The purpose of the Open Space District is the preservation and enhancement of open space, environmentally sensitive areas and recreation.
The following requirements must be complied with in the OS Open Space District:
A. Principal Permitted Uses
1. Open space and conservation areas.
2. Public parks and playgrounds.
3. Agriculture.
4. Single family detached dwellings.
B. Permitted Accessory Uses
1. Off-street parking.
2. Fences and walls.
3. Signs.
4. Other customary accessory uses, buildings and structures which are clearly incidental to the principal use and building.
1. Minimum lot area: 3 acres la. Maximum lot depth: 250 feet
2. Minimum lot frontage: a) interior lots: 200 feet b) cul-de-sac lots: 100 feet c) corner lots: 275 feet on both streets
3. Minimum lot width at setback: a) interior and cul-de-sac lots: 250 feet b) corner lots: 275 feet on both streets
5. Minimum rear yard setback: a) Principal building: 100 feet. b) Accessory building: 20 feet. c) Private swimming pool: 50 feet
6. Minimum side yard setback: a) Principal building: Each side yard at least 50 feet, and aggregate of both side yards at least 40% of lot width at setback. b) Accessory building: 20 feet. c) Private swimming pool: 20 feet
7. Maximum building height: a) Principal building: 35 feet and in no event shall the building contain more than 2 1/2 stories. b) Accessory building: 15 feet
8. Maximum impervious coverage: 20 percent of lot area.
10. Maximum floor area ratio (for non-residential development): .18.
The purpose of the Government Use District is to permit the development of institutional uses and municipal facilities and activities.
The following requirements must be complied with in the GU Government Use District.
A. Principal Permitted Uses
1. Municipal facilities and activities including but not limited to, offices, storage yards, and maintenance facilities.
2. Institutional uses as defined in Section 13-1.320.
4. Schools.
5. Libraries.
6. Museums.
7. Public parks and playgrounds
8. Open space and conservation areas.
9. Senior citizen housing.
10. Nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
11. Single family detached dwellings.
12. Agriculture.
B. Permitted Accessory Uses
1. Off-street parking.
2. Garages, storage buildings and tool sheds.
3. Fences and walls.
4. Signs.
5. Outdoor bulk storage subject to the provisions of Section 13-7.816.
6. Other customary accessory uses, buildings and structures which are clearly incidental to the principal use and building.
1. Minimum lot area: 40,250 square feet
2. Minimum lot frontage: 150 feet
5. Minimum rear yard setback: a) Principal building: 50 feet. b) Accessory building: 10 feet.
6. Minimum side yard setback: a) Principal building: 20 feet. b) Accessory building: 10 feet.
7. Maximum building height: 35 feet and in no event shall the building contain more than 2 1/2 stories.
8. Maximum impervious coverage: 70 percent.
9. Maximum floor area ratio: .25.
A.continuous landscaped buffer area of not less than 35 feet width shall be maintained between any commercial use in the B-1, 131A, B-2 or PO/R districts and an adjoining residential district boundary line. A continuous landscaped buffer area of not less than 50 feet width shall be maintained between any commercial use located in any other commercial/industrial districts and an adjoining residential district boundary line.
No commercial/industrial use shall be permitted within 500 feet of a residential district unless such use demonstrably conforms to all applicable requirements of Chapter XXI, "Noise Control", of the Revised General Ordinances of the Township.
No commercial/industrial establishment within 200 feet of a residential district shall be permitted to conduct business between the hours of 11:00 pm of each day and 6:00 am of the following day.
**Webmasters Note: The previous subsection has been added and the following subsections renumbered as per Ordinance No. 26-04.
No driveway or roadway for the purpose of ingress to or egress from any office, commercial or industrial use shall be located such that the outlet for such driveway or roadway is located on r municipal street in a residential district.
**Webmasters Note: The previous section has been added as per Ordinance No. 24-01.
The purpose of the Professional Office/Residential District is to permit residentially scaled office development and conversions of existing residences to office uses that are compatible with adjacent residential neighborhoods.
The following requirements must be complied with in the POR Professional Office/Residential District:
A. Principal Permitted Uses
1.Office buildings, including business, professional, medical and administrative.
2. Offices for financial institutions (excluding drive-thru windows and automatic teller machines as permitted under Section 13-7.2202C4).
3. Home offices.
4. Child care centers licensed by the Department of Human Services pursuant to N.J.S.A. 30:5B-1 et seq.
5. Essential services
B. Permitted Accessary Uses
1. Any accessory use permitted in the B-1 Limited Business District.
C. Permitted Conditional Uses.
1. Institutional uses in accordance with the conditions set forth in Subsection 13-7.3503, provided further that such uses shall be compatible in scale and character with neighboring residential dwellings.
2. Expansions of existing single-family detached residential dwellings, provided that any such expansion shall maintain the character and single family use of the existing dwelling and conform to the setback requirements of the POIR Professional Office/Residential District.
3. Nursing homes and assisted living facilities, in accordance with the conditions set forth in Subsection 13-7.3504, provided further that such uses shall be compatible in scale and character with neighboring residential dwellings.
4. Banks with drive-through windows and/or automatic teller machines (ATMs), provided that a minimum fifty-foot (50') landscaped buffer is maintained between any drive-through lane or ATM and the closest residential property line.
1. Minimum lot area: 10,000 square feet
2. Minimum lot frontage and lot width at setback: a) Interior lots: seventy-five (75) feet b) Corner lots: eighty-five (85) feet
3. Minimum front yard setback: forty (40) feet. The location of the principal structure shall be compatible with the established character of the surrounding area.
4. Minimum rear yard setback: a) Principal building: twenty (20) feet. b) Accessory building: five (5) feet.
5. Minimum side yard setback: a) Principal building: ten (10) feet. b) Accessory building: five (5) feet.
6. Maximum building height: a) Principal building: thirty-five (35) feet and in no event shall the building contain more than two and one-half (2 1/2) stories. b) Accessory building: fifteen (1 5) feet.
7. Maximum floor area ratio shall be .20, except for lots and/or tracts having direct highway access, for which the maximum floor area ration shall be .25.
8. Maximum impervious coverage: fifty-five (55) percent.
9. Residential conversions: The conversion of an existing residential structure to any nonresidential use or new construction of a nonresidential use shall only be permitted where the character of the existing structure is maintained or where the new structure reflects a residential character and all off-street parking and other requirements contained in this Ordinance are met.
10. Parking setbacks for nonresidential development. Parking, including access driveways and aisles, shall be located no closer than 10 feet to a front building wall and no closer than 5 feet to the side and rear building walls.
