Ten “land use classifications” are hereby established as shown on Schedule 27-I. The specific uses included in each land use classification are outlined below:
A. Principal Permitted Uses–Land Use Classifications 1 through 7.
(1) Land Use Classification 1. Single-family detached dwellings.
(2) Land Use Classification 2. Two-family dwellings, including duplex buildings and semi-attached single-family dwellings.
(3) Land Use Classification 3. Central commercial, including retail and service establishments, such as department stores, variety and speciality shops, banks and other financial institutions, hotels and motels, business and professional offices, medical centers, furniture and appliance stores, liquor stores, drug, grocery and hardware stores, supermarkets, soda fountains, barber and beauty shops, shoe repair, dry cleaning and laundry establishments, rooming houses, nursing homes, funeral parlors, automobile service stations, automobile sales and service, commercial and public parking lots, railway and bus terminals, telegraph and express offices, commercial schools, commercial recreation and entertainment establishments, such as theaters, restaurants, taverns, bowling alleys, social halls, clubs and lodges. Also includes delivery and distribution centers, wholesale business and warehousing.
(4) Land Use Classification 4. Highway commercial, including tourist retail and service establishments such as hotels, conference complex motels, automobile service stations, recreational equipment sales, commercial and public parking lots, bus terminals, recreational and entertainment establishments, such as theaters, restaurants, bowling alleys, and social halls. Also, includes delivery and distribution centers, wholesale and warehousing.
(5) Land Use Classification 5. Light industrial. It is the purpose of this land use classification to provide an area of the Borough for the exclusive use of non-noxious industries which can meet strict performance standards.
Light industrial including, manufacturing of light machinery; fabrication of metal products such as bicycles, metal furniture, musical instruments, sheet metal products; fabrication of paper products, such as book binding, boxes, office supplies, toys; fabrication of wood products, boats, boxes, cabinets and wood working, furniture, toys, storage yard for lumber and building materials; food and associated industries, such as bakeries, bottling of food processing, and ice cream manufacturing; office buildings for executive or administrative purposes; wholesale storage warehousing; laboratories, such as biological, chemical, dental, pharmaceutical and general research; other industries, such as plastic products, electronic products, farm machinery, glass products manufacturing; permitted business uses include professional and commercial office and business service establishments.
In addition to the above, any industry not inconsistent with the above, and meeting the performance requirements listed herein may be conducted in this zone. All others are specifically excluded. The performance requirements are as follows:
(a) Dissemination of smoke, dust, odors, fumes, and other noxious gases shall be within the limits of the industrial tolerance standards of the Commonwealth.
(b) Liquid wastes and effluents shall be discharged into an approved existing sewage treatment plant in accordance with the plant's regulations.
(c) Precaution against fire hazards, radiation, explosion, proper handling and storage of materials and structural design and safeguards for the health and welfare of workers in compliance with the Commonwealth's statutes and requirements.
(d) No vibration or glare shall be evident at any point more than 100 feet from the source of said vibration or light.
(6) Land Use Classification 6.
(a) Heavy industrial includes the manufacture, assembly or packing of products from previously prepared materials, not objectionable or injurious due to smoke, noise, odors, glare, or dust or hazardous materials, including those made from cloth, plastic, paper, leather, wood, metal, precious or semiprecious stones, synthetic materials.
(b) Any of the uses listed in this use classification referred to in the above paragraph which are not conducted within a completely enclosed building, except for off -street parking and loading facilities, shall be located not less than 100 feet from any residential district.
(c) The manufacture or assembly of products from raw materials including bulk storage of petroleum, grain and similar products, metal fabrication (including foundries, forges, machine shops), gas manufacture and storage, the production of fish and meat products (excluding stockyards and slaughter houses), brick, pottery, stone and monument works, concrete and asphalt paving material preparation plants, paint manufacturing and railroad yards and repair shops. No uses described in this subparagraph shall be less than 150 feet from any residential district. [Ord. 284]
(7) Land Use Classification 7. Customary accessory uses and essential services. Accessory uses which are customarily subordinate to the principal use of a building located on the same lot, which serves a purpose customarily incident to the use of the principal building shall be permitted in each district. Such uses include home occupations, home gardening but not the raising of livestock or poultry, nonprofit nurseries and greenhouses (not including outdoor storage of equipment) and professional offices of persons residing on the premises, private garages or parking areas, sign, off-street parking and loading, temporary tract offices, and buildings and other uses customarily appurtenant to the principal permitted uses.
Essential services for public utilities that do not require enclosure in a building including the construction or maintenance, by public utilities or governmental agencies, of gas, electrical, steam, telephone, or water distribution systems; including equipment, such as poles, towers, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants and other similar equipment which conform to the height regulations of the zoning district in which they are proposed.
B. Special Exceptions Use Classes 8 Through 10.
(1) Use Classification 8. Multi-family dwellings, mobile homes and conversions, including row houses, garden apartments, midrise apartments and multiplex apartments, and the conversion of existing residential dwellings to a greater number of units. [Ord. 430]
(2) Use Classification 9. Social halls, clubs and lodges, including nonprofit social halls, clubs and lodges.
(3) Use Classification 10. Public Use Zone S-1, including public and quasi- public uses of a welfare, educational, religious, recreational and cultural nature, and dormitories and religious homes accessory to such uses; and essential public utilities that require enclosure within a building or structure; and communications and forest products including forest and agricultural products, radio and television transmission or receiving towers and facilities and cemeteries and mausoleums. All such uses shall be appropriate to the character of the district in which they are proposed as determined by the Zoning Hearing Board.
(Ord. 244A, 3/3/1975, Art. V, § 5.300; as amended by Ord. 270, 6/2/1980; by Ord. 284, 4/5/1982; and by Ord. 430, 4/16/2012, §2)