[Amended 12-28-1999 by Ord. No. O-13-99]
In PLM-I Pinelands Light Manufacturing Industrial
Districts, land may be used and buildings or structures may be erected,
altered or used for any of the following purposes and no other:
A. Food and associated industries, such as but not limited
to bakeries, bottling/canning of food and beverages, food mixing and
processing, food-sundry manufacturing and manufacturing of spirituous
liquors.
B. Fabrication and assembly of paper and wood products,
including but not limited to office supplies, bags, books, bookbinding,
boxes, cabinets and woodworking, toys, furniture and packaging materials.
C. Biological, chemical, electronic and pharmaceutical
laboratories and scientific laboratories devoted to research, design
and experimental operation of equipment.
D. Administrative and business offices.
E. Public utilities and public utility substations, except that sewer treatment and collection facilities shall be permitted to serve the PLM-I District only in accordance with §
253-77B(2).
F. Electronics: products manufacturing and product assembly.
G. Fabrication and assembly of metal products, excluding
the processing of metals from raw materials, including sheet metal,
metal furniture, metal foil, toys and other such metallic instruments.
H. Limited manufacturing of light machinery, such as
carburetors, pumps and small machine parts, auxiliary electrical power
generating units, cash registers, typewriters, calculators and other
office machines.
I. Clothing, textiles and related industries.
J. Glass and glass products.
K. Municipal facilities deemed necessary and appropriate
by the governing body of Franklin Township.
L. Trucking terminal facilities.
O. Outdoor storage of building supplies, contractors'
equipment or crated and baled material in conjunction with a wholesale
establishment. Excluded are junk, scrap metals and materials, automobiles
and other machinery or vehicles intended for dismantlement or demolition.
[Added 12-28-1999 by Ord. No. O-13-99]
Accessory uses shall be as follows:
C. Enclosed facilities for storage of trash and recyclable
materials.
E. Retail sales of goods and/or materials manufactured
or warehoused on site, provided that the retail sales area occupies
no more than 10% of the building area.
F. Accessory solar energy system.
[Added 8-9-2022 by Ord. No. O-18-22]
[Added 12-28-1999 by Ord. No. O-13-99]
Conditional uses shall be as follows:
A. Local communications facilities.
The following restrictions and regulations in
the PLM-I Pinelands Light Manufacturing Industrial District shall
apply unless otherwise indicated in this chapter:
A. Lot area and frontage. A lot area of not less than
3.4 acres (148,104 square feet) shall be provided for every building
hereafter erected and used as an industrial facility. Each industrial
lot shall have a frontage of at least 250 feet on an approved street
or road.
[Amended 7-10-1990 by Ord. No. O-17-90]
B. Lot coverage.
[Amended 12-29-1999 by Ord. No.
O-13-99]
(1) Buildings and structures: 20%
(2) Total impermeable coverage: 30%, except that coverage
may be increased to 45%, provided that the applicant demonstrates
to the satisfaction of the approving authority that there will be
no net increase over preconstruction conditions in the volume and
rate of stormwater runoff and that the design meets the standards
of N.J.A.C. 7:50-6.84.A.6.
C. Setbacks.
(1) There shall be a front yard on each street on which
a lot abuts, which shall not be less than 100 feet, provided that
off-street automobile parking shall be permitted in the front yard
not less than 35 feet from the curb or road right-of-way of any abutting
street.
(2) There shall be two side yards on each lot, neither
of which shall be less than 40 feet.
(3) There shall be a rear yard on each lot, which shall
not be less than 50 feet.
(4) Buffer strips shall be provided when required in accordance with the provisions of Article
XII of this chapter, provided that no buffer strip shall be less than 75 feet, and provided that this may be increased to 100 feet by the Planning Board when deemed necessary in the public interest.
D. Open space. At least 20% of the total lot or tract
shall be reserved for open space. Such areas shall be subject to review
by the Planning Board. Natural features, such as trees, streams, soil
conditions, water table and scenic areas, shall be considered in designing
a project, providing open space and buffer strips.