Stonycreek Township
City Zoning Code
City Zoning Code
ARTICLE VI
Commercial Districts
§ 155-22 Commercial District.
Within the Commercial District, the following regulations shall apply:
A.
Permitted uses shall be as follows:
(1)
All uses permitted in the R-3 District.
(2)
Administrative offices for commercial and industrial organizations.
(3)
Amusement establishment, including bowling alley, dance hall and similar place of recreation when conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building.
(4)
Auto accessory store, automobile and truck sales and incidental service.
(5)
Bakery shop, including the baking and processing of food products.
(6)
Bank, financial institution, savings-and-loan association, drive-in or main office.
(7)
Barbershop or beauty shop.
(8)
Blueprinting or photostating establishment.
(9)
Business, charitable or professional offices.
(10)
Bus passenger terminal.
(11)
Cabinet shop.
(12)
Camera and photographic supply shop, retail sales and service.
(13)
Department store.
(14)
Dry-cleaning or pressing establishment, when employing facilities for the cleaning or pressing of dry goods received on the premises from retail trade only and including no wholesale cleaning or pressing business and when using nonflammable solvents as approved by the Fire Department.
(15)
Dry goods store, haberdashery or wearing apparel store.
(16)
Electrical appliances store, sales, service and repair, but excluding appliance assembly or manufacture.
(17)
Funeral home or mortuary.
(18)
Furniture store or upholstery shop.
(19)
Furrier, conducted as a retail operation for trade on the premises only.
(20)
Garden supplies, seed store or nursery.
(21)
Health club.
(22)
Hotel, motor hotel, club or restaurant.
(23)
Household appliance store, sales and service.
(24)
Interior decorating business, including upholstering and making of draperies, slipcovers and similar articles when conducted as a part of the retail operations and secondary to the main use.
(25)
Jewelry store.
(26)
Medical clinic.
(27)
Office, business or professional.
(28)
Paint or wallpaper sales.
(29)
Photographer's studio or art gallery, including the developing of film when conducted as a part of the retail business on the premises.
(30)
Plumbing, heating or similar business showroom, including shop or repair facilities, provided that work is carried out and storage is accommodated in an enclosed building.
(31)
Post office.
(32)
Printing shop.
(33)
Restaurant, cafeteria and snack bar, including the sale of alcoholic beverages.
(34)
Service station, public garage or other motor vehicle services, provided that no repair work is performed outdoors; provided that all pumps, underground storage tanks lubricating and other devices are located not less than 25 feet from any street right-of-way; provided that all fuel, oil or similar substances are stored inside or underground; and provided that all automobile parts, dismantled vehicles and similar articles are stored within a building.
(35)
Shoe store.
(36)
Sporting good store.
(37)
Theater, indoor.
(38)
Travel agency.
(39)
Typewriter or office equipment sales and services.
(40)
Variety store.
(41)
Similar type retail, service or commercial use not specifically listed herein when authorized by the Zoning Hearing Board after receipt and review of recommendations from the Planning Commission. Special exceptions as regulated and permitted under Article VIII herein which are permitted in the district. As special exceptions under Article VIII, light manufacturing (§ 155-32), and storage yard and building for contracting or excavating equipment (§ 155-34).
C.
Height. The maximum height of buildings hereafter erected or altered shall be as follows: all buildings shall be a maximum of 45 feet or three stories.
D.
Lot size. The minimum lot area for all commercial buildings hereafter erected or altered shall be 20,000 square feet and a minimum width at the building line of 100 feet.
F.
Dwelling standards shall be as required in the R-3 District.
I.
Conditions of use. In addition to the site plan requirements in Article IV, § 155-14, the following regulations shall apply:
(1)
Traffic study.
(a)
The study shall include a comparative analysis of present capacity of street(s) adjacent to the proposed development, together with necessary points of access to off-street parking and loading. Traffic data available from the Highway Department may be utilized, provided that such data is deemed current by the Planning Commission.
(b)
The study shall include a circulation plan for all streets in the vicinity, existing and proposed, which will show the recommendations for controlling, signalizing, channelizing, storing, warning and directing traffic.
(2)
Landscape and site development plan, to include:
(a)
A plan of landscape development which shall include, among other considerations, an area of at least five feet in width along all streets, with the exception of approved entrances, to be planted and maintained with trees, shrubbery or other landscaped material or an ornamental fence or wall to serve as a visual screen for parking areas and loading or servicing areas.
(b)
A buffer area consisting of suitable landscaping maintained wherever the proposed business abuts an R District or a residential dwelling.
(c)
The location, arrangement, size and effect of all outdoor advertising or other signs and lighting proposed to be erected.
(3)
Architecture. Architectural plans of the buildings and structures showing that the project has a unified design which will be in character and proper relationship to the surrounding areas shall be submitted to the Planning Commission for recommendation and approval.
(4)
Other permits. Any required state or federal agency approvals or permits shall be obtained before applying for a building or occupancy permit.