Township of Upper Macungie, PA

§ 27-306. Table of Permitted Uses by District. [Ord. 9-94, 4/7/1994, § 306; as

amended by Ord. 00-4, 10/19/2000, § 2; by Ord. 02-6, 6/5/2002, § 2; by Ord. 2003-4,
6/18/2003, § 2; by Ord. 2005-8, 12/1/2005, § 2; by Ord. 2006-3, 9/7/2006; and by
Ord. 2010-6, 8/19/2010]
1. For the purposes of this Section, the following abbreviations shall have the
following meanings:

P = Permitted by right (zoning decision by Zoning Officer)

C = Conditional use (decision by the Board of Supervisors with
review by Planning Commission)
SE = Special exception use (decision by Zoning Hearing Board)
N = Not permitted
(§ 27-402) = See additional requirements in § 27-402
(§ 27-403) = See additional requirements in § 27-403
(SW) = Public sewer and public water service both required
(S) = Public sewer service required
(W) = Public water service required

2. Unless otherwise provided by law or specifically stated in this Chapter (including

Subsection 2 of § 27-105), any land or structure shall only be used or occupied for
a use specifically listed in this Chapter as permitted in the zoning district where the
land or structure is located. Such uses shall only be permitted if the use complies
with all other requirements of this Chapter, including, but not limited to, the
environmental protection requirements of Part 5. The following table of permitted
uses is divided into two parts: Residential Districts and Business Districts. As a
general guide, see the Index of Uses at the end of this document. [Amended by
Ord. 2013-1, 3/7/2013; by Ord. 2017-4, 6/1/2017; by Ord. No. 2018-08, 8/2/
2018; by Ord. No. 2020-08, 7/9/2020; by Ord. No. 2021-08, 6/3/2021; and by
Ord. No. 2022-04, 4/7/2022]

Permitted Uses Table

Residential Districts
KEY:
P = Permitted by right (zoning decision by Zoning Officer)
C = Conditional use (decision by the Board of Supervisors with review by Planning Commission
SE = Special exception use (decision by Zoning Hearing Board)
N = Not permitted
(§ 27-402)
= See additional requirements in § 27-402.
(§ 27-403)
= See additional requirements in § 27-403.
(SW) = Public sewer and public water service both required

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Types of Uses Residential Districts

(See definitions in
Part 2) RU3 RU1.5 R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 OSP
Mixed-Use Overlay N N N N N P P N
(§ 27-1100)
Agricultural Uses
Crop farming P P P P P P P P
Crop storage, SE SE N N N N N N
commercial as
principal use
(§ 27-402) (other
than uses occurring
on the same lot as a
principal crop
farming use)
Commercial forestry SE SE SE SE SE SE SE SE
(§ 27-402)
Composting P P P P P P P P
(§ 27-403) (principal
or accessory use)
Raising of livestock C C C C C N N N
(§ 27-402)
Retail sales of C C C C C N N N
agricultural products
grown primarily on
the premises
(§ 27-403)
Sale or mixing of P P P N N N N N
agricultural
fertilizers, seeds or
animal feed with a
3-acre minimum lot
area as an accessory
to a principal crop
farming use (not
involving bulk
manufacturing for
sale)
Sewage sludge, land C C C C N N N C
application of
(§ 27-402)
Residential Uses
Single-family P P P P P P P P
detached dwelling
(including
manufactured/
mobile home
(§ 27-402)
Conservation design P P P P P P P N
development —
within the
requirements of Part
9
Single-family N N N N2 P P P N
semidetached
dwelling (twin) (SW)
Boardinghouse (SW) N N N N N N N N
(§ 27-402)

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Types of Uses Residential Districts

(See definitions in
Part 2) RU3 RU1.5 R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 OSP
Conversion N N N N N SE SE N
apartments (SW)
(other than one
accessory apartment
with an existing
single-family
detached dwelling)
(§ 27-402)
Low-rise apartment N N N N P P P N
(SW) (§ 27-402)
Group Home Within P P P P P P P N
a Permitted Dwelling
Unit, not including a
treatment center
(§ 27-402)
Manufactured/ N N N N N N P N
mobile home park
(SW)
Townhouse (SW) N N N N P P P P
(§ 27-402)
Commercial and Industrial Uses
All commercial and N N N N N N N N
industrial uses not
specifically listed in
this table as
permitted in the
applicable residential
district
Airport, private N SE SE N N N N N
(§ 27-402)
Bed-and-breakfast C C C N N N N N
use (§ 27-402)
Campground C C N N N N N N
(§ 27-402)
Communications N SE N N N N N N
tower, commercial
Funeral home N N N N C C C
(§ 27-402)
Golf course P P P P P P P P
(§ 27-402) with a
minimum lot area of
35 acres, not
including miniature
golf
Limited business N C C C C C C N
conversion abutting a
major arterial street
(§ 27-402)
Medical office N N N N N N C N
building located on
the same lot as an
approved existing
hospital
Picnic grove, private SE N N N N N N SE

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Types of Uses Residential Districts

(See definitions in
Part 2) RU3 RU1.5 R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 OSP
Plant nursery with P P P P P P P P
retail sales limited to
items grown on the
premises (§ 27-402),
but with a 2-acre
minimum lot area for
any commercial
indoor greenhouse
Plant nursery which N N N N N N N N
may include retail
on-site sale of items
not grown on the
premises (§ 27-402)
Stable, nonhousehold SE SE SE SE N N N N
(§ 27-402)
Target range, P P N N N N N N
firearms –
completely indoor
and enclosed as part
of a permitted
membership club or
school
Target range, SE N N N N N N N
firearms – not
completely indoor
and enclosed
(§ 27-402) as part of
a permitted
membership club
Any principal use N N N N N N N N
that is not
specifically listed in
this table
Institutional Uses
Animal cemetery SE SE SE N N N N N
(§ 27-402)
Cemetery without P P P P P P P P
crematorium
Crematorium N N N N N N N N
College or university N N SE SE SE SE SE N
educational and
support buildings
Community center or P P P P P P P P
library
Cultural center or SE SE SE SE SE SE SE SE
museum,
noncommercial
Day-care center, N N N P1 P1 P1 P N
adult (§ 27-402) (See
also as accessory
use), serving a
maximum of 50
persons at one time
Day-care center, N N N P1 P1 P1 P1 N
child (§ 27-402), as a
principal use

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Types of Uses Residential Districts

(See definitions in
Part 2) RU3 RU1.5 R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 OSP
Dormitory as an N N N N N N SE N
accessory use to an
approved college,
university or primary
or secondary school
Hospital (§ 27-402) N N N N N N SE N
(SW)
Membership club, SE SE SE N N N N N
light
Nursing home or N N N SE SE P P N
personal care home
(SW) (§ 27-402)
Place of worship P P P P P P P P
(§ 27-402)
Residential alcohol SE SE N N N N N N
treatment center
(§ 27-402)
School, public or N P P P P P P N
private — primary or
secondary (SW)
(§ 27-402)
Treatment center N N N N N N N N
Public/semipublic
Emergency services C C C C C C C C
station
Government facility, SE SE SE SE SE SE SE SE
other than: offices,
Township-owned
uses, public schools
and other uses listed
separately
Nature preserve P P P P P P P P
Publicly-owned P P P P P P P P
recreation
Public utility facility, N N N N N N N N
except as exempted
by § 27-103 or
permitted by
Subsection 5 of
§ 27-306
Swimming pool, (SW) P P SE SE SE SE SE
nonhousehold
(§ 27-402)
Township-owned P P P P P P P P
uses
U.S. Postal Service N P P P P P P N
facility or property
leased for such use
Accessory Uses

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Types of Uses Residential Districts

(See definitions in
Part 2) RU3 RU1.5 R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 OSP
Accessory N N N N SE SE SE N
apartment, one
within an existing
single-family
detached dwelling or
single-family
semidetached
dwelling (twin
dwelling) (§ 27-403)
Agritainment C C C C C N N N
(§ 27-403)
Agritourism P P P P P N N N
Apartment for care SE SE SE SE SE SE SE SE
of relative (§ 27-403)
Day-care center P P P P P P P P
accessory to and on
the same lot as an
existing lawful place
of worship, with a
minimum lot area of
1.5 acres
Home occupation, SE SE SE SE SE SE SE SE
general (§ 27-403)
Home occupation, P P P P P P P P
light (§ 27-403)
Injection well, N N N N N N N N
underground
Overnight parking of N N N N N N N N
a commercial vehicle
other than the
following: vehicles
of less than 12,000
pounds and rated
gross vehicle weight
that are needed by
residents of the
principal dwelling on
the lot to travel to
and from work
Any accessory use N N N N N N N N
that is not
specifically listed as
permitted in this
table or in
Subsections 3 and 4
of § 27-306 or
elsewhere in this Part
and that would be
accessory to a
dwelling

NOTES:
1
Provided that the use has access within a coordinated interior street system
2
Unless permitted under Part 9, Conservation Design Ordinance

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Permitted Uses Table

Business Districts
KEY:
P = Permitted by right (zoning decision by Zoning Officer)
C = Conditional use (decision by the Board of Supervisors with review by Planning Commission)
SE = Special exception use (decision by Zoning Hearing Board)
N = Not permitted
(§ 27-402)
= See additional requirements in § 27-402
(§ 27-403)
= See additional requirements in § 27-403
(SW) = Public sewer and public water service both required

Business Districts
Types of Uses
(See definitions in Part 2) NC HC LI LI(L) GI RT
Mixed-Use Overlay (§ 27-1100) P P N P N N
Agricultural Uses
Crop farming P P P P P P
Crop storage, commercial – as P P P P P N
principal use (§ 27-402)
Commercial forestry (§ 27-402) P P P P P P
Composting (§ 27-403) P P P P P P
Raising of livestock (§ 27-402) N C C C C N
Retail sales of agricultural products P P P P P P
grown primarily on the premises
(§ 27-403)
Sale or mixing of agricultural P P P P P N
fertilizers, seeds or animal feed (not
involving bulk manufacturing for
sale)
Sewage sludge, land application of N N C C N N
(§ 27-402)
Residential Uses2
Single-family detached dwelling N N N N P
[including manufactured/ mobile
home (§ 27-402)]
Single-family semidetached N N N N N
dwelling (twin) (SW)
Townhouse (SW) (§ 27-402) N N N N N
Low-rise apartments (SW) N N N N N
(§ 27-402)
Manufactured/ mobile home park N N N N N
(SW)
Boardinghouse (SW) (§ 27-402) SE N N N N
Group home within a permitted P1 P1 P1 P1 N
dwelling unit, not including a
treatment center (§ 27-402)
Residential conversions (SW) SE SE N N N N
(§ 27-402) (other than one accessory
apartment within an existing single-
family detached dwelling)

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Business Districts
Types of Uses
(See definitions in Part 2) NC HC LI LI(L) GI RT
Commercial Uses
Adult bookstore, adult movie N SE N N N N
theater, adult live entertainment use
or massage parlor (§ 27-402)
After hours club — prohibited by N N N N N N
state Act 219 of 1990
Airport, private (§ 27-402) N N SE SE N N
Airport, public (§ 27-402) N N SE N N N
Auditorium, commercial or N P N N N N
nightclub (§ 27-402)
Auto repair garage (§ 27-402) N C C N C N
Auto service station, other than a N C C N C N
truck stop (§ 27-402)
Auto, boat or mobile manufactured N P P N P N
home sales (§ 27-402), which may
include outdoor storage and display
of vehicles for sale or rental
Bakery P P P P P N
Bed-and-breakfast use (§ 27-402) P P P P P N
Betting use (§ 27-402) N C N N N N
Beverage distributor P P P N P N
Business services P P P P P N
Bus terminal (§ 27-402) N P P N P N
Campground (§ 27-402) N P P P P N
Car wash (SW) (§ 27-402) N P N N P N
Commercial outdoor recreation N P N N P N
(including miniature golf course,
golf driving range, amusement park
and similar uses)
Commercial indoor recreation P P N N P N
(includes bowling alley, roller or ice
skating, batting practice and closely
similar uses)
Communications tower, commercial N SE SE SE SE C5
(§ 27-402)
Conference center N P P P P C5
Construction company headquarters/ N P P P P N
storage
Convenience store C P C4 N C N
Crafts or artisan's studio P P P P P N
Exercise club P P P P P N
Financial institution (§ 27-402) P P P P P N
Flea market/commercial auction N P N N N N
house
Funeral home (§ 27-402) P P P P P N
Heliport (§ 27-402) as principal use N N C N C N
Kennel (§ 27-402) N P P P P N

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Business Districts
Types of Uses
(See definitions in Part 2) NC HC LI LI(L) GI RT
Laundry/laundromat, commercial or P P P P P N
industrial (SW)
Lumberyard P P P P P N
Medical office or clinic P P P P P N
Motel or hotel (§ 27-402) N P P P P N
Office P P P P P C3,5
Personal services (includes tailoring, P P N N N N
custom dressmaking, haircutting/
styling, dry cleaning, shoe repair and
closely similar uses) (See also as
accessory use in this table)
Plant nursery, which may include P P P P P N
retail sale of garden items not
primarily grown on the premises
(§ 27-402)
Racetrack (§ 27-402) N N N N C N
Repair service P P P P P N
Restaurant with drive-through N P N N N N
service (SW) and/or that primarily
involves delivery of ready-to-eat
food (§ 27-402)
Restaurant, other than above (SW) P P C4 C4 N C3
Retail store (not including P P N N N N
commercial uses listed individually
in this table, and not including a
shopping center)
Shopping center, convenience P P N N N N
Shopping center, neighborhood P P N N N N
Shopping center, community N P N N N N
Stable, nonhousehold (§ 27-402) N P P P P P
Target range, completely indoor and N P P N P N
enclosed (§ 27-402)
Target range, not completely indoor N N N N C N
and enclosed (§ 27-402)
Taxi headquarters P P P P P N
Tavern N P N N N N
Theater, indoor N P N N N N
Theater, outdoor movie (§ 27-402) N P N N N N
Trade school P P P P P N
Truck stop (§ 27-402) N N N N C N
Veterinarian office (§ 27-402) P P P P P N
Industrial Uses
Assembly of materials manufactured N N P P P C3
elsewhere
Asphalt plant N N N N C N
Beverage bottling (SW) N N P P P N
Building supplies, wholesale sales of P P P P P N

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Business Districts
Types of Uses
(See definitions in Part 2) NC HC LI LI(L) GI RT
Finishing of previously prepared N N P P P N
resin, vinyl, polymer or rubber
products
Flexible building including 2 or N N C C C C3
more different compatible principal
uses listed in this table as permitted
by right, conditional or special
exception in the applicable district
(other than a permitted shopping
center)
Industrial equipment sales, rental N P P P P N
and service, other than vehicles
primarily intended to be operated on
public streets
Junk: outdoor storage, display or N N N N N N
processing of other than within an
approved junkyard or solid waste
disposal area
Junkyard (§ 27-402) N N N N SE N
Liquid fuel storage for off-site N N C N C N
distribution and use, other than: auto
service station, propane distributor,
prepackaged sales or fuel tanks for
company vehicles
Manufacture and/or bulk processing
of the following, provided
manufacturing occurs only indoors:
Agricultural chemicals, N N C C P N
fertilizers or pesticides
Animal feed, bulk N P P P P N
manufacture for off-site use
Apparel, textiles, shoes and N P P P P N
apparel accessories
Cement, actual manufacture of N N N N C N
Cement, gypsum, concrete or N N C C C N
plaster products, other than
actual manufacture of cement
Ceramics products N N P P P N
Chemicals, bulk manufacture N N N N N N
or bulk storage of highly
hazardous or toxic chemicals
Chemical products that are not N N C C C N
highly hazardous or toxic,
other than fertilizers or
pesticides
Coke or potash work, N N N N N N
including coke oven
Creosote, including treatment N N N N C N
with
Electrical and electronic N P P P P C3,7
machines, supplies and
equipment

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Business Districts
Types of Uses
(See definitions in Part 2) NC HC LI LI(L) GI RT
Fabricated metal products N N C C C N
(except ammunition or
explosives)
Food products (not including N P P P P N
uses listed individually in this
table) (SW)
Furniture and wood products N P P P P N
(not including raw paper pulp)
Glass and glass products N N P P P N
Incineration, reduction, N N N N N N
distillation, storage or
dumping of slaughterhouse
refuse, rancid fats, garbage,
bones, dead animals or offal
(other than within an approved
solid waste facility)
Jewelry and optical goods P P P P P N
Leather, clay and pottery P P P P P N
products
Manufactured or modular N N P P P N
housing
Metal products, primary N N N N C N
Microelectronic components N N P P P C3
(for solid state devices
involving use of toxic
substances, see below)
Oilcloth N N N N C N
Paper and cardboard products N N P P P N
(not including manufacture of
raw paper pulp)
Paper — raw pulp N N N N N N
Paving or roofing materials, N N C C C N
other than bulk manufacture
of asphalt
Pharmaceuticals (§ 27-402) N N P P P N
Plastics, polymers, resins or N N C N C N
vinyl
Products from previously N N P P P N
manufactured materials, such
as glass, leather, plastics,
cellophane, textiles, rubber or
synthetic rubber
Rubber, natural or synthetic N N C C C N
Scientific, electronic and other P P P P P C3
precision instruments
Solid state devices involving N N C C C C3
use of toxic substances
Soaps, detergents, paints, N N C N C N
varnishes or enamels
Tar, including tar distillation N N N N C N
Tire retreading N N N N C N

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Business Districts
Types of Uses
(See definitions in Part 2) NC HC LI LI(L) GI RT
Transportation equipment N N P P P N
Mineral extraction (§ 27-402) N N N N C N
Outdoor storage and display N N N N C N
involving more than 65% of the lot
area of a lot, other than storage and
display of vehicles for sales or rental
(§ 27-403)
Packaging N N P P P C3
Package delivery services N N P N P N
distribution center
Photo processing, bulk P P P P P N
Printing or bookbinding P P P P P N
Recycling collection center P P P P P N
(§ 27-402)
Recycling center, bulk (other than a N N P P P N
solid waste disposal or transfer
facility)
Research and development, N N P P P P
engineering or testing facility or
laboratory, which may include
limited manufacture of prototype of
one-of-a kind products or models
within an enclosed building, but not
involving manufacture of toxic
substances or toxic chemicals
Sawmill/planning mill N N P P P N
Self-storage development (§ 27-402) N P P P P N
Slaughterhouse or stockyard N N N N C N
(§ 27-402)
Solid waste facility (§ 27-402)
Sanitary landfill (§ 27-402) N N C N N N
Permitted facilities other than N N N N C N
sanitary landfill
Trucking company terminal N N N N C N
(§ 27-402)
Warehousing distributing (other than N N SE SE6 C N
truck terminal) (§ 27-402), not
including storage of explosives,
fireworks, ammunition or
gunpowder, except within a
government-owned facility
Wastewater treatment plant, central, N N C N C N
serving uses off the tract
Welding N N P P P N
Wholesale sales N P P P P N
Other uses not specifically listed in N N N N N N
this § 27-306, except the Zoning
Hearing Board may permit a use if
an applicant specifically proves to
the satisfaction of the Zoning
Hearing Board that the use would
meet all of the following standards:

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Business Districts
Types of Uses
(See definitions in Part 2) NC HC LI LI(L) GI RT
a. The use would clearly be
less intensive in external
impacts and nuisances
than uses permitted in that
district;
b. The applicant
demonstrates that the
proposed use is closely
similar in impacts and
character to uses permitted
in that district;
c. The use can meet the
general standards listed in
§ 27-118 entitled
"Standards for Decisions;"
and
d. The use is not specifically
prohibited in the district.
All uses that would have a serious N N N N N N
threat of being unable to comply
with the performance standards of
this Chapter, especially including
the "Environmental Protection"
requirements of Part 5
Institutional Uses
Animal cemetery (§ 27-402) N N SE SE SE N
Cemetery without crematorium P P P P P N
Crematorium N N N N SE N
College or university — educational P P P P P C3
and support buildings, not including
a dormitory unless specifically
permitted
Community center or library P P P P P N
Cultural center or museum P P P P P N
Day-care center, adult (§ 27-402) P P P P P N
Day-care center, child (§ 27-402), as P P P P N C3
a principal use (see also as accessory
use)
Dormitory as an accessory use to an N N SE N N N
approved college, university or
primary or secondary school
Golf course (§ 27-402) P P P P P N
Hospital (§ 27-402) N P P P N N
Inpatient alcohol treatment center N SE SE SE SE N
(§ 27-402)
Institutional group home N N N N SE N
Membership club, light or general, P P C C P N
other than an "after hours club" or
"tavern"
Nursing home or personal care home P P P P N N
(SW) (§ 27-402)
Place of worship (§ 27-402) P P P P P P

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Business Districts
Types of Uses
(See definitions in Part 2) NC HC LI LI(L) GI RT
Picnic grove, private (§ 27-402) P P P P P N
School, public or private, primary or P P P P N N
secondary (SW) (§ 27-402)
Treatment center (§ 27-402) N N N N SE N
Public/semipublic
Township-owned uses P P P P P P
Government facility, other than SE SE SE SE SE N
offices, Township-owned uses,
public schools and other uses listed
separately
Emergency services station C C C C C C
Nature preserve P P P P P P
Publicly owned recreation P P P P P P
Public utility facility, other than SE SE SE SE SE C3
facilities exempted by § 27-114 or
permitted by Subsection 5 of
§ 27-306
Swimming pool, nonhousehold P P P P P N
(§ 27-402)
U.S. Postal Service facility, which P P P P P P
may include a leased facility
Accessory Uses
Accessory apartment, one within an P P P P P N
existing single-family detached
dwelling or single-family
semidetached dwelling (twin
dwelling) (§ 27-403)
Agritainment (§ 27-403) C C C C C N
Agritourism P P P P P N
Day-care center accessory to a place P P P P P P
of worship, provided there is a
minimum lot area of 2 acres
Heliport, private (§ 27-402) as an N C C N C C3
accessory use
Home occupation, general P P P P P N
(§ 27-403)
Home occupation, light (§ 27-403) P P P P P P
Housing limited to persons visiting a N N N N N P
use for business reasons or for
transient employees that are engaged
in work on the premises, provided
that a maximum of 25 persons shall
be accommodated
Injection well, underground C C C C C C3
(§ 27-403)
Outdoor storage and display P P P P P C3
(§ 27-403), other than storage of
vehicles for sale or rental, involving
up to 25% of total lot area

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Business Districts
Types of Uses
(See definitions in Part 2) NC HC LI LI(L) GI RT
Outdoor storage and display SE SE SE SE SE N
(§ 27-403), other than storage of
vehicles for sale or rental, involving
more than 25% but less than 65% of
total lot area
Retail sales and/or personal services P P P P P C3
limited to 5% or 5,000 square feet,
whichever is less, of the building
floor area of an industrial or office
building and that are clearly
primarily intended to:
a) Serve workers within that
building;
b) Serve persons visiting
offices in that building;
and/or
c) Sell items produced within
that building or adjacent
buildings operated by the
same company.
See list of additional accessory uses in the following sections.

NOTES:
1
If such dwelling exists prior to the adoption of this section.
2
In the NC District, residential uses shall be permitted under the same standards, limitations, lot and setback
requirements as the R4 District.
3
Permitted if such use is an integrated part of the primary use on a lot of 100 acres or more. See §§ 27-404 and 27-402
for conditions whereby specific proposed uses within the RT Rural Technology District shall be permitted.
4
Provided the use has access through a coordinated interior road system.
5
As an integral part of a permitted laboratory or research use, but not as a separate principal use.
6
The applicant shall prove that the proposed location and proposed intensity of the use will not cause substantial
amounts of tractor-trailer truck traffic that will adversely affect residential neighborhoods, and with a maximum of
20,000 square feet of total distribution and/or warehouse floor area per lot and per building.
7
Except, non-bulk manufacture that is directly part of a research process is permitted.

3. Permitted Accessory Uses in All Districts. An accessory use of a dwelling is only

permitted if such use is customarily incidental to the residential use and is
specifically permitted by this Chapter. The following are permitted by right as
accessory uses to a permitted by right, special exception or conditional principal
use in all districts, within the requirements of § 27-403 and all other requirements
of this Chapter:
A. Air-conditioning, heating and ventilation equipment.
B. Adult day-care center as an accessory use, including care during a portion of
the day of up to four persons.
C. Amateur radio antenna, including antennas used by contractors to
communicate with their own vehicles. (See standard in § 27-403.)
D. Basketball backboard, which may be within a required setback area, provided

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it is a minimum of two feet from any lot line of an abutting residence.

E. Crop storage as an accessory use to crop farming.
F. Day-care center as an accessory use, within the limits on number of children
in § 27-403.
G. Fence or wall. (See standard in § 27-403.)
H. Flagpole.
I. Garage, household.
J. Garage sale. (See standard in § 27-403.)
K. Indoor storage that is customarily accessory to a permitted use.
L. Keeping of pets. (See standard in § 27-403.)
M. Loading, off-street, only to serve a use that is permitted in that district.
N. Parking, off-street, only to serve a use that is permitted in that district.
O. Recreational facilities, noncommercial, limited to use by employees of a lot or
a development and their occasional invited guests.
P. Recreational facilities, noncommercial, limited to use by residents of a
development and their occasional invited guests.
Q. Recycling collection center as an accessory use.
R. Recreational vehicle, storage of one or two. (See standard in § 27-403.)
S. Residential accessory structure (see definition in Part 2) (includes standards
for skateboard ramps). (See standard in § 27-403.)
T. Satellite antennas. (See standard in § 27-403.)
U. Signs, as permitted by Part 8.
V. Solar energy system.
W. Stable, household (up to two horses) (see "keeping of pets"). (See standard in
§ 27-403.)
X. Swimming pool, household. (See standard in § 27-403.)
Y. Tennis/racquetball court.
Z. Volleyball court.
AA. Windmill (see setback requirements that relate to height in § 27-403). (See
standard in § 27-403.)
BB. Such other accessory use or structure that the applicant proves to the

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satisfaction of the Zoning Officer is clearly customary and incidental to a

permitted by right, special exception or conditional principal use. For a
skateboard ramp, see "residential accessory structures" in § 27-403.
4. Permitted Accessory Uses to Business and Institutional Uses. The following are
permitted by right accessory uses only to a permitted by right, special exception or
conditional commercial, industrial or institutional use, provided that all
requirements of this Chapter are met:
A. Amusement machines, coin- or token-operated as accessory uses.
B. Food, beverage and toy machines, coin-operated.
C. Newspaper sales machines, coin-operated.
D. Telephones, coin-operated.
E. Storage of fuels for on-site use or to fuel company vehicles [See the Township
Fire Prevention Code (Chapter 7).]
F. The following accessory uses, provided that the use is clearly limited to
employees, patients, residents and families of employees of the use and their
occasional invited guests:
(1) Standard or fast-food restaurant without drive-through service.
(2) Day-care center.
(3) Noncommercial recreational facilities.
(4) Meeting facilities.
5. Permitted Essential Services. The following are essential services that are permitted
by right as a principal or as an accessory use in all districts:
A. Essential Services Exempt from Lot Area and Setback Requirements. The
following essential services are not required to meet the accessory or principal
structure setback, lot area or other lot requirements of this Chapter, except that
any newly created lot shall meet the applicable lot requirements if future
building or subdivision of the lot would reasonably be possible for a different
use.
(1) Oil pipelines and natural gas transmission and distribution lines and
accessory compressing stations.
(2) Electrical transformers as an accessory use to dwellings.
(3) Electrical, telephone and streetlight poles.
(4) Electrical transmission and distribution lines and meters.
(5) Wells, standpipes, water transmission lines, cisterns and meters.

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(6) Sewage pumping stations, but not including a central sewage treatment
plant, provided that such use be set back a minimum of 75 feet from any
dwelling or any residential lot line.
(7) Cable television and telephone lines.
(8) Stormwater pipes, outfalls, detention basins, swales and catch basins.
(9) Shelters and benches for buses that transport schoolchildren or that are
owned, operated or financed by a public transit authority and that do not
include off-premises signs.
(10) U.S. Mail boxes.
(11) Boxes for receiving individual newspapers.
(12) Railroad lines.
(13) Fire hydrants and emergency callboxes.
(14) Engineered retaining walls that are clearly necessary to hold back slopes.
(15) Sidewalks and curbs.
(16) Residential driveways.
(17) Ramps primarily intended for handicapped access.
(18) For ground-level porches, see Subsection 2 of § 27-803.
(19) Steps leading into the entrance of a building. See Subsection 2 of
§ 27-803.
(20) On-lot septic disposal systems.
(21) Construction. Temporary storage of vehicles and materials and/or
construction office trailers that are clearly needed and being actively used
for current construction on the same or an adjacent lot or within the same
subdivision, provided such items are removed from the site within 30
days of completion of the portion of the construction that they relate to.
These vehicles and materials shall only be stored on a lot while the related
Township construction permit is actively still in effect.
B. Essential Services Required to Comply With Lot Area and Setback
Requirements. The following are permitted essential services that are required
(except within § 27-106) to meet all of the applicable requirements of this
Chapter:
(1) Electrical substations and bulk industrial or commercial transformers that
are not an accessory use to dwellings. Electric substations involving
outdoor structures at least 10 feet in height shall be required to provide
evergreen screening within the requirements of § 27-803 on sides that are

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within 150 feet of a dwelling, undeveloped residentially zoned land or an

expressway or an arterial street.
(2) Water towers (see height exemption in § 27-802), water filtration plants
and pressure stations.
(3) Emergency and other electrical generators and compressors.
(4) Solid waste bulk dumpsters and bulk compactors.
(5) Telephone switching stations.
(6) Industrial or commercial central air-conditioning equipment.
(7) Central sewage treatment facility meeting all PADEP and Township
regulations.

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