Permitted district the following principal uses shall be permitted:
a. A planned senior adult residential village development or a planned residential development serviced by public sewer and public water, containing single family detached, townhouse, patio or zero lot line dwellings, and multi-family units provided that at least ten percent (10%) of the total dwelling units that are the subject of a development application shall be low and moderate income dwellings as required by section 20-5.14 of this chapter.
b. Life care, congregate care dwellings provided they are part of planned senior adult residential village development.
In the PRD-A district, the following accessory uses shall be permitted:
a. Garages for single family homes, and uses customarily associated with the above uses, provided that such accessory uses are subordinate to the principal use, do not change the character of the principal use and serve only the principal use.
b. Accessory uses are allowed in all yards but the front yard.
c. No accessory use, structure or building shall exceed the height limitations for the principal building on the lot.
d. Security guard houses, provided such structure(s) are no larger than 12 feet x 12 feet in size, are no higher than fifteen (15) feet, are located along the entrance driveway(s) to the property, are located outside of any required sight triangle, and are set back at least twenty-five (25) feet from all street and property lines.
e. Utility services, to include underground gas, cable TV, electric, telephone, and parking.
f. Building structures and uses owned and operated by the Town of Newton for municipal purposes only if their overall design is compatible with the planned development.
Forty (40) contiguous acres. Such area shall be developed in accordance with a single comprehensive plan. Streets shall not be deemed to divide acreage for the purposes of this requirements.
Five (5) dwelling units per gross acre All of the dwelling units in a planned senior adult residential village development shall be for mature adults, 55 years of age or older. Any a used for pre-existing public streets and any area provided for commercial uses under the planned development provisions shall be excluded from the acreage uses in calculating the number of permitted dwelling units.
Four hundred (400) contiguous fee
There shall be a mix of housing types and net densities in accordance with the requirements set forth below:
a. At a minimum, three (3) of the permitted housing types shall be provided.
b. Of the housing types provided, no one type shall exceed forty percent (40%) of the total dwelling units. This unit distribution shall not apply to units designed for low and moderate income housing.
c. The maximum permitted net residential density (permitted number of dwelling units per acre of residentially designated land ) of particular types of dwelling units shall be in accordance with the schedule below. In calculating permitted net densities, the area of land covered by such uses shall include internal streets, parking areas and private lands, but not areas designated as common open space or development collector streets.
1. The net density of single family detached units shall not exceed three (3) dwelling units per acre, Patio homes or zero lot line dwellings shall not exceed a net density of five (5) dwelling units per acre.
2. The net density of townhouses shall not exceed six (6) dwelling units per acre.
3. The net density of multi-family units shall not exceed ten (10) dwelling units per acre.
4. The net density of congregate care units shall not exceed twenty (20) dwelling units per acre.
Congregate care is a residential use designed with support facilities and operated exclusively for adults. The facility shall comply with all applicable state and federal regulations. Where such use is provided it shall conform to the following standards:
a. A congregate care facility shall provide housing for independent and semi-independent older persons in which at least one hot meal per day is served and some housekeeping services are provided. Living units shall include at least a living room, bedroom, bathroom, and kitchenette.
b. All support facilities, functions, and services shall be intended for the use and benefit of the residents and users of the facility and their guests.
c. Health care and support services, functions and facilities within a congregate care facility or planned senior adult residential development may include the following: indoor and outdoor recreational facilities; physical therapy facilities; entertainment facilities, libraries; food preparation facilities; dining facilities; linen service facilities; nursing service; housekeeping service; limited health care facilities and services, including nursing beds; security facilities; administrative offices; storage facilities; chapels; facilities for the temporary lodging of guests; and limited commercial service facilities, such as bank, post office, drug store, convenience store, commissary, gift shop, newsstand, barber/beauty shop, snack bar/coffee shop, handicraft shop, and such other services or functions as may be deemed by the planning board to be reasonably related to the overall purposes of the facility. No outdoor advertising for these facilities is permitted. Commercial service/retail facilities shall occupy no more than two-tenths Of One percent (0.2%) of the total floor areas.
d. Other support facilities may include, but are not limited to, lounge areas, reading rooms, craft rooms, common dining facilities and recreational rooms, main and cleaning service of individual dwelling units, and janitorial service of common areas and maintenance of facility grounds.
Lot sizes and dimensions shall conform to those contained on Table 1.
Not more than twenty percent (20%) of the gross area of each residential section shall be covered by all buildings. Impervious surfaces, in the aggregate, shall not cover more than forty percent (40%) of the entire planned development.
No single family detached, patio or zero lot line, or townhouse dwelling unit shall exceed twenty- five feet; no multi-family unit or congregate care facility shall exceed thirty-five feet in height.
a. No less than fifty percent (50%) of a planned development tract area (less existing and proposed road rights-of-way) shall be devoted to conservation, open space and/or recreational purposes. All 100 year flood hazard areas and 100 foot flood hazard buffer areas plus wetlands and wetland buffers and steep slopes in excess of fifteen percent (15%) shall be retained in common open space. Individual residential lots or portions thereof shall not be construed as common open space. Such designated common open space shall be in major contiguous parcels interspersed among grouping of residential dwellings and shall be interconnected with common open space areas on abutting parcels, having adequate access to public and/or private roads and consisting of land developed for specific recreational purposes. Open space areas for purposes of this calculation shall not include, among other things, courtyards and cul-de-sac islands.
b. Active and passive recreational facilities shall be provided for the use and enjoyment of the residents of the planned development and their guests. Such developed recreational facilities shall constitute at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the total required common open space. The following facilities, as appropriate, related to the age level of future residents shall be considered: swimming pools, recreation centers, clubhouse and meeting rooms, shuffleboard and horseshoe courts, tennis courts, jogging trails and bike paths, exercise areas and stations, picnic facilities, outdoor sitting areas, gardening areas, and off-site pedestrian systems. The location of such recreational facilities shall be carefully planned to provide privacy for the users and to avoid problems of noise, lighting and similar nuisances which might interfere with their use and enjoyment by residents of the development.
c. The design and use of common open space areas shall protect the natural resources and qualities of the site, including the natural terrain, woodlands, significant views and any unique and unusual feature. Common open space other than that preserved for its natural values shall be suitably landscaped. All structures within open space areas shall be sited so as to retain their visual appeal.
a. No portion of any dwelling shall be closer than twenty-five feet to the right-of-way of a local internal road one hundred (100) feet to a collector road or arterial as designated by the Town's master plan.
c. End wall to window wall: Thirty feet minimum, except for single family detached dwellings which shall be separated a minimum of twenty feet.
d. Any building face to parking area: Twelve feet minimum.
e. Window wall to window wall: Fifty feet minimum, except for single family detached and multi-family units which shall be separated by a minimum of thirty feet.
The planning board may reduce the distances cited above by not more than one-third (1/3) if there is an angle of 20 degrees or more between buildings and if extensive landscaping and/or earth berming is placed between buildings.
a. Single family detached units shall be placed into small groupings such as clusters or courts. Groupings shall be visually reduced in size by using garden walls, gates, fences and variable landscape layouts.
b. Building exteriors shall have vertical and/or horizontal offsets to create visual breaks on the exterior.
c. A variety of building heights is encouraged in a single development.
d. A variety of building setbacks, roof lines, color schemes, and elevations shall be required in the development to avoid a repetitious or monotonous streetscape.
e. The exteriors of all buildings in the project, including accessory buildings, shall conform architecturally and be constructed of materials of like character.
The following procedural requirements and standards are required for a planned senior adult residential village or planned residential development:
a. A planned development shall conform to the findings for such developments as contained in section 20-5.9 of this chapter.
b. As part of the approval process of a planned development, the planning board shall establish a phasing schedule which addresses:
1. The number and type of dwelling units to be constructed by particular development stages.
2. Timing of the construction and installation of on-site and off-tract improvements necessary to support particular stages of development.
3. Schedule for the completion of common open space, recreation and service uses.
c. The planning board shall be authorized to adopt special procedures for the efficient processing of planned development applications including procedures for the informal submission of general development plans, concept plans, preliminary and final plans, and to require such information, analyses, and professional evaluations as it deems necessary to evaluate the proposed development at each stage of the application process.
