(1)
Use Regulations Without Certificate. The specific uses
permitted in this district, which shall be wholly within a completely enclosed
building, unless otherwise specified, shall be the erection, construction,
alteration or use of buildings for the following sales and/or services on the
premises, separately or in any combination:
(a) automobile showrooms,
to include the performance indoors of incidental service and repairs to
automobiles including clutch, cylinder, differential, and transmission repairs
and the inspections of automobiles; provided, the same is licensed by the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania;
(b) automobile repair shop (not including
body and fender work, or painting);
(c) automobile service station for
the retail sale of automobile fuels, lubricants, radiator fluids and
accessories, and for the performance indoors of incidental service and repairs
to automobiles including clutch, cylinder, differential or transmission repairs,
incidental car washing indoors in an area not to exceed 400 square feet, and the
inspection of automobiles; provided, the same is licensed by the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania;
(d) boat, marine, and farm equipment sales, distributing
of liquids for human consumption, electrical appliances and fixtures, floor
coverings, florist merchandise, furniture, hardware, household appliances,
nursery and garden supplies, package paints, radio and television sets and
parts, tire stores, and trailers;
(e) bowling alley, business or
professional agencies, office or studio, club houses, lodges, fraternity houses,
dance studios, financial institutions, funeral parlors and post
office;
(f) sales, storage and installation of automobile seat covers,
glass, and mufflers;
(g) plumbing, heating, and electrical services,
including the accessory storage of materials, and incidental repair work using
hand tools only;
(h) hotels, as defined in §
14-102(29);
(i) municipal art galleries, municipal museums, or
municipal libraries;
(j) police and fire
stations;
(k) transportation terminals (except truck
terminals);
(l) water booster or sewer booster substations, telephone
exchange buildings, railroad passenger stations, electric transforming or gas
regulating substations;
(m) indoor theater;
(n) commercial
outdoor amusement parks, athletic and sports fields, outdoor swimming pools, and
day camps, golf courses to include golf driving range and miniature golf
courses;
(o) restaurant, cafe, soda or ice cream fountain, or catering,
including outdoor dining areas;
(p) accessory uses, customarily
incidental to any of the above permitted uses; provided, that the accessory use
does not occupy more than 25% of the gross floor area, and does not include open
air storage of materials, equipment or merchandise.
(2)
Use
Regulations With Certificate. The following uses will be permitted in this
district only if a Zoning Board of Adjustment certificate, as hereinafter
provided, is obtained, and said use is conducted only in completely enclosed
buildings, except (a) and (d) below:
(a) open air theater, open air
motion pictures, and other open air entertainment;
(b) automobile body,
fender and painting shop; provided, that such service shop shall be conducted
wholly in the same building with and incidental to an automobile sales agency
and showroom; provided further, that no wall abutting a residential district
shall have windows or doors;
(c) buildings supplies;
(d) car
washing establishment, using mechanical equipment for the purpose of washing
and/or polishing automobiles and other vehicles; such Zoning Board of Adjustment
certificate as required in (2), above, shall only be issued where such use will
have on the premises: (1) a waiting area for incoming cars accessible to the
entrance end of the washing equipment, of at least 4,000 square feet, and (2) an
area beyond the exit end of the washing equipment, of at least 400 square feet,
so situated as to be usable for the hand finishing of the washing
process;
(e) a use of the same general character as (a) through (d),
above, when authorized by a Zoning Board of Adjustment
certificate;
(f) accessory uses, not otherwise prohibited, customarily
incidental to any permitted principal use.
(3)
Prohibited Uses.
All uses, except those specified in (1) and (2) above, including
manufacturing uses, are prohibited in this district.
(4)
Required
Conditions. (a) All business, service, or processing except those
specifically exempted in (2)(a) and (d) shall be conducted wholly within a
completely enclosed building, except for automobile parking, the same of
automotive fuel, lubricants, accessories, and radiator fluids at service
stations, outdoor dining area, and outdoor selling area located contiguous to
the building and not exceeding an area equal to 5% of the sum for the aggregate
floor area of all floors of the building erected on the premises; provided, any
other outdoor accessory use shall be permitted only by a Zoning Board of
Adjustment certificate.
(b) There shall be provided on the same lot
off-street parking spaces for automobiles in accordance with the following
requirements:
(.1) The total parking area, including access drives and
aisles, shall be equal to not less than the sum of the aggregate floor area of
all floors of the structure above the first floor plus twice the aggregate floor
area of the first floor of the structure. For purposes of this computation, the
aggregate floor area shall be measured between the interior sides of exterior
walls, including stairways, halls, closets, and similar
areas.
(.2) Provisions of Section 14-1403 (2), (3), and (4) of this
Title are applicable.
(5)
Area
Regulations.
(a)
Minimum Area and Frontage. The minimum area
shall be 45,000 square feet, and said area shall have frontage on at least three
streets, one of which shall be a minimum of 70 feet in width, and on which said
area shall have a minimum frontage of 150 feet in
length.
(b)
Occupied Area. Not more than 50% of the lot shall be
occupied by buildings; provided that no building, storage of any kind, or
parking of vehicles or equipment shall be permitted within 25 feet of any lot
line abutting a residential district.
(c)
Open Area. The open
area shall consist of any space not occupied by buildings and shall not total
less than 50% of the lot area; provided that, where this district abuts a
residential district, a green belt shall be planted and maintained in an area at
least 10 feet in depth from any such abutting residential district, shall extend
in length along the entire lot line abutting said residential district, and
shall contain evergreens, shrubbery, and/or trees, at least four feet in
height.
(d)
Floor Area. The gross floor area shall not exceed an
area equal to 150% of the area of the lot.
(e)
Building Set-back
Line. No building set-back line shall be required, subject to the provisions
of § 14-107 of this Title.
(f)
Yards. No front, side, or
rear yards shall be required, however, any building not erected on lot lines
shall be erected at least five feet from said lot lines (subject to Section
14-306.1(5)(b) and (c)).
(6)
Height Regulations.
(a) The
maximum height of any structure shall be 35 feet above the average ground level
at the base of the structure, but in no case over three stories (subject to
provisions of §
14-313(1)
[111]).
(7)
Off-street
Loading. Off-street loading spaces shall be provided in accordance with
Chapter 14-1400 of this Title.
(8)
Signs. Signs accessory to uses
on the premises shall be permitted in this district only under the following
conditions:
(a) One sign shall be permitted on each building and it
shall not exceed 3 square feet for each linear foot of building facing any and
only one street, shall be constructed facing only on that street designated for
the above computation, and may be (1) attached flat against the wall of the
building or marquee or, (2) upon the roof of a marquee, and may project above
the roof or wall coping, but may not extend beyond the building walls. In the
case of multiple users in one building, the locations and numbers of signs
totaling not more than the allowable sign area as above set forth may be
authorized by a certificate issued from the Zoning Board of
Adjustment.
(b) Signs may be animated or illuminated; provided, the
illumination shall not create glare upon the surrounding
areas;
(c) Signs with flashing or intermittent illumination shall not
be erected within 150 feet of any Residential District, nor facing any
Residential District within 300 feet of the sign;
(d) Signs which
revolve shall be prohibited;
(e) Any revolving device which causes
intermittent flashes of light to be projected shall be prohibited.