Willistown Township
City Zoning Code
City Zoning Code
ARTICLE X
O Office Districts
§ 139-38 Objectives.
Office districts are designed to make provisions for general office uses and other uses similar to or consistent with such use.
§ 139-39 Use regulations.
A building may be erected, altered or used, and a lot may be used or occupied for the following purposes and no other:
A.
General office.
B.
Business or professional office, agency or studio.
C.
Bank or other financial institution.
D.
Laboratory for research and testing, not involving commercial production, danger from fire or explosion or noise, odor or fumes emanating from the building.
E.
Accessory use on the same lot with and customarily incidental to any of the foregoing permitted uses.
F.
Nursing home, when authorized by the Zoning Hearing Board as a special exception, subject also to the requirements of § 139-122.
G.
Educational or religious uses on tracts of not less than 20 acres, which use may include one or more buildings for the principal use and for accessory uses.
[Added 7-8-1986 by Ord. No. 6-1986]
H.
Personal care facility, when authorized by the Zoning Hearing Board as a special exception, subject also to the requirements of § 139-126.
[Added 3-24-1997 by Ord. No. 2-1997]
I.
Day-care center, when authorized by the Board of Supervisors as a conditional use as set forth in § 139-40.1 below.
[Added 6-16-1998 by Ord. No. 4-1998]
§ 139-40 Area, height and special design regulations.
[Amended 3-24-1997 by Ord. No. 2-1997; 5-14-2001 by Ord. No. 1-2001; 4-13-2026 by Ord. No. 3-2026]
In O Office Districts, the following regulations shall apply:
A.
Lot area and width. A lot area of not less than two acres per principal use shall be provided. Lots shall not be less than 200 feet wide at the building line or less than 150 feet wide at the street line.
B.
Building, floor area and impervious coverage. Not more than 30% of the lot area may be occupied by buildings, and the total floor area of all buildings on the lot shall not exceed 80% of the lot area. Not more than 60% of the lot area may contain impervious surfaces.
C.
Building placement requirements. No building shall be located less than 35 feet from the street line or less than 40 feet from a side or rear property line, except that when a tract abuts a residential district or has frontage upon an arterial or collector street, no building shall be located less than 75 feet from the street line or 100 feet from the street center line, whichever is greater.
D.
Height regulations. No building shall exceed 40 feet in height, subject to the provisions of § 139-6 (definition of "height of building").
E.
Special design requirements.
(1)
The area surrounding each permitted building shall be suitably and attractively landscaped, and each building shall be designed so as to minimize any industrial appearance, and shall, insofar as is practicable, afford minimum external evidence of the nature of the operation conducted therein.
(2)
No products or goods shall be publicly displayed on the premises.
(3)
Adequate provision shall be made for water supply, sewage and waste disposal. Where public water and sewer facilities are not used, such facilities shall be approved by the Township or other appropriate governmental agency.
(4)
Along any rear or side property line which abuts a residence district or Township boundary line, a buffer yard shall be provided which shall not be less than 100 feet in width except when the zoning district in the adjoining Township permits substantially similar uses. This required yard shall be measured from the boundary line or from the street line where a street constitutes the boundary. The 30 feet of such yard space nearest the district or Township boundary line shall be used only as a buffer planting strip, as defined in § 139-6. The remaining 70 feet of space may be used for off-street parking or for any permitted purpose other than a building or permanent structure.
(5)
Each use shall comply with the provisions of §§ 139-98, 139-99 and 139-100 relating to parking, loading and development of highway frontage.
F.
Parcel yield (density, building area, lot area, or floor area ratio). For any parcel containing protected land, density, lot area, building area, or floor area ratio shall be determined by applying the natural resource protection and density calculations referenced in § 139-158 of this chapter and § 73-11.1 of the Willistown Township Environmental Protection Ordinance. Density shall be no greater than that which the zoning, subdivision and environmental protection regulations would permit.
§ 139-40.1 Conditional uses.
[Added 6-16-1998 by Ord. No. 4-1998]
In addition to the standards of this article and those of § 139-118.1 concerning procedures for conditional use applications, the Board of Supervisors shall require that the following standards be met prior to granting approval of any conditional use application:
A.
Freestanding conditional uses shall be permitted.
B.
When a conditional use is located within a building containing a primary use permitted in § 139-39 herein, said conditional use shall be limited to 15% of the total leasable area of said building.
C.
As deemed warranted by the Board of Supervisors, adjustments to applicable parking standards may be required when a conditional use is located within a building containing a primary use.
D.
Conditional uses shall have hours of operation that coincide with primary uses permitted in § 139-39 herein, unless additional hours are deemed reasonable by the Board of Supervisors based upon the nature of use.
