This Part 6 shall be known and may be cited
as the "Site Plan Review Ordinance of the Township of River Vale."
Such regulations are deemed necessary to achieve
the following purposes:
A.
To provide maximum safety and convenience of vehicular
and pedestrian traffic by ensuring that all driveways and walkways
are adequate but not excessive in number, that they are adequate in
width, grade, alignment and visibility and that they are suitably
located, particularly with respect to their confections with public
streets.
B.
To provide adequate access, ingress and egress for
all proposed structures for equipment or material and for fire and
police protection and any other municipal services on the site.
C.
To provide adequate off-street parking to accommodate
vehicles of persons connected with or visiting the premises and to
obviate the parking of such vehicles in public streets.
D.
To assure landscaping of sites in a manner which provides
reasonable screening during all seasons of the year, including all
playgrounds and parking areas, and protecting the view of adjacent
residential properties and abutting streets of residential areas.
E.
To provide, in applicable cases, a drainage system
and layout which will afford the best solution to any drainage problems.
F.
To prevent any alteration of the natural land contours
by the erection of any structure that would increase possible flood
heights or divert floodwaters to other properties or create any other
hazardous condition relating to flooding.
G.
To conserve the value of the property proposed for
development and other properties in the area thereof and to encourage
the most appropriate use of the land.
H.
To preserve trees and other natural resources and
to protect wildlife to the greatest extent possible.
I.
To assure that there has been compliance with all
zoning and other applicable ordinances of the Township.
