In R-5 Residence Districts, the regulations contained in this
article shall apply.
R-5 Residence Districts shall be designed to make special provisions
for housing for retired and elderly people, utilizing housing types
suited to their needs on adequate land areas, with appropriate specialized
accessory facilities to make such developments especially desirable
to the retired and elderly, consistent with reasonable and appropriate
land use regulations.
A building or buildings may be erected or used and a lot may
be used or occupied for the following purposes and no other:
A. Housing for the elderly utilizing apartment house buildings and/or
townhouses or row houses and/or single-family detached dwelling units.
B. Signs, subject to the provisions of Article
XXII.
C. Only the following accessory uses are permitted under the conditions
specified. Unless indicated otherwise, no accessory use is permitted
within a rear yard, side yard, front yard or courtyard as required
herein:
(1) Parking areas, private garages and minor garages.
(2) Maintenance garages, so that all storage for other than passenger
vehicles shall be structurally enclosed.
(3) Laundry, provided it is for the exclusive use of the residents of
the site.
(4) Laundry drying areas, provided they are screened from adjoining property
and public view by walls, fences or hedges.
(5) Recreation facilities and eating facilities, provided that they are
for the exclusive use of the residents of the site and their guests.
(6) Medical care facilities, including intermediate skill care facilities for the exclusive use of residents of the site, so long as the number of beds provided for such care does not exceed one bed for each four beds provided under Subsection
A hereof.
[Amended 9-24-1984 by Ord. No. 1984-10]
(7) Swimming pools, tennis courts and other similar recreational uses
and patios or terraces for the exclusive use for the residents of
the site and their guests.
(8) Refuse collection centers accessible to the street system, provided
that they are screened from adjoining property and from public view
by walls, fences or hedges.
(10)
Any other uses that are similar to those set forth above in
this subsection and that are customarily incidental to and related
to housing for the elderly, subject to the approval of the Board of
Supervisors.
[Amended 9-24-1984 by Ord. No. 1984-10]
Pedestrian circulation shall be provided as follows:
A. Exterior walks. Concrete walks not less than six feet in width shall
be constructed to Township standards along all public streets by which
the site is bounded, except that the Board of Supervisors, as part
of a land development application, may reduce the width to that required
by other provisions of Township ordinances if it is demonstrated by
the applicant that such a requirement is unnecessary.
B. Interior walks. Concrete walks not less than six feet in width shall
provide convenient and safe pedestrian access from all building entrances
to other buildings and to accessory recreation areas, including laundry
facilities, parking compounds, carports or garages, and to sidewalks
adjacent to public streets, provided that, upon demonstration by the
applicant, as part of a land development application, that such a
requirement in unnecessary, the Board of Supervisors may reduce the
width at specific locations to not less than four feet in width.
C. Where interior walks cross vehicle areas, such as parking compounds
or driveways, the walkway shall be continued uninterrupted across
the vehicular area in such a way that it is permanently and readily
distinguishable therefrom. In addition, other appropriate means, such
as signs, curbing, wheel blocks, differentiation in elevation and
other similar devices, shall be used to lessen the likelihood of any
parked vehicles encroaching on such walks.