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.  This Public Hearing was continued from a stated meeting of the Board of Commissioners held on September 19, 2017.