Township of Middletown

Academic schools

Vehicle Parking:
At least one off-street parking space for each employee, including administrators, teachers and building maintenance personnel.
In addition, for high schools or the equivalent: at least one off-street parking space for each 20 classroom seats or one off-street parking space for each 10 auditorium seats, whichever formula will require the larger number of parking spaces.
See § 500-2702K for more details.
See Article XXVII: Off-Street Parking Regulations for more detailed information.

Merchandise Loading:
See § 500-2703: Off-street loading required for detailed information.

Development Requirements:

A building may be erected or used and a lot may be used or occupied for this purpose and no other.

To include schools of the following character: adult schools, correspondence schools, colleges, educational tutoring, general education, schools for handicapped or retarded persons, public schools and others of like kind.

Accessory use

A use located on the same lot with a principal use, and clearly incidental or subordinate to, and in connection with the principal use.

Vehicle Parking:
See Article XXVII: Off-Street Parking Regulations for detailed parking information.

Merchandise Loading:
See § 500-2703: Off-street loading required for detailed information.

Development Requirements:

On the same lot with and customarily incidental to any permitted use in this district, subject to the applicable provisions of this article and Article XXIV: Accessory Uses and Structures.

In the OR Open Recreation District: accessory uses incidental to the operation and maintenance of permitted uses, including parking facilities, shelters, rest rooms, administrative, maintenance and storage buildings, and permanent housing for administrative or supervisory personnel.

In the OC Office campus District the accessory uses may include:

(1) Storage within a completely enclosed building in conjunction with a permitted use.
(2) A cafeteria or other service facility located within the building and operated for the exclusive use of occupants of the building.
(3) A recreational area for occupants.
(4) Living quarters for watchmen, caretakers or similar employees.

In the M-1 Light Manufacturing District: Accessory uses on the same lot with and customarily incidental to any of the permitted uses in § 500-1902: Use regulations.

Administrative offices

Vehicle Parking:
At least one off-street parking space for each 200 square feet of total floor area.
See § 500-2702H for details.
See Article XXVII: Off-Street Parking Regulations for more detailed information.

Merchandise Loading:
See § 500-2703: Off-street loading required for detailed information.

Development Requirements:

A building may be erected or used and a lot may be used or occupied for this purpose and no other.

A-O District (Use Group 4):
Uses on a single lot shall be restricted to those of a single use group.
Offices which do not involve the storage, exchange, sale or delivery of merchandise on the premises.

Administrative offices used for the management of the community

Adult business

Any adult or sexually oriented business, including any business establishment that regularly features live performances which are distinguished or characterized by an emphasis on the exposure of the genitals or buttocks of any person or the breasts of any female person or specified sexual activities that involve the exposure of the genitals or buttocks of any person or the breasts of any female person, or any business whose primary purpose is the sale or display of matter that, because of its sexually explicit nature, may, pursuant to state law or other regulatory authority, be offered only to persons over the age of 18 years. "Adult business" may include an adult arcade, adult bookstore, adult cabaret, adult hotel/motel, adult motion-picture theater, adult visual materials or video store, adult modeling studio or adult entertainment enterprise, as defined herein.

See § 500-1902A(31)(b) for additional terms associated with adult business.

Adult commercial use

Vehicle Parking:
See Article XXVII: Off-Street Parking Regulations for detailed parking information.

Merchandise Loading:
See § 500-2703: Off-street loading required for detailed information.

Development Requirements:

A building may be erected or used and a lot may be used or occupied for the following purposes and no other, provided that no use which is noxious or hazardous shall be permitted except in accordance with Article XXV: Nuisance Standards of this chapter.
In a building or structure with more than 75 square feet of floor area or 2% of the total floor area, whichever is less, devoted to activities of the type which are prescribed by 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 5903. An adult commercial use shall be permitted when authorized by the Zoning Hearing Board as a special exception, provided that:

(a) The building or structure of such use shall be located no less than 500 feet from any residential use or district, public or private school, church, recreation facility or any other religious, institutional or educational use.
(b) No such use shall be located within 2,000 feet of a similar use.
(c) No materials sold within shall be visible from any window, door or exterior of the building or structure.
(d) No person under the age of 17 years of age shall be permitted to patronize an adult commercial use or be sold any pornographic material.

Agricultural and horticultural

Vehicle Parking:
See Article XXVII: Off-Street Parking Regulations for detailed parking information.

Merchandise Loading:
See § 500-2703: Off-street loading required for detailed information.

Development Requirements:

A building may be erected or used and a lot may be used or occupied for any of the following purposes and no other:

A. Agricultural uses, including tilling of the soil, nursery and the keeping or raising of livestock, birds, poultry, horses and bees, provided that:

(1) The minimum lot area shall be 10 acres.
(2) Any building used for the keeping or raising of livestock, poultry, birds, horses or bees shall be situated not less than 100 feet from any street line or property line. For the keeping of bees, adequate shade and water shall be provided in the immediate vicinity of the hives.
(3) The keeping or raising of horses shall be limited to one horse per two acres.
(4) The keeping or raising of all other livestock and poultry shall be limited to five per acre.
(5) A single-family detached dwelling is permitted on the same lot as this use, provided it meets the area and dimension requirements of § 500-403: Area and dimensional requirements. A greenhouse or greenhouses and a roadside stand are also permitted, but only as accessory uses to the primary agricultural use, subject to the following restrictions:

(a) At least 50% of the products sold shall be produced on the premises where offered for sale.
(b) Any such stand shall be situated not less than 30 feet from any street line.
(c) Such roadside stand shall be a structure with no more than three enclosed sides.
(d) No retail sales, except from a roadside stand, shall be permitted from or in connection with a greenhouse.

In the OR Open Recreation District: Using existing facilities as a continuing interim use of land pending development of other permitted uses or as a demonstration farm when part of an overall recreation or educational area plan.

In the M-1 Light Manufacturing District: A building may be erected or used and a lot may be used or occupied for the following purposes and no other, provided that no use which is noxious or hazardous shall be permitted except in accordance with Article XXV: Nuisance Standards of this chapter. Minimum lot area of five acres.

Airport facilities, general

Vehicle Parking:
See § 500-2702J for detailed information.
See Article XXVII: Off-Street Parking Regulations or more detailed information.

Merchandise Loading:
See § 500-2703: Off-street loading required for detailed information.

Development Requirements:

A building may be erected or used and a lot may be used or occupied for the following purposes and no other, provided that no use which is noxious or hazardous shall be permitted except in accordance with Article XXV: Nuisance Standards of this chapter.

Includes accessory sales, services and rentals, when authorized as a conditional use by the Board of Supervisors, subject to the following:

(a) Such use shall only be permitted as part of an industrial park which is 50 acres or more in size.
(b) Such use shall be approved and authorized by the Federal Aviation Administration and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Bureau of Aviation, and shall comply with all applicable federal and state requirements.

Amusement or recreational establishments

Township of Middletown, PA

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