Trainer City Zoning Code
ARTICLE V
Industrial District Regulations
§ 265-24 Statement of intent.
The purpose of establishing the following two industrial districts within the Borough of Trainer is to permit and regulate manufacturing, warehousing, processing and light industrial uses in order to provide an adequate tax base and sufficient employment for the people of Trainer and other communities of southern Delaware County. Existing industrial uses and areas currently in the two industrial districts take up a large portion of the Borough's land area and have a large impact on the Borough. These regulations are intended to make maximum benefit of the industrial areas and to reduce the negative impact that industry can have on the residential and shopping areas of the Borough. At the same time, it is the intent of these regulations to encourage industrial development and expansion to the maximum extent possible consistent with the Comprehensive Plan and with sound land use practices.
§ 265-25 I-1 Industrial District.
A.
Use regulations.
(1)
Permitted uses.
(a)
Assembly, sales, repairs and service of business and office machines, equipment and devices.
(b)
Sales, service, repairs of farm and garden machinery, equipment and supplies, including feed stores.
(c)
Mail order store house or business.
(d)
Design, manufacture, distribution and sale of burial monuments and underground burial vaults.
(e)
Offices, including office records storage.
(f)
Radio and television stations or studios or cinemas, but not to include drive-in theaters.
(g)
Commercial greenhouse, nursery or wholesale florist.
(h)
The manufacture, compounding, processing, canning, containing, packaging, treatment, sale and distribution of products, drugs, perfume, pharmaceuticals, toiletries and food products.
(i)
The manufacture, compounding, assembly or treatment of articles or merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: sheet cellophane, canvas, cloth, rope, cord, twine, yarn, plastic, feathers, fiber, fur, glass, hair, paper, metals, precious or semiprecious stones, shell, tobacco, textiles and wood, but planing mills shall be specifically excluded from this district.
(j)
The manufacture of ceramic products, using only previously pulverized clay and plaster.
(k)
Electric transforming substations or other necessary public service uses.
(l)
Manufacture and assembly of musical instruments, toys, novelties and metal stampings.
(m)
Manufacture and assembly of electrical or electronic devices, home, commercial or industrial appliances and instruments, including the manufacture of accessory parts of assemblies.
(n)
Experimental, manufacturing and research laboratories.
(o)
Manufacture of textiles or textile products, including spinning and weaving but excluding wool pulling or scouring or jute or burlap processing or reconditioning or dyeing of any sort.
(p)
Manufacture of paper or cardboard boxes, containers and novelties from previously prepared paper or cardboard.
(q)
Central heating plants, municipal incinerator or other municipal uses.
(r)
Laundry and/or dry cleaning.
(s)
Manufacture, preparation, containing, packaging, storage, sale and distribution of beverages.
(t)
Printing, binding and kindred arts, including publishing, engraving, lithographing or similar methods of reproduction.
(u)
Cold storage plant, frozen food plant and lockers, food commissaries and catering plants.
(v)
Storage buildings and warehouses.
(w)
Machine, plumbing, heating, roofing, carpenter, cabinet making, upholstering, furniture, electrical, welding, buffing, finishing, prefabricating, tinsmith, pipe fitting, paperhanging, painter and decorator shops.
(x)
Fabrication of hardware, cutlery, tools, scientific instruments and apparatus.
(y)
Underground storage, in bulk, of fuel oil for sale and distribution, excluding gasoline and other highly volatile or explosive fluids.
(z)
Animal hospital, excluding open, outdoor kennels.
(aa)
Hospitals and sanitoria, including inpatient hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, public or private psychiatric hospitals, drug and/or alcohol rehabilitation hospitals and facilities, general nursing facilities, hospital-based nursing facilities, county-operated nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded or psychiatric transitional facilities.
[Added 2-11-2016 by Ord. No. 748]
(2)
Accessory uses. Accessory uses customarily incidental to any of the permitted uses in this section are permitted; such accessory uses must be shown on the site plans submitted for approval or must be submitted separately at a later time in accordance with the § 265-53.
(3)
Uses permitted as an exception by the Zoning Hearing Board: any use not specified as a permitted use when considered to be a use of the same general character as any of the above listed permitted uses. Such accessory uses shall be granted a special exception only if they meet all other requirements of this chapter.
(4)
Uses permitted by conditional use in the manner set forth in Chapter 265: Zoning, Article VII, Supplementary Regulations, § 265-39, E(2)(a) through (h).
[Added 3-8-2018 by Ord. No. 762]
(a)
Retail sale of heavy-duty truck.
(b)
Retail sale of heavy-duty equipment (heavy-duty vehicles, specially designed for executing construction tasks, most frequently ones involving earthwork operations, construction, maintenance, materials handling, forestry, and agricultural equipment).
(c)
Machine shops for automotive work and uses.
B.
General. Within the I-1 District the lot area; lot width street frontage; front, rear and side yards; and space between buildings will be determined by the individual uses and other requirements of this chapter such as building setbacks, parking and loading, etc.
C.
Height. A maximum of 60 feet.
D.
Building setbacks.
(1)
No building shall be erected, constructed or maintained within 50 feet of any street line.
(2)
No building, parking or loading space shall be erected, constructed or maintained within 50 feet of the zoning district boundary line of any residence district.
(3)
No building shall be erected, constructed or maintained within 25 feet of any property line.
(4)
No parking or loading space shall be constructed or maintained within 10 feet of any property line.
E.
Coverage. Not more than 40% of the area of any lot may be occupied by buildings.
§ 265-26 I-2. Industrial District.
[Amended 7-11-2002 by Ord. No. 645]
A.
Prohibited uses.
(1)
Dwellings, other than for watchmen, custodians or caretakers employed on the premises.
(2)
Churches and other institutions of religion.
(3)
Schools, except these operated for profit or incidental to the commercial or industrial operations carried on upon the premises.
(4)
Junkyards.
(5)
Adult entertainment uses. However, adult entertainment uses are permitted if the use is located at least 500 feet from any residentially zoned district and any B Business District, and any church, school, day-care facility or hospital. Further, no alcoholic beverages shall be permitted to be sold or consumed on the premises of any adult entertainment use. Finally, only adult entertainment uses are permitted in which patrons do not have any physical contact with other patrons or with business employees who are nude or partially nude. No entertainer nor any adult entertainment shall be able to be viewed from the exterior of the adult entertainment facility.
B.
General. Within the I-2 Industrial District, the lot area, lot width, street frontage, front, rear and side yards, and space between buildings will be determined by the individual uses and other requirements of this chapter such as building setbacks, parking and loading, etc.
C.
Height. Buildings may extend to any height.
D.
Coverage. Buildings may occupy 100% of the lot.
E.
Parking and loading. Parking and loading shall be provided in accordance with requirements contained in § 265-42.
G.
H.
Uses permitted by conditional use in the manner set forth in Chapter 265, Zoning, Article VII, Supplementary Regulations, § 265-39, E(2)(a) through (h) and conditioned on providing eight-foot-high privacy fence with 88% privacy blockage on three sides of the property as follows:
[Added 3-8-2018 by Ord. No. 762]