All commercial, industrial, institutional, essential services, or townhouse uses adjoining a single-family residential use or zone shall provide a landscaped buffer zone on the side or sides facing the zone in accordance with § 310-156 of this article.
Any newly created residential lot will provide a fifty-foot
landscape buffer on the side or sides facing an established commercial,
industrial, institutional or essential service use where no landscape
buffer has been provided between the parcels. Where the side or sides
of the newly created residential lot are adjacent to property zoned
commercial, industrial, institutional or essential service which has
not been improved, then the proposed residential use will provide
a twenty-five-foot landscape buffer along that side or sides. Upon
the development of the adjoining parcel zoned commercial, industrial,
institutional or essential service, that parcel will provide a twenty-five-foot
landscape buffer along the common line or lines so that the total
landscaped buffered area will have a minimum width of 50 feet.
A buffer distance of 50 feet for buildings and 70 feet for vehicular
traffic (including parking lots or loading areas) is required where
an industrial use abuts a residential zone or use.
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Required Landscaped Buffer Areas When Abutting Residential
Zones and Areas
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Zone
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Minimum Depth of Buffer
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C
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50 feet (except buffer may be decreased if a buffer area is
already provided on the adjoining residential property with a total
buffer to be a minimum of 50 feet)
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O/I and ED
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50 feet (soil removal 300 feet)
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TH and TH-1
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50 feet
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A.
No principal or accessory structures, no active recreational areas
nor any off-street parking or loading areas or other use shall be
permitted within the buffer zones.
B.
No access or driveways shall be permitted within the buffer zone.
C.
Buffer zones shall be provided to maintain a landscaped screen, with
earth berms, fencing or combination thereof, within the front yard
setback area of the lot. The Planning Board may require, however,
that the buffer area be maintained in its natural state if the existing
vegetation is uniquely suited as a landscaping screen.
D.
Underground utility easements shall be permitted, when deemed necessary
or desirable by the Planning Board.
E.
It shall be the responsibility of the owner to maintain any buffers
and replace plants if they die or repair or replace fences when necessary.
F.
When a required buffer zone abuts a single-family use or zone, the
required minimum building setback shall be either the applicable setback
distance or the required buffer distance, whichever is larger.
