[Added 5-20-2008 by Ord. No. O-18-2008]
[Amended 12-30-2019 by Ord. No. O-10-19]
The purpose of the B Business District is to recognize the area
west of Fries Mill Road, both north and south of Grant Avenue, as
a unique opportunity to create a new business flex zone, and to provide
for a variety of new uses including office, commercial, light industrial,
residential, and recreation. It is the purpose of this district to
protect and provide opportunities for the existing development south
of Grant Avenue to expand. At the same time the district will encourage
planned business and/or residential village development.
A.
Uses permitted on tracts with an area of 25 acres or less existing
at the time of the effective date of this section. Land may be used
and buildings or structures may be erected, altered or used for any
of the following purposes and no other:
(1)
Food and associated industries.
(2)
Fabrication and assembly of paper and wood products.
(3)
Biological, chemical, electronic and pharmaceutical laboratories
and scientific laboratories devoted to research, design and experimental
operation of equipment.
(4)
Fabrication and assembly of computers and related peripheral
equipment.
(5)
Manufacturing and assembly of electronic products.
(6)
Fabrication and assembly of metal products, excluding the processing
of metals from raw materials.
(7)
Limited manufacture of light machinery.
(8)
Printing and publishing.
(9)
Instruments and related products including laboratory instruments,
medical instruments, photographic equipment, measuring instruments,
etc.
(10)
Hydroponics and greenhouses as part of a commercial operation
for wholesale purposes.
(11)
Special trade contractors.
(12)
Municipal facilities deemed necessary and appropriate by the
governing body of the Township of Franklin.
(13)
Administrative and business offices.
(14)
Warehousing and distribution facilities.
(15)
Self-storage facilities.
(16)
Outdoor storage of building supplies, contractor's equipment or crated and baled material in conjunction with a wholesale establishment not to exceed 10% of the developed portion of the site. Excluded are junk, scrap metals and materials, automobiles and other machinery or vehicles intended for dismantlement or demolition. All areas used for the storage of material are to be paved as per standards enumerated in § 253-50A(1). Area to be screened with a six-foot opaque fence and landscaped.
(17)
Agricultural uses, including horticultural, wholesale nurseries
and the raising of crops and livestock, except as otherwise restricted,
and buildings related to the same. Forestry in accordance with an
approved woodland management plan, vacant woodlots and other similar
agricultural uses.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed former Subsection
A(17), regarding agricultural uses, and provided for the redesignation
of former Subsection A(18) as A(17).
B.
Uses permitted on tracts of more than 25 acres existing at the time
of the effective date of this section. Land may be used and buildings
or structures may be erected, altered or used for any of the following
purposes and no other:
(1)
Planned unit development in accordance with the following guidelines,
provided that community-based (package) water and sewer system is
provided and a minimum of 50% of the land is preserved as open space
or agriculture:
(a)
Planned office and "flex-use" campus, provided that principal
structures are provided on individual lots with an area of not less
than three acres or more. The following uses may be permitted and
no other:
[1]
Business, administrative, professional and governmental offices.
[2]
Research and development laboratories.
[3]
Warehousing and distribution facilities, provided that they
occur in buildings in which a minimum of 10% of the building in which
the warehouse and distribution occurs is devoted to office use.
[4]
Private recreational uses including, and of the same general
character as, golf courses, driving ranges, tennis and racquet clubs,
swim clubs, batting practice ranges. Outdoor tracks for motorized
vehicles and amusement parks are specifically prohibited.
(b)
The following uses may be provided in conjunction with a planned
unit development on lots with an area of not less than two acres or
more:
(c)
A mixed-use hamlet, on not less than 50 acres, may contain the
following uses:
[1]
Residential uses including single-family detached, semiattached,
townhomes, and multifamily dwellings, subject to the following regulations:
[a]
The average residential density shall not exceed
six units per acre.
[b]
Residential densities may be increased to eight
units per acre if sewer and water service is extended along a collector
or arterial street and connections are made to existing and future
uses within 0.25 mile of the boundaries of the planned unit development.
[c]
A maximum of 40% of the residential units may be
restricted to households in which at least one member is age 55 or
older and no member is less than age 18.
[d]
A minimum of 20% of all residential units shall
be made affordable to very-low and moderate-income households in accordance
with the rules of the Council on Affordable Housing. There will be
no development fee on COAH units.
[2]
A commercial section containing all nonresidential uses permitted
in the Franklinville Village District, and in accordance with the
area, bulk and design requirements of that district. Permitted uses
include retail stores and services, offices and restaurants. The commercial
section shall occupy not more than 15% of the area of the mixed-use
hamlet, exclusive of lands preserved for open space and agriculture.
It shall be located in general proximity to a collector or arterial
street.[2]
[2]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection B(2), regarding agricultural
uses, was repealed 12-30-2019 by Ord. No. O-10-19.
The following uses shall be permitted as accessory uses:
C.
Enclosed facilities for storage of trash and recyclable materials.
E.
Retail sales of goods and/or materials manufactured or warehoused
on site, provided that the retail sales area occupies no more than
10% of the building area.
F.
Home occupations in residential sections of a planned unit development as regulated by § 253-190.10.
G.
Farm labor facilities, customary farm buildings for livestock, for
the storage of farm products or equipment or for the processing of
farm products excepting therefrom the processing of livestock or as
otherwise permitted by New Jersey statutes regarding agricultural
uses.
[Added 12-30-2019 by Ord.
No. O-10-19]
H.
Accessory solar energy system.
[Added 8-9-2022 by Ord. No. O-18-22]
In the B Business District the following area restrictions and
regulations shall apply unless otherwise indicated in this chapter:
A.
Uses permitted on tracts with an area of 25 acres or less existing
at the time of the effective date of this section:
(1)
Lot area and coverage.
(a)
A lot area of not less than two acres (87,120 square feet) shall
be provided for every building hereafter erected and used as an industrial
facility. Each lot shall have a frontage of at least 250 feet on an
improved street or road.
(2)
Lot coverage.
(a)
Buildings and structures: 30% maximum.
(b)
Total impermeable coverage: 50%, except that coverage may be
increased to 65% provided that the applicant demonstrates to the satisfaction
of the approving authority that there will be no net increase over
preconstruction conditions on the volume and rate of stormwater runoff.
(3)
Setbacks.
(a)
There shall be a front yard on each street on which a lot abuts,
which shall not be less than 50 feet, provided that off-street automobile
parking shall be permitted in the front yard not less than 35 feet
from the property line.
(b)
There shall be two side yards on each lot, neither of which
shall be less than 40 feet.
(c)
There shall be a rear yard on each lot, which shall not be less
than 50 feet.
(4)
Open space. At least 20% of the total lot or tract shall be
reserved for open space. Such areas shall be subject to review by
the Planning Board. Natural features, such as trees, streams, soil
conditions, water table and scenic areas, shall be considered in designing
a project, providing open space and buffer strips.
B.
Uses permitted on tracts of more than 25 acres existing at the time
of the effective date of this section.
(1)
Minimum tract areas and open space or agricultural preservation
areas shall be specified as above for planned unit developments.
(2)
Frontage. Each planned unit development shall have a frontage
of at least four hundred (400) feet on an improved arterial or collector
street. No frontage shall be required on a public street for residential
lots.
(3)
Coverage.
(a)
A maximum of 20% of the area of the planned unit development
may be covered by buildings and structures, exclusive of areas preserved
for open space or agriculture.
(b)
A maximum of 50% of the area of the planned unit development
may be covered by impermeable surfaces, exclusive of areas preserved
for open space or agriculture.
(c)
Coverage requirements shall be computed on the basis of the
unpreserved areas of the entire planned unit development, as determined
by a general development plan. There shall be no minimum coverage
requirements for individual lots.
(4)
Setbacks.
(a)
Nonresidential lots not within a mixed-use hamlet:
[1]
Each lot shall have a front yard of not less than 50 feet, provided
that off-street automobile parking shall be permitted in the front
yard not less than 35 feet from the property line.
[2]
There shall be two side yards on each lot, neither of which
shall be less than 40 feet.
[3]
There shall be a rear yard on each lot, which shall not be less
than 50 feet.
(b)
Nonresidential and mixed-use lots within a mixed-use hamlet:
[1]
Such lots or buildings may have a fifteen-foot setback from
the street line, provided that required off-street parking is provided
to the rear of the building.
[2]
No side yard shall be required but there shall be a minimum
fifteen-foot setback between all buildings and groups of attached
buildings.
[3]
There shall be a minimum rear yard of not less than 25 feet.
(c)
Attached, semidetached, and detached residential lots within
a mixed-use hamlet:
[1]
All lots or buildings shall have a minimum front yard setback
of 15 feet, provided that required off-street parking is provided
to the rear of the dwellings with access via an alley. If garage or
driveway access to the street is provided in the front yard, a minimum
front yard setback of 25 feet shall be required.
[2]
A ten-foot side yard shall be required where two or more dwellings
are attached but there shall be a minimum ten-foot setback between
all dwellings and groups of attached dwellings.
[3]
There shall be a minimum rear yard of not less than 25 feet.
(5)
Design and buffer standards within a mixed-use hamlet.
(a)
Required preservation areas may be utilized in lieu of the buffer strips required in accordance with the provisions of Article XII of this chapter; provided, however, that a buffer strip of not less than 75 feet shall be provided along all arterial or collector streets.
(b)
No individual building or group of attached buildings shall
have a facade length in any direction exceeding 350 feet in the case
of nonresidential structures, mixed-use, and/or multifamily buildings.
(c)
Attached dwellings shall have a minimum unit width of 24 feet
and not more than six such units shall be provided in a building or
group of buildings.
(d)
Traditional village development forms shall be utilized, including
a grid street pattern, public plazas, the use of rear alleys, and
sidewalks on both sides of all streets throughout the mixed-use hamlet.
