Aberdeen Township City Zoning Code
§ 25-4.10
"MFG" Manufacturing.
[Ord. No. 20-1982; Ord. No. 22-1998, §§ 3,4; repealed in entirety by Ord. No. 14-2010; reinstated by Ord. No. 16-2012]
a.
Purpose. This district has been created to allow industrial plants to process or manufacture goods from unprepared or untreated materials such as heavy metal work, manufacture of brick, terra-cotta, plastics, glass etc. All manufacturing processes must take place within fully enclosed buildings. Storage facilities may be in separate buildings. Operations, whose principal use is the storage of solvents or other inflammable materials, are prohibited uses. No explosives shall be stored or used.
b.
c.
Accessory Uses Permitted.
3.
Garages, storage buildings and other customary accessory uses incidental to the principal use.
5.
Temporary construction trailers and one (1) sign not exceeding one hundred (100) square feet, each advertising the prime contractor, subcontractor(s), architect, financing institution and similar data for the period of construction beginning with the issuance of a construction permit and concluding with the issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy, or one (1) year, whichever is less, provided said trailer(s) and sign are on the site where construction is taking place.
6.
Employee cafeterias as part of a principal building or as the entire use of a principal building, provided the cafeteria is limited in service to the employees of the principal use designated on the site plan as approved by the Board.
7.
Storage yards for towed inoperable vehicles as Conditional Uses under N.J.S.A. 40:55D-67. (See subsection 25-6.61 for standards.)
d.
Maximum Building Height. No building shall exceed thirty-five (35) feet in height except as allowed in subsection 25-6.5, and except further that a building not exceeding fifty (50) feet in height may be constructed provided that for every one (1) foot in height in excess of thirty-five (35) feet, the buffer area (as described in subsection 25-5.5) be enlarged two (2) feet in width.
e.
Area and Yard Requirements.(1)
Individual Use | Industrial Park Use | |
|---|---|---|
Principal Building | ||
Minimum | ||
Lot area | 120,000 sq. ft. | 80,000 sq. ft. |
Lot frontage | 250 ft. | 200 ft. |
Lot width | 250 ft. | 200 ft. |
Lot depth | 200 ft. | 200 ft. |
Side yard (each) | 75 ft. | 50 ft. |
Front yard | 50 ft. | 25 ft. |
Rear yard | 50 ft. | 25 ft. |
Accessory Building Minimum | ||
Distance to side line | 50 ft. | 25 ft. |
Distance to rear line | 50 ft. | 25 ft. |
Distance to other building | 15 ft. | 15 ft. |
Minimum | ||
Building coverage of principal building(2) | 40% | 40% |
Building coverage of accessory building(s) | 5% | 5% |
(1) No provision stipulated herein shall prohibit a permitted use from being situated adjacent to a railroad right-of-way for purposes of loading and unloading materials. |
(2) The maximum building coverage for the principal building(s) may increase by a square footage amount equal to the square footage of the building(s) used for inside parking and/or loading, provided that in no case shall the maximum building coverage for the principal building(s) exceed fifty (50%) percent. |
f.
Gross Floor Area Minimum. Each principal building shall have a minimum gross floor area of five thousand (5,000) square feet.
g.
General Requirements.
1.
Any principal building may contain more than one (1) use or organization.
2.
A lot may contain more than one (1) principal building provided that the total building coverage specified for the district is not exceeded and the following building separation requirements are met:
(a)
All principal buildings shall be separated* by a minimum of twenty-five (25) feet provided such separation is to be used solely for pedestrian circulation.
(b)
All principal buildings shall be separated* by a minimum of fifty (50) feet when such separation is to be used for parking or vehicular circulation.
*Note: The separation requirements should not be construed to prohibit covered pedestrian walkways when the roof or covering of such walkway extends between the principal buildings.
3.
At least the first fifty (50) feet (twenty-five (25) feet for industrial park lots) adjacent to any street line and twenty (20) feet adjacent to any lot line shall not be used for parking, shall be planted and maintained in lawn area or ground cover or landscaped with evergreen shrubbery and shall be separated from the parking area by poured concrete curbing.
4.
Any use resulting in the outdoor storage of merchandise, products, equipment or similar material shall be screened by a fence, wall, plant material or combination thereof in order to provide a visual barrier between the storage areas and any street or residential zoning district.
5.
All buildings shall be compatibly designed whether constructed all at one time or in stages over a period of time. Where a side or front exterior wall in excess of fifty (50) feet is proposed, variations in design shall be used to provide attractiveness to the building which shall include changing roof lines and roof designs, altering building heights, varying facade treatment or staggering the building setback. Wherever practicable and feasible, buildings shall be oriented so as to promote the conservation of energy and the use of renewable energy resources. All building walls visible from any street or residential district shall be suitably finished for aesthetic purposes which shall not include unpainted or painted cinder block or concrete block walls.
6.
All portions of the property 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 re-establish the tone of the vegetation in the area and lessen the visual impact of the structures and paved areas. The established grades on any site shall be planned for both aesthetic and drainage purposes. The grading plan, drainage facilities and landscaping shall be coordinated to prevent erosion and silting as well as assure that the capacity of any natural or man-made drainage system is sufficient to handle the water generated and anticipated both from the site and contributing upstream areas.