Tinicum Township City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XIII
I-B Industrial-Business District
§ 395-68 District purposes.
A.
The purposes of this district are to provide for a variety of commercial, manufacturing, storage, industrial, business, and laboratory uses arranged in planned centers, lots, or leaseholds. This district also permits higher impact industrial uses by special exception.
B.
Another purpose is to prohibit the physical presence of aircraft within the district.
§ 395-69 Uses permitted by right.
A building, or a portion thereof, may be erected, altered, or used, and a lot, area, leasehold, or a portion thereof, may be altered or used for only one or more of the following uses:
A.
Commercial uses:
(1)
Retail store or establishment.
(2)
Business or professional building or use.
(3)
Financial use, such as a bank, stockbroker, finance company, or other financial establishment.
(4)
Personal service, such as barbershop or dry cleaning.
(5)
Tinicum Township municipal or civic use such as municipal office, police, or fire station, or post office.
(6)
Research, development or testing laboratory or facility.
(7)
Medical clinic (outpatient only), or similar health care facility.
(8)
Electronic data processing, telecommunications, or similar use.
(9)
Towing business.
(11)
Auto repair and service or auto body and collision shop.
(12)
Freight facility, with no physical presence of aircraft.
(13)
Auditorium, assembly, or similar meeting place for the assembly of persons for civic, social, business, educational, and similar events or purposes.
(14)
Warehouse or distribution facility.
B.
Industrial uses: manufacturing, fabricating, processing, finishing, packaging, assembly, repair, and related operations. Permitted products and operations include the following:
(1)
Appliances, electronics, business machines, bicycles, musical instruments, athletic equipment, brooms or brushes, cameras or photo equipment and optical instruments and goods, film and photographic instruments.
(2)
Boat building, automobile parts, recreational vehicles and other motor vehicles.
(3)
Baked goods, beverages, including alcoholic.
(4)
Hemp and jute products, shoes and clothing (not including textile mills)
(5)
Dry cleaning using other than flammable liquids in cleaning or dyeing operations.
(6)
Motion picture and television filming, production, and broadcast; radio program production and broadcasting.
(7)
Laundries, machinery, printing or publishing, furniture, upholstery, millwork and woodworking.
(8)
Ceramics, glass, gypsum, metal, brick and masonry and plastic products.
(9)
Electrolytic-reducing works.
(10)
Ice and water pumping.
(11)
Engines, including rebuilding.
(12)
Food processing, airport-related.
(13)
Storage uses such as operable vehicles, landscaping and building supplies, and trailers, but not including storage of waste tires or hazardous wastes, the latter as defined by the Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act, 35 P.S. § 6018.101 et seq., where storage of the waste tires or hazardous wastes is the principal use or occupancy.
(14)
Food processing, excluding livestock and fish.
C.
Communications antennas mounted on an existing public utility transmission tower, building or other structure, including existing communications towers, and communications equipment buildings.
§ 395-70 Uses permitted by special exception.
Notwithstanding any provision contained in § 395-69, the following higher impact industrial uses and operations shall be permitted only by special exception, subject to the applicable provisions of Articles XXI, Standards for Special Exceptions and Conditional Uses, and XXVI, Zoning Hearing Board:
A.
Boiler works.
B.
Canneries, including food products.
C.
Condensed and powdered milk manufacture.
D.
Electric light plants and power houses.
E.
Foundry.
F.
Leather and tanneries.
G.
Textile mills, including canvas, cotton cloth, bagging, burlap, carpets and rags.
H.
Tobacco or tobacco products.
I.
Medical marijuana dispensary facility.
(2)
A medical marijuana dispensary facility shall be clearly identified as such in its signage.
(3)
A medical marijuana dispensary facility may only dispense medical marijuana in an indoor, enclosed, secured facility located within the commonwealth as determined by the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
(4)
A medical marijuana dispensary facility may not operate on the same site as a facility used for growing and processing marijuana.
(5)
A medical marijuana dispensary facility shall be subject to quarterly inspection by the Township Zoning Officer or other Township designee.
(6)
A medical marijuana dispensary facility may not operate without a permit issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Health under the Medical Marijuana Act.
J.
Medical marijuana growing/processing facility.
(2)
A medical marijuana growing/processing facility shall be clearly identified as such in its signage.
(3)
A medical marijuana growing/processing facility may only grow, store, harvest or process medical marijuana in an indoor, enclosed, secured facility which includes electronic locking systems, electronic surveillance and other features required by the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
(4)
A medical marijuana growing processing facility may not operate on the same site as a facility used for dispensing marijuana.
(5)
A medical marijuana growing/processing facility shall be subject to quarterly inspection by the Township Zoning Officer or other Township designee.
(6)
A medical marijuana growing/processing facility may not operate without a permit issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Health under the Medical Marijuana Act.
§ 395-71 Accessory uses and structures.
E.
Restaurant, cafeteria, or snack bar for employees or customers of any use permitted in this district.
G.
Recreation area for employees.
H.
Living quarters for a watchman or caretaker.
I.
Child day-care center designed to serve occupants and employees of permitted uses, subject to § 395-151H.
J.
Auditorium, assembly, or similar meeting place for the assembly of persons for civic, social, business, educational, and similar events or purposes.
K.
Any accessory use on the same lot with and customarily incidental to the principal use on the property and not detrimental to the area.
§ 395-72 Special development regulations and exceptions.
A.
Buffer area requirements shall not be applicable to existing structures or uses, or to any change in use relating to an existing structure. In any area where a principal new building or an addition to a principal existing building is proposed, a buffer, as defined in Article II, shall be provided at the property line with all residential uses. The buffer shall be not less than 20 feet wide as measured from the district boundary line or from the near street line where the street serves as the district boundary line. Buffers may be part of front, side, or rear yards.
B.
Screening requirements shall not be applicable to existing structures or uses, or to any changes in use relating to an existing structure. A planted visual screen, as defined in Article II, or a privacy fence, shall be provided and continually maintained where a principal new building is proposed within 60 feet of a residential district. Planted visual screens shall comply with the requirements of § 395-141F and shall be provided along the property lines that face any residential district.
C.
Landscaping requirements shall not be applicable to existing structures or uses, or to any changes in use relating to an existing structure. Landscaping, as per § 395-142, shall apply only to areas where a principal new building or addition to a principal existing building is proposed.
D.
The space devoted to outdoor storage shall not exceed three times the space occupied within an enclosed building on the premises.
E.
In instances where the regulations set forth in the most recent adopted version of the International Construction Code are not met with regard to fire safety, walls, separations, and isolations of incompatible uses, a separation distance of 50 feet shall be maintained between uses.
F.
Each use shall comply with the NFPA 101 Life Safety Code of 1997, as amended.
G.
There shall be no physical presence of aircraft.
§ 395-73 Area and bulk regulations.
A.
Lot area: one acre.
B.
Lot frontage: 75 feet (on public or private access roads).
D.
Building coverage: 50%, maximum.
E.
Impervious surface: 75%, maximum.
F.
Height: 50 feet, maximum; however, height may be increased by one foot for each foot that the distance between buildings exceeds 25 feet, with a maximum of 100 feet.
G.
Distance between buildings: 25 feet.