AGENDA ITEM INFORMATION
ITEM: AUTHORIZATION TO ADVERTISE ORDINANCE CHAPTER 155, ZONING - MINOR ZONING EDITS ROUND 7 - Z-24-005
Consider for recommendation to the Board of Commissioners authorizing the Township Secretary to advertise notice of a Public Hearing and intent to adopt an ordinance to amend the Code of the Township of Lower Merion, Chapter 155, entitled Zoning, Article II, Definitions, § 155-2.1, Definitions of Terms, to create new definitions for Food Hall, Hookah, Hookah Bar, Neighborhood Fulfillment and Distribution Center, Outdoor Temporary Sales Event, and Smoke Shop; Article III, General to Districts, § 155-3.5.D(1), Frontages, to prohibit structures in primary frontage yards but permit structures in secondary frontage yards if the structures meet principle building setbacks; Article III, General to Districts, § 155-3.5.F(1), Frontages, to limit the prohibitions on certain structures and equipment contained therein to Primary Frontage Yards; Table 5.1, Uses, and Table 5.3, Use Regulations, to permit Outdoor Temporary Sales Events as a regulated commercial use in the NC, VC, TC, LI, RHR, BMV, and CAD Districts and establish regulations for the use; 5.1, Uses, and Table 5.3, Use Regulations, to permit Neighborhood Fulfillment and Distribution Center as a regulated commercial use in the VC, TC, LI, RHR, BMV, and CAD Districts and establish regulations for the use; 5.1, Uses, and Table 5.3, Use Regulations, to permit Food Hall as a regulated commercial Use in the VC, TC, LI, RHR, BMV, and CAD Districts and establish regulations for the use; Table 5.3, Use Regulations, to permit Smoke Shop and/or Hookah Bar as a specialty retail in the NC, VC, TC, LI, RHR, BMV, and CAD Districts and establish regulations for the use; and Table 8.1, Minimum Parking Requirements, and Table 8.1.1, Minimum Parking Requirements: Special District, to base the relevant square footage calculation on floor area rather than building area. |