Folcroft Borough Zoning Ordinance - E-Library

3. Nonresidential Land Use/Commerce/Industrya. Encourage the controlled expansion of the successful Folcroft IndustrialPark by allowing modern, high-tech, and low impact light industrial andbusiness uses representative of the present economic environment.b. Maintain the Folcroft Industrial Park in good condition through codeenforcement and encouragement of owners/tenants to take measures tocomply with codes and ordinances and make efforts to maintain orimprove the appearance of buildings and properties.c. Along Delmar Drive, encourage shopping in a centralized area that offersa wide variety of commercial, retail, entertainment, and service and microenterprise uses. Office uses should generally be allowed only above thefirst floor. Auto-related commercial uses should be located along majorroadways outside of the central retail area.d. Along Chester Pike, all types of retail and service uses, both pedestrianandautomobile-related, may be permitted. Apartments and offices may bepermitted above the first floor retail uses.e. Pursue County Renaissance (now Revitalization) Program funding for aTown Revitalization Center along Delmar Drive, as noted in the PlanningArea 4 Action Plan of the Program. It includes streetscape componentssuch as improvements to sidewalks, provision of crosswalks, and trees,bus shelters, pedestrian-oriented lighting, as well as various trafficcalming measures, façade improvements, and similar activities.f. Explore the enactment of the Local Economic Revitalization TaxAbatement Act (LERTA) and its application to designated, deterioratingcommercial and industrial properties. This would encourageredevelopment by exempting the tax on the improvements to properties inthe designated area.4. Housinga. Maintain existing housing stock and properties so as to preventdeterioration of dwellings and decline of neighborhoods through avigorous program of code enforcement.b. Improve the Borough’s housing stock by repairing or removingsubstandard residential structures and providing new housing in selectedareas, as both infill and new development.c. Protect residential properties from the impacts of traffic, noise, andadjacent industrial and other high impact uses by regulating permittedCDO 3