[Amended 12-14-2000 by Ord. No. 34-2000]
[1]
Editor's Note: See also § 285-173.14, Buffers, for regulations regarding buffers in the Gateway Planned Development Overlay District.
[Amended 12-12-2012 by Ord. No. 14-2012]
A.
A planted,
landscaped buffer shall be provided and maintained by the owner or
lessee of a nonresidential property with a contiguous residentially
used or zoned property. In addition, a buffer shall also be created
within a multifamily property along contiguous property used residentially
or zoned residential.
B.
This landscaped
buffer shall be developed in accordance with all of the requirements
of the Washington Township Landscape Ordinance.
C.
Buffers
shall consist of evergreen and deciduous plant material, earthen berms,
or a combination of the same and shall provide a year-round visual
screen. Such plantings shall provide a thick, dense visual buffer
from the ground to a height of eight feet at the time of planting
or construction.
[Amended 12-12-2012 by Ord. No. 14-2012]
A.
Minimum
buffer widths; storm drainage facilities.
(1)
The
width of all landscaped buffers shall not be less than the following:
(a)
Between industrial or warehouse use and any residential use or zone
the buffer shall be 100 feet.
(b)
Between commercial use and any residential use or zone the buffer
shall be 50 feet.
(c)
Between office use and any residential use or zone the buffer shall
be 30 feet.
(d)
Between multifamily use and any residential use or zone the buffer
shall be 25 feet.
(e)
Where a buffer is not specified for a particular use, the minimum
buffer of any residential use or zone shall be 50 feet.
(2)
No
portion of storm drainage facilities, such as detention basins, retention
basin or septic fields, shall be permitted within the buffer area.
Specifically, although such basins and septic fields may be grass
covered or landscaped, no portion of said basins or septic fields
may be included within the calculation of the required landscaped
buffer, nor shall any required plantings of trees or other plant material
be included within the calculation of the tree planting requirements
of the landscaped buffer.
B.
At the
discretion of the approving authority, the use of a suitable fence
or wall, for small lots, with possible reduction of width requirements
may be approved in lieu of the required landscape buffer. The approving
authority may also reduce the required buffer where natural or physical
barriers exist.
