a) PURPOSE - The purpose of the Employment Center (EC) District is to promote and protect the City of York's economic and employment base by providing a flexible area outside of the Central Business District for businesses to locate, expand, and prosper. The goals of this District are to allow flexibility for development, provide encroachment protection, reduce impacts and maximize potential development described as follows:
1) DEVELOPMENT - Provide a permissive zone for the development of commercial and industrial development;
2) ENCROACHMENT PROTECTION - Provide an operating environment that protects such development from encroachment of incompatible land uses;
3) REDUCE IMPACT- Reduce to a minimum the impact permitted development in this zone will have on surrounding residential neighborhoods; and
4) MAXIMIZE POTENTIAL- Maximize the development potential of all vacant and under-utilized industrial, commercial and institutional buildings through adaptive reuse and integrated development.
b) USE REGULATIONS - A structure may be erected or used and a lot may be used or occupied for principal and accessory uses as identified in table 1303.08.
c) DIMENSIONAL REQUIREMENTS - In this Zoning District, any structure hereafter erected or any lot hereafter used or occupied for any lawful purpose shall provide the minimum, and not exceed the maximum, dimensions specified in table 1303.15 or as specified elsewhere in this ordinance. Should the requirements of this Article conflict with other requirements within this ordinance for any specified use, the strictest of requirements shall take precedence.
d) OTHER REQUIREMENTS - All uses must comply with all other sections of this zoning ordinance and applicable City, State, and Federal requirements.
Table 1303.14 Dimensional Requirements (EC) EMPLOYMENT CENTER DISTRICT | ||
Dimensional Requirement | Use | Requirement |
Minimum Lot Area | Industrial | 20,000 ft. 2 |
Commercial | 5,000 ft. 2 | |
All other uses | 2,000 ft. 2 | |
Minimum Lot Width | Industrial | 100 ft. |
Commercial | 50 ft. | |
All other uses | 20 ft. | |
Minimum Building Setback - Front | Industrial | 40 ft. |
All other uses | 20 ft. | |
Minimum Building Setback - Rear | Industrial | 15 ft. |
All other uses | 10 ft. | |
Minimum Building Setback - Side | Industrial | 15 ft. |
All other uses | 10 ft. | |
Minimum Building Height | All | 20 ft. |
Maximum Building Height | All | 65 ft. |
Maximum Total Impervious Surface | All | 80% of Gross Lot Area |
Minimum Open Area | All | 20% of Gross Lot Area |