Retail business activities of and similar to the following types may be permitted:

Business and professional offices, banks and fiduciary institutions.

Parking lot for private passenger vehicles, but not for the storage of used or new motor vehicles for sale or hire.

Restaurant, tavern, grill and other eating establishments, but not including transient or mobile structures or drive-in restaurants.

Mortuary or funeral homes.

Assembly hall, bowling alley and other similar commercial recreational activity, provided that it is carried on within a building.

Sexually oriented businesses, as a conditional use, subject to the conditions set forth in § 233-34.1.

Restaurants subject to the following supplementary standards that will apply if the property line of a restaurant adjoins a residential use or district:

Automobile service stations, with or without convenience stores, as a conditional use.

Each business use shall provide loading and unloading facilities which must be located on the same lot and shall not be located in the required front yard and shall not be closer than 10 feet to the lot line of any property zoning for residential purposes.

Where a business structure locates adjacent to an existing business structure, the side yard adjacent to the existing business need not be required, provided that there is vehicle access to the rear yard or some other location; however, all other requirements pertaining to the business must be complied with.

Business structures or uses shall not display goods for sale purposes outside of the structure in which such activity is carried on.

No storage of any kind is permitted in this zone other than with an enclosed roofed building.

No building or premises shall be used and no building erected which is arranged, intended or designed to be used for any kind of manufacturing or treatment of products, except that any kind of manufacturing or treatment of products not included within the prohibition of this section may be carried on if it is customarily incidental to the conduct of a retail business conducted on the premises. However, the space used for such manufacturing or treatment of products shall not exceed 25% of the total floor space occupied by such retail establishment on the premises.

Any trade, industry or use prohibited in Light Industrial and Laboratory Administrative Zones are prohibited in the Business Zone.

Exposed vertical exterior exhaust ducts or vents exiting the side and rear of a building must be enclosed, surrounded, or walled to match the exterior of the building and the exterior facade.

The term "floor area" as used herein is defined as that area used or intended to be used for service to the public as customers, patrons, clients, patients or tenants, including areas occupied by fixtures and equipment and used for the display or sale of merchandise but not including storage area.

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Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent collective provision of off-street parking facilities by two or more buildings or uses located on adjacent lots, provided that the total of such off-street parking facilities shall not be less than the sum of the requirements for the various individual uses computed separately in accordance with the standards contained in this section, and further provided that the land is owned by one or more of the collective users.

Parking facilities may be located in any required yard space but shall not be less than 10 feet from any street line or 10 feet from any lot line which is zoned residentially.

The required parking space shall be paved with an all-weather surface paving and shall be accessible from similarly paved areas herein called "aisles" or from similarly paved driveways, either or both of which must be connected directly or by means of similarly paved driveways to a public street. All such paving shall be maintained in a good usable condition. A two-way driveway shall not be less than 18 feet wide and a one-way driveway not less than 10 feet wide, in addition to any space included for parking space. Driveways and parking areas shall be illuminated during operating hours if such hours occur after sunset. Illumination shall be shielded from streets and adjoining residential properties. Driveways shall be free of all hazardous conditions at all times.

No certificate of occupancy for any building shall be issued by the Construction Official until the parking space and access facilities required by this chapter have been completed. Where by reason of the adverse weather conditions, it is impractical to complete the parking space and access facilities, the certificate of occupancy may be issued upon the posting of a performance guaranty approved as to form by the Borough Attorney and as to sufficiency by the Borough Engineer. The performance guaranty will run for a period not to exceed three months.

Nonilluminated business signs, which shall not project more than 15 inches beyond the building line, shall each have an area of not more than 20 square feet, provided that such business signs shall in no case exceed in the aggregate 10% of the area of the street wall surface, including window and door area of the building on which or in front of which they are displayed.

Illuminated business signs.

Placement of signs on facades and windows.

Freestanding signs or pole signs.

All refuse and papers shall be kept constantly removed from ground spaces at least five feet in all directions around the sign, and vegetation, except trees and shrubs, shall be kept trimmed to not more than six inches in height.

Except as otherwise specifically provided in this section, no sign shall project beyond the building line. No part of any sign shall extend above the top or beyond the ends of the wall surface on which it is placed. No sign, except such directional devices as may be required by federal aeronautical authorities, shall be placed, inscribed or supported upon the roof or upon any building, which sign extends above the roof of any adjacent building, and no sign shall be placed as to interfere with the opening of any exit door or to obstruct the view from any window opening to a room to be used for dwelling purposes. Permits must be obtained from the Construction Official for sign erection.

Miscellaneous provisions.

The following temporary signs are permitted:

Dance hall, billiard room.

Used car lot.

Trailers and trailer parks.

Gasoline stations and auto-repair shops.

Theaters, including outdoor and temporary.

Drive-in restaurants.

Businesses that depict, sell, present, or display, in any manner, any obscene form of expression or material.

Sexually oriented businesses are permitted, but only as a conditional use, subject to the requirements of § 233-34.1.

Communications towers.

Tattoo parlors.

Automobile repair service, major.

Drive-through uses, with the exception of, coffee shops, banks, and pharmacies.

Laundromats or dry cleaners where laundry or dry cleaning is conducted on the premises.

Check cashing establishments or financial service centers.

Self-storage facilities.

Pawn shops.

Billiard or pool establishments.

Massage establishments.

No sexually oriented business may be located on any lot that is within 1,000 feet of the lot on which there is located any existing sexually oriented business; any church, synagogue, temple, or place of worship; any elementary or secondary school or school bus stop; any municipal or county playground or place of public resort or recreation; any hospital or child-care center; or any area zoned for residential use.

Every structure used by a sexually oriented business shall be surrounded by a perimeter buffer of at least 50 feet in width, with plantings, fencing, or other physical dividers along the outside of the perimeter sufficient to impede the view of the interior of the premises in which the business is located.

No sexually oriented business shall display more than two exterior signs, consisting of one identification sign and one sign giving notice that the premises are off limits to minors. The signs shall be in compliance with the requirements for signs in the zone, except that the identification sign shall be no more than 40 square feet in size.

No obscene material may be depicted, sold, presented, or displayed in or by any sexually oriented business.

Every sexually oriented business shall comply with the area and bulk requirements of the zone, except as otherwise provided in this section.