An Ordinance 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 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 §155-219E 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.

This Ordinance was authorized for advertisement at a stated meeting of the Board of Commissioners held July 19, 2017 and duly advertised in the September 3, 2017 and September 10, 2017 editions of the Main Line Times.