Library	P	P	P	P	P
Crematorium (See 27-602)	N	N	N	SE	SE
Criminal Halfway House (See 27-602)	N	N	N	N	SE
Cultural Center or Museum	P	P	P	P	P
Day Care Center, Adult or Child (See 27-602) (See also as an accessory use)	P	P	P	SE	SE
Dormitory - See under Residential Uses in this table
Emergency Services Station or Training Facility	P	P	P	P	P
Hospital or Surgery Center or Related Testing and Treatment Facilities	N	P	P	P	P
Membership Club meeting & non-commercial recreational facilities, provided that such use shall not be open between 2:00 a.m. & 6:00 a.m., & provided that such use shall only be allowed in combination with another use if the other use is allowed in that District and if the requirements for that use are also met. (See 27-602)	SE	P	P	P	P
Nursing Home or Personal Care Home/Assisted Living Facility or Hospice (See 27-602)	SE	P	P	P	SE
Place of Worship (See 27-602) (includes Church)	P	P	P	P	P
School, Public or Private, Primary or Secondary (See 27-602)	P	P	P	N	N
Temporary Shelter	N	SE	N	N	SE
Treatment Center (See 27-602)	N	N	N	N	SE
d. PUBLIC/SEMI-PUBLIC USES
Borough Government Uses and Facilities, such as Public Works Facilities.	P	P	P	P	P
Government Facility, other than offices and other than uses listed separately in this Article	SE	P	P	P	P
Prison or Similar Correctional Institution	N	N	N	N	SE
Publicly Owned or Operated Park	P	P	P	P	P
Public Utility Facility, other than Borough-owned facilities & other than uses listed separately in this Article. See also Section 27-1315	SE	SE	SE	SE	P
Sewage Pump Stations	P	P	P	P	P
Swimming Pool, Non-household (See 27-602)	P	P	P	P	P
U.S. Postal Service Facility or Substation	P	P	P	P	P
e. INDUSTRIAL USES
Asphalt Plant	N	N	N	N	SE
Assembly or Finishing of Products Using Materials Produced Elsewhere (such as products from plastics manufactured off-site)	N	SE	N	P	P
Building Supplies and Building Materials, Wholesale Sales of	N	P	N	P	P
Distribution as a principal use (other than Trucking Company Terminal)	N	N	N	P	P
Electric Power Generating Plant (Other than Putrescent Solid Waste to Energy, Solar Energy or Wind Turbines)	N	N	N	P	P
Industrial Equipment Sales, Rental and Service, other than involving trucks and trailers primarily intended to be operated on public streets	N	P	N	P	P
Incineration of Hazardous or Toxic Waste, other than may have been previously approved within an existing waste-to-energy plant	N	N	N	N	SE
Junk - outdoor storage, display or processing of, other than within an approved junkyard or solid waste disposal facility	N	N	N	N	N
Junk Yard (See 27-602) (includes scrapyard)	N	N	N	N	SE
Liquid or Gas Fuel Storage, Bulk, for off-site distribution, which shall require a 150 feet setback from a Residential District and review by the Fire Department of any proposed facilities; other than: auto service station, propane distributor as listed separately, pre-packaged sales or fuel tanks for company vehicles	N	N	N	N	SE
Manufacture and/or bulk processing of the following, provided manufacturing occurs only indoors:
- Agricultural Chemicals, Fertilizers or Pesticides	N	N	N	N	SE
- Apparel, Textiles, Shoes and Apparel Accessories (see also Crafts Studio)	N	P	N	P	P
- Cement Manufacture	N	N	N	N	SE
- Ceramics Products (other than Crafts Studio)	N	N	N	P	P
- Chemicals, Manufacture or Bulk Processing of, other than pharmaceuticals and types listed separately	N	N	N	N	SE
- Clay, Brick, Tile and Refractory Products	N	N	N	P	P
- Computers; Electronic & Microelectronic Products	N	P	N	P	P
- Concrete, Lime and Gypsum Products, other than actual manufacture of cement	N	N	N	N	P
- Electrical Equipment, Appliances & Components	N	P	N	P	P
- Explosives, Fireworks or Ammunition	N	N	N	N	SE
- Fabricated Metal Products (except Explosives, Fireworks or Ammunition) and/or Machine Shops	N	N	N	P	P
- Food and Beverage Products, at an industrial scale as opposed to a clearly retail scale (which may include aquaculture)	N	P	N	P	P
- Glass & Glass Products (other than Crafts Studio)	N	N	N	P	P
- Jewelry and Silverware	N	P	N	P	P
- Leather and Allied Products (other than Crafts Studio or Tannery)	N	N	N	P	P
- Machinery or Gaskets	N	N	N	P	P
- Manufactured or Modular Housing Manufacture	N	N	N	P	P
Manufacture and/or bulk processing of the following, provided manufacturing occurs only indoors:
- Medical Equipment and Supplies	N	P	N	P	P
- Metal Products, Primary	N	N	N	SE	P
- Mineral Products, Non-metallic (other than Mineral Extraction)	N	N	N	P	P
- Paper and Paper Products (including recycling, but not including manufacture of raw paper pulp)	N	P	N	P	P
- Paper - Raw Pulp	N	N	N	N	P
- Paving Materials, other than bulk manufacture of asphalt	N	N	N	N	P
- Pharmaceuticals and Medicines	N	N	N	P	P
- Plastics, Polymers, Resins, Vinyl, Coatings, Cleaning Compounds, Soaps, Adhesives, Paints, or Ink	N	N	N	SE	P
- Products from Previously Manufactured Materials, such as glass, leather, plastics, cellophane, textiles, rubber or synthetic rubber	N	P	N	P	P
- Roofing Materials and Asphalt Saturated Materials or Natural or Synthetic Rubber	N	N	N	SE	P
- Scientific, Electronic and Other Precision Instruments	N	P	P	P	P
- Sporting Goods, Toys, Games, Musical Instruments or Signs	N	P	P	P	P
- Transportation Equipment, including installing mechanical additions to trucks and trailers	N	N	N	P	P
- Wood Products and Furniture (not including raw paper pulp)	N	P	P	P	P
- See Section 1323.06 for uses that are not listed
Medical Marijuana Grower/Processor (See 27-602)	N	N	N	SE	SE
Mineral Extraction (See 27-602) and related processing, stock-piling and storage of materials removed from the site, other than as part of preparation of a development site	N	N	N	N	SE
Packaging	N	P	P	P	P
Package Delivery Services Distribution Center	N	P	N	P	P
Petroleum Refining or Manufacture or Bulk Storage of Ethanol or similar fuels for off-site use	N	N	N	N	SE
Pipeline Compressor Station (such as for natural gas), which shall be constructed within an enclosed structure with sound absorbing walls	N	N	N	N	SE
Printing or Bookbinding	N	P	P	P	P
Recycling Center, Bulk Processing, provided all operations of an industrial scale occur within an enclosed building (this use does not include a solid waste disposal or transfer facility)	N	N	N	SE	P
Research and Development, Engineering or Testing Facility or Laboratory (other than medical laboratories, which is considered an office use) and related manufacture of prototypes	N	N	N	P	P
Sawmill/Planing Mill	N	N	N	N	P
Slaughterhouse, Stockyard or Tannery, with a 400 feet minimum setback from all lot lines	N	N	N	N	SE
Solid Waste Landfill	N	N	N	N	N
Solid Waste Transfer Facility or Putrescent Waste to Energy Facility (See 27-602)	N	N	N	N	SE
Trucking Company Terminal	N	N	N	SE	P
Warehousing or Storage as a principal use	N	N	N	P	P
Warehousing or Storage as an on-site accessory use or serving principal uses located within the same zoning district	P	P	P	P	P
Welding	N	N	N	P	P
Wholesale Sales (other than Motor Vehicles)	N	SE	SE	P	P
f. ACCESSORY USES
See list of additional permitted uses in Section C., such as "Residential Accessory Structure or Use"
See Additional Requirements in Section 27-603 for Specific Accessory Uses
Bus Shelter	P	P	P	P	P
Composting, other than leaves, vegetation or materials generated on-site which are permitted by right	N	N	N	SE	P
Day Care Center accessory to and on the same lot as an existing lawful Place of Worship	P	P	P	P	P
Day Care (See 27-603) as accessory to a lawful dwelling, of the following number of persons, in addition to children or grandchildren of the on-site caregiver:
- Day care of a maximum of 3 persons. This use does not need a zoning permit.	P	P	P	P	P
- Group Day Care Home (7 to 12 children)	P	P	P	P	N
- Family Day Care Home (4 to 6 children)	P	P	P	P	N
Furnace, Outdoor (See 27-603)	P	P	P	P	P
Home Occupation, General or Low Impact (See 27-603)	P	P	P	P	P
Outdoor Storage and/or Display as accessory to a business use (See buffer yard provisions) (See Section 27-603)	P⁴	P	P⁴	P	P
Outdoor Storage and/or Display as principal use, other than uses listed separately in this table (See buffer yard provisions in 27-1303.4 and 27-603)	N	N	N	SE	P
Retail Sales as Accessory to a Principal Industrial Use, limited to items produced or distributed on the premises, and limited to a maximum of 5% of the floor area of the principal use	N	P	P	P	P
Temporary Commercial Uses - See Section 27-1303.7, as well as "Food Truck" which is listed separately.
Unit for Care of Relative (See 27-603) on the lot of an existing dwelling	P	P	P	N	N
g. MISCELLANEOUS USES
Crop Farming, Community Garden, Greenhouse, Hoophouse or Hydroponics	P	P	P	P	P
Forestry (See 27-602)	P	P	P	P	P
Livestock or Poultry, Raising of (See 27-602)	N	N	N	P	P
Nature Preserve/Environmental Education Center	P	P	P	P	P
Parking Lot or Structure as an accessory or principal use:
- parking of trucks that haul putrescent or hazardous waste	N	N	N	N	SE
- overnight parking that primarily serves two or more tractor-trailer trucks and/or their trailers	N	P	N	P	P
- other than above, such as municipal parking lots and customary accessory parking for on-site uses.	P	P	P	P	P
Recycling Collection Center	N	P	N	P	P
Solar Energy Collection Systems
- Which cover areas equal to a maximum of 20% of the lot area, plus areas on top of building roofs and parking areas	P	P	P	P	P
- Which cover larger areas than above, and which include evergreen vegetation with an initial height of three feet between ground-mounted solar collectors and any abutting dwelling	N	N	N	N	P
Wastewater Treatment Plant (other than customarily accessory pre-treatment facilities)	N	N	N	N	P
Wind turbines:
- Maximum of one on a lot that is an accessory use (See 27-603)	SE	SE	SE	SE	SE
- One or more wind turbines, other than above (See 27-602)	N	SE	SE	SE	SE
All Uses that will be unable to comply with the performance standards of this ordinance. See the "Environmental Protection" requirements of Part 10	N	N	N	N	N
NOTES:
¹ Such housing shall be limited to being in the same building as a principal commercial use that is on the street level.
² See limits on hours of operation in Section 27-405.
³ The use shall not be open to customers after 10:00 p.m. if the use is not within an enclosed building and is within 300 feet from an existing dwelling. Outdoor recreation areas shall be enclosed by six feet high fencing and/or a building.
⁴ A maximum of 25% of lot shall be used for outdoor storage.
⁵ Provided the use is setback a minimum of 200 feet from the nearest residential use on another lot.
⁶ Limited to a maximum number of units which shall be set by the Myerstown Borough Council. Such maximum number shall not exceed 12.
⁷ Limited to within a building that existed prior to the adoption of this Ordinance.
⁸ If the use will be open between midnight and 6:00 a.m., the use and its parking areas shall be setback a minimum of 200 feet from any existing or approved dwellings.

§ 27-402 Permitted Accessory Uses in All Districts.

[Ord. 841, 5/22/2017]

Section 27-302 shall apply.

§ 27-403 Permitted Accessory Uses to Business and Institutional Uses.

[Ord. 841, 5/22/2017]

The following are permitted by right accessory uses only to a permitted by right or special exception commercial, industrial or institutional use, provided that all requirements of this Ordinance are met:

Storage of fuels for on-site use or to fuel company vehicles.

The following accessory uses, provided that the use is clearly limited to employees, patients, residents and families of employees of the use and their occasional invited guests:

Internal cafeteria without drive-through service,

Day care center or

Recreational facilities.

Automatic Transaction Machine.

§ 27-404 Uses Not Specifically Regulated.

[Ord. 841, 5/22/2017]

Section 27-206 shall apply.

§ 27-405 Limits on Hours of Operation in the TMN District and for Nonconforming Commercial Uses in Residential Districts.

[Ord. 841, 5/22/2017]

A commercial use or membership club in the TMN District shall not be open to customers or patrons for business purposes between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. unless it was already regularly open to the public during those hours immediately prior to the effective date of this Ordinance. A commercial use or membership club may be approved to be open after 11:00 p.m. as a special exception use if the applicant proves to the satisfaction of the Zoning Hearing Board that such business hours will not negatively impact dwellings in the vicinity.

A nonconforming commercial use or membership club in a Residential District shall not be open to customers or patrons for business purposes between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., unless the use was already regularly open to the public during those hours immediately prior to the effective date of this Ordinance.

§ 27-406 Age-Qualified Housing.

[Ord. 841, 5/22/2017]

These provisions shall apply if Age-Qualified Housing is used to allow an increased density under this Ordinance under Part 5 of this Ordinance.

Age-Qualified Housing shall involve all housing units within a subdivision or land development being permanently limited by deed and by any lease to occupancy by at least one person age 55 and older, and with no resident under age 18, except that a person under age 18 may temporarily stay within a housing unit for a total of less than 60 days per calendar year.

The applicant may also decide to permit one or more types of persons classified by the Social Security Administration as disabled to reside in Age-Qualified Housing, regardless of their age.

An enforcement mechanism shall be established, such as through the owner of a rental development or by a homeowner association. The Borough shall be provided with enforcement authority that is intended to be used if such mechanism fails to comply with its enforcement responsibilities.

Myerstown City Zoning Code

PART 4

ALLOWED USES IN PRIMARILY NON-RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS

§ 27-401 Allowed Uses in Primarily Non-Residential Districts.

[Ord. 841, 5/22/2017; as amended by Ord. No. 865, 6/14/2022; and by Ord. No. 870, 6/13/2023]

Only the following uses are allowed in each respective Zoning District, except as may be allowed by Section 27-303:

TYPES OF USES	ZONING DISTRICTS
(See definitions in Part 15)	TMN²	GB	TC	LI	GI
P = Permitted by right use (zoning decision by Zoning Officer)
SE = Special exception use (zoning decision by Zoning Hearing Board)
N = Not permitted
(See 27-602 or 27-603) = See Additional Requirements in Sections 27-602 or 27-603
a. RESIDENTIAL USES
Single Family Detached Dwelling (Note - Manufactured/mobile homes shall meet the additional requirements of Section 27-602)	P	P	P	N	N
Single Family Semi-Detached Dwelling (side-by-side)	P	P	P	N	N
Townhouse (Single Family Attached Dwelling) (See 27-602)	P	P	P	N	N
Multi-Family (Apartment) Dwellings (See 27-602)	P	N	P¹	N	N
Boarding House (includes Rooming House) (See 27-602) (other than uses listed separately in this table)	N	SE	N	N	N
Manufactured/Mobile Home Park (See 27-602)	N	N	N	N	SE
Group Home within a lawful existing dwelling unit (See 27-602), not including a Treatment Center	P	P	P	N	N
Live Work Unit (See 27-602)	P	P	P	N	N
b. COMMERCIAL USES
Adult Use (See 27-602)	N	N	N	N	SE
After Hours Club - To the extent this use is not already prohibited by State Act 219 of 1990 (See 27-602)	N	N	N	N	SE
Airport (see also "Heliport")	N	N	N	N	N
Amusement Arcade	N	P	P	N	N
Amusement Park or Water Park³	N	SE	N	P	P
Animal Cemetery (See 27-602)	N	N	N	N	P
Animal Day Care (See 27-602)	N	P	N	P	P
Arena, Auditorium (Commercial), Performing Arts Center or Exhibition-Trade Show Center	N	P	P	P	P
Auto Body Shop or Auto Repair Garage (See 27-602), and provided that parking shall be prohibited on a sidewalk within the right-of-way	N	P	N	N	SE
Auto, Boat or Mobile/Manufactured Home Sales (See 27-602)	N	P	N	N	P
Auto Service Station, which may occur with a convenience store, and which may also include fueling of vehicles using hydrogen, liquefied natural gas, propane or similar fuels (See 27-602) For a use that primarily serves tractor-trailer trucks, see "Truck Stop" in this table.	N	P	N	N	N
Bakery, Retail	P	P	P	P	P
Bed and Breakfast Inn (See 27-602)	P	P	P	N	SE
Beverage Distributor (wholesale and/or retail)	N	P	P	P	P
Bus Maintenance or Storage Yard	N	P	N	P	P
Bus, Taxi or Passenger Rail Terminal	N	P	P	P	P
BYOB Club (Note- definition is limited to a use that is open after midnight)	N	SE	N	N	N
Car Wash (See 27-602)	N	P	N	P	P
Catering, Custom, for Off-Site Consumption	P	P	P	P	P
Communications Antennae, Commercial (See 27-602), limited to accessory antenna attached to specified types of structures by Section 27-602	P	P	P	P	P
Communications Tower, Commercial (See 27-602), or other antennae that are not allowed under the above accessory provision	N	SE	SE	SE	SE
Conference Center or Exposition Center	N	P	P	P	P
Construction Company or Tradesperson's Headquarters (including but not limited to landscaping, building trades or janitorial contractor). See also as Home Occupation. Accessory outdoor storage shall be permitted provided it meets the screening requirements of Section 27-1303.4.	N⁴	P	P⁴	P	P
Convenience Store, which may be combined with a Gas Station if the requirements for a Gas Station are met and if a gas station is allowed in the district.	N	P	P	N	N
Crafts or Artisan's Studio	P	P	P	P	P
Custom Printing, Copying, Faxing, Mailing or Courier Service and similar services to businesses	P	P	P	P	P
Exercise Club	P	P	P	P	P
Financial Institution; includes banks, with Drive-Through facilities only allowed in the TC District if the applicant proves to the Borough that the access has been designed to minimize conflicts with pedestrian traffic along sidewalks and to meet Drive-Through Provisions in Section 27-603.	P	P	P	P	P
Flea Market/Auction House	N	P	P	P	P
Food Truck, other than operation at any location for less than 15 minutes per day (See 27-603)	N	P	N	N	N
Funeral Home (See crematorium listed separately under Institutional Uses)	P	P	P	P	P
Gaming Facility, Licensed, other than small games of chance allowed under State law and the State Lottery	N	N	N	N	SE
Gas Station - See "Auto Service Station" in this table.
Heliport (See 27-602)	N	N	N	SE	N
Hotel or Motel (See 27-602)	N	N	N	P	P
Kennel (See 27-602)	N	SE	N	SE	SE
Laundromat	P	P	P	P	P
Laundry, Commercial or Industrial	N	P	N	P	P
Lumber Yard	N	N	N	P	P
Medical Marijuana Dispensary (See 27-602)	N	SE	SE	SE	SE
Micro-brewery or Micro-distillery (which may be in combination with a restaurant)	SE	P	SE	SE	SE
Motor Vehicle Racetrack, Outdoor	N	N	N	N	N
Nightclub	N	SE	SE	N	N
Office (May include medical clinics or labs)	P	P	P	P	P
Pawn Shop	N	P	P	N	N
Personal Services (includes tailoring, check cashing, custom dressmaking, haircutting/styling, travel agency, drycleaning, shoe repair, "massage therapy, certified" and closely similar uses)	P	P	P	P	P
Plant Nursery (other than a Retail Store)	P	P	P	P	P
Propane Retail Distributor, other than pre-packaged sales, with a 150 feet minimum setback required between any storage or dispensing facilities and any Residential District, and with Fire Department review.	N	N	N	N	SE
Recording Studio, Music	P	P	P	P	P
Recreation, Commercial Indoor (includes bowling alley, roller or ice skating rink, batting practice, and closely similar uses); other than uses listed separately in this Article	N	P	P	P	P
Recreation, Commercial Outdoor (including miniature golf course, golf driving range, archery, horseback riding, paintball and closely similar uses); other than uses listed separately in this Part 4	N	P	P	P	P
Repair Service, Household Appliance	P	P	P	P	P
Restaurant (includes Banquet Hall) (See 27-602), other than a Tavern or Nightclub
- with drive-through service (See 27-603)	N	P⁸	N	N	N
- without drive-through service.	P	P	P	N	N
Sidewalk Cafes or Food Carts are listed separately below.
Retail Store (not including uses listed individually in this Section 1327). Any drive-through facilities shall meet Section 27-603 and shall be limited to the GB district. May include rental of items or check cashing.	P	P	P	N	N
Self-Storage Development (See 27-602)	N	P	SE⁷	P	P
Shopping Center	N	P	P	N	N
Short-term rentals (See 27-602)	P⁶	P	P	P	P
Sidewalk Café or Food Cart as an accessory use (See 27-603)	P	P	P	N	N
Target Range, Firearms
- Completely indoor and enclosed	N	P	P	P	P
- Other than above, with a barrier that the applicant proves is sufficient to protect public safety	N	N	N	N	SE
Tattoo Parlor (other than temporary tattoos which are a Personal service use)	N	P	N	N	N
Tavern, other than a Nightclub	N	SE	SE	N	N
Television or Radio Broadcasting Studios	P	P	P	P	P
Theater, Indoor Movie or Live Theater, other than an Adult Establishment	N	P	P	P	P
Trade/Hobby School	P	P	P	P	P
Truck Stop that primarily serves tractor-trailer trucks	N	N	N	SE	N
Veterinarian Office (See 27-602)	P	P	P	P	P
Visitor Center providing education and promotional information	P	P	P	P	P
Wholesale Sales - see under Industrial Uses
c. INSTITUTIONAL/SEMI-PUBLIC USES
Cemetery (S. 27-602); see Crematorium listed separately	N	N	N	N	N
College or University - Educational, Recreational, Office or Support Uses (See also Residential Uses, which are addressed separately)	P	P	P	P	P
Community Recreation Center (limited to a government sponsored or non-profit facility) or Library	P	P	P	P	P
Crematorium (See 27-602)	N	N	N	SE	SE
Criminal Halfway House (See 27-602)	N	N	N	N	SE
Cultural Center or Museum	P	P	P	P	P
Day Care Center, Adult or Child (See 27-602) (See also as an accessory use)	P	P	P	SE	SE
Dormitory - See under Residential Uses in this table
Emergency Services Station or Training Facility	P	P	P	P	P
Hospital or Surgery Center or Related Testing and Treatment Facilities	N	P	P	P	P
Membership Club meeting & non-commercial recreational facilities, provided that such use shall not be open between 2:00 a.m. & 6:00 a.m., & provided that such use shall only be allowed in combination with another use if the other use is allowed in that District and if the requirements for that use are also met. (See 27-602)	SE	P	P	P	P
Nursing Home or Personal Care Home/Assisted Living Facility or Hospice (See 27-602)	SE	P	P	P	SE
Place of Worship (See 27-602) (includes Church)	P	P	P	P	P
School, Public or Private, Primary or Secondary (See 27-602)	P	P	P	N	N
Temporary Shelter	N	SE	N	N	SE
Treatment Center (See 27-602)	N	N	N	N	SE
d. PUBLIC/SEMI-PUBLIC USES
Borough Government Uses and Facilities, such as Public Works Facilities.	P	P	P	P	P
Government Facility, other than offices and other than uses listed separately in this Article	SE	P	P	P	P
Prison or Similar Correctional Institution	N	N	N	N	SE
Publicly Owned or Operated Park	P	P	P	P	P
Public Utility Facility, other than Borough-owned facilities & other than uses listed separately in this Article. See also Section 27-1315	SE	SE	SE	SE	P
Sewage Pump Stations	P	P	P	P	P
Swimming Pool, Non-household (See 27-602)	P	P	P	P	P
U.S. Postal Service Facility or Substation	P	P	P	P	P
e. INDUSTRIAL USES
Asphalt Plant	N	N	N	N	SE
Assembly or Finishing of Products Using Materials Produced Elsewhere (such as products from plastics manufactured off-site)	N	SE	N	P	P
Building Supplies and Building Materials, Wholesale Sales of	N	P	N	P	P
Distribution as a principal use (other than Trucking Company Terminal)	N	N	N	P	P
Electric Power Generating Plant (Other than Putrescent Solid Waste to Energy, Solar Energy or Wind Turbines)	N	N	N	P	P
Industrial Equipment Sales, Rental and Service, other than involving trucks and trailers primarily intended to be operated on public streets	N	P	N	P	P
Incineration of Hazardous or Toxic Waste, other than may have been previously approved within an existing waste-to-energy plant	N	N	N	N	SE
Junk - outdoor storage, display or processing of, other than within an approved junkyard or solid waste disposal facility	N	N	N	N	N
Junk Yard (See 27-602) (includes scrapyard)	N	N	N	N	SE
Liquid or Gas Fuel Storage, Bulk, for off-site distribution, which shall require a 150 feet setback from a Residential District and review by the Fire Department of any proposed facilities; other than: auto service station, propane distributor as listed separately, pre-packaged sales or fuel tanks for company vehicles	N	N	N	N	SE
Manufacture and/or bulk processing of the following, provided manufacturing occurs only indoors:
- Agricultural Chemicals, Fertilizers or Pesticides	N	N	N	N	SE
- Apparel, Textiles, Shoes and Apparel Accessories (see also Crafts Studio)	N	P	N	P	P
- Cement Manufacture	N	N	N	N	SE
- Ceramics Products (other than Crafts Studio)	N	N	N	P	P
- Chemicals, Manufacture or Bulk Processing of, other than pharmaceuticals and types listed separately	N	N	N	N	SE
- Clay, Brick, Tile and Refractory Products	N	N	N	P	P
- Computers; Electronic & Microelectronic Products	N	P	N	P	P
- Concrete, Lime and Gypsum Products, other than actual manufacture of cement	N	N	N	N	P
- Electrical Equipment, Appliances & Components	N	P	N	P	P
- Explosives, Fireworks or Ammunition	N	N	N	N	SE
- Fabricated Metal Products (except Explosives, Fireworks or Ammunition) and/or Machine Shops	N	N	N	P	P
- Food and Beverage Products, at an industrial scale as opposed to a clearly retail scale (which may include aquaculture)	N	P	N	P	P
- Glass & Glass Products (other than Crafts Studio)	N	N	N	P	P
- Jewelry and Silverware	N	P	N	P	P
- Leather and Allied Products (other than Crafts Studio or Tannery)	N	N	N	P	P
- Machinery or Gaskets	N	N	N	P	P
- Manufactured or Modular Housing Manufacture	N	N	N	P	P
Manufacture and/or bulk processing of the following, provided manufacturing occurs only indoors:
- Medical Equipment and Supplies	N	P	N	P	P
- Metal Products, Primary	N	N	N	SE	P
- Mineral Products, Non-metallic (other than Mineral Extraction)	N	N	N	P	P
- Paper and Paper Products (including recycling, but not including manufacture of raw paper pulp)	N	P	N	P	P
- Paper - Raw Pulp	N	N	N	N	P
- Paving Materials, other than bulk manufacture of asphalt	N	N	N	N	P
- Pharmaceuticals and Medicines	N	N	N	P	P
- Plastics, Polymers, Resins, Vinyl, Coatings, Cleaning Compounds, Soaps, Adhesives, Paints, or Ink	N	N	N	SE	P
- Products from Previously Manufactured Materials, such as glass, leather, plastics, cellophane, textiles, rubber or synthetic rubber	N	P	N	P	P
- Roofing Materials and Asphalt Saturated Materials or Natural or Synthetic Rubber	N	N	N	SE	P
- Scientific, Electronic and Other Precision Instruments	N	P	P	P	P
- Sporting Goods, Toys, Games, Musical Instruments or Signs	N	P	P	P	P
- Transportation Equipment, including installing mechanical additions to trucks and trailers	N	N	N	P	P
- Wood Products and Furniture (not including raw paper pulp)	N	P	P	P	P
- See Section 1323.06 for uses that are not listed
Medical Marijuana Grower/Processor (See 27-602)	N	N	N	SE	SE
Mineral Extraction (See 27-602) and related processing, stock-piling and storage of materials removed from the site, other than as part of preparation of a development site	N	N	N	N	SE
Packaging	N	P	P	P	P
Package Delivery Services Distribution Center	N	P	N	P	P
Petroleum Refining or Manufacture or Bulk Storage of Ethanol or similar fuels for off-site use	N	N	N	N	SE
Pipeline Compressor Station (such as for natural gas), which shall be constructed within an enclosed structure with sound absorbing walls	N	N	N	N	SE
Printing or Bookbinding	N	P	P	P	P
Recycling Center, Bulk Processing, provided all operations of an industrial scale occur within an enclosed building (this use does not include a solid waste disposal or transfer facility)	N	N	N	SE	P
Research and Development, Engineering or Testing Facility or Laboratory (other than medical laboratories, which is considered an office use) and related manufacture of prototypes	N	N	N	P	P
Sawmill/Planing Mill	N	N	N	N	P
Slaughterhouse, Stockyard or Tannery, with a 400 feet minimum setback from all lot lines	N	N	N	N	SE
Solid Waste Landfill	N	N	N	N	N
Solid Waste Transfer Facility or Putrescent Waste to Energy Facility (See 27-602)	N	N	N	N	SE
Trucking Company Terminal	N	N	N	SE	P
Warehousing or Storage as a principal use	N	N	N	P	P
Warehousing or Storage as an on-site accessory use or serving principal uses located within the same zoning district	P	P	P	P	P
Welding	N	N	N	P	P
Wholesale Sales (other than Motor Vehicles)	N	SE	SE	P	P
f. ACCESSORY USES
See list of additional permitted uses in Section C., such as "Residential Accessory Structure or Use"
See Additional Requirements in Section 27-603 for Specific Accessory Uses
Bus Shelter	P	P	P	P	P
Composting, other than leaves, vegetation or materials generated on-site which are permitted by right	N	N	N	SE	P
Day Care Center accessory to and on the same lot as an existing lawful Place of Worship	P	P	P	P	P
Day Care (See 27-603) as accessory to a lawful dwelling, of the following number of persons, in addition to children or grandchildren of the on-site caregiver:
- Day care of a maximum of 3 persons. This use does not need a zoning permit.	P	P	P	P	P
- Group Day Care Home (7 to 12 children)	P	P	P	P	N
- Family Day Care Home (4 to 6 children)	P	P	P	P	N
Furnace, Outdoor (See 27-603)	P	P	P	P	P
Home Occupation, General or Low Impact (See 27-603)	P	P	P	P	P
Outdoor Storage and/or Display as accessory to a business use (See buffer yard provisions) (See Section 27-603)	P⁴	P	P⁴	P	P
Outdoor Storage and/or Display as principal use, other than uses listed separately in this table (See buffer yard provisions in 27-1303.4 and 27-603)	N	N	N	SE	P
Retail Sales as Accessory to a Principal Industrial Use, limited to items produced or distributed on the premises, and limited to a maximum of 5% of the floor area of the principal use	N	P	P	P	P
Temporary Commercial Uses - See Section 27-1303.7, as well as "Food Truck" which is listed separately.
Unit for Care of Relative (See 27-603) on the lot of an existing dwelling	P	P	P	N	N
g. MISCELLANEOUS USES
Crop Farming, Community Garden, Greenhouse, Hoophouse or Hydroponics	P	P	P	P	P
Forestry (See 27-602)	P	P	P	P	P
Livestock or Poultry, Raising of (See 27-602)	N	N	N	P	P
Nature Preserve/Environmental Education Center	P	P	P	P	P
Parking Lot or Structure as an accessory or principal use:
- parking of trucks that haul putrescent or hazardous waste	N	N	N	N	SE
- overnight parking that primarily serves two or more tractor-trailer trucks and/or their trailers	N	P	N	P	P
- other than above, such as municipal parking lots and customary accessory parking for on-site uses.	P	P	P	P	P
Recycling Collection Center	N	P	N	P	P
Solar Energy Collection Systems
- Which cover areas equal to a maximum of 20% of the lot area, plus areas on top of building roofs and parking areas	P	P	P	P	P
- Which cover larger areas than above, and which include evergreen vegetation with an initial height of three feet between ground-mounted solar collectors and any abutting dwelling	N	N	N	N	P
Wastewater Treatment Plant (other than customarily accessory pre-treatment facilities)	N	N	N	N	P
Wind turbines:
- Maximum of one on a lot that is an accessory use (See 27-603)	SE	SE	SE	SE	SE
- One or more wind turbines, other than above (See 27-602)	N	SE	SE	SE	SE
All Uses that will be unable to comply with the performance standards of this ordinance. See the "Environmental Protection" requirements of Part 10	N	N	N	N	N
NOTES:
¹ Such housing shall be limited to being in the same building as a principal commercial use that is on the street level.
² See limits on hours of operation in Section 27-405.
³ The use shall not be open to customers after 10:00 p.m. if the use is not within an enclosed building and is within 300 feet from an existing dwelling. Outdoor recreation areas shall be enclosed by six feet high fencing and/or a building.
⁴ A maximum of 25% of lot shall be used for outdoor storage.
⁵ Provided the use is setback a minimum of 200 feet from the nearest residential use on another lot.
⁶ Limited to a maximum number of units which shall be set by the Myerstown Borough Council. Such maximum number shall not exceed 12.
⁷ Limited to within a building that existed prior to the adoption of this Ordinance.
⁸ If the use will be open between midnight and 6:00 a.m., the use and its parking areas shall be setback a minimum of 200 feet from any existing or approved dwellings.

§ 27-402 Permitted Accessory Uses in All Districts.

[Ord. 841, 5/22/2017]

Section 27-302 shall apply.

§ 27-403 Permitted Accessory Uses to Business and Institutional Uses.

[Ord. 841, 5/22/2017]

Storage of fuels for on-site use or to fuel company vehicles.

The following accessory uses, provided that the use is clearly limited to employees, patients, residents and families of employees of the use and their occasional invited guests:

Internal cafeteria without drive-through service,

Day care center or

Recreational facilities.

Automatic Transaction Machine.

§ 27-404 Uses Not Specifically Regulated.

[Ord. 841, 5/22/2017]

Section 27-206 shall apply.

§ 27-405 Limits on Hours of Operation in the TMN District and for Nonconforming Commercial Uses in Residential Districts.

[Ord. 841, 5/22/2017]

§ 27-406 Age-Qualified Housing.

[Ord. 841, 5/22/2017]

These provisions shall apply if Age-Qualified Housing is used to allow an increased density under this Ordinance under Part 5 of this Ordinance.

The applicant may also decide to permit one or more types of persons classified by the Social Security Administration as disabled to reside in Age-Qualified Housing, regardless of their age.

Myerstown City Zoning Code

PART 4

ALLOWED USES IN PRIMARILY NON-RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS

§ 27-401 Allowed Uses in Primarily Non-Residential Districts.

[Ord. 841, 5/22/2017; as amended by Ord. No. 865, 6/14/2022; and by Ord. No. 870, 6/13/2023]

Only the following uses are allowed in each respective Zoning District, except as may be allowed by Section 27-303:

TYPES OF USES	ZONING DISTRICTS
(See definitions in Part 15)	TMN²	GB	TC	LI	GI
P = Permitted by right use (zoning decision by Zoning Officer)
SE = Special exception use (zoning decision by Zoning Hearing Board)
N = Not permitted
(See 27-602 or 27-603) = See Additional Requirements in Sections 27-602 or 27-603
a. RESIDENTIAL USES
Single Family Detached Dwelling (Note - Manufactured/mobile homes shall meet the additional requirements of Section 27-602)	P	P	P	N	N
Single Family Semi-Detached Dwelling (side-by-side)	P	P	P	N	N
Townhouse (Single Family Attached Dwelling) (See 27-602)	P	P	P	N	N
Multi-Family (Apartment) Dwellings (See 27-602)	P	N	P¹	N	N
Boarding House (includes Rooming House) (See 27-602) (other than uses listed separately in this table)	N	SE	N	N	N
Manufactured/Mobile Home Park (See 27-602)	N	N	N	N	SE
Group Home within a lawful existing dwelling unit (See 27-602), not including a Treatment Center	P	P	P	N	N
Live Work Unit (See 27-602)	P	P	P	N	N
b. COMMERCIAL USES
Adult Use (See 27-602)	N	N	N	N	SE
After Hours Club - To the extent this use is not already prohibited by State Act 219 of 1990 (See 27-602)	N	N	N	N	SE
Airport (see also "Heliport")	N	N	N	N	N
Amusement Arcade	N	P	P	N	N
Amusement Park or Water Park³	N	SE	N	P	P
Animal Cemetery (See 27-602)	N	N	N	N	P
Animal Day Care (See 27-602)	N	P	N	P	P
Arena, Auditorium (Commercial), Performing Arts Center or Exhibition-Trade Show Center	N	P	P	P	P
Auto Body Shop or Auto Repair Garage (See 27-602), and provided that parking shall be prohibited on a sidewalk within the right-of-way	N	P	N	N	SE
Auto, Boat or Mobile/Manufactured Home Sales (See 27-602)	N	P	N	N	P
Auto Service Station, which may occur with a convenience store, and which may also include fueling of vehicles using hydrogen, liquefied natural gas, propane or similar fuels (See 27-602) For a use that primarily serves tractor-trailer trucks, see "Truck Stop" in this table.	N	P	N	N	N
Bakery, Retail	P	P	P	P	P
Bed and Breakfast Inn (See 27-602)	P	P	P	N	SE
Beverage Distributor (wholesale and/or retail)	N	P	P	P	P
Bus Maintenance or Storage Yard	N	P	N	P	P
Bus, Taxi or Passenger Rail Terminal	N	P	P	P	P
BYOB Club (Note- definition is limited to a use that is open after midnight)	N	SE	N	N	N
Car Wash (See 27-602)	N	P	N	P	P
Catering, Custom, for Off-Site Consumption	P	P	P	P	P
Communications Antennae, Commercial (See 27-602), limited to accessory antenna attached to specified types of structures by Section 27-602	P	P	P	P	P
Communications Tower, Commercial (See 27-602), or other antennae that are not allowed under the above accessory provision	N	SE	SE	SE	SE
Conference Center or Exposition Center	N	P	P	P	P
Construction Company or Tradesperson's Headquarters (including but not limited to landscaping, building trades or janitorial contractor). See also as Home Occupation. Accessory outdoor storage shall be permitted provided it meets the screening requirements of Section 27-1303.4.	N⁴	P	P⁴	P	P
Convenience Store, which may be combined with a Gas Station if the requirements for a Gas Station are met and if a gas station is allowed in the district.	N	P	P	N	N
Crafts or Artisan's Studio	P	P	P	P	P
Custom Printing, Copying, Faxing, Mailing or Courier Service and similar services to businesses	P	P	P	P	P
Exercise Club	P	P	P	P	P
Financial Institution; includes banks, with Drive-Through facilities only allowed in the TC District if the applicant proves to the Borough that the access has been designed to minimize conflicts with pedestrian traffic along sidewalks and to meet Drive-Through Provisions in Section 27-603.	P	P	P	P	P
Flea Market/Auction House	N	P	P	P	P
Food Truck, other than operation at any location for less than 15 minutes per day (See 27-603)	N	P	N	N	N
Funeral Home (See crematorium listed separately under Institutional Uses)	P	P	P	P	P
Gaming Facility, Licensed, other than small games of chance allowed under State law and the State Lottery	N	N	N	N	SE
Gas Station - See "Auto Service Station" in this table.
Heliport (See 27-602)	N	N	N	SE	N
Hotel or Motel (See 27-602)	N	N	N	P	P
Kennel (See 27-602)	N	SE	N	SE	SE
Laundromat	P	P	P	P	P
Laundry, Commercial or Industrial	N	P	N	P	P
Lumber Yard	N	N	N	P	P
Medical Marijuana Dispensary (See 27-602)	N	SE	SE	SE	SE
Micro-brewery or Micro-distillery (which may be in combination with a restaurant)	SE	P	SE	SE	SE
Motor Vehicle Racetrack, Outdoor	N	N	N	N	N
Nightclub	N	SE	SE	N	N
Office (May include medical clinics or labs)	P	P	P	P	P
Pawn Shop	N	P	P	N	N
Personal Services (includes tailoring, check cashing, custom dressmaking, haircutting/styling, travel agency, drycleaning, shoe repair, "massage therapy, certified" and closely similar uses)	P	P	P	P	P
Plant Nursery (other than a Retail Store)	P	P	P	P	P
Propane Retail Distributor, other than pre-packaged sales, with a 150 feet minimum setback required between any storage or dispensing facilities and any Residential District, and with Fire Department review.	N	N	N	N	SE
Recording Studio, Music	P	P	P	P	P
Recreation, Commercial Indoor (includes bowling alley, roller or ice skating rink, batting practice, and closely similar uses); other than uses listed separately in this Article	N	P	P	P	P
Recreation, Commercial Outdoor (including miniature golf course, golf driving range, archery, horseback riding, paintball and closely similar uses); other than uses listed separately in this Part 4	N	P	P	P	P
Repair Service, Household Appliance	P	P	P	P	P
Restaurant (includes Banquet Hall) (See 27-602), other than a Tavern or Nightclub
- with drive-through service (See 27-603)	N	P⁸	N	N	N
- without drive-through service.	P	P	P	N	N
Sidewalk Cafes or Food Carts are listed separately below.
Retail Store (not including uses listed individually in this Section 1327). Any drive-through facilities shall meet Section 27-603 and shall be limited to the GB district. May include rental of items or check cashing.	P	P	P	N	N
Self-Storage Development (See 27-602)	N	P	SE⁷	P	P
Shopping Center	N	P	P	N	N
Short-term rentals (See 27-602)	P⁶	P	P	P	P
Sidewalk Café or Food Cart as an accessory use (See 27-603)	P	P	P	N	N
Target Range, Firearms
- Completely indoor and enclosed	N	P	P	P	P
- Other than above, with a barrier that the applicant proves is sufficient to protect public safety	N	N	N	N	SE
Tattoo Parlor (other than temporary tattoos which are a Personal service use)	N	P	N	N	N
Tavern, other than a Nightclub	N	SE	SE	N	N
Television or Radio Broadcasting Studios	P	P	P	P	P
Theater, Indoor Movie or Live Theater, other than an Adult Establishment	N	P	P	P	P
Trade/Hobby School	P	P	P	P	P
Truck Stop that primarily serves tractor-trailer trucks	N	N	N	SE	N
Veterinarian Office (See 27-602)	P	P	P	P	P
Visitor Center providing education and promotional information	P	P	P	P	P
Wholesale Sales - see under Industrial Uses
c. INSTITUTIONAL/SEMI-PUBLIC USES
Cemetery (S. 27-602); see Crematorium listed separately	N	N	N	N	N
College or University - Educational, Recreational, Office or Support Uses (See also Residential Uses, which are addressed separately)	P	P	P	P	P
Community Recreation Center (limited to a government sponsored or non-profit facility) or Library	P	P	P	P	P
Crematorium (See 27-602)	N	N	N	SE	SE
Criminal Halfway House (See 27-602)	N	N	N	N	SE
Cultural Center or Museum	P	P	P	P	P
Day Care Center, Adult or Child (See 27-602) (See also as an accessory use)	P	P	P	SE	SE
Dormitory - See under Residential Uses in this table
Emergency Services Station or Training Facility	P	P	P	P	P
Hospital or Surgery Center or Related Testing and Treatment Facilities	N	P	P	P	P
Membership Club meeting & non-commercial recreational facilities, provided that such use shall not be open between 2:00 a.m. & 6:00 a.m., & provided that such use shall only be allowed in combination with another use if the other use is allowed in that District and if the requirements for that use are also met. (See 27-602)	SE	P	P	P	P
Nursing Home or Personal Care Home/Assisted Living Facility or Hospice (See 27-602)	SE	P	P	P	SE
Place of Worship (See 27-602) (includes Church)	P	P	P	P	P
School, Public or Private, Primary or Secondary (See 27-602)	P	P	P	N	N
Temporary Shelter	N	SE	N	N	SE
Treatment Center (See 27-602)	N	N	N	N	SE
d. PUBLIC/SEMI-PUBLIC USES
Borough Government Uses and Facilities, such as Public Works Facilities.	P	P	P	P	P
Government Facility, other than offices and other than uses listed separately in this Article	SE	P	P	P	P
Prison or Similar Correctional Institution	N	N	N	N	SE
Publicly Owned or Operated Park	P	P	P	P	P
Public Utility Facility, other than Borough-owned facilities & other than uses listed separately in this Article. See also Section 27-1315	SE	SE	SE	SE	P
Sewage Pump Stations	P	P	P	P	P
Swimming Pool, Non-household (See 27-602)	P	P	P	P	P
U.S. Postal Service Facility or Substation	P	P	P	P	P
e. INDUSTRIAL USES
Asphalt Plant	N	N	N	N	SE
Assembly or Finishing of Products Using Materials Produced Elsewhere (such as products from plastics manufactured off-site)	N	SE	N	P	P
Building Supplies and Building Materials, Wholesale Sales of	N	P	N	P	P
Distribution as a principal use (other than Trucking Company Terminal)	N	N	N	P	P
Electric Power Generating Plant (Other than Putrescent Solid Waste to Energy, Solar Energy or Wind Turbines)	N	N	N	P	P
Industrial Equipment Sales, Rental and Service, other than involving trucks and trailers primarily intended to be operated on public streets	N	P	N	P	P
Incineration of Hazardous or Toxic Waste, other than may have been previously approved within an existing waste-to-energy plant	N	N	N	N	SE
Junk - outdoor storage, display or processing of, other than within an approved junkyard or solid waste disposal facility	N	N	N	N	N
Junk Yard (See 27-602) (includes scrapyard)	N	N	N	N	SE
Liquid or Gas Fuel Storage, Bulk, for off-site distribution, which shall require a 150 feet setback from a Residential District and review by the Fire Department of any proposed facilities; other than: auto service station, propane distributor as listed separately, pre-packaged sales or fuel tanks for company vehicles	N	N	N	N	SE
Manufacture and/or bulk processing of the following, provided manufacturing occurs only indoors:
- Agricultural Chemicals, Fertilizers or Pesticides	N	N	N	N	SE
- Apparel, Textiles, Shoes and Apparel Accessories (see also Crafts Studio)	N	P	N	P	P
- Cement Manufacture	N	N	N	N	SE
- Ceramics Products (other than Crafts Studio)	N	N	N	P	P
- Chemicals, Manufacture or Bulk Processing of, other than pharmaceuticals and types listed separately	N	N	N	N	SE
- Clay, Brick, Tile and Refractory Products	N	N	N	P	P
- Computers; Electronic & Microelectronic Products	N	P	N	P	P
- Concrete, Lime and Gypsum Products, other than actual manufacture of cement	N	N	N	N	P
- Electrical Equipment, Appliances & Components	N	P	N	P	P
- Explosives, Fireworks or Ammunition	N	N	N	N	SE
- Fabricated Metal Products (except Explosives, Fireworks or Ammunition) and/or Machine Shops	N	N	N	P	P
- Food and Beverage Products, at an industrial scale as opposed to a clearly retail scale (which may include aquaculture)	N	P	N	P	P
- Glass & Glass Products (other than Crafts Studio)	N	N	N	P	P
- Jewelry and Silverware	N	P	N	P	P
- Leather and Allied Products (other than Crafts Studio or Tannery)	N	N	N	P	P
- Machinery or Gaskets	N	N	N	P	P
- Manufactured or Modular Housing Manufacture	N	N	N	P	P
Manufacture and/or bulk processing of the following, provided manufacturing occurs only indoors:
- Medical Equipment and Supplies	N	P	N	P	P
- Metal Products, Primary	N	N	N	SE	P
- Mineral Products, Non-metallic (other than Mineral Extraction)	N	N	N	P	P
- Paper and Paper Products (including recycling, but not including manufacture of raw paper pulp)	N	P	N	P	P
- Paper - Raw Pulp	N	N	N	N	P
- Paving Materials, other than bulk manufacture of asphalt	N	N	N	N	P
- Pharmaceuticals and Medicines	N	N	N	P	P
- Plastics, Polymers, Resins, Vinyl, Coatings, Cleaning Compounds, Soaps, Adhesives, Paints, or Ink	N	N	N	SE	P
- Products from Previously Manufactured Materials, such as glass, leather, plastics, cellophane, textiles, rubber or synthetic rubber	N	P	N	P	P
- Roofing Materials and Asphalt Saturated Materials or Natural or Synthetic Rubber	N	N	N	SE	P
- Scientific, Electronic and Other Precision Instruments	N	P	P	P	P
- Sporting Goods, Toys, Games, Musical Instruments or Signs	N	P	P	P	P
- Transportation Equipment, including installing mechanical additions to trucks and trailers	N	N	N	P	P
- Wood Products and Furniture (not including raw paper pulp)	N	P	P	P	P
- See Section 1323.06 for uses that are not listed
Medical Marijuana Grower/Processor (See 27-602)	N	N	N	SE	SE
Mineral Extraction (See 27-602) and related processing, stock-piling and storage of materials removed from the site, other than as part of preparation of a development site	N	N	N	N	SE
Packaging	N	P	P	P	P
Package Delivery Services Distribution Center	N	P	N	P	P
Petroleum Refining or Manufacture or Bulk Storage of Ethanol or similar fuels for off-site use	N	N	N	N	SE
Pipeline Compressor Station (such as for natural gas), which shall be constructed within an enclosed structure with sound absorbing walls	N	N	N	N	SE
Printing or Bookbinding	N	P	P	P	P
Recycling Center, Bulk Processing, provided all operations of an industrial scale occur within an enclosed building (this use does not include a solid waste disposal or transfer facility)	N	N	N	SE	P
Research and Development, Engineering or Testing Facility or Laboratory (other than medical laboratories, which is considered an office use) and related manufacture of prototypes	N	N	N	P	P
Sawmill/Planing Mill	N	N	N	N	P
Slaughterhouse, Stockyard or Tannery, with a 400 feet minimum setback from all lot lines	N	N	N	N	SE
Solid Waste Landfill	N	N	N	N	N
Solid Waste Transfer Facility or Putrescent Waste to Energy Facility (See 27-602)	N	N	N	N	SE
Trucking Company Terminal	N	N	N	SE	P
Warehousing or Storage as a principal use	N	N	N	P	P
Warehousing or Storage as an on-site accessory use or serving principal uses located within the same zoning district	P	P	P	P	P
Welding	N	N	N	P	P
Wholesale Sales (other than Motor Vehicles)	N	SE	SE	P	P
f. ACCESSORY USES
See list of additional permitted uses in Section C., such as "Residential Accessory Structure or Use"
See Additional Requirements in Section 27-603 for Specific Accessory Uses
Bus Shelter	P	P	P	P	P
Composting, other than leaves, vegetation or materials generated on-site which are permitted by right	N	N	N	SE	P
Day Care Center accessory to and on the same lot as an existing lawful Place of Worship	P	P	P	P	P
Day Care (See 27-603) as accessory to a lawful dwelling, of the following number of persons, in addition to children or grandchildren of the on-site caregiver:
- Day care of a maximum of 3 persons. This use does not need a zoning permit.	P	P	P	P	P
- Group Day Care Home (7 to 12 children)	P	P	P	P	N
- Family Day Care Home (4 to 6 children)	P	P	P	P	N
Furnace, Outdoor (See 27-603)	P	P	P	P	P
Home Occupation, General or Low Impact (See 27-603)	P	P	P	P	P
Outdoor Storage and/or Display as accessory to a business use (See buffer yard provisions) (See Section 27-603)	P⁴	P	P⁴	P	P
Outdoor Storage and/or Display as principal use, other than uses listed separately in this table (See buffer yard provisions in 27-1303.4 and 27-603)	N	N	N	SE	P
Retail Sales as Accessory to a Principal Industrial Use, limited to items produced or distributed on the premises, and limited to a maximum of 5% of the floor area of the principal use	N	P	P	P	P
Temporary Commercial Uses - See Section 27-1303.7, as well as "Food Truck" which is listed separately.
Unit for Care of Relative (See 27-603) on the lot of an existing dwelling	P	P	P	N	N
g. MISCELLANEOUS USES
Crop Farming, Community Garden, Greenhouse, Hoophouse or Hydroponics	P	P	P	P	P
Forestry (See 27-602)	P	P	P	P	P
Livestock or Poultry, Raising of (See 27-602)	N	N	N	P	P
Nature Preserve/Environmental Education Center	P	P	P	P	P
Parking Lot or Structure as an accessory or principal use:
- parking of trucks that haul putrescent or hazardous waste	N	N	N	N	SE
- overnight parking that primarily serves two or more tractor-trailer trucks and/or their trailers	N	P	N	P	P
- other than above, such as municipal parking lots and customary accessory parking for on-site uses.	P	P	P	P	P
Recycling Collection Center	N	P	N	P	P
Solar Energy Collection Systems
- Which cover areas equal to a maximum of 20% of the lot area, plus areas on top of building roofs and parking areas	P	P	P	P	P
- Which cover larger areas than above, and which include evergreen vegetation with an initial height of three feet between ground-mounted solar collectors and any abutting dwelling	N	N	N	N	P
Wastewater Treatment Plant (other than customarily accessory pre-treatment facilities)	N	N	N	N	P
Wind turbines:
- Maximum of one on a lot that is an accessory use (See 27-603)	SE	SE	SE	SE	SE
- One or more wind turbines, other than above (See 27-602)	N	SE	SE	SE	SE
All Uses that will be unable to comply with the performance standards of this ordinance. See the "Environmental Protection" requirements of Part 10	N	N	N	N	N
NOTES:
¹ Such housing shall be limited to being in the same building as a principal commercial use that is on the street level.
² See limits on hours of operation in Section 27-405.
³ The use shall not be open to customers after 10:00 p.m. if the use is not within an enclosed building and is within 300 feet from an existing dwelling. Outdoor recreation areas shall be enclosed by six feet high fencing and/or a building.
⁴ A maximum of 25% of lot shall be used for outdoor storage.
⁵ Provided the use is setback a minimum of 200 feet from the nearest residential use on another lot.
⁶ Limited to a maximum number of units which shall be set by the Myerstown Borough Council. Such maximum number shall not exceed 12.
⁷ Limited to within a building that existed prior to the adoption of this Ordinance.
⁸ If the use will be open between midnight and 6:00 a.m., the use and its parking areas shall be setback a minimum of 200 feet from any existing or approved dwellings.

§ 27-402 Permitted Accessory Uses in All Districts.

[Ord. 841, 5/22/2017]

Section 27-302 shall apply.

§ 27-403 Permitted Accessory Uses to Business and Institutional Uses.

[Ord. 841, 5/22/2017]

Storage of fuels for on-site use or to fuel company vehicles.

The following accessory uses, provided that the use is clearly limited to employees, patients, residents and families of employees of the use and their occasional invited guests:

Internal cafeteria without drive-through service,

Day care center or

Recreational facilities.

Automatic Transaction Machine.

§ 27-404 Uses Not Specifically Regulated.

[Ord. 841, 5/22/2017]

Section 27-206 shall apply.

§ 27-405 Limits on Hours of Operation in the TMN District and for Nonconforming Commercial Uses in Residential Districts.

[Ord. 841, 5/22/2017]

§ 27-406 Age-Qualified Housing.

[Ord. 841, 5/22/2017]

These provisions shall apply if Age-Qualified Housing is used to allow an increased density under this Ordinance under Part 5 of this Ordinance.

The applicant may also decide to permit one or more types of persons classified by the Social Security Administration as disabled to reside in Age-Qualified Housing, regardless of their age.