§ 276-19. TH Townhouse Residential.

A. 

Principal permitted uses on the land and in buildings:

(1) 

Apartments (see § 276-48 for additional standards).

(2) 

Townhouses (see § 276-48 for additional standards).

(3) 

Public playgrounds, public conservation areas, public parks, public open space and public purpose uses.

(4) 

Senior citizen housing as conditional uses under N.J.S.A. 40:55D-67 (see § 276-46 for standards).

B. 

Accessory uses permitted:

(1) 

Usual noncommercial recreational facilities.

(2) 

Off-street parking and private garages (see Subsection F below and § 276-35).

(3) 

Fences and walls (see § 276-30).

(4) 

Private residential sheds for the storage of objects by the residents of the property, each not exceeding 15 feet in height from grade/ground elevation, and altogether not exceeding 150 square feet in gross floor area. All residential sheds must be anchored in accordance with § 276-51B(6)(a) to prevent flotation, collapse, or lateral movement of the structure. Private residential sheds may not encroach into the front yard required for the residential use in the zoning district in which they are located.

(5) 

Signs (see Subsection H below and § 276-40).

(6) 

Satellite dish antennas. All satellite dish antennas shall be no larger than four feet in diameter, located on the principal structure or as an accessory structure meeting accessory structure yard requirements stated below and located in the rear yard. For all practical purposes, satellite dish antennas shall not be seen from the front facade of the building or the street.

C. 

Maximum building height.

(1) 

No building height shall exceed 36 feet in height from the base flood elevation (BFE) or three stories, whichever is less, except that churches and schools shall not exceed 55 feet and except further as allowed in § 276-47 of this chapter. The following structures may be erected above the heights prescribed by this section, but in no case shall the height of any of these appurtenances exceed a height equal to 10% more than the maximum height permitted for the particular use at issue:

(a) 

Mechanical rooms and other roof structures for the housing of stairways, tanks, ventilating fans, HVAC equipment or similar equipment required to operate and maintain the building.

(b) 

Skylights, spires, cupolas, flagpoles, chimneys or similar structures.

(c) 

Safety enclosures of rooftop areas of hotels and motels used for sundecks and other recreational purposes.

(2) 

Cellular telephone antennas and/or associated equipment are expressly excluded from this provision.

D. 

Maximum number of dwelling units permitted. The maximum number of dwelling units permitted within the TH Townhouse Residential District shall be computed on the basis of 30 dwelling units per gross acre of land, excluding any land covered with water.

E. 

Area and distance requirements.

(1) 

The minimum tract size shall be one acre. A minimum of 200 feet of frontage on one street shall be required. Lot depth shall be a minimum of 200 feet.

(2) 

Minimum distances between townhouses and apartment buildings shall be measured horizontally in feet and shall be measured away from the front, side and rear of each building. The minimum distances shall be 10 feet for the front of a building on either a public or private street; 5 1/2 feet for the side of a building; and 30 feet for the rear of a building. No portion of any building shall be closer to any portion of any other building than the combined distances of the abutting requirements for each building, provided that the corner of a building offset more than a 20° angle from a line drawn parallel to another building shall be considered a side of the building. In addition, no building shall be located closer than 10 feet from the right-of-way line of any public or private street, and no minimum distance is required between a building and any parking area.

(3) 

Fee-simple lots shall meet the requirements specified in § 276-50 of this chapter.

(4) 

All portions of the tract not utilized by buildings or paved surfaces shall be landscaped, utilizing combinations such as landscaped fencing, shrubbery, lawn area, ground cover, rock formations, contours, existing foliage, and the planting of conifers and/or deciduous trees native to the area, in order to either maintain or reestablish the tone of the vegetation in the area and lessen the visual impact of the structures and paved areas.

F. 

Minimum off-street parking. Each individual use shall provide parking spaces according to the following minimum provisions:

(1) 

Townhouses and apartments shall provide 1 1/2 spaces for each dwelling unit consisting of one bedroom or less and two spaces for each dwelling unit consisting of more than one bedroom. Each one-car garage space and the driveway leading to the garage space shall together be considered one parking space, provided that the driveway is dimensioned to park a car off-street in accordance with the definition of "parking space" in Article II of this chapter.

(2) 

See § 276-35 for additional standards.

G. 

Trash and garbage pickup stations. Adequate trash and garbage pickup stations shall be provided within a totally enclosed container located in a manner to be obscured from view from parking areas, streets and adjacent residential uses by a fence, wall, planting or combination of the three. At least one recycling area shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of § 276-48H.

H. 

Permitted signs.

(1) 

Each TH development may have one sign along each public street which the tract in question abuts, provided there exists at least 250 feet of unbroken frontage. Such signs shall not exceed 10 feet in height, shall be set back from the street rights-of-way and driveways at least 10 feet, shall be set back from any property line a minimum of 50 feet, shall not exceed an area of 25 square feet, and shall be used to display the development's name.

(2) 

See § 276-40 for additional standards.

I. 

Open space requirements. Land area equal to a minimum of 10% of the tract of land proposed for residential development shall not be covered with buildings or streets and shall be set aside for landscape purposes. See § 276-17J for other requirements.