Apartment houses or a group of apartment houses which constitutes a single operating or proprietary unit.

Playgrounds, parks, tot-lots and open spaces.

Parking. Off-street automobile parking and off-street delivery-collection facilities shall be required. Such parking areas shall be for the sole use of the occupants of such building and the visitors thereto.

Accessory uses in accordance with § 205-16.

No-impact home-based business as defined in Article II herein.

The proposed development shall be constructed in accordance with an overall plan and shall be designed as a unified architectural unit with appropriate landscaping. If the development of the garden apartment is to be carried out in stages, each stage shall be so planned that the foregoing requirements and the intent of this chapter shall be fully complied with at the completion of any stage. The initial stage of development shall comprise a total floor area of not less than 30,000 square feet.

Area of tract. Not less than five acres shall be provided for every area to be used in whole or in part as a Garden Apartment Residential District.

Building area. Not more than 12% of the lot area of each Garden Apartment Residential District may be occupied by buildings.

Setback from streets. There shall be a setback from the ultimate right-of-way of each street on which the Garden Apartment Residential District abuts which shall be not less than 50 feet in depth.

Setback from property lines. There shall be a building setback from any property line which the Garden Apartment Residential District abuts of not less than 150 feet from any residential district or 50 feet from any nonresidential district. Building setbacks between separate parcels within single GA District shall be 50 feet from each property line.

Distance between buildings. In the case of two or more garden apartment buildings located on the same tract, the horizontal distance measured in feet between the buildings shall not be less than 45 feet.

Parking.

Dwelling units per acre. There shall be no more than 10 dwelling units per acre of lot area.

Height of building. No building shall exceed the height of 35 feet or three stories, whichever is less.

Paving. All areas provided for use by vehicles and all pedestrian walks shall be constructed in accordance with all pertinent specifications within Chapter 175, Subdivision and Land Development.

Service. Areas for loading and unloading of delivery trucks and other vehicles and for the servicing of refuse collection, fuel and other service shall be provided and shall be adequate in size and shall be so arranged that they may be used without blockage or interference with the use of accessways or automobile parking facilities.

Access. Provision shall be made for safe and efficient ingress and egress to and from public streets and highways serving the apartment without undue congestion to or interference with normal traffic flow.

Utilities. All buildings within the garden apartment shall be served by a public sanitary sewage disposal system and public water supply. All utility lines servicing the garden apartment shall be placed underground.

Signs. Signs shall be permitted only pursuant to the provisions of Article XIX of this chapter.

Lighting facilities. Lighting facilities provided shall be arranged in a manner which will protect the highway and neighboring properties, whether contiguous or not, from unreasonable direct glare or hazardous interference of any kind. Lighting facilities shall be required where deemed necessary for the safety and convenience of garden apartment residents.

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Open space. No less than 30% of the site shall be maintained in nonvehicular open space. The developer shall be required, where possible, to preserve or incorporate natural features, such as woods, streams and open space areas, which add to the overall cohesive development of the garden apartment and overall community development. However, all conditions deemed hazardous by the Board of Supervisors, including natural feature hazards, are to be eliminated or all precautions deemed appropriate by the Board of Supervisors to reduce the hazard are to be provided by the developer.

Recreation. The developer shall give consideration to the provision of community areas, laundry facilities, playgrounds and tot-lots and other services necessary for the comfort and convenience of garden apartment residents.

Building size. No single building shall have a total length, including angles, greater than 200 feet.

Unit requirements. Each dwelling unit shall contain a minimum of 600 square feet and shall not contain more than two bedrooms.