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Upper Hanover supervisors direct solicitor to draft ordinance limiting warehouse uses to principal arterials
Summary
The Board of Supervisors polled in favor of removing warehouse uses from several zoning districts and limiting them to conditional use in the LI district only on Principal Arterial Highways; Solicitor Joseph Bresnan will draft the ordinance and consult Montgomery County planning staff.
Upper Hanover Township supervisors indicated support for drafting a zoning amendment that would remove warehouse uses from the Outdoor Storage, LIC‑1 and LIC‑2 districts and allow warehouses in the Light Industrial district only by conditional use on properties with access to Principal Arterial Highways.
A staff review and a marked‑up zoning map identified 14 properties that meet basic size, zoning and road classification criteria for warehouse projects; five of those properties were noted as vacant and the remainder would require industrial reuse. A poll of the supervisors present showed three in favor of pursuing the amendment and one opposed. The supervisors directed Township Solicitor Joseph Bresnan to prepare the ordinance language and to discuss the proposed change with Eric Jarrell of the Montgomery County Planning Commission to determine any impacts on the Regional Comprehensive Plan and zoning use calculations.
The action at the April 18 joint work session was direction to draft and vet proposed ordinance language, not final adoption. The board did not take a formal recorded vote on an ordinance; members asked that the solicitor return a draft for review after consultation with county planning staff.
