No site plan for any planned commercial development
shall be approved unless it contains the following types and amounts
of development:
A. Commercial development use standards.
(1) No business establishment shall offer or sell food
or beverages for consumption on the premises in parked motor vehicles.
(2) Strip commercial development shall have a minimum
height of three stories or 36 feet.
(3) Commercial uses in the PCD District shall be limited
to the following:
(c)
Those uses specified in §
131-7D(1), except blueprinting and photostating establishments, catering establishments, drive-in restaurants, fast-food restaurants, grocery stores, laundries, locksmith shops, newsstands, pawnshops, secondhand stores, shoe repair stores, taxidermist shops, theaters and upholstering shops.
B. Residential development.
(1) Types. Any type of structure containing dwelling units
may be built, except single-family houses and two-family houses.
(2) Each planned commercial development shall have no
more than 35 dwelling units per acre for the total of the planned
commercial development.
C. Common property.
(1) At least 15% of the area of each planned commercial
development, excluding the area reserved and used for surface and/or
enclosed parking, shall be used for common property.
(2) Common property shall contain landscaped areas and
may contain watercourses or other amenities. Landscaped areas shall
contain lawns, trees and shrubbery and pedestrian paths, walks and
malls and may contain flower and rock gardens, statues and sculpture
and whatever other matter enhances the quality of the landscaped area.
(3) The developer of a planned commercial development
may satisfy the requirement for common property through the use of
plazas and malls which may be opened or covered and pedestrian paths
and ways and may contain fountains and reflecting pools, landscaped
areas and watercourses.
(4) Prior to the site plan approval of any planned commercial
development, the Planning Board shall be satisfied that the applicant
has properly provided for the maintenance of the common property.
(5) Structures and common property shall be laid out in
a manner that best serves the residents and users of each planned
commercial development. Site layouts shall maximize aesthetic values
and shall be in accordance with imaginative and farsighted concepts
of site design. All required utilities to be constructed along Orient
Way and/or Erie Avenue shall be installed underground.
Prior to the approval of a site plan application
for a planned commercial development, the Planning Board shall find
the following facts and conclusions:
A. That departures by the proposed development from zoning
regulations otherwise applicable to the subject property conform to
standards of this chapter pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-65c.
B. That the proposals for maintenance and conservation
of the common property are reliable and the amount, location and purpose
of the common property are adequate.
C. That the provisions for the physical design of the
proposed development for public services, control over vehicular and
pedestrian traffic and the amenities of light and air, recreation
and visible enjoyment are adequate.
D. That the proposed planned commercial development will
not have an unreasonably adverse impact upon the area in which it
is proposed to be established.
E. In the case of a development which contemplates construction
over a period of years, that the terms and conditions intended to
protect the interests of the public and other residents, occupants
and owners of the proposed development in the total completion of
the development are adequate.