It is the purpose of this district to provide specified areas
within the Borough appropriate for the development of townhouses or
garden apartments and accessory uses. Within this district no lot
or building shall be used and no building shall be erected or altered
to be used in whole or in part unless it complies with the area requirements
of this chapter.
Townhouses, garden apartments and accessory uses shall be permitted
in this district. A garden apartment shall mean a group of multifamily
dwellings, architecturally designed with some of the units placed
on top of the other units, for sale or rental of the individual units,
in a structure no more than 35 feet in height. A townhouse shall mean
a building that has not fewer than three nor more than eight one-family
dwelling units erected in a row as a single building on adjoining
lots, each being separated from the adjoining unit or units by an
approved masonry party or partition wall or walls, thus creating distinct
and noncommunicating dwelling units, such units intended for separate
ownership or rental. This definition shall also include such terms
as row house, patio house, court dwelling, maisonette, etc.
[Added 8-8-1996 by Ord. No. 7:15-96]
A. No boarding
homes or rooming houses shall be permitted in Residence District B.
B. Cannabis
establishment.
[Added 12-30-2021 by Ord. No. 10:18-21]
The following regulations shall apply in Residence District
B:
A. The maximum average gross residential density shall be 10 units per
usable acre.
B. At least 25% of the gross usable site area shall be in common open
space.
C. No more than eight townhouses may be attached in one group.
D. No townhouse or garden apartment shall be closer than 50 feet to
any perimeter property line.
E. Where the perimeter property line abuts a public, county, primary
or arterial road, no residential structure shall be located closer
than 75 feet to such road right-of-way line.
F. No townhouse or garden apartment building shall be closer than 25
feet to any other townhouse or garden apartment building except as
allowed by the Planning Board when this requirement is waived for
architectural considerations.
The following regulations shall apply in Residence District
B:
A. Off-street parking: see Article
XVI.
B. Building design and site plan review. All development in this district is subject to building design and site plan review. See Article
XXI.
C. Performance standards: see Article
XX.
E. Fences, hedges and walls: see Article
XVIII.