What is the Greater Business Overlay District ordnance?
If you do an Internet Google search on “Zoning Overlay”, you will see that most of the search results describe a zoning overlay as a way to protect the area from development, not a way to increase development. However, this is not the case with the proposed Murrysville zoning overlay. As defined by the Citizens Overlay Guide the zoning overlay is: “An overlay is a modification of the base zoning that allows additional uses or imposes additional restrictions in a particular area. The state code allows municipalities to modify base zoning in certain areas to encourage innovation and creative development. These areas may lie near interchanges or transportation corridors where a modified treatment of the base zoning occurs. In other words, if a parcel is zoned R-1 and lies within the overlay, its zoning remains R-1 but the overlay allows for additional uses to occur subject to the standards and procedures of the ordinance.” “Municipality of Murrysville desires to concentrate commercial and