Uses listed as special uses in Schedule 1 shall require individual consideration in each case because of their unique characteristics. Such special uses may be permitted only upon authorization by the Zoning Hearing Board, subject to certain conditions and safeguards, and after review by the Planning Commission.

A special use shall not cause substantial injury to the value of other property where it is to be located; shall conform with regulations applicable to the district where located; shall be compatible with adjoining development; shall provide adequate landscaping and screening; shall provide off-street parking and loading so as to minimize interference with traffic on the local streets; and shall not jeopardize the public health, safety, welfare and convenience.

Use Class 1: Single-family detached dwellings.

Use Class 2: Two-family dwellings, including duplex dwellings and semiattached single-family dwellings.

Use Class 3: Retail and service. Includes small retail stores and services, grocery, drug, hardware stores, soda fountains (no dancing or live entertainment), business and professional offices, including branch banks, barber and beauty shops, hoe repair, dry cleaning and laundry establishments. Also includes upper floor apartments and multiple family dwellings. Excludes automobile service stations. No first floor of any of the above indicated commercial establishments, retail stores or professional offices of any structure shall be converted into a dwelling structure. Upper floor structures which have been converted to a dwelling structure may be further converted to provide for additional dwellings.

Use Class 4: Community retail and service. Includes retail and service establishments serving the entire city, major department stores and specialty shops, banks and other financial institutions, hotels, motels and rooming houses, offices and office buildings, automobile service stations including minor repairs, off-street parking, railway and bus terminals, telegraph and express offices, auto supply stores, furniture stores, major appliance stores, radio and television studios, funeral parlors, car sales, business and commercial schools, supermarkets and health care facilities.

Use Class 5: Commercial recreation and entertainment. Includes hotels, theaters, nightclubs, restaurants, taverns, major entertainment facilities, bowling alleys, pool halls, skating rinks, social halls, clubs and lodges.

Use Class 6: Commercial education. Includes schools of business, technical trades, art, music, dancing, photography.

Use Class 7: Limited commercial and industry conducted within an enclosed building. Includes laboratories, manufacture of small musical or precision instruments, dress and garment manufacturing, manufacture of rubber stamps and ceramic products (using only pulverized clay and electrical or gas kilns), automobile sales and show rooms, funeral parlors, printing and publishing, wholesale offices and showrooms and display rooms with storage limited to samples enclosed within a building.

Use Class 8: Heavy commercial. Includes delivery and distribution centers, wholesale business and warehousing, truck and freight terminals, produce and meat markets, material and machinery store and sales yards, laundries, large-scale dry cleaning and dyeing, automobile service stations including major repairs, printing and newspaper publishing, small machine shops, sign painting, automatic car wash, animal hospitals and veterinary clinics.

Use Class 9: Light industry. Includes the manufacture, assembly or packing of products from previously prepared materials not objectionable or injurious due to smoke, noise, odors, glare, dust or hazardous materials. Such products would include cloth, plastic, paper, leather, wood, metal, precious or semiprecious metals or stones, electronic or electrical instruments or devices, candy, food products, pharmaceuticals and the like, but not including the production of fish or meat products, sauerkraut, vinegar or the rendering or refining of fats and oils.

Use Class 10: Heavy industry, involving the manufacture or assembly of products from raw materials. Includes bulk storage of petroleum, grain and similar products, metal fabrication, including structural steel shops, machine shops, forges and foundries; brewing and distilling of liquor; gas manufacture and storage; meat packing (excluding stockyards or slaughterhouse); quarrying, rock crushing and grinding; brick, pottery, stone and monument works; and railroad yards, repair shops and roundhouses. Provided that they are over 200 feet from the nearest R District, the manufacture of products such as coke, wood and tar products, chemicals such as ammonia, caustic soda, carbides, hydrogen, oxygen, alcohol, nitrates and potash, rubber, soap, flour mills, lime kilns and cement are also permitted.

Use Class 11: Communications and forest products. Includes forest and agricultural products; radio-television transmission or receiving towers and facilities; cemeteries and mortuaries.

Use Class 12: Essential services for public utilities, as defined in § 220-5.

Use Class 12(a): Adult entertainment and services, which includes adult bookstores, adult motion-picture theaters, adult mini-motion-picture theaters, adult drive-in theaters and massage parlors.

Use Class 12(b): Commercial uses including drug stores, hardware stores, banks and other financial institutions, barber and beauty shops, shoe repair, dry-cleaning and laundry establishments, upper-floor apartments over permitted ground-floor uses, specialty shops, boutique hotels, offices and office buildings, off-street parking, furniture stores, appliances stores, funeral parlors, business and commercial schools, gift shops, grocery stores, health-care facilities, commercial recreation and entertainment (including, but not limited to, theaters, nightclubs, restaurants, taverns, outdoor dining/entertainment, bowling alleys, museums, pool halls, skating rinks, social halls, clubs and lodges), schools of business, technical trades, art, music, dancing and photography, and any facilities, actions or measures required to achieve compliance with governmental regulations. Note: This use class excludes adult entertainment and services and single-person occupancy in dwellings.

Use Class 12(c): Craft brewery or craft distillery.

Use Class 13: Accessory residential uses. Includes home occupations; home gardening, but not the raising of livestock or poultry; private parking areas; nonprofit nurseries and greenhouses (not including outdoor storage of equipment).

Use Class 14: Parking and loading areas and signs.

Use Class 15: Other accessory uses customarily appurtenant to permitted uses.

Use Class 16: Multifamily dwellings.

Use Class 17: Related residential uses. Includes nonprofit social halls, clubs and lodges.

Use Class 18: Strip mining, in accordance with provisions outlined in § 220-24E, to the extent that such mining is not preempted by the provisions of 52 P.S. § 1396.17a.

Use Class 19: Appropriate public uses. Includes public and quasi-public uses of a welfare, educational, religious, recreational and cultural nature and dormitories and religious homes accessory to such uses; and essential public utilities that require enclosure within a building or structure. All such uses shall be appropriate to the character of the district in which they are proposed as determined by the Zoning Hearing Board.

Use Class 20: Elder-care facilities as defined in § 220-5, Schedule 2, of this chapter shall be permitted in the R-1 Residential Zoning District and the following regulations shall be applicable: