The R-MF/AL Zone provides for a multifamily attached dwelling and an assisted living facility with a designated affordable housing component and a veterans marketing priority, which will enable the township to address a significant portion of its affordable housing obligation.

(Ord. No. 2019-19, § 2, 12-23-2019)

Permitted principal uses and structures are limited to multifamily attached rental dwellings, composed of one hundred (100) affordable family rental units, of which fifty (50) percent will be affirmatively marketed to veterans; fifty (50) market rate rental apartment units, and one hundred fifty (150) assisted living facility units. The total number of units is not to exceed three hundred (300). Additional skilled nursing units may be provided but can only be counted as percentage of the market rate units, not as a percentage of the affordable units.

(Ord. No. 2019-19, § 2, 12-23-2019)

Lobby and lounge areas;

Dining rooms;

Medical offices (regular offices, emergency care, twenty-four-hour, three hundred sixty-five (365) days per year, seven days per week resident medical staff);

Skilled nursing units;

Worship facilities;

Library;

Pharmacy;

Fitness center;

Convenience store;

Movie/entertainment room/theater;

Café;

Beauty/barber shop;

Arts and crafts workshop;

Branch bank;

Rehab/training center;

Recreation room;

Sunroom;

Porch with furniture;

Outside patio;

Passive and active ground level recreation areas including playground and tot lot;

Walking paths;

Business office;

Rooftop passive and active recreation areas;

Ground level and rooftop greenhouse and gardening plots;

Ground level and rooftop pet areas;

Outdoor pool and patio deck;

Maintenance facilities, miscellaneous peaked roofs, spires, chimneys, etc. representing architectural variety incidental to dominant parapet height;

Security and management facilities;

Signs;

Management residence;

Property management office;

Utilities including water, sewer, internet/cable/TV/phone/communications;

Solar panel canopies;

Stormwater management facilities;

Other accessory uses customarily incidental to the permitted principal uses as approved by the township zoning officer or planning board.

(Ord. No. 2019-19, § 2, 12-23-2019)

A.

Affordable Housing Requirements. The project in this zone will result in the construction of:

1.

One hundred (100) creditworthy affordable family rental units, of which fifty (50) percent will be affirmatively marketed to veterans; and

2.

An assisted living facility containing at least fifteen (15) beds that qualify as senior affordable units as per N.J.A.C. 5:93-5.16.

The affordable units in the project will be affordable to very-low, low- and moderate income households, and will comply with the "Fair Housing Act", N.J.S.A. 52:27D-301 et seq., applicable Council on Affordable Housing ("COAH") regulations, the Uniform Housing Affordability Controls ("UHAC") (N.J.A.C. 5:80-26.1, et seq.), the township's Affordable Housing Ordinance, the township's Housing Element and Fair Share Plan, the settlement agreement between Fair Share Housing Center ("FSHC") and the township, as amended, the development agreement between the township and Clarksboro Commons, LLC, any applicable order of the court, and other applicable laws.

B.

Buffers. The perimeter tract setback buffer shall be a minimum eight feet. No parking lot shall be permitted within the buffer area. Stormwater management facilities and walking paths are permitted within the perimeter tract setback buffer, but shall be setback at least ten (10) feet from the tract boundary. Buffers shall include landscaping and screening as required by the planning board, including preserved existing trees.

C.

Dwelling Variation and Interest. Architectural elements such as bay or box windows, balconies, building offsets, variation of building materials, setbacks, colors, foundation plantings, textures and other architectural elements that achieve visual interest shall be considered and included in the project design.

D.

Pedestrian Circulation. There shall be a comprehensive system of pedestrian sidewalks and pathways serving all facilities within the development, providing access to dwellings, parking areas, open spaces, recreational and other communal facilities. Pedestrian circulation shall have adequate lighting.

(Ord. No. 2019-19, § 2, 12-23-2019)

A.

Minimum Tract Area: Six acres.

B.

Maximum Units: Three hundred (300).

C.

Minimum Affordable Family Rental Units: One hundred (100).

D.

Minimum Creditworthy Medicaid Affordable Beds: Fifteen (15).

E.

Maximum Lot Coverage (Total Tract): Eighty (80) percent of the gross tract area.

F.

The minimum tract perimeter setback for a principal and accessary buildings shall be fifteen (15) feet.

G.

Maximum Building Height, Principal Use: Four stories, but not to exceed sixty (60) feet. Maximum spire height shall be seventy-five (75) feet.

H.

Parking, Parking Lots, Access, Setbacks. Adequate parking spaces, and ingress/egress, and emergency access, shall be provided to meet ordinance requirements, RSIS, fire marshal, and as recommended by the township traffic consultant. No driveways or parking space shall be within eight feet of the tract perimeter.

I.

Parking Standards: Provide 0.5 parking spaces for each assisted living unit. Each space to be a minimum nine feet by eighteen (18) feet.

J.

Landscape design and buffering including preservation of existing perimeter trees with supplemental plantings as necessary shall meet township ordinance requirements for high density residential in consideration of adjacent land uses.

K.

Stormwater management improvements shall meet township ordinance requirements.

L.

All other site improvements shall meet township ordinance requirements.

(Ord. No. 2019-19, § 2, 12-23-2019)