1057 Lifford Rd, Cheltenham, PA 19012

Mixed Use District

In expansion of the declaration of legislative intent and the statement of community development objectives found in Article I of this chapter, the intent of this Mixed Use District is to: Provide for greater flexibility throughout the Township to provide office, research, and mixed use areas uses.; Encourage a more creative, varied, efficient, attractive and commercially focused development pattern.; Provide an effective means of responding to site conditions, including environmentally sensitive conditions and reuse of historic properties.; Promote good design that encourages development that is consistent with the architectural and social character of surrounding areas.; Promote a walkable community with pedestrian-oriented buildings and open space that connects to nearby destinations.; Create and support lively, human-scaled activity areas and gathering places for the community by encouraging civic uses, plazas, and a mix of uses.; Promote and provide for the adaptive reuse of buildings that are historic resources and of properties with significant character, uses and development.; Preserve and promote the use of such historic resources and other land and buildings for cultural and artistic purposes.; Encourage creative, adaptive reuse of historic estates in ways that promote community-benefitting services and innovative commercial vitality consistent with their historic significance and green space in the Township.; Integrate new development and adaptive reuse into an existing community, and accomplish such goals by allowing a mix of compatible uses that provide for community-benefitting services as well as a variety of living opportunities.