12 Lincoln Hwy Penndel, PA 19047-5240

RC Retail Commercial District. The purpose and intent of this district is to provide areas for modern office, retail, personal service and related uses. Standards are included to promote the grouping of retail and service uses to help ensure an attractive setting for permitted land uses, to ensure adequate parking, and to create conditions conducive to carrying out the broad purposes of this chapter. F. SC Service Commercial District. The purpose and intent of this district is to provide reasonable standards for the orderly development of highway-oriented businesses and commercial uses; to provide for the development of those businesses which, due to the nature of their activity, must most appropriately be located with adequate street frontages along major roads; to avoid undue congestion on the streets; to provide adequate parking, and to otherwise create conditions conducive to carrying out the broad purposes of this chapter. G. I Industrial District. The purpose and intent of this district is to provide for the continuation and reasonable expansion of existing industries and the establishment of new industries within the existing industrial area; to ensure desirable and attractive industrial areas through the implementation of performance standards and help create conditions conducive to carrying out the broad purposes of this chapter. H. OR Open Recreation District. The purpose and intent of this district is to provide a variety of facilities for active and passive recreation and open areas for the enjoyment and benefit of all residents, to preserve the few remaining natural areas in the Borough where it is possible, and to otherwise create conditions conducive to carrying out the broad purposes of this chapter. I. MB Metropolitan Business District. The purpose and intent of this district is to provide appropriate area for adult entertainment establishments, adult bookstores, adult motion-picture theaters, adult mini motion-picture theaters, massage parlors, bathhouses, modeling studios, cabarets and artist body-painting studios. It is recognized that some of these are uses which, because of their very nature, are recognized as having serious objectionable operational characteristics. Regulation of these uses is necessary to ensure that these adverse effects will not contribute to the blighting or downgrading of the surrounding neighborhoods, with special consideration being given to the effect on residential neighborhoods. All uses permitted in an industrial district shall be permitted in the Metropolitan Business District. [Added 10-2-1978 by Ord.