[Added 8-12-2013 by Ord.
No. 2013-04]
In CCRC Continuing Care Retirement Community Districts, the
regulations contained in this article shall apply.
The purpose of the CCRC Continuing Care Retirement Community
District is to provide residential living and health care facilities
providing a continuum of care for senior persons.
A building or buildings may be erected, altered or used, and
land may be used for the following purposes:
A.
Continuing care retirement community (CCRC).
B.
The following uses as accessory to a CCRC when located on the same
tract intended to serve the residents of the CCRC and their visitors:
(1)
Administrative offices and operational facilities for management
of the permitted uses.
(2)
Personal services such as barber shop, beauty salon or commissary.
(3)
Bank branch and/or automated teller machine.
(4)
Dining facilities.
(5)
Community center.
(6)
Library.
(7)
Educational and recreational facilities.
(8)
Theater.
(9)
Fitness center and swimming pool.
(10)
Physical therapy facilities.
(11)
Physicians' offices for residents.
(12)
Massage therapy room.
(13)
Gift/convenience shop.
(14)
Storage and maintenance facilities supporting the CCRC.
(15)
Any other accessory uses commonly found in a CCRC.
A.
Lot area and frontage. There shall be a street frontage of not less
than 300 feet and a minimum lot area of 50 acres.
B.
Density. There shall be a maximum of eight dwelling units per acre.
Each residential living unit and each personal care living unit shall
be considered a dwelling unit. Every five beds in a skilled nursing
facility shall be considered a dwelling unit for the calculation of
density.
C.
Impervious surface and building area. Not more than 60% of the lot
area shall be covered by impervious surfaces, and not more than 30%
of the lot area shall be occupied by buildings.
D.
Building setback. Buildings shall be set back not less than 50 feet
from the right-of-way line of any street which the CCRC abuts or any
property line except where the lot is immediately adjacent to an R-1,
R-1A, R-2 or R-3 District, in which case buildings shall be set back
not less than 100 feet from the property line adjacent to the R-1,
R-1A, R-2 or R-3 District.
E.
Setbacks for parking areas and driveways. No driveway or parking
area shall be located within 25 feet of a street line or any property
line, except that portion of a driveway providing ingress and egress
to the property.
F.
Height regulations. The maximum building height of any building shall
be 45 feet.
G.
Buffer area. Along each side or rear property line which directly
abuts an R-1, R-1A, R-2 or R-3 District of the Township or similar
district in an adjoining municipality, a buffer planting strip of
not less than 25 feet in width shall be provided. On the buffer planting
strip, there shall be placed shrubbery, trees or other plantings sufficient
to provide a reasonable screen of the CCRC from the specified abutting
residential districts and to ensure that the residential character
of those abutting districts is not adversely affected by such CCRC.
Existing trees and shrubbery shall be preserved to the extent reasonably
practicable and shall count towards the required buffer strips which
shall be supplemented if and where necessary to provide an adequate
screen.
H.
Distance between buildings. The minimum distance between buildings
shall be 30 feet, except that the distance between buildings comprised
of townhouses may be reduced to 20 feet provided that the attics of
the townhouses are provided with automatic fire sprinkler protection
or provided that the Township Fire Marshal determines that, taking
into consideration the nature of the proposed construction or other
relevant factors, a twenty-foot distance between buildings is adequate
for fire protection purposes without requiring sprinkler protection
for the attics, in which case the twenty-foot distance between buildings
shall be permitted without automatic sprinkler protection in the attics.
I.
Building frontage, depth or length. The greatest dimension in frontage,
length or depth of a building section erected or used under this article,
excluding covered walkways, enclosed corridors or bridges, shall not
exceed 150 feet. However, the Board of Supervisors, upon recommendation
of the Newtown Township Planning Commission, may, in connection with
any land development application, approve buildings with greater dimensions
if it determines that such buildings are architecturally pleasing
and suitable for a CCRC and avoid monotony and excessive bulk.
A.
General design standards.
(1)
All land and buildings erected in a CCRC District shall be under
one ownership and/or management responsible to the owner or operator
of the CCRC; provided, however, residential living units and personal
care living units may be sold as life estates or leased to life tenants
who are in residence.
(2)
All new utilities, including but not limited to water, electricity,
gas, telephone and cable, shall be installed and maintained underground.
(3)
Public water and public sanitary sewage disposal systems shall
be provided.
B.
Landscaping.
(1)
Landscaping shall be in accordance with a landscape plan and
planting schedule prepared by a landscape architect and approved by
the Board of Supervisors during the land development application process.
C.
Off-street parking and loading.
(1)
All off-street parking and loading design standards in the Newtown
Township Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance[1] and in Article XXIV of this Newtown Township Zoning chapter shall apply. The following numbers of parking spaces shall be provided for uses in a CCRC District:
D.
Lighting.
(1)
All driveways, parking areas, and areas of pedestrian use shall
be adequately lighted. All such lighting shall be designed and located
to direct light away from any adjoining residential development and
areas zoned for residential development.
E.
Signage.
(1)
One sign of not larger than 40 square feet indicating the name
of the CCRC will be permitted at each major entrance to the site.
Such sign shall be in accordance with plans submitted to and approved
by the Board of Supervisors.
(2)
Directional signs not larger than four square feet. Such signs
shall be in accordance with plans submitted and approved by the Board
of Supervisors.
A.
A land development plan, which delineates the overall development
of the property for which an application is made, or that delineates
that portion of an already developed CCRC where additional development
is proposed, shall be filed as part of a land development application,
which land development plan shall include the following:
