East Windsor City Zoning Code
§ 20-8.3
Conditional Uses.
a.
Home business activities subject to the limitations imposed in the definitions section of this chapter.
b.
Utility structures and facilities needed to provide the direct service of gas, electricity, telephone, water, sewerage, and cable television, but not offices, garages, warehouses, maintenance areas or similar commercially or industrially related operations of such companies or utilities. All such buildings and yards, equipment and devices shall be adequately screened from adjacent and surrounding properties and public ways.
c.
Houses of worship on lots of two acres or larger with a minimum of one parking space for each three seats, with the parking areas located in the side or rear yard only and adequately buffered from adjoining residential properties.
d.
Professional Offices on Transitional Lots:
1.
The building shall be as close in appearance to a single-family residential building as is practical in order to effect a reasonable transition from the business district to the residential district.
2.
The off-street parking area shall be located as close as possible to the Commercial zone, and the access drive shall be located as far from the residences in the single family district as is practical.
3.
Site development shall adhere to the building and setback requirements as set forth in this chapter for the R-1 zoning district.
e.
Professional offices, child care centers, adult day care centers and nonprofit educational facilities for adult study groups shall be permitted on tracts of land in the "R-1" District at least one-half acre in area which have direct vehicular access frontage along a major collector roadway as identified in the "Traffic Circulation Plan Element" portion of the East Windsor Township Master Plan and which is occupied by a nonresidential structure owned by East Windsor Township as of June 1, 2001, as provided and in accordance with the following:
1.
The building shall be as close in appearance to a single-family residential building as is practical in order to safeguard the character of the surrounding residential neighborhood.
2.
The development of the subject tract shall be in accordance with the requirements for detached dwellings in the "R-1" Residential Low Density District as contained in the Schedule of District Regulations, except that the maximum improvement coverage percentage shall be 60%.[1]
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Editor's Note: The Schedule of District Regulations referred to herein is included as an attachment to this chapter.