338 Clemens Rd, Harleysville, PA 19438

Mixed-Use District

In expansion of the community development objectives contained in Article II of this chapter and in support of the goals and recommendations of the 1990 Sumneytown Pike Corridor Study and Township Comprehensive Plan, it is the intent of this article to: Provide for a balanced, interrelated combination of offices, stores and residences in a setting with a distinctive community character that will encourage pedestrian circulation, manage automobile use, and promote day and evening, weekday and weekend activity; Encourage new, mixed-use development that complements the mixed-use character found in the Township's existing villages; Link future commercial growth with residential growth; Require a mix of housing types which will help promote a range of income levels, age groups and lifestyles within the Township; Limit the adverse impact of future commercial and office facilities on roads by controlling access and orienting this development towards the interior of the site; Limit the adverse impact of future commercial and office facilities on nearby residences and neighborhoods by requiring a mix of uses, minimizing the visual impact of parking areas and requiring buffer landscaping; Serve the need for community open space, such as trails, parks and central green spaces; Require a coordinated pedestrian path system to provide safe, efficient, pleasant and convenient pedestrian access from parking areas to and among various permitted uses and off-site destinations; Permit existing nonconforming industrial uses to continue to operate, provided that the potential negative impact of these uses on abutting residential properties is adequately mitigated to the satisfaction of the Board of Supervisors; Encourage the development of employment centers and retail services along the Route 63 corridor between Mainland and Harleysville as an alternative to highway commercial-type development; Foster proactive land planning in the provisions for corporate office campus use in the Township; Provide for usual and customary ancillary uses to support corporate offices such as a self-contained coffee shop, newsstand and employee day care.