The R-2 and R-2M Districts are differentiated
one from the other, whereby a mixed land use option may be permitted
only in the R-2M District.
No building, structure or premises shall be
used and no building or structure shall be erected or structurally
altered, except for the following uses:
A. Single-family detached house.
B. A building used for horticultural, agricultural or
dairying purposes, poultry or domestic animal-raising, provided that
no building for the housing of cows, calves, bulls, horses, sheep,
goats and birds or any building for the housing of hogs, hog pen,
hog run or enclosure shall be within 100 feet of any side or rear
lot line nor within 200 feet of any front lot line; that no fertilizer
or manure shall be heaped, piled or stored within 100 feet of any
side or rear lot line nor within 400 feet of any front lot line; that
no building of more than two stories in height, run or enclosure for
the housing or keeping of fowl having 60 square feet of floor space
or less shall be within 15 feet of any side or rear lot line nor within
100 feet of any front lot line, which side and rear requirements shall
be increased one foot and front yard requirements, five feet, respectively,
for each additional 60 square feet of floor space or fraction thereof,
together with an additional fifty-foot setback for each story that
the building housing fowl is over two feet in height (separate buildings
to be cumulative as to the number of square feet for rear, side and
front yard requirements); provided, however, that the maximum side
and rear yard requirements shall be 200 feet and maximum front yard
requirements 400 feet plus 50 feet for each story above two stories
as hereinabove set forth, provided that no animals or poultry may
be kept or maintained unless adequate shelter is provided, and provided
further that any structure erected for any of the foregoing purposes
shall be accessory to a residential dwelling. Any uses permitted in
this subsection shall be limited to an area of not less than five
acres.
E. Public community center building, public auditorium,
public library, public museum, public art gallery, public park or
playground or other like place of public assembly not conducted for
gain or profit.
[Added 9-28-1988 by Ord. No. 88:47]
Prohibited uses shall be as specified in §
430-39.
Accessory uses shall be as permitted in §
430-40 in its entirety.
The following conditional uses shall be permitted:
A. As permitted in §
430-41 in its entirety.
B. Professional home office for one physician, surgeon,
doctor, dentist, engineer, lawyer, architect or accountant residing
on the premises, provided that the site fronts a street classified
in the adopted 1976 Master Plan of Parsippany-Troy Hills Township
as other than a local street, and provided that not more than one
nonresident is employed in connection with the profession, and further
provided that the professional home office is incidental to the residence
with space to be used for offices limited to 30% of the area of any
one floor. In computing the office space of split-level construction,
the office space shall be limited to 30% of the first two levels.
In no case shall space used for a garage be included in computing
the house area.
C. Licensed nursing home, provided that such use fronts
a street classified in the adopted 1976 Master Plan of Parsippany-Troy
Hills Township as other than a local street, and further provided
that such use shall comply with the following standards:
(1) No building so used shall be closer than 50 feet to
any lot line or street line, nor closer than 30 feet to any other
building on the same lot.
(2) There shall be provided off-street parking of at least
one space for each two beds plus one space for each staff member and
employee, based on the maximum number on duty at any one time. Off-street
parking areas shall be located at least 33 feet from any street line
and at least 10 feet from any other lot line. They shall be suitably
screened with landscaping.
(3) Where appropriate to the welfare of adjoining properties,
adequate sound control measures and security control measures may
be required. These may include fencing and landscaping as well as
additional setbacks from front lot lines.
(4) The use shall comply with all state requirements.
(5) Minimum site area shall be three acres.
(6) Maximum coverage of all buildings shall be 20%.
(7) Maximum coverage of all buildings and pavement shall
be 35%.
E. The operation of a public or private nonprofit school or child-care center, subject to the requirements of §
430-41B.
[Added 12-12-1989 by Ord. No. 89:72]
F. Enhanced active adult townhouse development. Townhouse development subject to the conditions and requirements set forth in §
430-268D and further provided that:
[Added 11-26-2002 by Ord. No. 2002:43]
(1) The gross density of the tract shall not exceed 2.5
units per acre. The total number of townhouse dwelling units shall
be computed by multiplying 2.5 times the total gross acreage of the
tract, including all required open space areas.
(2) No less than 50% of the tract shall remain in its
original natural vegetative state, inclusive of wetland and wetland
transition buffer areas.
(3) The tract shall be not less than 25 acres in size.
(4) The development shall have two points of ingress from
and egress to an existing street classified as other than a local
access street in the adopted Master Plan of Parsippany-Troy Hills
Township or in the circulation plan elements of the Master Plan. The
Township Planning Board can waive this requirement if the effect of
such waiver would not be detrimental to the health, safety and welfare
of the neighborhood.
(5) "Active adult townhouse development" shall mean 55
years of age or older housing so as to qualify for "housing for older
persons" within the meaning of the Fair Housing Amendments Act of
1988 and any amendments thereto, including but not limited to the
Housing for Older Persons Act of 1995.
Height, area and yard requirements shall be as specified in the schedule of regulations in Article
VI, except as hereinafter provided.
Off-street parking space, together with appropriate access, shall be provided on the same lot as the building it is intended to serve in accordance with the standards of Article
XXXVII.
Signs shall be permitted in conformance to Article
XXXVIII.