Any area of land, including structures thereon, or any building or part thereof, that is used for the sale of gasoline or other motor vehicle fuel or accessories, and which may or may not include facilities for lubricating, washing, or otherwise servicing motor vehicles, but which shall not include painting or body and fender repairs, or a property and/or place of business where flammable or combustible liquids used as motor fuels are stored and dispensed from fixed equipment into the fuel tanks of motor vehicles by a person other than the service station attendant.
In districts where this use is permitted, please review the procedures below.
In districts where this use is conditional, please review the procedures below.
Development Requirements:
Gasoline service stations shall be permitted by right in the I Industrial District and by conditional use in the C-2 District and shall comply with the following regulations.
A. A set of plans, specifications and plot plans shall be submitted to the Board of Commissioners showing all structures, pumps, storage tanks, parking areas and driveways for ingress and egress.
B. All pumps shall be located outside of buildings, on private property and in no case within 20 feet of any street right-of-way line, subject to such conditions and safeguards as the Township Commissioners may impose (for the C-2 District) with respect to, among other matters, the location and adequacy of entrances and exits.
C. All automobile parts, dismantled vehicles and similar articles shall be stored within a building; all fuel, oil or other similar substances shall be stored at least 35 feet from any street right-of-way and 10 feet from any lot line; and all volatile fuel containers in excess of 100 gallons shall be located underground.
D. In no event shall a permit be granted for such a use located within 500 feet of a school, hospital, infirmary, church, museum, club or place of public assembly having the capacity of over 100 persons; a gasoline service station shall not be deemed nonconforming through the subsequent erection of the above uses.