Upper Merion Township
City Zoning Code

Any use permitted in AG Agricultural Districts and the following uses:

Wholesaling, warehousing, distributing, trucking; laundering, cleaning and dyeing; storage and sale of lumber, plumbing, other building materials and supplies, ice, coal, fuel oil, monuments; metalsmithing, extrusion of small metals, welding, body repair, plating; cold-storage plant, frozen food locker; laboratory for research and testing.

Manufacturing or processing of beverages, confections, cream, all food products (exclusive of meat- or fish packing), ceramics, clothing, plastics, electrical appliances, furniture, hardware, tools, dies, patterns, scientific instruments, jewelry, timepieces, optical goods, musical instruments, toys, cosmetics, tobacco products, drugs, printing and publishing.

Manufacturing of products from the following previously prepared materials: wood, glass, textiles, cork, leather, bone, horn, shell, fur, feathers, hair, sheet rubber, paper.

Signs, subject to the provisions of Article XXVII herein.

Any use of the same general character as any of the uses hereinbefore specifically permitted when authorized as a special exception.

Accessory use on the same lot with and customarily incidental to any of the foregoing permitted uses.

Gasoline service station use when authorized by a special exception.

Automobile sales agency and/or used car lot, provided that the used car lot is a minimum of five acres. No merchandise shall be stored or displayed in a front yard setback or side yard setback abutting a street.

Restaurants shall be permitted on lots, parcels or tracts of land containing at least 50 acres in the LI Zoning District, not to exceed more than one restaurant per 15 acres.

Data centers shall be permitted in the LI Zoning District by conditional use as outlined in §§ 165-219.1 and 165-219.11.

The maximum height of buildings and other structures erected or enlarged in this district shall be 50 feet, except that such height may be increased to a maximum of 65 feet, provided that for every foot of height in excess of 50 feet, there shall be added to each yard requirement one corresponding foot of width or depth.

For developments on lots, parcels or tracts of land containing at least 90 acres in the LI Zoning District, building height may be increased to a maximum of 80 feet, provided that:

Front yards. There shall be a front yard on each lot which shall be not less than 40 feet in depth.

Side yards.

Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard on each lot the depth of which shall be not less than 20 feet, except as hereinafter provided in Subsection E hereof.

Building coverage. Not more than 75% of the area of any lot shall be occupied by buildings.

Lots abutting residential or agricultural districts. Unless authorized as a special exception, no building or structure shall be erected closer than 150 feet to any residential or agricultural zoning district. In no case shall any building or structure or any parking area be closer than 50 feet to any residential or agricultural district, which fifty-foot area shall be maintained as a green area and planted in grass, shrubs and/or trees.