Within the LI-C Light Industrial – Commercial Zone, no
premises, lot, building or structure shall be used and no building
or structure shall be erected or altered to be used, in whole or in
part, for any other use except light industrial-commercial uses. No
light industrial-commercial use shall be permitted unless the following
standards are met:
A. Uses permitted in the LI-C Zone shall be only those which are normally
such that at no time will such use cause or result in any:
(1) Dissemination of dust, smoke, smog, obnoxious gas, fumes or odors
or other atmospheric pollution, noise or vibration beyond the boundaries
of the premises on which it is located.
(2) Hazard of fire or explosion or other physical hazard to any adjacent
building or to any plant growth on any land adjacent to the site of
the use.
(3) Hauling of materials, goods or products to or from the site of such
use in a volume or manner materially incongruous with the normal traffic
on the streets in the neighborhood.
B. No burning of materials in open fires shall be permitted.
C. No discharge into any disposal system or stream or into the ground
of any materials of such nature or temperature as can contaminate
any water supply, damage any pipe or conduit or cause the emission
of any discernible odor shall be permitted.
D. Loading and unloading facilities on the same lot with the principal
building shall be provided to meet estimated normal demand for such
facilities incidental to respective industrial uses. Said area shall
not be located in the required front yard space and shall not be less
than 10 feet from any street or lot line.
E. No storage of any kind is permitted in the LI-C Zone other than within
a roofed building so as to obscure said storage from view along any
road or from any residential or business zone.
[Amended 2-28-2013 by Ord. No. 2013-04]
A. Parking requirements.
(1) The
minimum parking requirements for permitted uses in the CB Zone shall
be as follows:
(a) Medical arts buildings: one parking space for each 200 square feet
of building floor area.
(b) All other permitted uses: one parking space for each 225 square feet
of building floor area.
(2) The
size of each parking space shall be a minimum of nine feet by 18 feet
in dimension.
(3) If
this subsection is inconsistent with any other provision in this chapter,
the parking space requirement for this particular CB Zone shall control.
B. Site plan approval by the Planning Board of the Borough of Wallington
shall be required for all new construction or major alteration of
any construction within the CB Zone. The applicant and the property
owner shall be required to provide, maintain and create the planting
area not paved or covered with impenetrable material, which area shall
not be less than 15% of the total lot area. Any site plan approval
given in connection with property in the CB Zone shall expire one
year from the date of said approval unless substantial work is performed
by the property owner pursuant to said approval. The Municipal Land
Use Law shall supersede this provision if in conflict with the
same.
C. Such planting area need not be all in one area of the lot, and the
computation of the planting area shall include any planted areas on
the lot of at least 50 square feet, including any required buffered
area.
D. The planted area shall retain and drain the soil within the planted
area with a minimum of required maintenance and shall be protected
by continuous concrete curbing.
E. No owner, developer, applicant or occupant of any lot within the
CB Zone shall cause the removal of any trees or shrubs in excess of
four inches in diameter at the base except by Borough approval contained
in a building permit, soil approval or site plan approval.
F. The applicant shall submit to the Planning Board a landscape plan
for any planting or buffer area required by this chapter. The landscape
plan shall be prepared at a scale of not less than 1/8 inch equals
one foot for all planting areas and shall provide complete information
as to the identity, species, size and location of all materials to
be installed in any required planting or buffer area.
G. The Planning Board may designate the size, dimensions and locations
and particular deciduous trees, evergreens, coniferous or broadleaf
and perennial deciduous shrubs appropriate to the particular planting
areas designated. Such plantings shall be installed by the applicant
or the owner prior to the issuance of any certificate of occupancy
or final site plan approval.
H. The applicant also may be required to install fill and topsoil and
to provide new grades and elevations in accordance with good landscaping
practices and in a good and workmanlike manner. Such installation
shall be subject to the approval of the Borough Engineer of the Borough
of Wallington.
I. The criteria to be considered in determination of the location, size
and content of any planting area shall include the following:
(2) Traffic and pedestrian safety.
(3) Conservation of the economic values of the property and adjacent
properties.
(4) Proper vehicular and traffic sight.
(5) Shade and pollution control.
(6) Screening and privacy of adjacent residential areas.
(7) The configuration and relationship of planting areas to the total
plan submitted.
(8) The objectives of good planning and zoning pursuant to the provisions
of N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.
J. Any required ground covers shall be evergreen varieties such as pachysandra,
vinca minor and other ground covers approved by the Planning Board
that do not form an impervious surface. They shall be planted with
sufficient organic sanitary material, topsoil, peat moss and the like
so that the same shall be likely to thrive.
K. The planting areas shall be designed to be of plant material that
requires a minimum amount of maintenance. Such planted areas shall
be maintained in a clean and presentable manner with live plant materials
in healthy, disease-free condition, and the owner of the property
shall replace any materials that die or become disease-ridden within
30 days after the season permits and after written notice, by certified
mail, return receipt requested, to the owner or occupant.
L. The following design and architectural criteria shall apply to all
construction or alteration of construction within the CB Zone:
(1) There shall be a common architectural theme by use of materials of
wood and brick character, with a color scheme of the natural earth
spectrum.
(2) Emphasis shall be placed upon creating a desirable pedestrian atmosphere
with walkways, benches, landscaping and other similar appurtenances.
(3) Parking areas shall be broken up by planted areas, trees and shrubs
to avoid a continuous blacktop appearance.
M. Signs.
(1) Area of signs, as used herein, shall be the surface area computed
by drawing a rectangle touching the outermost edges of letters comprising
the sign or the area established by reason of distinctive variation
in background color by borders or by some other equivalent manner,
whichever is greater.
(2) No person shall erect, alter, relocate, maintain, reconstruct or
cause to be erected, altered, relocated or reconstructed any sign
of any type or description without first having applied for and secured
a sign permit from the Construction Official.
(3) Signs shall only identify the activity, conduct or product sold upon
the premises upon which such signs are located.
(4) No more than one sign unit shall be permitted on any one building,
and the total sign area on any one building shall not exceed the lesser
of 200 square feet or 5% of the total wall area on which it is located.
(5) A wall sign shall not be permitted to project more than one foot
beyond the wall or above the roofline of the building upon which it
is located.
(6) No sign shall be illuminated by intermittent, rotating or flashing
lighting nor shall such illumination be of varying intensity or be
channel or open neon.
(7) Upon termination of the business, all signs pertaining thereto shall
be removed within 15 days.
(8) All signs and all lights used in connection with the operation of
any business shall be extinguished by 11:00 p.m. or upon the close
of the business serviced by said signs or lighting, whichever first
occurs. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Chief of Police, subject
to the approval of the Mayor and Council, may authorize lighting specifically
designed for the protection of properties otherwise subject to this
subsection, which lighting, when authorized, shall be exempt from
the provisions hereof.
N. Prior to the issuance of any building permit for the construction, erection or alteration of a building in a CB Zone, the applicant shall comply with Chapter
330, Subdivision of Land and Site Plan Review.