Township of Mansfield, NJ
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2023-04-19
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Land Use Legislation
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Chapter 65 Zoning
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Article XXI Landscape Buffers
- The Code
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 2 Administration of Government
- Ch 2A Third-Party Payroll Disbursement
- Ch 3 Adult Entertainment
- Ch 3A Agricultural Advisory Committee
- Ch 4 Air Pollution
- Ch 5 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 6 Animals
- Ch 8 Attorney and Engineer, Municipal
- Ch 9 Background Checks
- Ch 10 Bingo and Raffles
- Ch 10A Cannabis
- Ch 11 Claims
- Ch 12 Certificates of Occupancy
- Ch 13 (Reserved)
- Ch 14 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 15 (Reserved)
- Ch 16 Dogs and Cats
- Ch 16A Drug-Free Zones
- Ch 16C Dumpsters
- Ch 17 Employees, Municipal
- Ch 17A Environmental Commission
- Ch 17B Ethics, Code of
- Ch 18 Street Excavations
- Ch 19 False Alarms
- Ch 20 Fees for Administrative Services
- Ch 20A Fill Operations
- Ch 21 Fire Department
- Ch 21A Fire Prevention
- Ch 21B Emergency Medical Services
- Ch 24 Hawkers, Peddlers, Solicitors and Canvassers
- Ch 25 Property Maintenance
- Ch 25A Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 25B Housing Standards
- Ch 26 Junkyards
- Ch 27A Littering
- Ch 27B Local Assistance Board
- Ch 28 Curfew
- Ch 29 Motor Vehicle Sales and Storage
- Ch 30 Motor Vehicle Towing and Storage
- Ch 31 Municipal Court
- Ch 32 Noise Control
- Ch 33 Nuisances
- Ch 33A Official Seal
- Ch 33B Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 34 Parental Responsibility
- Ch 34A Peace and Good Order
- Ch 35 (Reserved)
- Ch 36 Police Department
- Ch 37 Postretirement Health Benefits
- Ch 38 Private Campgrounds Code
- Ch 38A Properties, Abandoned and Vacant
- Ch 39 Prosecutor, Township
- Ch 39A Purchasing; Claims Approval
- Ch 39B Recycling and Solid Waste Disposal
- Ch 39C Recreation Committee
- Ch 39D Rental Property
- Ch 40 Retail Food-Handling Establishments
- Ch 40A Massage Therapists
- Ch 42 Salaries
- Ch 43 Sanitary Code
- Ch 44 Sewers
- Ch 45 Slaughterhouses
- Ch 46 Smoking
- Ch 47 Soil Removal
- Ch 49 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 52 Swimming Pool Enclosures
- Ch 53 Taxation
- Ch 54 Tax Exemptions
- Ch 55 Taxicabs
- Ch 57 Hotels
- Ch 58 Trailer Camps and Tent Cities
- Ch 60 Traffic Control
- Ch 61 (Reserved)
- Ch 62 Volunteer Services
- Ch 63 Water
- Ch 64 Sewer Utility
- Land Use Legislation
- Ch 16B Driveway and Apron Construction Standards
- Ch 19A Farm, Right to
- Ch 22 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 27 Land Use Procedures
- Ch 41 Rezoning of Land
- Ch 44A Site Plan Review
- Ch 48 Stormwater Control
- Ch 50 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 60A Trees, Shrubbery and Landscaping
- Ch 60B Tree Removal
- Ch 63A Water Resource Buffer Conservation Zones
- Ch 65 Zoning
- Ch 65 Art XXI Landscape Buffers
- § 65-100 Situations requiring buffers.
- § 65-101 Standards.
- Appendix
- Ch A70 Land Use Fees
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
A.
A planted landscape buffer shall be provided and maintained
by the owner or lessee of a nonresidential property to screen and
protect a residentially used or zoned property which is contiguous,
abutting, adjacent or separated from the property in question by a
street, road, stream, easement or right-of-way, not exceeding 100
feet in width, property line to property line, except where natural
or physical barriers exist. In addition, a buffer shall also be created
by a multifamily project along property used residentially or zoned
residentially in all cases or incidences where employment of the aforesaid
criteria would require such a buffer.
[Amended 6-19-1984 by Ord. No. 1984-5]
A.
The width of all landscaped buffers shall not be less
than 20 feet.
B.
At the discretion of the Consolidated Land Use Board
of Mansfield Township, the use of a suitable fence or wall for small
lots, with possible reduction of width requirements, may be approved
in lieu of the required landscape buffer.
[Amended 3-5-2020 by Ord. No. 2020-5]
