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What the Mixed Use Gateway district would allow and restrict
Summary
Staff presented the MUG draft that would allow multifamily residential (13 units/acre by right; 16 with bonus), require 30% nonresidential gross leasable area, ban drive-thrus and list new permitted uses including child daycare and a 'pet resort.' The ordinance sets a 75-foot height limit (85 with bonus) and includes buffers where the district borders residential properties.
County planner Marley Bice summarized the ordinance's major elements and how it ties to the Plymouth 2040 comp plan: "the ordinance would allow 13 dwelling units per acre by right, 16 dwelling units per acre with the bonus option," she said, and described the bonus rules for attainable housing.
Bice said the MUG district would require public water and sewer, a transportation-impact study for redevelopment proposals and a minimum of 30% nonresidential gross leasable floor area so the area does not become purely residential. Permitted uses would include retail, restaurants, office, indoor theater, health clubs and, newly, child daycare and a "pet resort" (dog daycare and overnight boarding). Bice also noted that drive-thru facilities are explicitly prohibited in the MUG district.
Dimensional standards would permit structures up to 75 feet (roughly five stories) and offer an 85-foot limit with bonus provisions. The ordinance introduces frontage-based setbacks, a 20-foot landscaped buffer where the district abuts residential zones and site-design standards referencing existing township landscaping and screen-buffer tables. Bice and the solicitor said the MUG is intended as a transitional, pedestrian-friendly district with shared parking and provisions for transit amenities adjacent to a SEPTA bus stop on Ridge Pike.
