329 Gap Rd, Ronks, PA 17572

Railroad Heritage Zone

The Railroad Heritage Zone RH encompasses properties of the Strasburg Rail Road, the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, the Choo-Choo Barn and Traintown and related properties on the east side of Strasburg Borough. The district is bounded by PA 896 on the west and is limited on the north, south, and east by the adopted urban growth boundary of Strasburg Township The zone provides for a mix of urban residential, institutional, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation uses that constitute a unique center of historic railroading. The Railroad Heritage Zone RH accommodates a wide range of uses and activities, while containing those uses within a designated urban growth area that is an extension of the Borough and preserving the surrounding agricultural character of the Township. It is the intent of the Board of Supervisors that the permitted uses which relate to historic railroading be allowed a broad range of ancillary and associated uses to enable such principal uses to prosper, but the industrial ancillary and associated uses shall be permitted only in conjunction with the historic railroading related principal use. The Board of Supervisors does not desire to authorize industrial uses such as machine shops, welding, and woodworking as separate and distinct principal uses within the Railroad Heritage Zone RH.