In order to promote public safety, a primary
design criterion shall be the separation of pedestrian traffic and
vehicular traffic. To this end, developments shall be designed, wherever
feasible, to provide for pedestrian walkways separated from vehicular
use streets and to promote pedestrian access between residential areas,
schools, shopping locations and the like. The location, width and
construction of such walkways shall be subject to the approval of
the Planning Board and the Township Engineer. Pedestrianways and lighting
shall be constructed where required and installed prior to occupancy.
Grade separated pedestrian crossings shall be provided across roads
at points required by the Planning Board.
In any district those areas undeveloped or unimproved
may be used for agricultural purposes until such areas are developed
and improved.
On the corner lot, or at any point of entry
on a public road, nothing shall be erected, placed, planted or allowed
to grow in a manner which obscures the vision above the height of
2 1/2 feet, measured from the center line of the intersecting streets
or driveways and within the area bounded by the street lines 100 feet
from their intersection along the lot lines.
The Zoning Board of Adjustment may approve the
conversion of any existing dwelling into a two-family or multiple-family
dwelling in any residential, rural or commercial district, provided
that the lot area per family shall not be reduced thereby to less
than 1/2 the lot area required per family for the district in which
such lot is situated. The Zoning Board of Adjustment may prescribe
such further conditions with respect to the conversion and use of
such building as is deemed appropriate.
[Amended 12-12-2012 by Ord. No. 15-2012]
A. Unless
otherwise noted within this chapter, all utility sheds and accessory
structures shall conform to the required side yard setbacks.
B. Accessory
structures shall not be permitted within front yard areas.
C. Accessory
structures shall have a minimum rear yard setback of 10 feet except
for residential uses, which shall have a rear yard setback of three
feet and a side yard setback of three feet.
[Amended 5-22-2013 by Ord. No. 13-2013; 5-23-2018 by Ord. No. 10-2018]
D. Trash
enclosures shall have a minimum side and rear yard setback of 20 feet.
E. The maximum
height of accessory structures shall be 16 feet, unless otherwise
specified in this chapter.
F. Accessory
structures shall conform to all other applicable standards of this
chapter.
The keeping of livestock shall be permitted
only in the Rural, Commercial Industrial and Planned Industrial Districts.
A satellite earth station, commonly referred
to as a dish antenna, including any structural supports, is permitted
in all zones subject to the following specifications and standards:
A. A dish antenna is only permitted as an accessory use
on a lot that contains a principal structure.
B. A dish antenna installed as a freestanding structure
is only permitted in a rear yard.
C. Rooftop, side or corner of any residential or commercial
building is permitted, conditioned upon said dish having a diameter
of 24 inches or less from outside edge to outside edge.
[Amended 9-22-2005 by Ord. No. 20-2005]
D. A dish antenna shall not be closer to the rear property
line or any side property line than the height of such antenna or
the setback requirement for the principal structure on the lot, whichever
results in the greatest setback.
E. A dish antenna shall not have a diameter, from outside
edge to outside edge, in excess of 10 feet.
F. No freestanding dish antenna shall exceed a height
of 13 feet to its highest point.
G. A building permit is required prior to the installation
of any dish antenna that exceeds 24 inches in diameter. No building
permit is required for the installation of a dish antenna having a
diameter of 24 inches or less.
[Amended 9-22-2005 by Ord. No. 20-2005]
H. No lot may contain more than one dish antenna that
exceeds 24 inches in diameter.
[Amended 9-22-2005 by Ord. No. 20-2005]
Accessory residential uses shall be subject
to prior Zoning Board of Adjustment approval and shall be limited
to the following:
A. Office of one physician, dentist, lawyer, architect,
engineer, musician, artist, teacher, accountant, registered nurse
or other similar occupation in a residential building, subject to
the following special requirements in addition to all other applicable
requirements of this chapter for the residential district in which
such uses are located.
B. Occupations referred to in Subsection
A above shall be subject to the following standards:
(1) A minimum of three off-street parking spaces shall
be provided in addition to those otherwise required in this chapter.
(2) No more than two persons shall be employed by the
practitioner to provide secretarial, clerical, technical or similar
assistance.
(3) The area used for the occupation shall occupy no more
than 25% of the total floor area.
(4) No storage of materials or products outside the dwelling
unit shall be permitted unless completely housed.
(5) The use shall be clearly incidental to the residential
use of the dwelling unit and shall not change the essential residential
character of the dwelling.
(6) No external alterations inconsistent with the residential
use of the dwelling unit shall be permitted.
(7) No display of products shall be visible from outside
the building.
C. Business signs shall be consistent with the sign regulations.
D. Such uses shall be operated only by the resident of
the dwelling.
All construction trailers shall be removed not
later than 90 days following the issuance of the last certificate
of occupancy in the project.
The owner of a corner lot, when first applying
for a building permit, shall designate which of the two streets is
to be the principal frontage for the purpose of establishing the front,
rear and side yard requirements of the lot.
The following shall apply to all districts:
A. A sketch plan graphically depicting the terms used
in bulk and area regulations is on file in the Planning/Zoning Office.
[Amended 3-12-2003 by Ord. No. 4-2003]
B. No lot use shall have erected upon it more than one
residential building or one primary use, except as otherwise specifically
authorized in this chapter.
[Added 10-27-2010 by Ord. No. 23-2010]
C. Wetland buffers may not be part of minimum yard areas,
but may be part of minimum lot size.
D. All required yard areas shall be free and clear of
all restrictions which would limit the use of such yard areas with
the exception of utility easement lines.
[Added 2-8-2012 by Ord. No. 1-2012]
The Zoning Officer may authorize installation of a wheelchair
ramp within a required setback in compliance with the following criteria:
A. The applicant has submitted a letter from a licensed physician specifying
that the wheelchair ramp is necessary to accommodate a resident of
the property.
B. The wheelchair ramp shall be designed so as to encroach into the
required setback the minimum distance feasible.
C. The wheelchair ramp shall not encroach into any recorded easement
or into the public right-of-way.
D. The encroachment into the required setback shall be removed when
the individual requiring the wheelchair ramp no longer resides on
the property or the wheelchair ramp is no longer required.
E. The wheelchair ramp shall be designed and constructed in accordance
with the applicable provisions of the Americans with Disabilities
Act (ADA).