Any type of structure containing dwelling units may be built except single-family houses, duplexes, and two-family houses.

Each IR development shall have no less than 20 nor more than 25 dwelling units per acre for the total area of the IR development, minus the acreage used for school sites, commercial area (which shall be deemed only for the purpose of determining the total number of dwelling units required and permitted in each IR development to be 15 acres for each community shopping center and five acres for each neighborhood shopping center), open areas, state highways or turnpikes, railroad right-of-way and land used for nonconforming uses or structures.

The applicant shall make every possible effort before, during and within five years after completion of the IR development to provide, or cause other to provide, housing that will result in a community with a mix and balance of income levels that shall reflect regional housing needs and the range of job opportunities available in the Borough. The board shall consider the experience of developers of economically integrated housing in the region as to what type of mix creates a stable and viable community, the profitability of other uses required and permitted in the IR development, federal and state guidelines, and other criteria and data that the board determines to be appropriate.

The applicant shall develop neighborhood and community shopping facilities suitable for sale or lease to typical community and neighborhood retail and service uses, except that no drive-in establishments shall be permitted.

Strip commercial development shall not be permitted.

No business establishment shall offer or sell food or beverages for consumption on the premises in parked motor vehicles.

Goods may be produced on the premises, but all goods produced on the premises shall be sold to the consumer on the premises where produced or delivered directly to the consumer.

At least 50% of the residential/commercial land area of each IR development shall be used for inter-neighborhood common open space. The remaining land within the residential/commercial land area shall be man-made islands, on landfill, piles and platforms or other appropriate support. At least 17% of these islands shall be in intraneighborhood common open space, of which at least 14% shall be at ground level and the remainder may be in roof area which could be used as required or permitted in this section.

Intraneighborhood common open space shall be located in one or more clusters within each neighborhood or intermingled among the users of the IR development. It shall contain recreation areas and facilities and playgrounds for children sufficient to meet the recreational needs of the residents of the neighborhood. Recreation facilities sufficient to serve the recreational needs of the residents of the entire IR development may be interspersed among the neighborhoods and located in the intraneighborhood open spaces. At the waterfront of each island, docking facilities for private boats, for which a fee may be charged, and walkways shall be provided. All intraneighborhood common open space not used for recreational and waterfront purposes shall contain landscaped areas and may contain watercourses or other amenities. Structures for community meetings and activities and for public cultural activities may be built upon intraneighborhood common open space.

All inter-neighborhood common open spaces shall be open water lagoons of the Hackensack River and marsh open space. No use shall be operated, conducted or maintained that may impair the quality of the marsh open space. All major watercourses in any IR development shall be retained in their natural state along with natural vegetation along their banks.

Open space shall be provided in the community and neighborhood shopping centers sufficient to serve the needs of the users thereof. Such open space shall contain plazas and malls, open or covered, and pedestrian paths and ways; and may contain fountains and reflecting pools, landscaped area and watercourses.

All open space, and facilities and structures thereon, shall either be dedicated to the public, with the approval and subject to the terms of the Meadowlands Commission, or maintained in accordance with the requirements of this chapter.

Automobile circulation systems, including roads, streets and parking facilities, shall be designed primarily for access to other points within the Meadowlands and to the vehicular circulation system of the Northeast New Jersey-New York metropolitan region rather than for internal circulation within the IR development. Such automobile circulation systems shall use as little land as possible and shall intrude as little as possible upon the IR zone within which it is located.

The applicant shall arrange for the appropriate public or private body to provide, the developer or shall provide, a mass transit system, including marine transit sufficient to meet the transportation needs of the residents of the IR development, as to both internal movement and, where possible, access to widely used areas in the Meadowlands District and in the Northeast New Jersey-New York metropolitan region. The mass transit system shall be coordinated with the mass transit systems of abutting specially planned areas, with any mass transit system for all or part of the Meadowlands District in general, and with the commuter transfer systems where appropriate.

Vehicular parking and loading shall be required as provided in N.J.A.C. 19:4-6.18.

Public improvements must be provided in accordance with this chapter.

The applicant shall demonstrate that (s)he has consulted with the electric, gas and telephone utilities having jurisdiction and that they have agreed upon a schedule for the installation of utilities that will meet the needs of the residents of the IR development.

The general, development and implementation plans may also include other uses which will benefit the residents of the IR development, and which are compatible with the residential character of the IR development, including, but not limited to:

Structures and open spaces shall be laid out in a manner that best serves the residents and users of each IR development. Site layout shall maximize aesthetic values and shall be in accordance with imaginative and farsighted concepts of site design.