[Amended 12-12-2011 by Ord. No. 722]
The SU-2 Special Use Overlay District is designed
to make a provision for mobile home park development when authorized
by the Township Council as a conditional use. In addition, the SU-2
Special Use Overlay District provides for single-family attached dwellings,
in a limited context, when authorized by the Township Council as a
conditional use. The district provisions are designed to provided
density, open space, lot size and related regulations.
[Amended 8-26-2002 by Ord. No. 631]
The maximum height of dwellings and other structures (other than office buildings) shall be 35 feet. The maximum height of an office building shall be 60 feet, except as provided in Article
XXXIV regarding height limit exemptions.
[Added 8-26-2002 by Ord. No. 631]
A. The
following buffer areas shall be provided:
(1) A buffer of 100 feet shall be provided, of which at least 50 feet shall be landscaped in accordance with the provisions of Article
XXXIV.
B. The
buffer yard shall comply with the following standards:
(1) The buffer shall be measured from the district boundary line or from
the near street line where a street serves as the district boundary
line; provided, however, that parking lot aisleways (to include curbing,
driveways and stormwater management system components, but not parking
spaces) may be located within the buffer yard as long as the required
50 feet of landscaping area is increased by one foot for each one
foot that such aisleway encroaches into the one-hundred-foot buffer
area.
(2) The buffer yard may be part of the required front, side or rear yards,
and in cases of conflict, the larger yard requirements shall apply.
[Added 12-12-2011 by Ord. No. 722]
A. A minimum of 30% of the tract shall be designated as restricted to
and used for common open space uses.
B. The common open space provisions of Article
XXXV, §§
275-217 through
275-223 shall apply to a single-family attached development in the SU-2 Special Use District.
C. The topography and natural features of the site shall be considered
in planning, designing, locating, orienting and constructing all residential
buildings and other structures to improve the aesthetic design of
the development.
D. Residential buildings and other structures shall be located and situated
to promote pedestrian and visual access to open space.
E. All utilities shall be placed and/or installed underground.
F. Refuse stations to serve recreational areas shall be designed with
suitable screening, located so as to be convenient for trash removal
and not offensive to nearby residential areas.
G. Notwithstanding the requirements of §
275-182 of Article
XXXI, Off-Street Parking and Loading, in the SU-2 Special Use District four off-street parking spaces shall be provided for each dwelling unit and overflow parking shall be provided at 1.25 parking spaces per dwelling unit, which overflow parking shall be subject to the reserve parking provisions of §
275-189. For purposes of this section, the term "overflow parking" shall include all permitted on-street parking spaces and all parking spaces provided in segregated, off-street parking areas. Segregated overflow parking areas containing 10 or fewer spaces shall not be subject to the provisions and requirements of §
275-188, Screening and landscaping requirements, of Article
XXXI. Parking on one side of the street shall be permitted.
H. The provisions and requirements of §
275-214D(3) and
(4) in Article
XXXIV shall not apply to single-family attached dwelling units in the SU-2 Special Use District.
I. Buffer planting. A ten-foot-wide buffer planting strip shall be provided in the perimeter property line setback area as may be required by the Township Council during the conditional use hearing and shall contain landscaping in accordance with a landscaping plan approved by the Township, which shall be in lieu of the provisions and requirements of §§
275-122.1 and
275-214D(1); provided, however, that no buffer planting strip shall be required in any part of a perimeter setback which abuts perpetually preserved conservation area, park land or open space.
J. The provisions of §
275-214D(2) shall apply to single-family attached units in the SU-2 Special Use District except that shade trees and all required landscaping may be located within the street right-of-way.