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.
[1]
Editor's Note: Table No. 1 is included in Part 5, Zoning, § 113-325C.
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.
[2]
Editor's Note: Table No. 2 is included in Part 5, Zoning, § 113-325C.
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]
[1]
Editor's Note: Table No. 3 is included in Part 5, Zoning, § 113-327A.
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.