(a) The MU Mixed Use Overlay Zoning District locations and boundaries are those that exist on the MU Overlay District map, a copy of which is attached to the ordinance which adopted this chapter, marked as Exhibit “A” and adopted by reference as if set out at length herein. The original MU Overlay District map shall be kept on file in the office of the Township Secretary.
(b) The MU Overlay District shall be considered a mixed-use district. More than one use per lot is permitted in the MU District in accordance with the requirements in this chapter.
(c) When a residential use and another permitted use are contained in the same building, residential uses shall not be located on the ground floor.
(d) In the Overlay District, for each new residential development that is developed under the Overlay District Zoning and will be located on a lot that has frontage on Pennell Road or on Concord Road and that proposes 25 or more dwelling units, the project shall also be required to plan, develop and build another allowed use (as permitted under the Overlay District). The amount of nonresidential use shall be developed at a rate of 64 square feet of nonresidential use for every one residential dwelling unit. No less than 1,600 square feet of nonresidential use shall be constructed. Uses that are ancillary to residential uses are not considered nonresidential uses. Nonresidential uses up to the minimum square foot requirements must be constructed on the street level floor of a structure. Nonresidential uses that exceed the minimum requirements may be constructed above the street level floor. Existing nonresidential uses may be counted toward this requirement when new residential units are developed on the same lot as the existing nonresidential use.
(e) In the Overlay District, for every project where at least 15,000 square feet of nonresidential space is developed, a civic or public plaza shall be developed that is at least 1,500 square feet. This space shall be provided for public gatherings and events. The plaza shall contain amenities, such as landscaping, seating, lighting, trash receptacles and bike racks. The minimum dimension of the plaza shall be 30 feet. The location shall be as approved by the township.
(f) All uses permitted in the MU district shall be permitted as conditional uses, and no uses shall be permitted by right without condition. In the MU District, a building may be erected or used and a lot may be used or occupied for one or more of the following conditionally permitted uses when developed under the Overlay District:
(1) Medical clinic or office;
(2) Dental clinic or office;
(3) Office or office building;
(4) Banks or other financial institutions;
(5) Personal service;
(6) Retail stores;
(7) Farmer’s market;
(8) Microbrewery;
(9) Brewpub;
(10) Restaurant, sit down, without banquet facilities;
(11) Restaurant, with banquet facilities or dinner theater;
(12) Tea house/coffee house/cafés, sidewalk café;
(13) Bakery, candy, pastry, confectionery or ice cream retail sales;
(14) Wines and spirits retail store;
(15) Florists;
(16) No-impact home-based business;
(17) Townhouses;
(18) Multi-family dwelling;
(19) Garden apartment;
(20) Colleges or universities, private or public elementary, secondary or nursery schools, or other educational institutions for academic instruction (by conditional use);
(21) Educational faculties-school for the arts;
(22) Child day care/adult day care/group day care;
(23) Structured parking facility;
(24) Public park or civic plaza;
(25) Health club or spa;
(26) Accessory use on the same lot which is customarily incidental to any of the above permitted uses;
(27) Hotels, motels with related facilities such as restaurants or banquet rooms;
(28) Conference or business/seminar meeting center;
(29) Industrial park;
(30) Manufacturing and distribution facility using computer numerically controlled equipment and robotics;
(31) Wholesale, distribution or warehouse facility;
(32) Manufacture, compounding, assembly, treatment, processing or packaging of articles or merchandise from previously prepared materials;
(33) Light metal processes, including metal finishing, grinding, polishing and heat treatment, metal cutting and extrusion of small products (such as costume jewelry and pins); assembly and manufacture of radio and television receivers; manufacture of light machinery (such as business machines); and
(34) Machine, plumbing, heating, roofing, carpentry, electrical, upholstery, welding, painting, or similar type of shop or facility.
(Ord. 949, passed 9-21-2016; Ord. 1032, passed 10-18-2023)