2400 Strickler Rd, Manheim, PA 17545

Mixed Use Commercial Zone

The primary purpose of the MUC Zone is to provide for major commercial areas that generate employment, retail businesses, tourism and related dining/lodging, and entertainment uses. The selected location acknowledges prime access to major highways which will serve the commercial uses without generating undue traffic congestion on the Township's rural road system. Specific uses have been limited to avoid unneeded duplication of commercial businesses within nearby Boroughs of Mount Joy and Manheim.; Design standards have been imposed to require attractive and functional integrated business centers, rather than freestanding strip development patterns. An overall plan of development approved as a conditional use is required, to ensure comprehensive and efficient use of commercially zoned land, available infrastructure and public services in a manner that promotes a strong sense of community rather than random development; provides flexibility in design that includes an orderly, integrated, pedestrian-friendly zoning district consisting of a variety of compatible and complementary uses. Dominant building and streetscape elements will encourage connectivity and collectively create a main street atmosphere that includes a varied, coordinated, high-quality design for buildings, signs, parking areas, and streetscape architectural theme.