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ITEM:  PROPOSED ORDINANCE - BALA VILLAGE

Consider for recommendation to the Board of Commissioners authorizing the Township Secretary to advertise notice of intent to hold a public hearing and adopt an ordinance amendment on September 19, 2017 to amend the Code of the Township of Lower Merion, Chapter 155, entitled Zoning, Article XXXV, City Avenue District, §155-219, City Avenue District: Bala Village, §155-219B Use Regulations to require active ground floor uses in buildings fronting on Bala Avenue, City Avenue, and Cynwyd Road, and to allow galleries and museums, and to establish a 300 feet separation requirement for less active uses, and to remove a multiple-use development and adult or child daycare as a permitted use, and to Amend §155-219C(1) to  limit the 10% building area increase to mixed-use buildings, and to amend §155-219C(5) to limit the 10% impervious surface increase to mixed-use buildings, and to amend §155-219C(9) to require a buffer for any development abutting a residential district, and to allow a reduction in the buffer requirements by conditional use when a development abuts a railroad right-of-way; and to amend §155-219.D. parking & loading requirements to reduce the number of off-site public parking spaces that may be counted towards required parking calculations for existing buildings and to no longer allow new buildings to count off-site public parking spaces toward their required parking; and to amend §155-219E to limit floor area ratio density increases to mixed-use buildings only, and to remove the incentives for residential single-use buildings, and to amend the incentive for underground and/or wrapped parking structures, and to increase the historic preservation incentive from 0.1 to 0.2, and to remove the incentives for off-site traffic improvements.

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