§ 27-1000. Authorization and Conditions.
A Planned Neighborhood Convenience Center may be permitted in any District where designated as a use permitted by right, condition or special exception. All of the following criteria, standards and conditions for such use shall apply. A Planned Neighborhood Convenience Center shall be:
      A.   A totally planned development on contiguous land under single ownership or control; all proposed uses shall be submitted for the total development of the site;
      B.   Intended and planned to primarily serve the daily and convenient shopping and personal service needs of residences within approximately 1/4 to 1/2 mile of the planned neighborhood convenience center;
      C.   Located on, or within a 200 foot radius of an intersection of two collector streets, two arterial streets or one collector and one arterial street as designated on the Township Comprehensive Plan and as defined in the Township Subdivision and Land Development Chapter;
      D.   Fronting on at least one collector or arterial street as designated on the Township Comprehensive Plan;
      E.   Based on the market feasibility study submitted by the developer and prepared in accordance with professionally accepted standards for real estate economics and market research. Such study shall document the anticipated primary service area of the development, the types and magnitudes of shopping and personal service demands of the anticipated service area and the types and recommended floor areas of stores, shops and offices and other activities proposed;
      F.   Located on a site of not less than two acres or more than three acres;
      G.   Planned to include the following types of land use activities or similar uses thereto necessary to serve the neighborhood: grocery store, pharmacy, bakery shop, confectionary, ice cream parlor, gift shop, beauty shop, barber shop, shoe repair, small appliance repair, dry cleaner, medical and dental offices, branch bank, professional or related service offices, lunch counter, place for sale and consumption of beverages and ice cream, household goods store, local government offices, library, nursery or day care center;
      H.   Permitted only when the uses are performed entirely within an enclosed building and in accordance with the access, setback, sign and other applicable provisions of the Zoning Chapter;
      I.   Planned to reflect the floor areas for each store, shop or office as deemed essential by the market feasibility study prepared in accordance with § 27-1000(E) above, the maximum lot coverage shall not exceed 30%;
      J.   Provided with parking facilities in accordance with the provisions of this Zoning Chapter;
      K.   Governed by the sign regulations of this Zoning Chapter; signs which portray the name of the Planned Neighborhood Convenience Center shall be limited to one sign on each street on which access is provided. There shall be only one identification sign for each store, shop or office or other establishment, such sign to be a parallel sign;
      L.   Designed so that the arrangement and appearance of buildings and grounds will be functionally and visually harmonious with the character and value of the neighborhood;
      M.   Surrounded, except for portions abutting arterial or streets to which the Center has access, 20 foot buffer strip, when located within or abutting a Residential District. Such buffer strips shall be so designed that a dense screen of planted trees, shrubs or other plant material, or a natural area of forest provides a substantial barrier to visibility, airborne particles, glare and noise; plant materials used in screen planting shall be of such species and size as to produce, within 3 years, a complete visual screen at least 6 feet in height, except where pedestrian access or recreation activity areas open into the Planned Neighborhood Convenience Center;
      N.   Lighted in a manner which will not emit glare and visual disturbances to the neighborhood; lighting shall be provided only in accordance with this Chapter; and
      O.   Designed so that there are no more than two ingress and egress points on each abutting arterial or collector street and so that traffic congestion in the Center and in the vicinity of the Center is minimized.
(Ord. 45, Z-§ 1000, 5/12/76)