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Upper Mount Bethel Township
City Zoning Code

ARTICLE VIII

Provisions Not Applicable to Planned Industrial Park Development in Certain Districts

§ 350-48 Inapplicable provisions.

The following provisions of this chapter shall not be applicable to the development of planned industrial parks in the Township's I-2 and I-3 Industrial Zoning Districts:
A. 
The definitions of "building" and "building restriction or setback line" in § 350-9, § 350-27E, and any other section which designates a fence or a retaining wall as a structure or building and prohibits a fence or a retaining wall from being located in a setback or a steep slope shall not be applicable to the development of a planned industrial park in the Township's I-2 and I-3 Industrial Zoning Districts.
B. 
Section 350-13C, entitled "Minimum lot areas where environmental constraints exist," shall not be applicable to lots located or to be located in planned industrial parks in the Township's I-2 and I-3 Industrial Zoning Districts.
C. 
Section 350-19C(3)(b), (d) and (e) which designate projects which will have a major traffic impact as conditional uses, shall not be applicable to planned industrial parks in the Township's I-2 and I-3 Industrial Zoning Districts, however, when the first land development plan located in a planned industrial park is submitted, the developer shall submit a traffic impact study that projects the impact of the development depicted on the overall conceptual sketch plan. Such traffic impact study shall be updated when the actual development of such planned industrial park differs in a material way from the development depicted on the overall conceptual sketch plan by proposing a use or uses that will generate more traffic than estimated in the originally submitted trade impact study.
D. 
Section 350-19D, which designates projects which include actions in environmentally sensitive protection areas as conditional uses, shall not be applicable to planned industrial parks in the Township's I-2 and I-3 Industrial Zoning Districts, however, the developer shall submit an environmental impact analysis with each application for approval of a planned industrial park.
E. 
Sections 350-19D(1)(h) and 350-19E and Schedule III, Development Suitability of Land Areas Adversely Affected by Various Environmental Constraints, included in § 350-13C, which require the preservation of the natural diversity of proposed zoning areas and the preparation of a community impact analysis, shall not be applicable to planned industrial parks in the Township's I-2 and I-3 Industrial Zoning Districts, however, the developer shall comply with all of the applicable rules and regulations of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, PADEP, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, USACOE, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and Chapter 285, Stormwater Management, with regard to earth disturbances that will affect floodplains, wetlands, endangered species or endangered plants.