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South Fayette Township
City Zoning Code

ARTICLE XI

I-P Industrial Park District

§ 240-63 Purpose.

The purpose of this District is to encourage campus-style development of light industrial uses in appropriate locations in the Township, consistent with sound planning and environmental controls.

§ 240-64 Authorized uses.

[Amended 11-15-2010 by Ord. No. 5-2010; 7-18-2011 by Ord. No. 4-2011; 7-20-2011 by Ord. No. 3-2011; 7-8-2015 by Ord. No. 1-2015; 7-13-2016 by Ord. No. 6-2016; 10-8-2025 by Ord. No. 2-2025]
In the I-P Industrial Park District, only the following uses are authorized:
A. 
Permitted uses.
(1) 
Principal uses.
(a) 
Bakery, including processing.
(b) 
Business or professional offices.
(c) 
Candy or ice cream shop, including processing.
(d) 
Contracting business and contractor's yard.
(e) 
Equipment storage yard.
(f) 
Essential services.
(g) 
Food and related products, packaging, storage and distribution.
(h) 
Forestry, subject to § 240-105.
(i) 
Garden nursery.
(j) 
High technology industries.
(k) 
Incidental mineral removal.
(l) 
Light manufacturing, provided all storage and operations are within a completely enclosed building.
(m) 
Mini-warehouse or self-storage facilities.
(n) 
Noncommercial recreation.
(o) 
Packaging, storage and distribution.
(p) 
Printing establishment.
(q) 
Public recreation, other than Township-related facilities.
(r) 
Public utility building or structure.
(s) 
Repair shop.
(t) 
Research and development, including pilot manufacturing.
(u) 
Township-related facilities.
(v) 
Vehicle repair garage.
(w) 
Warehousing and distribution.
(x) 
Water towers and water storage facilities.
(y) 
Wholesale business.
(2) 
Accessory uses.
(a) 
Signs, subject to Article XVIII.
(b) 
Off-street parking and loading, subject to Article XVII.
(c) 
Fences, subject to § 240-99.
(d) 
Other accessory uses customarily incidental to and on the same lot with any permitted use, conditional use or use by special exception authorized in this District.
(e) 
Retail sales of products produced on site.
(f) 
No-impact home-based business or home occupation in a dwelling which is a nonconforming use.
(g) 
Small solar, small wind and outdoor hydronic renewable energy systems, subject to § 240-95A(63).
B. 
Conditional uses.
(1) 
Principal uses.
(a) 
Commercial recreation, subject to § 240-95A(10).
(b) 
Communications tower, subject to § 240-95A(11).
(c) 
Firehouses, subject to § 240-95A(9).
(d) 
Golf course; golf or county club, subject to § 240-95A(19).
(e) 
Planned industrial park, subject to § 240-95A(35).
(f) 
Public buildings, other than Township-related facilities, subject to § 240-95A(9).
(g) 
Truck and heavy equipment rental, sales and service, subject to § 240-95A(43).
(h) 
Truck terminal, subject to § 240-95A(44).
(i) 
Oil and gas development, subject to § 240-95A(54).
(j) 
Natural gas compressor station and natural gas processing plant, subject to § 240-95A(55).
(k) 
Distribution/processing facility, subject to § 240-95A(55).
(l) 
Oil and gas development, subject to § 240-95A(54).
(m) 
Natural gas compressor station and natural gas processing plant, subject to § 240-95A(55).
(2) 
Accessory uses.
(a) 
Communications antenna mounted on an existing building or on an existing public utility storage or transmission structure, subject to § 240-95A(12).
(b) 
Temporary construction trailer or sales office, subject to § 240-95A(49).
(c) 
Impoundments, subject to § 240-95A(56).
C. 
Uses by special exception.
(1) 
Principal uses.
(a) 
Car wash, subject to § 240-95A(7).
(b) 
Temporary use or structure, other than a construction trailer or sales office, subject to § 240-95A(42).
(c) 
Comparable uses not specifically listed, subject to § 240-95A(13).
(2) 
Accessory uses. None.

§ 240-65 Area and bulk regulations.

In the I-P Industrial Park District, all uses shall be subject to the following regulations, except as they may be modified by the express standards and criteria for the specific conditional uses and uses by special exception contained in Article XV.
A. 
Minimum lot area; 40,000 square feet.
(1) 
Planned industrial park: five acres.
(2) 
Individual lot or lots within a park: 30,000 square feet.
* Nonconforming lots of record may be used without a lot area or lot width variance, provided all other area and bulk regulations of this § 240-65 can be met.
B. 
Minimum lot width: 150 feet.
C. 
Maximum impervious surface coverage: 65%.
D. 
Minimum front yard: 50 feet.
E. 
Minimum rear yard.
(1) 
Principal structures of three stories or less.
(a) 
Adjoining any R District: 100 feet.
(b) 
Adjoining all other districts: 50 feet.
(2) 
Principal Structures exceeding three stories.
(a) 
Adjoining any R District: 100 feet plus 50 feet for each story over three stories.
(b) 
Adjoining all other districts: 50 feet plus 50 feet for each story over three stories.
(3) 
Accessory structures: 30 feet.
F. 
Minimum side yard.
(1) 
Principal structures of three stories or less.
(a) 
Adjoining any R District: 100 feet.
(b) 
Adjoining all other districts: 30 feet.
(2) 
Principal structures exceeding three stories.
(a) 
Adjoining any R District: 100 feet plus 50 feet for each story over three stories.
(b) 
Adjoining all other districts: 30 feet plus 50 feet for each story over three stories.
(3) 
Accessory structures: 30 feet.
G. 
Special yard requirements: see § 240-99.
H. 
Permitted projections into required yards: see § 240-100.
I. 
Maximum height.
(1) 
All principal structures: six stories but no more than 60 feet.
(2) 
All accessory structures: one story but no more than 20 feet.
J. 
Height exceptions: see § 240-101.

§ 240-66 Parking and loading.

See Article XVII.

§ 240-67 Signs.

See Article XVIII.

§ 240-68 Buffer areas and landscaping.

See § 240-98.

§ 240-69 Storage.

See § 240-104.