[Ord. No. 856, § 2; Ord. No. 92-37, § 7.]
The following uses are permitted in all districts:
(a)
All facilities owned or operated by the township.
(b)
Signs conforming to the provisions of this article.
(c)
Farming, on a lot or contiguous lots of three acres or more,
except a commercial poultry farm or piggery, provided that nonresidential
structures servicing the farm operation shall not contain gross floor
area exceeding 0.4% of the area being farmed. No such structure shall
have a gross floor area greater than 6,500 square feet unless approved
as a conditional use meeting the conditional use standards of this
Code and demonstrating that the proposed building and location would
not have a negative effect on the landscape. Structures exceeding
the gross floor area limitation set forth herein may be permitted
as conditional uses, provided that they are necessary for the farming
operation, do not disrupt or otherwise have a significant visual impact
upon the landscape, are not for a farm use which utilizes a significant
number of buildings or square footage, and does not have significant
off-tract vehicular or other impacts. Farming shall include the seasonal
sale on the farm of produce thereof; provided, that no use is made
of a public right-of-way for such sale, for display or for customer
parking, that no permanent signs are used and that all buildings used
for such sale conform to the provisions of this article.
(d)
Uses allowed elsewhere in this article or conditional uses in
the district in question, but only in accordance with approval of
such uses as provided in division 4 of this article.
[Ord. No. 2014-37; Ord. No. 856, § 2; Ord. No. 94-2, § 1.]
All uses not expressly permitted in this article are prohibited,
including, but not by way of limitation, the following:
(a)
Open air commercial amusements, except those in place for one
week or less, for which a permit has been issued by the township committee.
(b)
Airports, heliports and helistops, except for the landing of
helicopters in emergency situations including medical emergencies
or in drills in preparation for emergency situations.
(c)
Commercial chicken or duck farms and piggeries.
(f)
Slaughter houses and all food processing plants.
(h)
Manufacturing, other than the manufacture, assembly or treatment
of products in connection with permitted research or product development
in the OR district, or clearly incidental to and solely used in the
conduct of a permitted retail business on premises in business districts,
SC districts or S districts.
(i)
Commercial camps, except camps for children which are owned
or operated by tax exempt or eleemosynary organizations and are on
lots of less than 10 acres.
(j)
Trailer camps and courts and mobile homes and, except as expressly
permitted elsewhere in this article, the outdoor storage of house
trailers and travel trailers.
(l)
The dumping of garbage, trash, waste or scrap material of any
kind, except clean fill by permit from the development enforcement
officer or the sufferance of such dumping upon any such property by
the owner or occupant thereof.
(m)
Topsoil removal, except by permission of the township committee.
(n)
Drilling for natural gas, using the drilling technique of hydraulic
fracturing and exploring for natural gas beyond the reconnaissance
phase.
Editor's Note: The provisions of Ordinance No. 2014-37 shall
apply to the entire municipality of Princeton and the "Code of the
Borough of Princeton, New Jersey 1974" shall be deemed amended accordingly.
(o)
The operation of any and all classes of cannabis establishments
or cannabis distributors or cannabis delivery services as said terms
are defined in section 3 of P.L. 2021, c. 16 ((N.J.S.A. 24:61-33),
but not the delivery of cannabis items and related supplies within
Princeton by a cannabis delivery service located outside of Princeton.
[Added 8-9-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-23]
[Ord. No. 954, § 2; Ord. No. 1020, § 7; Ord. No. 2015-20]
No development or improvements shall be permitted on that portion
of a lot having slopes of 25% or higher for a single family residential
development or slopes of 15% or higher for any other type of land
development permitted pursuant to this chapter. Slope calculation
shall be based on contour intervals of 10 feet in accordance with
standard engineering procedures. The applicant may utilize the topographic
and flood plain maps on file with the Office of the Princeton Township
Engineer or may prepare and submit at the applicant's expense more
detailed land surveys and slope calculation data. The applicant shall
be permitted to calculate the floor area ratio (F.A.R.) on the gross
area of the lot to include that portion of the lot containing steep
slopes as defined herein. A variance from the requirements of this
section may be granted pursuant to Section 10B-13(c) from the strict
application of the requirements set forth herein.