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Dover Township, PA Code of Ordinances
CODE OF ORDINANCES of the TOWNSHIP OF DOVER
OFFICIALS of the TOWNSHIP OF DOVER County of York, Pennsylvania
FOREWORD
ADOPTING ORDINANCE
Chapter 1 Administration and Government
Chapter 2 [Reserved]
Chapter 3 [Reserved]
Chapter 4 Buildings
Chapter 5 Code Enforcement
Chapter 6 Conduct
Chapter 7 Fire Prevention and Fire Protection
Chapter 8 Fire Insurance Escrow
Chapter 9 [Reserved]
Chapter 10 Health and Safety
Chapter 11 Housing
Chapter 12 [Reserved]
Chapter 13 Licenses, Permits and General Business Regulations
Chapter 14 Mobile Homes and Mobile Home Parks
Chapter 15 Motor Vehicles and Traffic
Chapter 16 Parks and Recreation
Chapter 17 [Reserved]
Chapter 18 [Reserved]
Chapter 19 Stormwater Management
Chapter 20 Solid Waste
Chapter 21 Streets and Sidewalks
Chapter 22 Subdivision and Land Development
Chapter 23 [Reserved]
Chapter 24 Taxation; Special
Chapter 25 [Reserved]
Chapter 26 Water, Sewer and Sewage Disposal
Chapter 27 Zoning
Part 1 Short Title, Purpose, Community Development Objectives and Authority
Part 2 Definitions of Terms
Part 3 Zoning Districts, Map, Boundaries
Part 4 District Regulations
Part 5 Supplementary Regulations
Part 6 Specific Standards for Uses
§ 27-601. Purpose.
§ 27-602. Accessory Apartment.
§ 27-603. Accessory Family Dwelling Unit.
§ 27-604. Adaptive Reuse.
§ 27-605. Adult-Oriented Facility.
§ 27-606. Age-Restricted Community (ARC).
§ 27-607. Agribusiness.
§ 27-608. Animal Day Care/Animal Grooming Facility.
§ 27-609. Animal Hospital/Crematorium.
§ 27-610. Asphalt/Concrete Plant.
§ 27-611. Banks and Other Similar Financial Institutions.
§ 27-612. Bed and Breakfast Inn.
§ 27-613. Business and Professional Offices.
§ 27-614. Campground or Recreational Vehicle Park.
§ 27-615. Care Facilities.
§ 27-616. Car Wash, Automatic and Self-Service.
§ 27-617. Catering Facility.
§ 27-618. Cemetery.
§ 27-619. Clubs, Profit/Nonprofit.
§ 27-620. Commercial Recreation Facilities.
§ 27-621. Conference Centers and Corporate Headquarters.
§ 27-622. Conservation-Based Design.
§ 27-623. Contractor Office/Shop.
§ 27-624. Contractor's Yard/Heavy Storage.
§ 27-625. Cryptocurrency Mining Factory.
§ 27-626. Drive-Through Service Facility.
§ 27-627. ESA - Environmentally Sensitive Areas.
§ 27-628. Farm Product Warehouses, Farm Equipment Sales and Service.
§ 27-629. Farm/Farmer's Market.
§ 27-630 Funeral Home/Crematorium.
§ 27-631. Garden Center.
§ 27-632. Golf Courses.
§ 27-633. Greenhouses and Nurseries.
§ 27-634. Group Home.
§ 27-635. Half-Way House.
§ 27-636. Home Occupations.
§ 27-637. Hospital.
§ 27-638. Hotel and Motel.
§ 27-639. Household Pet Breeding, Commercial.
§ 27-640. House of Worship.
§ 27-641. Industrial Park.
§ 27-642. Intensive Agricultural Operations.
§ 27-643. Junkyards.
§ 27-644. Kennel.
§ 27-645. Laundry/Laundromat and Dry-Cleaning Establishments.
§ 27-646. Manufacturing
§ 27-647. Medical Center/Facilities /Laboratory.
§ 27-648. Medical Marijuana Dispensary/Grower/Processor.
§ 27-649. Micro-brewery.
§ 27-650. Micro-distillery.
§ 27-651. Mineral Development.
§ 27-652. Natural Gas Compressor Station.
§ 27-653. Natural Gas Processing Plant.
§ 27-654. Mini-Storage Facility.
§ 27-655. Mobile Home Park.
§ 27-656. No Impact Home-Based Business.
§ 27-657. Outdoor Recreations Facilities
§ 27-658. Outdoor Trap, Skeet, Rifle, Pistol or Archery Range.
§ 27-659. Owner-Operated Automotive Repair Business.
§ 27-660. Principal Solar Energy Systems ("PSES").
§ 27-661. Public/Semi-Public Facilities and Uses.
§ 27-662. Public Utility Buildings and/or Service Structures.
§ 27-663. Quarries.
§ 27-664. Recycling Business.
§ 27-665. Refining Operations.
§ 27-666. Research Laboratory/Product Development Facility.
§ 27-667. Residential Conversions.
§ 27-668. Restaurant - Fast Food and/or Carry-Out/Delivery.
§ 27-669. Retail Sales and Services.
§ 27-670. Riding Academy or Boarding Stables.
§ 27-671. Roadside Stand.
§ 27-672. Rooming House.
§ 27-673. Service Station or Convenience Store Dispensing Fuel.
§ 27-674. Schools, Public/Commercial Private/College/University.
§ 27-675. Shopping Center/Flea Market.
§ 27-676. Special Event Venue.
§ 27-677. Tavern/Micro-brewery/Micro-distillery/Nightclub/Winery.
§ 27-678. Transportation Terminal/Trucking Facility.
§ 27-679. Vehicle Sales, Service, Repair and/or Body Shop.
§ 27-680. Wholesale Establishment/Warehousing Establishment/ Distribution Center.
§ 27-681. Wind and Other Energy Related Uses.
§ 27-682. Winery, Retail.
Part 7 Off-Street Parking and Loading
Part 8 Signs
Part 9 Nonconformities
Part 10 Zoning Hearing Board
Part 11 Administration and Enactment
Part 12 Wireless Communications Facilities
Part 13 Planned Residential Development
ZONING MAP AMENDMENTS
Appendix
Table to Disposition of All Ordinances
Table to Disposition of Significant Resolutions
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§ 27-628.   Farm Product Warehouses, Farm Equipment Sales and Service.
   1.   All activities and services should be directed at meeting the needs of the local farming community. Uses shall not include the wholesale distribution of agricultural products and livestock sales or auctions.
   2.   All uses shall have vehicular access to an arterial or collector road as identified in the Dover Township Comprehensive Plan.
   3.   Minimum lot size shall be two acres.
   4.   All structures shall be located at least 50 feet from all property lines, unless setback further by standards the underlying zoning.
   5.   Maximum lot coverage shall be 20%.
   6.   A minimum 25-foot landscape strip shall be provided along all property lines.
   7.   All outside storage shall be completely enclosed by a six-foot high fence and screened from adjoining properties and roads. No outdoor storage is permitted within the required landscape strip.
   8.   All grain storage facilities conveying apparatuses drying chambers and axial ventilation fans shall be set back a minimum of 100 feet from all property lines.
(Ord. 2024-01, 5/13/2024)
§ 27-629.   Farm/Farmer's Market.
   1.   The sales/display areas shall be considered to be that of the smallest rectangle or other regular geometric shape which encompasses all sales/display areas plus any adjoining aisles and/or walkways from which consumers can inspect items for sale. The sales/display areas shall include all indoor and outdoor areas as listed above.
   2.   Any exterior lighting and/or amplified public address system shall be arranged and designed so as to prevent objectionable impact on adjoining properties.
   3.   Outdoor display/sales areas shall not include any required parking areas.
   4.   Outdoor sales and outdoor address systems shall only be permitted between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.
   5.   Outdoor trash and recycling receptacles shall be provided amid any outdoor retail sales area. Such trash receptacles shall be emptied so as to prevent the scattering of litter and debris.
   6.   All outdoor sales/display areas shall be setback a minimum of 50 feet from any residential district or use.
   7.   Temporary sales vendors must be located within the sales/display areas as set forth in 1. above.
   8.   Off-street loading shall be calculated on the interior sales/display area.
   9.   The applicant shall demonstrate adequacy of sewage disposal and water supply.
   10.   Farm/farmers markets shall have vehicular access to an arterial or collector road as identified in the Dover Township Comprehensive Plan.
(Ord. 2024-01, 5/13/2024)
§ 27-630   Funeral Home/Crematorium.
   1.   Access shall be via an arterial or collector road as identified in the Dover Township Comprehensive Plan.
   2.   Parking and loading areas must be screened from view adjoining residential use or zone.
   3.   Adequate space shall be provided for the formation of automobile processions to prevent traffic backups onto adjoining roads.
   4.   Crematory/crematorium may be considered an accessory use to a funeral home establishment or animal hospital. Such accessory use must be operated and maintained entirely within the primary use and must comply with PA Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Air Quality General Permit BAQ-GPA/GP-14: Human or Animal Crematories license requirements.
(Ord. 2024-01, 5/13/2024)
§ 27-631.   Garden Center.
   1.   All garden centers shall have vehicular access to an arterial or collector road as identified in the Dover Township Comprehensive Plan.
   2.   All outdoor display areas shall be set back at least 50 feet from the street right-of-way line.
   3.   All structures, parking lots and loading areas shall be screened from adjoining residential properties existing at the time development and/or residential zones.
   4.   If on-lot water and sewage is proposed must supply proof of availability and adequacy.
   5.   All landscaping equipment and associated vehicles shall be screened in accordance with § 22-721 of the Dover Township Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance [Chapter 22].
   6.   A buffer yard of 50 feet shall be provided when the lot located adjacent to an existing residential use or a residential zone.
(Ord. 2024-01, 5/13/2024)
§ 27-632.   Golf Courses.
   1.   Golf course, including club house, restaurant and other accessory uses provided these are clearly accessory to the golf course, subject to the following lot area provisions:
         Minimum Lot Area.
 
A.   Regulation
18 hole
6000-7000 yds. in length
130 ac.
B.   Executive
18 hole
3000-4000 yds. in length
60 ac.
C.   Nine hole
 
3100-3500 yds. in length
60 ac.
D.   Par
3-18 hole
2000-2500 yds. in length
45 ac.
 
   2.   No building shall be closer than 100 feet to any lot line.
(Ord. 2024-01, 5/13/2024)
§ 27-633.   Greenhouses and Nurseries.
   1.   All greenhouses and nurseries shall have vehicular access to an arterial or collector road as identified in the Dover Township Comprehensive Plan.
   2.   Parking lots and loading areas shall be screened from adjoining residential properties existing at the time of development and/or residential zones.
   3.   The display and sale of nonplant material shall be incidental to the nursery operation. The display area for these items shall not exceed 25% of the total gross display and sales area on the subject property and shall be set back at least 35 feet. The display, sale or repair of motorized nursery or garden equipment shall not be permitted.
   4.   All landscaping equipment and associated vehicles shall be screened in accordance with § 22-721 of the Dover Township Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance [Chapter 22].
   5.   A buffer yard of 50 feet shall be provided when the lot located adjacent to an existing residential use or residential zone.
(Ord. 2024-01, 5/13/2024)
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