a. Permitted Principal Uses.
1. Retail sales and services.
2. Business and professional offices.
3. In the B-1 Business Zone only, all uses as permitted in the R-4 Residential Zone, provided that such use shall meet the greater (more restrictive) of the lot and yard requirements of the R-4 Residential Zone or B-1 Business Zone.
4. Traditional full service restaurants. No restaurant of any kind Shall include drive-in or drive-through service; ordering and pickup of food shall not be permitted to take place from a vehicle, nor shall exterior playgrounds or play areas be permitted. For the purposes of this chapter, a bar or tavern shall be considered a restaurant. A snack bar at a public or a nonprofit playground playfield, park, or swimming club, maintained solely by the agency or group operating the recreational facilities and for the sole use of the patrons of the facility, shall not be deemed to be a restaurant.
5. Fast-service restaurants, B-1 Zone only. For the purpose of determining the area of the fast service restaurant use, the restaurant size shall be calculated as one hundred fifty (150%) percent of the area devoted to customer seating and circulation.
Fast service restaurants shall be permitted only as an integral part of a retail complex, such as a strip center or shopping center, and shall not be a freestanding or stand alone use. The floor area of a fast service restaurant, in combination with all other restaurant uses, shall not exceed twenty (20%) percent of the gross floor area of the retail complex.
6. Banks.
7. Clubs, lodges, and fraternal, civic and charitable organizations.
8. Child care centers. Where the child care center is provided as an accessory to other uses on the same premises, the space it occupies will be exempt from any parking or density calculations required by this chapter.
b. Permitted Accessory Uses and Structures.
1. Off-street parking and other accessory uses customarily incidental to the permitted principal use.
2. Apartments above the first floor, in the B-1 Zone only.
c. Permitted Conditional Uses.
1. Church or other place of worship.
2. Public and private schools.
3. Municipal uses.
4. Board of education uses.
5. Public utility facilities.
6. Profit-making private schools and trade schools.
7. Public garages and gasoline service stations.
8. Fast service restaurants, B-2 Zone only.
9. Wireless telecommunication antennas and equipment, in the B-2 Zone only.
d. Lot, Yard and Height Regulations. See Schedule I.*
e. General Provisions.
1. Permitted principal buildings shall not be erected closer than fifty (50) feet to any other principal building situated on the same lot.
2. Curbed pedestrian walks, not less than ten (10) feet wide, shall be provided along the entire length of any wall of stores which contain public entrance or exit ways and/or display windows.
f. Emergency Provision for the B-1 Zone to Temporarily Operate in the RM Zone.
At such time as the Mayor of the Borough, with the advice and consent of two-thirds (2/3) of the Council members present, formally, proclaims that in the judgment of the Mayor and Council an emergency condition exists to structures caused by fire, explosion, act of God, or the like resulting in the temporary closure of a retail business or businesses located in a B-1 Zone, the Council herewith determines as a matter of public policy that while such structures are being repaired and restored said retail business or businesses may temporarily operate in a RM Zone for a period not to exceed six (6) months from the date of the commencement of such emergency condition, which time may be extended for up to an additional six (6) months if the Construction Official determines that the structures in the B-1 Zone are being repaired and restored in a timely and diligent manner.
(Ord. No. 20-1993; Ord. No. 23-1997 § II; Ord. No. 13-2000; Ord. No. 6-2001 § XI; Ord No. 21-2003)
a. Permitted Principal Uses.
1. Offices for professional or business use, including executive, engineering, accounting, scientific, research and development, statistical and financial purposes.
2. Laboratories, devoted exclusively to research, product development and testing, engineering development and sales development.
3. Clubs, lodges, and fraternal, civic and charitable organizations.
4. Child care centers. Where the child care center is provided as an accessory to other uses on the same premises, the space it occupies will be exempt from any parking or density calculations required by this chapter.
b. Permitted Accessory Uses and Structures.
1. Off-street parking and other accessory uses customarily incidental to the permitted principal use, including garages for storage of company motor vehicles; parking facilities; maintenance and utility shops for the upkeep and repair of buildings and structures on the site and equipment used on the site; central heating and power plants for furnishing heat and energy to structures on the site only, water, drainage, sewerage, fire protection and other utility facilities; educational facilities for training and study connected with the operation and activities of the owner or tenant; buildings for storage of documents, records, testing research and experimental equipment; communication facilities including antenna masts; clinics; cafeterias, sundry shops for the retail sale of articles to trainees and employees limited to one thousand five hundred (1,500) square feet of gross floor area; recreational facilities; living quarters for custodians or caretakers.
2. Banks, contained totally within the permitted principal use.
c. Permitted Conditional Uses.
1. Church or other place of worship.
2. Public and private trade schools.
3. Municipal uses.
4. Board of Education uses.
5. Public utility facilities.
6. Profit-making private schools and trade schools.
7. Nursing homes in OB-2 and OB-3 Zones only.
8. Eating clubs.
9. Wireless telecommunication antennas and equipment.
d. Lot, Yard and Height Regulations. See Schedule I.
(Ord. No. 20-1997; Ord. No. 13-2000; Ord. No. 6-2001 § XII)
a. Permitted Principal Uses.
1. Research laboratories.
2. Limited manufacturing, assembly and light industrial operations.
3. Clubs, lodges, and fraternal, civic and charitable organizations, as regulated in the OB-3 Zone District.
4. Offices for professional or business use, including executive, engineering, accounting, statistical and financial purposes, provided that such office use(s) shall be limited to a maximum of twenty (20%) percent of the total floor area of a building(s) on a site and shall not exceed a total of twenty-five thousand (25,000) square feet. Such calculation shall exclude office space ancillary to a research or manufacturing use; however, such ancillary office space shall not exceed twenty (20%) percent of the gross floor area of the research or manufacturing use.
5. Child care centers. Where the child care center is provided as an accessory to other uses on the some premises, the space it occupies will be exempt from any parking or density calculations required by this chapter.
b. Permitted Accessory Uses and Structures.
2. Accessory storage, limited to goods and materials necessary for and related to the principal use, within a wholly enclosed permanent building.
3. Off-street parking and loading, facilities and other customary buildings and uses accessory to the permitted principal use or building.
c. Permitted Conditional Uses.
2. Public and private trade schools.
3. Municipal uses.
4. Public passive and active outdoor recreational facilities
5. Neighborhood shopping centers.
6. Board of Education uses.
7. Public utility facilities.
8. Public garages or gasoline service stations.
9. Wireless telecommunication antennas and equipment.
10. Shopping centers.
11. Age Restricted Multi-Family Housing.
d. Lot, Yard and Height Regulations. See Schedule I.*
e. Performance Standards.
1. Screening, landscaping or fencing shall be provided along the property lines of the tract, adjacent to any residential zone or residential use, in accordance with subsection 30-403.9 and Section 30-516.
2. Compliance with Section 30-505 and all applicable State and Federal environmental regulations, including air quality, water quality, noise, radiation, hazardous waste storage, handling and disposal, site clean-up and past pollution remediation.
3. Truck arrivals and departures and unloading and loading activities on site shall be limited to weekday daytime hours, between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Trucks on-site overnight shall be parked in designated, approved parking areas and shall not be left running. Truck arrivals and departures should be scheduled, to the extent possible, for off peak traffic times.
(Ord. No. 20-1993; Ord. No. 13-2000; Ord. No. 6-2001 §§ XIII, XIV; Ord. No. 8a2004 § III)
a. Permitted Principal Uses.
1. Outdoor commercial and noncommercial recreational uses; including horseback riding and jumping schools, bridle trails, hiking and nature trails, bicycle paths, picnicking, camping, field trails for dogs, wild life preserves, archery, tennis, ice skating, bird watching, ecology, nature classes, parks and playgrounds, and other recreational uses not inconsistent with the foregoing. In the C-R Zone only tennis courts, golf courses, miniature golf courses, commercial and noncommercial swim club.
These activities shall take place in designated areas only and are subject to all other applicable regulations.
b. Permitted Accessory Uses. None.
c. Permitted Conditional Uses.
1. In the C-R Zone only:
(a) Municipal uses.
(b) Board of Education uses.
2. In the C Zone only:
(a) Wireless telecommunication antennas, telecommunication towers and equipment compounds.
d. Lot, Yard and Height Regulations. See Schedule I.
e. General provisions.
1. Suitable screening, landscaping or fencing shall be provided along the boundaries of any outdoor athletic or recreation areas to protect adjacent properties from physical damage, noise, excessive light and to shield any adjacent area from the activities conducted on such areas.
2. Improvements shall be designed to result in the minimal degradation of and risk to unique or irreplaceable land types, historical or archaeological areas, and existing scenic and aesthetic attributes of the site.
(Ord. No. 13-2000; Ord. No. 6-2001 § XV)
