Use B-10: Convenience store. A convenience store is an individual store or a group of stores on one lot where retail trade intended for quick sale and carry-out and/or the sale of gasoline products, other petroleum fuels and/or alternative fuels for vehicles is the principal use. Such use does not specialize in a particular product, but offers an array of different items, including but not limited to take-out coffee, dairy products, delicatessen, dry goods, prepared foods for eat-in or carry-out, prepackaged food, grocery items, newspaper items, and similar product lines including the sale of fuel products, tobacco and tobacco-related products, with less than 10% of its retail floor area or display area dedicated to, or which maintains 20% or less of its total merchandise, whether on display or in stock, for products containing tobacco, tobacco paraphernalia, Delta-8 THC (or Delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol) products, kratom, ingestible CBD/cannabidiol products, and/or electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), ENDS-related products and/or any materials that can be used in electronic nicotine delivery systems. A store exceeding this 10% requirement shall be considered a significant tobacco retailer.
(a) A convenience store may be established as a complementary or accessory use to Use B-29, Service station, provided all requirements of such use are met.
(b) Separate and distinct ingress and egress patterns shall be provided on the lot.
(c) A minimum of two separate and remote trash receptacles and one recycling receptacle shall be provided and maintained outdoors for pedestrian use.
(d) No outside vending machines, outside sales but for motor vehicle or cooking fuel, ATMs or phones are permitted.
(e) Facilities for dumpsters shall be screened according to the provisions of this section or inside trash compactors and storage shall be provided.
(f) The square footage of the building shall not exceed 6,000 square feet.
[1] Buildings shall have a front yard setback of an adequate distance to provide safe internal circulation and ingress and egress. Buildings shall be set back at least 40 feet from an adjacent residential district. This setback shall replace any other applicable setback for buildings along the boundary with an adjacent residential zoning district.
[2] Parking shall be set back five feet from the ultimate right-of-way and may be located between the building and a right-of-way.
[3] There shall be maintained a minimum five-foot buffer area adjacent to a residential district, except where a public right-of-way intervenes. Buffers adjacent to a residential use shall be a continuous screen by a combination of a six-foot-high solid wall/fence and screened plantings. Use of native species is encouraged; invasive species identified by the Township shall be prohibited. Screening plantings shall include a mix of evergreen and deciduous trees and shrubs, and may include noninvasive vines, ornamental plantings and grasses.
[4] Loading must be in a designated area and may be located between a building and a right-of-way.
[5] Trash enclosures may be located within a front yard. However, all trash enclosures shall be set back at least five feet from a side or rear property line. When visible from a public street, the structure shall be constructed of brick or stone exterior, with wooden or decorative access gates.