The Business Technology District represents an opportunity for a mix of uses that are less intense then heavy industry but can blend or provide for a blending of both manufacturing and commercial uses in one zoning district reflective of modern business trends where many manufacturers do light manufacturing, computerized manufacturing, software & hardware manufacturing and have an office component or personnel component in the same location, blending those uses into a mixed type use district – made sense and provided an opportunity to further development – the commercial aspect of the Township in ways where it would not impact severely on the main commercial corridor moving for the potential for industrial type manufacturing, light type manufacturing away from the center business core – still allows for the development but keeps it out of the strongest flow of traffic through the Township.

Where existing commercial facilities located and ancillary to the Highway Commercial C-2 zoning - the light commercial areas are organized as exactly that –  Light Commercial less intense, smaller commercial enterprise development areas.

At the very extreme lower portion of the zoning map is an area which we refer to as the “Town Center District” – this area is perhaps an ambitious concept in rezoning but it is one that was contemplated by the Comprehensive Plan and it recognizes a desire by the Township to try to return that area of the Township – unique as it is with smaller commercial operations, businesses and buildings located along a more narrow corridor it represents an effort to try to foster redevelopment in that area in a way that allows for greater pedestrian access, re-configuration of the properties to allow for shared parking so that you can, hopefully, encourage smaller scale businesses to develop in clusters or together in a traditional Town Center type setting with additional provisions for enhanced esthetic features , clock towers, plantings, shrubberies, trees, and fencing, things that would restore a more walk-able town like character to that area. Again, noting this Ordinance is not going to require that everyone that owns property along Brownsville Road immediately change their property to meet these requirements but since this Ordinance is written for along term purpose the hope is that as those areas start to redevelop that they would redevelop in away that’s very different from the present arrangement which is often less commodious to pedestrian traffic, and frankly does not provide the same amenities that hopefully would develop in the wake of any redevelopment that occurs in that area.