Cinnaminson Township
City Zoning Code
City Zoning Code
§ 525-94
Miscellaneous design requirements in MC District.
[Added 12-12-1990 by Ord. No. 1990-29]
A.
All land use shall be set back a minimum of 100 feet from the Delaware River as measured from the mean high-water line.
B.
Buffer areas.
(1)
Buffer areas shall be provided between all residential land uses and nonresidential land use or nonresidential zone districts. Buffer areas shall be a minimum of 15 feet wide in the MC Districts, half of which may count as required yard setbacks. Buffer areas shall be increased to 25 feet for residential land use adjacent to Broad Street. Buffer shall be designed, planted, graded and landscaped to provide an aesthetically pleasing separation of uses. In meeting this standard, the applicant may employ one or more of the following:
(2)
If, in the judgment of the approving authority, any of these alternate provisions will not provide sufficient buffers for the portion of the site proposed, the approving authority may require the development plan to be modified to show the extension of the buffer area, require that the proposed alternatives be landscaped differently or be relocated until, in the approving authority's judgment, they provide the desired buffeting effect.
C.
Buffer material and natural foliage. All buffer areas shall be planted and maintained with either grass or ground cover, together with a screen of live shrubs or scattered planting of live trees, shrubs or other plant material. The preservation of all natural wooded tracts shall be an integral part of all development plans and may be calculated as part of the required buffer area, provided that the growth is of a density and the area has sufficient width to serve the purpose of a buffer. Additional plantings may be required by the approving authority to establish an appropriate tone for an effective buffer.
D.
Screening.
(1)
Screening shall be provided with buffer strips or as required elsewhere in this chapter so as to provide a year round view or partial acoustical barrier to conceal the view or sounds of various utilitarian operations and uses from the street or adjacent properties.
(2)
Screening shall be so placed that at maturity it will not be closer than three feet to any street or property line.
(3)
All plants for screening shall be of a species common to the area, be of balled and burlapped nursery stock and be free of insects and disease. Plants which do not live shall be replaced within two years or two growing seasons. Buffered screen plantings shall be broken at points of vehicular and pedestrian ingress and egress to assure a clear sight triangle at all street and driveway intersections.
(4)
Screening shall consist of the following materials:
(a)
Solid masonry: a solid masonry wall not more than six feet above ground level.
[Amended 6-1-2015 by Ord. No. 2015-4]
(b)
Solid fencing: a solid fencing, uniformly painted or of a natural durable material such as cedar, cypress or redwood, not more than seven feet above ground level and open to the ground to a height of not more than four inches above ground level.
[Amended 6-1-2015 by Ord. No. 2015-4]
(c)
Shrubbery:
[1]
Low-type shrubbery screening may be used in and around parking areas, roadway or accessways where sight distances for vehicular and pedestrian traffic are a prime consideration. Shrubbery shall be a minimum of three feet high when planted and be of such density as will obscure, throughout the full course of the year, the glare of automobile headlights emitted from the premises.
[2]
All other shrubbery for screening shall be a minimum of five feet high at the time of planting.
[3]
Dense hedges of shrubbery planted at a maximum of 30 inches on center may be used.
(d)
Trees. Trees for screening shall be evergreens having a minimum height of eight feet above the ground when planted. Trees shall be placed five feet on centers in a single row, or five feet on centers in two or more staggered rows with a five-foot separation between rows. Evergreens may be supplemented with deciduous trees having a minimum eight-foot height at time of planting with a minimum caliper of 1 1/2 inches.
E.
The development plan should be broken into visually small groupings such as quadrangles, clusters and courts. Devices to slow speed and reduce the size of each visual grouping, such as garden walls and gates, reduction in setbacks of facing buildings and variable landscape layout, are encouraged.
F.
No more than five freestanding dwelling units should be placed in a row with the same setback from a straight street line.
G.
Each detached dwelling unit and combined multiple dwelling complex of dwelling units shall have a compatible architectural theme with variations in design to provide attractiveness to the development, which shall include consideration of landscaping techniques, building orientation to the site and to other structures, topography, natural features, including the waterfront and individual dwelling unit design, such as varying unit widths staggering unit setbacks providing different exterior materials, changing rooflines and roof designs, altering building heights and changing types of windows, shutters, doors, porches, colors and vertical or horizontal orientation of the facades, singularly or in combination of each dwelling unit.
H.
Multifamily dwelling units should be grouped in clusters. Private parking areas should be located near dwelling unit entrances. Any outdoor living areas or patios should adjoin open space or paths leading to open space. Dwelling units should not front on a through street. Screening of such outdoor living areas may be accomplished with plant materials, masonry structures or wood fencing. Architectural elements such as masonry walls and fences shall be compatible in both style and materials with the dwelling unit of which it is part.
I.
For multifamily dwelling units there shall be provided at least one outdoor refuse storage area of at least 100 square feet for each 20 dwelling units. The refuse storage area shall be suitably located and arranged for access and ease of collection and shall not be part of, restrict or occupy any parking aisle and shall not be located further than 300 feet from the entrance to any multifamily unit which it is intended to serve and shall be screened.
J.
Required single-family detached front yard setbacks may be reduced to 15 feet if a picket fence and/or low wall is provided or front porches are provided.
K.
Where private garages are provided, constructed either as part of a dwelling unit or on individual lots, the following guidelines shall be followed:
(1)
All garages shall conform architecturally to and be of similar materials as the principal building.
(2)
A garage need not set back from one side line of an individual lot and may be attached to a garage on an adjacent individual lot.
(3)
No garage which is not attached to or part of a dwelling unit on the same individual lot should be closer than 20 feet to said dwelling unit.
(4)
Where common garage structures are considered, they shall be provided in clusters housing no more than four cars. They should be located so as to provide as short a walk as practicable to the principal residence.
(5)
Alleyways with rear-loaded garages shall be permitted. Alleyways may be in a twenty-foot easement, with 15 feet of pavement, no curbs and limited to one-way traffic.
(6)
Enclosed private garages that may be readily transformed into livable areas may be counted as 1/2 of an off-street parking space. Driveways, carports or other partially enclosed parking areas may be counted as one off-street space for each.
[Amended 8-18-1993 by Ord. No. 1993-13]
L.
Special purpose streets.
[Added 8-18-1993 by Ord. No. 1993-13]
(1)
Communities or parts thereof that generate fewer than 1,000 average daily trips (ADT), as calculated through the use of the chart below, may be accessed through a residential street type defined as a "parking loop." Such streets shall be private streets with perpendicular parking and shall be geometrically designed to discourage speeds in excess of 25 miles per hour. Cartway width shall be a minimum of 24 feet, and parking spaces shall be a minimum of nine feet by 18 feet. Tangents shall not be required between reverse curves due to the low design speed.
Residential Type | Trips per Dwelling Unit (ADT) | |
|---|---|---|
Single-family detached | 10.0 | |
Townhouse duplex | 6.6 | |
Garden apartment | 4.0 | |
Age-restricted dwelling | 3.3 |