Tilden Township City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XII
L-3 Educational Industrial District
§ 500-44 Purpose.
The purpose of the L-3 Educational Industrial District is to permit and encourage training in industrial and commercial skills in selected locations which will constitute a harmonious and appropriate part of the physical development of the Township and which will otherwise further the general purposes of the chapter as set forth in § 500-1.
§ 500-45 Procedural requirements.
Applications for permits pursuant to this article shall be submitted in accordance with the requirements of Section 1611.[1] All industrial and commercial uses of land within the district must be an integral part of the operation of an educational program, whether as a permitted use or by special exception.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Section 1611, Procedure for Issuance of permits under R-4 (Multifamily and Mobile Home Development), was repealed 7-11-2009 by Ord. No. 195.
§ 500-46 Use regulations.
[Amended 11-6-2004 by Ord. No. 152]
A building may be erected or used and a lot may be used or occupied for any of the following uses and no other, provided that any use permitted in the district shall conform with the performance standards set forth in § 500-72 of this chapter:
A.
Schools and educational related uses, including residential use when specifically related to the educational use, except in industrial parks.
D.
Research, testing or experimental laboratory.
E.
Executive or administrative office building.
F.
Wholesale business establishment including wholesale dairy or bakery.
G.
All industrial and commercial uses of land within the district must be an integral part of the operation of an educational program, whether as a permitted use or by special exception.
H.
All sales of products and services must have been produced as a result of a work study program.
I.
Dwelling quarters for watchman or caretaker employed on the premises.
J.
Accessory use of the same lot with and customarily incidental to any of the above permitted uses, and including signs when erected and maintained in accordance with the provisions of Article XX of this chapter.
K.
Forestry as a use permitted by right.
§ 500-47 Uses permitted by special exception.
[Amended 7-11-2009 by Ord. No. 195]
A.
Warehouse or yard for storage, sale and distribution of ice, coal, fuel oil, building materials or products of manufacturing uses permitted in this district.
B.
Manufacture of products from the following previously processed and prepared materials: bone, ceramics, cork, feathers, felt, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, metal, paper, plaster, plastics, precious and semiprecious, stones, rubber, shells, textiles, tobacco and wood.
C.
Manufacture of electrical appliances and supplies; small or hand tools; hardware; toys; jewelry; clocks and watches; musical, professional and scientific instruments; optical goods; machinery and machine tools; electric equipment; motors; iron and steel products, including fabrication and assembly.
D.
Truck or hauling stations and public garage, including the storage of refuse trucks provided the entire use is contained within a building.
E.
Compounding of noncombustible pharmaceutical products.
F.
Telephone central office or utility substation.
G.
Any industrial use of the same general character as any of the above-permitted uses except the following uses, or any use substantially similar thereto, which are specifically prohibited:
(1)
Abattoir or stock yard.
(2)
Chemical manufacture as follows: acetylene, aniline, dyes, ammonia; carbide, caustic soda; cellulose; chlorine, carbon black and bone black; cleaning and polishing preparations; creosote; exterminating agents; hydrogen and oxygen; industrial alcohol; nitrating of cotton or other materials; nitrates of an explosive nature; potash; plastic materials and synthetic rosins; pyroxlin; rayon yarn; hydrochloric, picric or sulfuric acids and derivatives.
(3)
Incineration or reduction of garbage, offal, and dead animals, except by municipal agencies on municipally owned lots, fat rendering.
(4)
Leather and fur tanning, curing, finishing and dyeing.
(5)
Junk, salvage or automobile wrecking yard.
(6)
Manufacture of asphalt; charcoal and lampblack; coals, coke and tar products; explosives; fertilizer; glue; gelatin; ink; linoleum and oilcloth; matches; paint, varnishes and turpentine, rubber, caoutchouc, gutta percha (including processing); soap; starch; shoddy and waste products.
(7)
The reduction, refining, smelting and allying of metal and metal ores.
(8)
Refining of petroleum or petroleum products.
(9)
Distillation of wood or bones.
(10)
Reduction or processing of wood pulp or wood fibers.
§ 500-48 Area and bulk regulations.
[Amended 1-2-2007 by Ord. No. 172]
A.
Lot area and width. Each lot shall have an area of not less than 10 acres, and a width of not less than 250 feet at the building line.
B.
Floor-area ratio. The total floor area of principal and accessory buildings excluding cellar area, shall not exceed 50% of the lot area.
C.
Lot area ratio. Principal and accessory buildings shall occupy not more than 25% of the lot area. All structures, including outdoor storage, shall occupy not more than 50% of the lot area.
D.
Yard requirements.
(1)
Front yard. There shall be a front yard along each street or proposed street on which a lot abuts which shall be not less than 75 feet in depth.
(2)
Side and rear yards. There shall be two side yards on each lot neither of which shall be less than 25 feet in width with an aggregate of no less than 100 feet. There shall be a rear yard on each lot which shall be not less than 50 feet in depth.
(3)
Buffer yard. Along residential district boundary lines, a buffer yard shall be provided which shall be not less than 100 feet in width, measured from such boundary line or from the street line, where such street constitutes the district boundary line, and shall be in accordance with the provisions of § 500-70. Such buffer yard may be conterminous with any required yard in this district, and in case of conflict, the larger yard requirement shall apply.
E.
Off-Street parking and loading facilities shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of Article XIX.
F.
Height regulations. No building shall exceed 35 feet or two stories in height.