The purpose of the MDR District is to provide
for the orderly development of existing and proposed medium density
residential areas where adequate public services, streets and transportation
improvements are or will be available, and to exclude those uses not
compatible with such development.
[Amended 2-15-2000 by Ord. No. 282]
Permitted by right uses in the MDR District
shall be as follows, provided that all other requirements of this
ordinance are satisfied:
Special exception uses in the MDR Medium-Density
Residential District shall be as follows:
[Amended 2-15-2000 by Ord. No. 282; 5-20-2002 by Ord. No. 2002-316]
The following is a list of conditional uses
in the Medium Density Residential District; said uses must meet the
requirements established in § 190-201B.:
Uses not specifically provided for or implied
in each district are prohibited. The following additional uses are
specifically and clearly prohibited:
The following accessory uses are permitted in the MDR District within the requirements of § 190-211:
Area and bulk regulations in the MDR Medium-Density
Residential District shall be as follows:
B.
Lot width: a minimum of 75 feet at the required minimum
building setback line and 40 feet at the existing street right-of-way
line, except that:
(1)
Any use having direct individual vehicular access
onto a minor arterial street shall have a minimum lot width at the
edge of the existing right-of-way of 200 feet.
(2)
Any use having direct individual vehicle access onto
a collector street shall have a minimum lot width of 100 feet at the
edge of the existing right-of-way.
C.
Lot depth: a minimum of 120 feet.
D.
Lot coverage: 25% maximum building coverage; maximum
impervious coverage of 50%.
[Amended 2-15-2000 by Ord. No. 282]
E.
Front yard setback. A front yard shall adjoin any
public street.
(1)
Fronting major arterial streets: not permitted.
(2)
Fronting minor arterial streets: 50 feet minimum.
(3)
Fronting collector streets: 40 feet minimum.
(4)
Fronting local streets: 30 feet minimum.
(5)
In the case where a property's front yard does not
abut a public street, the front yard setback shall not be less than
35 feet from the center line of any private street servicing more
than one dwelling unit.
(6)
To allow variety in layout of a development, up to
50% of the residential buildings in each phase of construction may
be located up to five feet forward of the building front yard setback
line, if an equal or greater number of residential buildings are at
least five feet behind the building front yard setback line.
F.
Side yard setback.
(1)
Principal uses. There shall be two side yards with
an aggregate width of not less than 25 feet, and the width of the
narrower side shall not be less than 10 feet, except that a single-family
semidetached dwelling shall only be required to have one side yard
with a width of 10 feet.
(2)
Accessory uses: five feet minimum.
H.
Height: 2 1/2 stories or 35 feet maximum, whichever is more restrictive; however, no dwelling shall be less than one story in height (see Article XIX).
I.
Number of buildings. There shall be no more than one
principal building per lot.
J.
Setback from industrial zoning districts. All buildings
including one or more dwelling units shall be set back a minimum of
100 feet from the boundary of any HI, LI, PIC or PO/IP district boundary.
If a public street is the zoning boundary, such setback shall be measured
from the center line of the street.
[Amended 11-13-1995 by Ord. No. 261]
Area and bulk regulations for townhouses shall
be as follows:
A.
Purposes: to allow for very-well-planned triplexes
and quadplexes with standards designed to ensure compatibility with
adjacent single-family detached dwellings and to allow houses to be
clustered on the most suitable portions of a tract with the bulk of
the tract in open space. The overall density is generally intended
to not be significantly higher than that allowed with single-family
detached dwellings or twin dwellings.
B.
Minimum tract area: four acres.
[Amended 2-15-2000 by Ord. No. 282]
C.
Townhouse standards. All of the requirements of § 190-54 shall also apply to townhouses in the MDR District, except for regulations of this section that specifically differ, such as the minimum average buildable area per dwelling unit.
D.
Density for townhouses.
(1)
Density for townhouses in the MDR District shall be based upon average "buildable" lot area per dwelling unit. Land is not required to be subdivided into individual lots for individual townhouses. See § 190-54 regarding the method to calculate the maximum density.
(2)
The tract shall include an average minimum of 10,000
square feet of "buildable" lot area per townhouse dwelling unit. No
single acre of land within a tract shall include more than six townhouses.
[Amended 2-15-2000 by Ord. No. 282]
E.
Number of attached units. No more than four townhouse
dwelling units shall be attached in any form. Note, this number may
be increased to a maximum of six attached units upon review by the
Planning Commission and approval of the Board of Supervisors as a
conditional use. As part of this request, the applicant shall demonstrate
that the proposed units meet the intent of the design examples contained
in Appendix 1[1] and will result in a development with architectural detail,
not limited to articulation in the facade, variety in construction
materials and textures, variation in roofline/pitch, the incorporation
of dormers, porches, and off-street parking options that are not the
focal point of the structure or streetscape.
[Amended 2-15-2000 by Ord. No. 282]
[1]
Editor's Note: Said Appendix 1 is on file
in the Township offices.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 190-45,
Single-family detached cluster option, was repealed 2-15-2000 by Ord.
No. 282.
A site plan is generally required for certain principal nonresidential uses. See § 190-201.
