22 Old Market St Mount Joy, PA 17552-1320

MDR Medium Density Residential District: to provide for a range of densities of residential neighborhoods with a mix of housing types; to protect these areas from incompatible uses; to encourage "one home, one lot" development in order to promote home ownership and neighborhood stability; to make sure that "infill" development is consistent with neighboring development; to provide opportunities for well-planned retirement communities. (4) MHDR Medium High Density Residential District: to provide for medium-high-density residential neighborhoods with a mix of housing types meeting the density goals of the Donegal Region Comprehensive Plan; to protect these areas from incompatible uses. (5) CBD Commercial Business District: to promote compact, pedestrian-oriented activities in the downtown; to promote an appropriate mix of retail, service, office, public, institutional and residential uses; to avoid auto-oriented uses that are most likely to conflict with a pedestrian orientation and which are most likely to cause demolition of historic buildings; to primarily provide for smaller-scale uses and mixed uses that utilize existing historic buildings, as opposed to uses that would involve substantial demolition; to promote high-density transit-oriented development at locations in walkable distance from the train station. (6) NC Neighborhood Commercial District: to provide for predominantly commercial and mixed uses that would be highly compatible with homes; to promote the adaptive reuse of historic buildings along portions of Main Street that are not within the Commercial Business District; to encourage commercial uses accessible by multiple modes of transportation; to promote uses that will provide a pedestrian orientation. (7) GC General Commercial District: to provide for larger-scale employment uses and a mix of commercial uses serving a regional level; to provide for commercial uses of all sizes; to provide for uses that are more auto-related than uses in the CBD and NC Districts. (8) LI Light Industrial District: to provide for employment uses such as light industrial, office and related commercial development in a manner that is compatible with any nearby homes; to carefully control the types of operations to avoid nuisances (such as excessive noise and vibrations) and hazards; to encourage the preservation of key historic buildings; to provide employment areas in walkable proximity to residential areas and the train station; to limit uses with intensive customer or truck traffic where existing streets are unable to accommodate such traffic demands.