The following uses are permitted in planned unit residential
developments:
C. Indoor and outdoor recreational facilities, including community centers,
tennis courts, swimming pools and other similar facilities.
D. Essential public utility and service facilities, including maintenance
facilities and structures.
E. Other accessory uses as set forth in Schedule C, Schedule of Permitted
Uses, included at the end of this chapter.
Plot and lot sizes and dimensions, structural heights and locations
may be freely disposed and arranged in conformity with the overall
density standards herein and the conditions of comprehensive plans
therefor, the general features and design of which shall be approved
by the Planning Board. The minimum development standards of a planned
unit residential development shall be as follows:
A. Minimum size of a planned unit residential development. No tract,
parcel or lot to be used for a planned unit residential development
shall contain less than 50 acres. Public or private streets, roads
or rights-of-way shall not be deemed to divide acreage of a planned
unit residential development.
B. Boundary line setback and buffer zone.
(1)
No building or structure in a planned unit residential development
shall be erected within 100 feet of the perimeter of any planned unit
residential development tract.
(2)
Buffer zone requirements.
(a)
The landowner shall be required to maintain a buffer zone of
at least 50 feet along the perimeter of any planned unit residential
development tract. Said buffer zone shall be kept in its natural state
where wooded, and, when natural vegetation is scarce or nonexistent,
the landowner may be required to provide a planted visual screen.
(b)
Within said buffer zone, no principal or accessory structure
or any off-street parking or loading areas or other uses shall be
permitted. Within said buffer zone, utility easements and streets
may be permitted to ensure continuity with adjoining properties.
(c)
Said buffer zone may be included for the purpose of computing
the planned unit residential development open space requirements.
(d)
The buffer zone requirements may be reduced or eliminated by
the Planning Board where planned unit residential developments abut
or where the planned unit residential development is consistent and
compatible with adjoining uses.
C. Street setback requirements. No building or structure shall be erected
within 25 feet of the right-of-way or of any public or private street
or road. Every dwelling unit shall be served from a roadway that is
other than a major traffic street.
D. Distance between buildings. There shall be a minimum distance between
townhouse dwelling structures of 75 feet, except that where an end
wall of one townhouse dwelling structure faces an end wall of another
dwelling structure, there shall be a minimum distance of 25 feet.
This distance shall be increased to at least 50 feet if a driveway
is located between structures.
E. Densities and lot sizes.
(1)
The gross density of any planned unit residential development
shall not exceed three dwelling units per acre.
(2)
The maximum total net density for townhouses in a planned unit
residential development shall be eight dwelling units per acre.
(3)
Each one-family dwelling shall be located on a lot having an
area of not less than 15,000 square feet.
F. Distribution of dwelling unit types. At least 10% of the total number
of dwelling units shall be one-family dwellings.
G. Maximum building height. No building shall exceed a height of 2 1/2
stories or 35 feet, whichever is the lesser.
H. Common open space requirements. At least 35% of the total land area
of a planned unit residential development shall be devoted to common
open space as herein defined. Said open space may be developed with
active and passive recreational facilities or may remain undeveloped.
These common open spaces shall be kept in their natural state where
wooded, and, where natural vegetation is sparse or nonexistent, the
Planning Board may require the provision for reasonable landscaping
of these areas.
I. Protection of open space. All open spaces between structures shall
be protected, where necessary, by fully recorded covenants running
with the land, conveyances or dedications.
J. Lot designation. Every structure or group of structures and uses,
including those of a public or institutional nature, and every cluster
unit having services, facilities or utilities in common private usage
and in common ownership or control by its occupants or which functions
as an independent corporate property owner or agent of management
shall be located upon and within a lot or plot of land, which shall
be fully dimensioned and designated as representing the area of responsibility
and extent of such individual or group ownership or management as
may be established by ownership in full or partial fee or for lease
under deed, covenant, lease contract or such other conditions of usage
or occupancy legally established and recorded therefor, and a description
or plan of each such lot or plat shall be filed separately or as part
of the descriptive maps of a planned unit residential development
with the Township Tax Assessor.