The D Residential Apartment District is designed to make special
provisions for apartment development. The district is also designed
to permit other uses related to apartments and to establish regulations
to maintain or improve the character of the district.
A building may be erected, altered or used and a lot or premises may be used or occupied, subject to the provisions of Article XIII, for any one of the following uses and no other:
A.
Permitted principal uses.
B.
Permitted accessory uses.
(2)
Accessory use on the same lot with and customarily incidental to
any of the above-permitted uses and not detrimental to a residential
neighborhood.
(5)
No impact Home-based business, as detailed in § 143-9, Terms defined, provided the following eight requirements are satisfied.
(a)
The business activity shall be compatible with the residential
use of the property.
(b)
The business shall employ no employees other than family members
residing in the dwelling.
(c)
There shall be no display or sale of retail goods and no stockpiling
of inventory.
(d)
There shall be no outside appearance of a business.
(e)
The business or activity may not use any equipment or process
which creates noise, vibration, glare, fumes, odors or electronic
interference, including interference with radio or television reception.
(f)
The business activity may not generate any solid waste or sewage
discharge which is not normally associated with residential use.
(g)
The business activity conducted may not occupy more than 25%
of the floor area.
(h)
The business activity may not involve any illegal activity.
(6)
Communications antennas, when mounted on one of the following existing
locations: public utility transmission tower; public or municipal
structure; public or municipal building; other building or structure.
Proposed locations shall be considered in the order listed. After
all viable options for that alternative have been exhausted, the next
location may be considered. The applicant shall not propose one of
the latter locations if a preceding alternative is available within
a 1/2 mile radius of the proposed location. Equipment buildings associated
with communications antennas shall be permitted as a Conditional Use
and shall be a maximum of 250 square feet.
(7)
Public transit station parking area for commuters and employees,
provided that such parking area shall not exceed 50,000 square feet
nor be created, maintained or otherwise established by any transit
company unless in conjunction with an existing or planned station,
and provided further that such parking area is entirely within 500
feet of said station and such parking area and its approaches are
surfaced in a manner satisfactory to the Code Enforcement Officer.
It shall be the duty of any transit company desiring to create, establish
or alter any such parking area to present to the Code Enforcement
Officer detailed specifications of the surfacing materials to be used
and plans showing the size of the proposed parking area, its distance
from the station and the location of the proposed means of ingress
and/or egress, and no permit shall be issued until the Code Enforcement
Officer has determined that the proposed parking area is in complete
conformity with the terms of this ordinance, the Subdivision and Land
Development Ordinance and the Stormwater Management Ordinance.
C.
Uses by special exception.
(1)
Educational use and religious use as more fully set forth in § 143-14C(1).
A.
Single-family detached dwellings. Every building hereafter erected or used as a single-family detached dwelling shall comply with the area and bulk regulations as prescribed for the A Residence District as set forth in § 143-16.
B.
Apartments. Every building hereafter erected or used as an apartment
house shall comply with the following regulations:
(1)
Tract size. A minimum tract size of five acres shall be provided.
(2)
Tract frontage. Each tract shall have a frontage of not less than
200 feet.
(3)
Gross density. The gross density for apartment development shall
not exceed 10 dwelling units per acre.
(4)
Building coverage. Not more than 25% of the total area of the tract
shall be occupied by buildings.
(5)
Impervious surface. Not more than 50% of the total area of the tract
shall be covered by impervious surfaces.
(6)
Setbacks. There shall be a setback of 50 feet from every property
boundary of the tract.
C.
Uses by special exception. The area and bulk regulations for uses
by special exception shall be established after analyzing the particular
use which is proposed. In determining such regulations, the following
shall be considered:
(1)
The nature of the use and related activities conducted therewith,
in particular, the space needs or requirements of such uses and activities.
(2)
The area and bulk regulations set forth in this ordinance for uses
which are similar to those proposed, but in no case less than those
set forth above.
(3)
Recognized space standards published in the professional planning
and design literature for architects, engineers and allied professionals
for educational or religious structures and uses.
(4)
The area required for off-street parking.
A.
General.
(1)
The proposed apartment house or apartment development shall be designed
so as to provide a desirable and harmonious addition to the general
environment of the area, and each group of apartment buildings permitted
on a single lot shall constitute a single architectural project or
unit.
(2)
Each apartment building or group of apartment buildings permitted
on a tract shall be designed and operated as a single management and
maintenance unit, with common yards, open spaces, parking or buildings.
(3)
An apartment house shall not contain more than six dwelling units
and shall not exceed 150 feet in length.
(5)
The minimum distance between adjacent buildings shall be 70 feet.
(6)
No less than 50% of the area of a tract shall be landscaped and unpaved.
B.
Special buffer planting requirements. Along each side and rear property line, a buffer planting strip of not less than 15 feet in width shall be provided on which shall be placed shrubbery, trees or other suitable plantings sufficient to constitute an effective screen and give maximum protection to the abutting properties, in accordance with Article XVII, § 143-116.
C.
Vehicular access and traffic considerations.
(1)
Each development involving two or more apartment buildings shall
have not more than two accessways to any one public highway or street,
and in no case shall an individual apartment house have more than
one such accessway. Where feasible, interior access shall be provided
via a minor street and not a major highway or street. The intent of
this provision is to encourage the use of common accessways in order
to reduce the number and closeness of access points along the highway
and to discourage vehicular access from or to buildings directly off
a major highway or street.
(2)
No accessway shall be more than 30 feet in width, nor be located
closer than 100 feet from the intersection of any other accessway.
(3)
The proposed development and its access facilities shall be designed
so as to minimize traffic congestion. In determining the suitability
of a proposed accessway and other traffic facilities, factors to be
considered are those such as existing and contemplated traffic volumes;
the location and number of access points in the vicinity; the relationship
of proposed accessways or adjacent uses and sight distance; and the
conformity to the highway design and construction regulations and
other related requirements of the Township.
D.
Off-street parking and loading. All parking, access and service areas shall comply with the provisions of Article XV.
E.
Public utility requirements. Each permitted use shall be served by
public sewer and water, and all utility lines servicing an apartment
development shall be placed underground within the lot lines of the
property on which the use is located.
G.
Fencing. A six-foot-high opaque fence may be required along rear
and/or side property lines which abut an A, B or C Residence District,
when deemed advisable by the Board of Commissioners.
