Intent. The purpose of the I/PI Industrial/Planned Industrial Area
is to encourage the concentration of light industrial uses, together
with administrative offices, warehousing and support services, in
an area directly accessible to the primary industrial area of Atlantic
County. It is the intent of this article to encourage these concentrations
while protecting the natural resources of the adjacent Absecon Creek
corridor and recognizing the environmental constraints on light industrial
development within the district. Controls and design standards for
this district have been constructed to encourage innovative project
planning and construction while recognizing the need for more efficient
use of existing land resources.
Regulations in District. The use, height and area regulations of Sections 224-92 through 224-96, inclusive, and those regulations set forth elsewhere in this chapter, where applicable to these sections, and general regulations in Article XVIII are the regulations in the I/PI District.
Light manufacturing facilities for such uses as beverages, pharmaceuticals,
printing and publishing, confections, clothing, electrical goods,
furniture, recyclable material processing and reclamation, specialty
manufacturing, professional and scientific instruments and electronics.
Accessory uses and buildings. Accessory uses and buildings shall
be only those customarily incidental to the permitted principal uses.
They shall be understood to include:
Outdoor storage areas for materials associated with the principal
use, in rear and side yards, fully buffered or screened from the street
and secured from unauthorized access.
Lot coverage, all uses: 65%, with a minimum of 15% left as natural
open space or landscaping. Outdoor storage areas shall not exceed
25% of the total lot area.
Single use: building front 40 feet, rear yard 30 feet and 60 feet
total of both side yards, with a minimum of 25 feet on one side. This
twenty-five-foot setback shall not access and landscape buffers.
Building length. Building length may vary subject to Planning Board
site plan approval, but in no case shall a building extend more than
150 feet without a variation in external setback or other sufficient
architectural or planning design features.
Freshwater wetlands transition areas. Transition areas, internal
setbacks or buffers shall be required from all lands delineated as
freshwater wetlands as defined by the Freshwater Wetlands Protection
Act, N.J.S.A. 13:9B-1 et seq. The dimension or depth of these transition
areas shall conform to the requirements set forth by the New Jersey
Department of Environmental Protection.
All planned industrial area proposals within this district shall be required to submit an impact statement as part of the site plan review process. The statement shall include information called for in Article XVIII, Article XX, § 224-120R and additionally for all uses, planned industrial area or single use, shall include the following:
Planning Board preliminary approval shall not be granted until the
Board is satisfied that all of the provisions called for above are
adequate to meet expected need.
A perimeter of 15 feet adjoining each building shall remain clear,
except for plantings and pedestrian walkways, to permit access of
emergency vehicles.
All uses within this district shall be free from offensive noise,
vibration, smoke, odors, glare, hazards of fire or other objectionable
effects detrimental to the health, safety or general welfare of the
community.
Notwithstanding any of the other provisions of this article, storage
of combustible materials for other than on-site use and/or refining
of combustible materials shall not be considered a permitted use within
this district.
Parking areas shall have natural vegetation to the maximum extent
practicable adjacent to the perimeter and include supplemental plantings
and shade trees where necessary to create and maintain buffer areas
in the front yard of sufficient density to shield the view of the
parking area from the street.
Service roadways shall be provided for commercial vehicles which
are separate from general access roadways to avoid conflict with employee
and visitor parking.
The traffic plan submitted with the impact statement (Section 224-92) shall clearly delineate and define traffic circulation. All existing and proposed roadways shall be shown. The Planning Board shall determine which roadways shall be public and which shall remain private.
All permitted uses within this district shall submit a landscaping
plan as a part of the site plan application. Such plan shall be designed
to preserve existing natural resources and shall follow the following
principles:
All areas not covered by buildings, roadways, parking areas and pedestrian
walkways shall retain existing trees or be landscaped with natural
materials.
Site perimeter buffers (minimum lot setbacks) shall consist of natural
vegetation and/or in combination with new plants, trees, evergreens
and deciduous materials.
Solid waste collection areas and outdoor storage areas shall be buffered
by a minimum ten-foot wide landscaped buffer, unless it can be demonstrated
that buffering can be accomplished through a combination of decorative
fencing and retention of natural vegetation.
Provide for safe movement of pedestrians and vehicles and shall include
low or mushroom-type standards along pedestrian walkways.
[1997 Code § 224-96]
Security fences shall be permitted within this district, provided
that they are screened from view by landscape buffers. Maximum height
shall be six feet.