The regulations set forth in this Part for each district shall be minimum regulations and shall apply uniformly to each class or kind of structure or land, except as may be hereinafter provided:

The specific use regulations and dimensional requirements pertaining to each district are contained on the charts that follow, namely §§ 27-303 through 27-308.

Permissible uses and structures are presented in the first four columns of the chart for each district. Applications for activities listed in the columns titled "Permitted Principal and Permitted Accessory Uses and Structures" may be approved by the Zoning Officer upon finding that the proposed use meets the ordinance requirements. Activities listed in the "Special Exception Uses and Structures" column must be reviewed and approved by the Township Zoning Hearing Board, and uses listed in the "Conditional Uses and Structures" column must be reviewed and approved by the Township Supervisors. (See Appendix D and Appendix F of this chapter for an illustration of the special exception and condition use procedures, and §§ 27-1002, Subsection 1D, and 27-1102, respectively, for specific details of the process.)

Specific lot, yard and open space requirements are presented in the final three columns of each district chart. Applications for uses which do not meet the dimensional requirements for the district in which they are to be located, may be submitted to the Township Zoning Hearing Board for variance consideration. (See Appendix C of this chapter for an illustration of the variance procedure, and § 27-1002, Subsection 1C, for specific details of the process.)

The use regulations are also presented by category of use in the table of uses which can be found in Appendix A of this chapter and general dimensional requirements are presented in the table of general dimensional requirements which can be found in Appendix B.