Township of Moorestown, NJ Article XV CIO Commercial-Institutional Office Districts

[Amended 4-9-1984 by Ord. No. 1211]

§ 180-45 Use restrictions and regulations.

In all CIO Commercial-Institutional Office Districts the following uses, and no others, of lands and buildings are permitted:

A. All uses allowed in the RTC-2 Districts[1] and as permitted therein.

[1] Editor's Note: See Art. XIV of this chapter.

B. Institutions, such as schools (public and private), day-care centers, cemeteries, municipal buildings, mortuaries, undertaking establishments and fraternal organizations.

[Amended 3-10-1997 by Ord. No. 1813-97]

C. An office or office building for administrative or executive offices, a central or headquarters office building for a single concern or affiliated members or an insurance or financial institution.

D. A professional office or office building, including but not limited to the offices of a physician, dentist, surgeon, optician or other practitioner of the healing arts, attorney, accountant, tax consultant, architect, engineer, insurance broker, real estate broker or any combination of specified offices.

E. Sales offices, including the office of a manufacturer's representative or catalogue-ordering establishment, provided that no inventories of merchandise shall be maintained except for display purposes in such offices.

F. A photographic or art studio or a dancing or music studio when located and soundproofed so that it will not result in any noise or vibration which may interfere with the normal use of an adjoining property for any other use permitted in the district.

G. Political campaign offices for a period not to exceed three months. Notwithstanding anything in this chapter or the Land Subdivision and Development Ordinance[2] to the contrary, site plan review shall not be required.

[2] Editor's Note: See Ch. 158, Subdivision of Land.

H. A motor vehicle parking lot, or a motor vehicle parking lot for customers, clients, employees and residents, neither of such parking lots to be used for the sale, servicing or dead storage of vehicles. Conditional use approval is required for parking lots not accessory to permitted uses. Such lots must be a minimum of 25 feet back from all streets, must be screened from all streets and must also meet the requirements of § 180-47 below. An application for this use must include a plan depicting all adjacent or adjoining parking lots in order to allow a review of existing and proposed traffic circulation and efficiency in the use of land for cooperative parking plans. Proposals must minimize the number of access points onto public streets and provide safe and convenient pedestrian access to the facilities.

I. A convalescent, assisted-care or nursing home; a continuing-care facility for the senior citizen; or similar institution when authorized as a conditional use by the Planning Board in accordance with the standards in § 180-91.

[Added 3-10-1997 by Ord. No. 1813-97]

J. A church or similar place of worship, subject to the following standards:

[Added 3-10-1997 by Ord. No. 1813-97]

(1) Site plan. A site plan shall be filed by the applicant which shall comply with the requirements of Chapter 158, Subdivision of Land.

(2) Yard and setback minimum requirements:

(a) Front, side and rear yard setbacks for buildings shall meet the requirements of § 180-46D, E and F.

(b) Setback for any parking area shall be 5 feet; however, no parking shall be allowed between any street bordering the lot and the building line or lines.

(3) Buffers.

(a) Minimum landscaped buffer from any side or rear property line shall be 5 feet.

(b) See § 180-8D(3)(b) of this chapter.

(4) Lighting. See § 180-8D(4) of this chapter.

(5) Parking. See Article XXIII of this chapter.

(6) Lot coverage: Not more than 35% of the area of any lot may be occupied by buildings, and not more than 70% of any lot may be occupied by buildings, paving or other impervious surfaces.

K. Breweries, distilleries and winery salesrooms when authorized as a conditional use by the Planning Board in accordance with the standards set forth in § 180-96E(3).

[Added 5-10-2021 by Ord. No. 15-2021]

§ 180-46 Height, bulk, area and buffer requirements.

Height, bulk, area and buffer requirements shall be as follows:

A. No building shall exceed 35 feet in height.

B. Minimum lot size: 5,000 square feet.

C. Maximum site coverage by all impervious surfaces: 67%.

D. Side yards shall be a minimum of five feet in width.

E. Rear yards shall be 15 feet unless the property abuts a lot used exclusively for residential purposes, including a home professional office, in which case a thirty-foot rear yard shall be required.

F. All front yards shall be equal to the average building setbacks of existing main buildings within 100 feet of both sides of the lot or lots on which the proposed building is to be located. (Any vacant lots within that distance shall be assumed to have a front yard equal to the average of the lots abutting them or, if those are vacant, the first lots with an existing building.)

G. The floor area ratio shall not exceed 0.50.

[Added 2-23-1987 by Ord. No. 1344]

§ 180-47 Miscellaneous requirements.

A. All on-site parking requirements shall be provided for and occur behind or to the side of all buildings. No parking shall be allowed between any street bordering the lot and the building line or lines. Said ground-level parking lots are not permitted to be under or within existing or proposed structures.

[Amended 6-22-1987 by Ord. No. 1352]

B. All on-site parking shall be separated from adjoining lots by at least a five-foot-wide landscaped area along all property lines which abut lots which are totally or partially located within the RTC-1, RTC-2, R-2 and R-3 Zones. This buffer area shall be provided with a permanent landscape screen of evergreen trees and shrubs, deciduous screening materials and deciduous trees. Fencing may also be used for this screen with a maximum height of six feet. Landscape plans shall include a minimum of 60% evergreen material. The minimum height of material at the time of planting shall be three feet for shrubs and five feet for evergreen trees and deciduous trees shall have a caliper of at least 2 1/2 inches measured four feet above the ground.

C. Side yard parking must not be closer to the front property line than the front wall of the existing or proposed primary structure. Such parking must be screened from the street using walls, fences, earth mounds, permanent evergreen landscaping or a combination thereof.

D. Except when adjoining property owners cooperate by providing interconnected parking lots, all parking areas shall be three feet from property lines other than those referred to in Subsection B above. The three-foot area shall be landscaped to provide visual relief across adjoining parking areas but is not designed to provide total screening as is required against residential properties.

E. At least one four-inch-caliper shade tree shall be provided for every eight parking spaces or part thereof and shall be so located as to provide shade for those parking spaces. Existing trees four inches or greater in caliper may be substituted for required trees.