Planned Development Overlay Districts as designated
on the official Zoning Map, are overlay districts where, if the general
regulations are met, an applicant may file an application for development
under the standards of this article. In the Planned Development Overlay
District (PDOD), the following general regulations shall apply:
A. Minimum gross acreage of tract: 15 acres.
B. Minimum developable land area: 10 acres.
C. Minimum required open space. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article
XIV (Open Space Regulations) of Chapter
215 (Zoning), a minimum of one acre of the planned development shall be set aside for common open space and recreation or public open space and recreation. At least 0.5 acre shall be uplands.
D. Private water and sewer. All planned development district(s)
shall be served by private on-site water and septic systems.
Tract requirements in a Planned Development
Overlay District shall be as follows:
A. Building setback from tract perimeter: 50 feet from
any tract boundary.
B. Building setback from an overhead utility line or
underground pipe or line easement or right-of-way: 100 feet.
C. Parking area or internal driveway or street setback
(excluding entrances and exits) from tract perimeter: 35 feet.
The requirements contained in this section and not Article
XIV of Chapter
215 govern the provision of open space in the Planned Developments.
A. Minimum lot size: One acre.
B. Minimum lot frontage: 100 feet on a public or private
street.
C. The amount and location of common open space shall
be determined giving due consideration to the following factors:
(1) The location and construction of adequate active and
passive recreational facilities in appropriate locations throughout
the Township;
(2) The conservation of stream corridors, including their
associated buffers, throughout the Township for passive recreational
use;
(3) The protection of environmentally fragile and important
resource land area, including aquatic buffer areas, one-hundred-year
floodplains, wetlands and wooded acreage;
(4) The preservation of agriculture and prime agricultural
lands and the consolidation of large contiguous agricultural tracts;
(5) The common open space shall include relatively large
contiguous land areas for open space and/or recreational purposes,
as appropriate for the particular development, and additional common
open space shall be distributed throughout the development so that
as many residential lots as practicable have direct pedestrian access
to the relatively large, contiguous land area;
(6) The common open space shall include a minimum buffer
area of 50 feet along any tract boundary line, planted with suitable
evergreen screening four feet high, eight feet on center in a staggered
row.
D. The Land Development Board shall review the submitted
common open space plan in the context of the particular development
proposal, the particular characteristics of the subject land area,
its environmental resource value and the ability, desirability and
practicality of relating the proposed open space to adjacent and nearby
lands. In any case, the lands shall be improved as may be necessary
to best suit the purpose(s) for which they are intended, it being
understood that the Township's preference is that all environmentally
sensitive lands remain largely unimproved and be devoted primarily
to passive recreational use.
[Amended 3-13-2024 by Ord. No. 2024-01]
E. Should the proposed development consist of a number
of stages, the Land Development Board may require that acreage proportionate
in size to the stage being considered for final approval be set aside
simultaneously with the granting of final approval for that particular
stage, even though these lands may be located in a different section
of the overall development.
[Amended 3-13-2024 by Ord. No. 2024-01]