In reviewing any application for site plan approval,
conditional use approval, planned development or combinations thereof,
the Planning Board, advisory boards, professional advisors and the
applicant shall be guided by the requirements contained herein.
A.
Access. Entrance and exit on public streets shall
provide for acceleration and deceleration lanes wherever possible.
Such lanes shall be 13 feet in width, except that a lesser width may
be approved where located on other than an arterial road or where
low traffic volume is anticipated.
B.
Curb radii. Curb radii at intersections shall be a
minimum of 25 feet. Longer radii shall be used where high traffic
volume is anticipated.
C.
Driveway and interior roadway dimensions. Driveways
and interior roadways shall have dimensions such as to accommodate
adequately the volume and character of vehicles anticipated.
D.
Curbing. All driveways, interior streets and parking
areas shall be curbed where necessary to control drainage and where
the curbline radius of curvature is less than 50 feet, and at other
locations where required by the Planning Board.
E.
Sidewalks. Sidewalk widths shall be designed to accommodate
the anticipated volume of pedestrian traffic, as approved by the Planning
Board, and in no event shall be less than four feet.
F.
Circulation plan. Provisions for circulation shall
generally conform to current planning guides and standards published
by the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs or other governmental
agencies or professional engineering or planning organizations.
[Amended 6-2-1997]
A.
Locations of parking areas. Parking areas shall be
located and arranged to provide for safe and efficient access by both
vehicles and pedestrians. Consideration shall be given to the aesthetic
relationship of parking areas to roadways and surrounding properties.
Consideration shall also be given to nuisance and pollution factors
such as noise, glare, water and air pollution. Parking shall be encouraged
in the rear. The location and arrangement of all parking areas shall
be as approved by the Planning Board.
B.
Not permitted in front yard. No off-street parking
or loading area shall be located in a minimum required front yard.
C.
Number of parking spaces. The number of off-street
parking spaces required shall conform with Table No. 1,[1] except that the Planning Board may permit or require the
providing of less parking space than specified in Table No. 1 when
there is sufficient evidence that such number of required spaces is
unreasonable or unnecessary for the contemplated use. In every case,
however, provision for all of the required spaces shall be made by
design and grading, with the unpaved area being landscaped as specified
by the Planning Board.
D.
Stalls. Parking stalls shall be minimum of nine feet
by 18 feet, except in the case of retail shopping centers and in all
parking areas where individual parking stalls are not delineated.
In such instances minimum ten-foot-by-eighteen-foot parking stalls
shall be required.
E.
Aisles. The width of all aisles providing direct access
to individual parking stalls shall be in accordance with the requirements
as established in Table No. 2.[2] Only one-way traffic shall be permitted in aisles serving
nonperpendicular parking spaces.
F.
Pedestrians. Pedestrian circulation within parking
areas shall be, to as great an extent as possible, separated from
vehicular traffic.
G.
Curbs or wheel stops. Curbs or wheel stops anchored
to the ground shall be provided in appropriate locations in parking
stalls. Parked vehicles shall not overhang or extend over sidewalks.
H.
Islands. A landscaped island having a minimum width
of 12 feet shall be provided between abutting bays of parking. Furthermore,
no more than 20 parking stalls may be developed in a continuous row
without the introduction of a landscaped island having a minimum dimension
of nine feet by 18 feet.
[Added 9-5-1989 by Ord. No. 2:19C-89]
A.
Location of driveways. All entrances and exit driveways
to a public or private street shall be so located to afford maximum
safety to said roadway.
B.
Sight distances. The minimum sight distance at intersections
shall conform with appropriate standards of the American Association
of Transportation and State Highway Officials.
C.
Street intersections. Where a site is located at the
intersection of two streets, no driveway entrance or exit shall be
located within 50 feet of the point of tangency of the existing or
proposed curb radius of that site.
D.
Driveway separation. No part of any driveway shall be located closer than 20 feet from any other driveway on an adjoining parcel, nor shall more than one driveway be located closer than 60 feet to another driveway on the same site as measured from the closest edge of any two driveways along the same right-of-way line, except as provided in Article 45 of Part 5, Zoning, with respect to flag lots.E. Geometric design. The geometric design of a driveway connection to a public or private street shall be governed by sound traffic engineering principles and be in accordance with generally accepted good current practice, subject to approval by the Planning Board.
[Amended 6-2-1997]
A.
When required. In any district, in connection with
every building or building group, or part thereof, which is to be
utilized by industrial and commercial uses or requires the distribution
by vehicles of material or merchandise, or for any multifamily residential
development, or for large-scale public and quasi-public uses, there
shall be provided and maintained, on the same zone lot with such building,
off-street loading spaces in accordance with the requirements of Table
No. 3.[1]
B.
Size. Each such loading space shall not be less than
16 feet in width and 40 feet or more in length, depending upon the
functions to be performed. The overall floor-to-ceiling height or
clear height distance shall not be less than 12 feet, which may be
increased where required by the Planning Board.
C.
Signs. All loading spaces shall be appropriately indicated
by sign or other visual communication as to its location.
D.
Modification. The Planning Board may modify the above
requirements where there is sufficient evidence that such requirements
are inadequate, unnecessary or unreasonable.
[Amended 6-14-1990 by Ord. No. 2:19L-90; 3-20-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-5]
All outdoor light fixtures installed and thereafter
maintained shall be provided and designed in accordance with Part
9, Outdoor Lighting.
A.
Drainage pattern. The natural pattern of surface water
drainage shall be maintained whenever possible to allow for groundwater
recharge and to prevent flooding and changes in the stream channel.
B.
Stormwater detained. Stormwater runoff shall be detained
on-site and allowed to infiltrate in order to maintain the natural
rate and volume of base flow to streams.
C.
Storm sewers avoided. Storm sewers shall be avoided
wherever possible to encourage natural infiltration and to prevent
alteration of stream flows.
D.
Discharge rates. Stormwater discharge rates from detention
and retention basins shall not exceed the discharge rate of the area
under natural conditions for all storm events, durations and frequencies.
E.
Erosion prevented. Whenever stormwater runoff is discharged
into stream channels from development sites, increases in channel
erosion shall be prevented.
F.
Storm sewer capacity. All storm sewers shall have
the capacity to transport not less than peak flows resulting from
a rainfall having a fifteen-year return period (frequency) and a duration
that will produce the maximum flow at the design location. Rainfall
data shall be obtained from United States Weather Bureau Tech. Paper
No. 40, or other recognized authority as approved by the Township
Engineer.
G.
Storm sewer location. Storm sewers at critical locations
shall have capacities to transport flows from greater storms, as may
be required by the Township Engineer.
H.
Stormwater transportation. Where stormwater runoff
will be transported to a detention basin or other stormwater control
facility through a storm sewer, the storm sewer shall have the capacity
to transport the runoff from a one-hundred-year rainfall.
I.
Calculations. Stormwater runoff shall be calculated
in accordance with either of the following methods:
(1)
United States Soil Conservation Service runoff equation
and hydrologic complex curve numbers. The Soil Conservation Service
(SCS) method shall be used wherever a stormwater detention basin is
a part of the drainage system.
(2)
Rational Method, in accordance with ASCE Manual No.
37, Design and Construction of Sanitary and Storm Sewers.
J.
Curve numbers. Hydrologic complex curve numbers (runoff
curve numbers) shall be based on an antecedent moisture condition
equal to the average of AMC I and AMC II, as defined by the SCS, or
greater.
K.
Time of concentration. The time of concentration shall
be established in accordance with current SCS procedures.
A.
Facilities required. Stormwater detention basins,
or equivalent facilities, shall be provided to control the runoff
from all site developments, except where the Planning Board waives
this requirement upon finding that the site development will have
no significant adverse impact on downstream properties or on the stability
of the stream channel.
B.
Studies and design requirements. Hydrologic and hydraulic
studies and design methods shall be in accordance with current United
States Soil Conservation Service methods utilizing the SCS runoff
equation and time of concentration charts.
C.
Curve numbers. Hydrologic complex curve numbers (runoff
curve numbers) shall be based on an antecedent moisture condition
equal to the average of AMC I and AMC II, as defined by the SCS.
D.
Runoff rate.
(1)
The rate of runoff resulting from all storms recurring
more frequently than once in 100 years shall be controlled so that
the rate of flow will not exceed that which would be computed in accordance
with SCS methodology based on the following hydrologic complex curve
numbers:
|
Hydrologic Soil Group
|
Curve No.
| |
|---|---|---|
|
A
|
22
| |
|
B
|
40
| |
|
C
|
55
| |
|
D
|
63
|
(2)
As a minimum it shall be shown that flow rates resulting
from a two-year, ten-year and one-hundred-year storm comply with this
standard.
E.
Basin design requirements. Stormwater detention basins
shall be designed to generally conform to requirements shown in a
manual entitled Handbook for Stormwater Detention Basins, Somerset
County, New Jersey, published by the County of Somerset.
F.
Dry wells. Where dry wells or similar facilities are
approved to be used in lieu of or in conjunction with detention basins,
such facility shall have as a minimum the capacity to store three
inches of runoff from all impervious surfaces.
[Amended 9-3-2013 by Ord. No. 2013-6]
G.
Design approval. The design of all stormwater detention
facilities shall be as approved by the Township Engineer.
