[Added 3-26-2002 by Ord. No. O-6-02]
The PI-2, or Pinelands Village Industrial Zoning District, occurs at selected locations in areas of the Township designated in the Pinelands Villages, either where industrial activities already are occurring or where the siting of a new or expanded light industrial operation would be appropriate due to a location near road and/or rail facilities. Uses permitted in this district are of a light industrial nature.
Within the PI-2 District, land may be used and buildings or structures may be used, altered or erected for the following uses:
A. 
Agricultural processing facilities.
B. 
Pinelands resource-related industries, other than resource extraction.
C. 
Other light industries, including, though not necessarily limited to, the following:
(1) 
Research and development operations.
(2) 
Public utility and service activities of a light industrial nature, such as repair and maintenance yards, and storage facilities.
(3) 
Wholesaling and distribution operations.
(4) 
Light manufacturing, fabrication and assembly operations, except for those specifically prohibited hereinafter.
D. 
Public service infrastructure.
E. 
Accessory uses incidental to any of the foregoing uses.
F. 
Alternative treatment center dispensaries, vertical alternative treatment center facilities (dispensary/cultivation and manufacturing) and stand-alone cultivation, manufacturing and/or testing facilities, as authorized by Ordinance No. 2019-024.
[Added 11-26-2019 by Ord. No. O-2019-024]
The following uses are specifically prohibited within the PI-2 District:
Acetylene gas manufacturing
Ammonia, bleaches
Arsenal
Asphalt manufacturing, refining
Blast furnace
Carbon lampblack
Celluloid
Coke ovens
Creosote
Distillation of waste, bones
Explosives, matches
Fat rendering
Fertilizer
Glue, sizing, etc.
Incineration, garbage
Junkyard
Lime, gypsum
Linoleum
Ore reduction
Paint, oil, varnish manufacturing
Petroleum refining
Printing-ink manufacturing
Rawhide tanning
Refuse, sanitary landfill
Resource extraction
Rubber manufacturing, crude scrap
Shoe polish
Slaughtering animals
Smelting of iron, tin, zinc, copper
Soap, soda, and washing-powder manufacturing
Starch, glucose or dextrin
Stockyards
Sulfurous, sulfuric, nitric or hydrochloric acid
Tallow, grease, candle manufacturing
Tar roofing, waterproofing
Wool pulling and scouring
Other hazardous uses as determined by the Township
Uses proposed for development within the PI-2 District shall be subject to the requirements listed in Schedule 3, Area, Yard and Bulk Requirements for Nonresidential Uses, found as an attachment to this chapter.
A. 
All development proposed within the PI-2 District shall conform with all applicable standards under Article XV of this chapter.
B. 
All operations and storage of materials shall be housed in buildings attractively designed and constructed. The grounds shall be landscaped; however, managed turfed areas which require supplemental water, applications of soil amendments, or the use of herbicides, fungicides and pesticides shall not exceed 25% of the parcel being landscaped or replanted. No industry requiring a stack shall be permitted.
C. 
All parking shall be located to the rear of industrial buildings on any lot, except if environmental constraints and lot configuration otherwise require parking in the front- and side-yards to meet the minimum parking requirements for the proposed use.
[Amended 10-12-2021 by Ord. No. O-2021-023; 3-8-2022 by Ord. No. O-2022-004]
D. 
All businesses operating within this district shall be subject to the rules and regulations of the Noise Control Council under the Noise Control Act of 1971, as amended.