Minimum Lot Size. No building which is intended or designed to be used, in whole or in part, as a garden apartment building shall be erected or constructed upon a lot containing an area of less than ten (10) acres; except that, if a zone boundary line passes through any lot of ten (10) acres or more with the result that the area available for garden apartment construction is less than ten (10) acres, such area of less ten (10) acres may be approved for garden apartment development; provided, however, that all other regulations pertaining to the erection or construction of the garden apartments shall be applied to and within the area permitting such construction, except that the calculation of the number of units to be constructed shall be based upon such acreage available for such construction.

Height. No apartment building shall have more than three (3) habitable stories or exceed fifty (50) feet in height.

Minimum Space Between Buildings. The minimum distance between buildings shall be one-half (1/2) the total height of the two (2) buildings, except that the side to side minimum distance between buildings shall be twenty (20) feet.

Density. No more than ten (10) apartment units per acre shall be permitted for two-story apartment buildings and no more than twenty-five (25) apartment units per acre shall be permitted for three-story buildings.

Rooms. Each apartment unit in each apartment building shall contain separate bedroom, separate bathroom and separate kitchen/dining facilities. This provision shall not be interpreted to preclude efficiency apartments.

Landscaping. All areas of a garden apartment development not used for the construction of buildings, roads, accessways, parking areas or sidewalks shall be fully landscaped. Where a garden apartment development boundary line abuts a lot in a residential zone, which lot is not owned by the garden apartment developer, there shall not be cut, uprooted, destroyed or taken away any existing trees, shrubbery or other planting within the area of twenty (20) feet inside the boundary line of the garden development abutting a residential lot. If no adequate trees, shrubs or plantings exist in the twenty (20) foot area in the natural state of the premises before development, the area shall be provided with an adequate approved planting plan to provide a belt of screening within the twenty (20) foot area.

Interior Roads. All roads and other accessways within the garden apartment development shall be private roads, and be constructed with pavement and curbs within the established cartways. All roads and or drive aisles containing right-angle parking or angled parking on one or both sides of the road shall contain drive aisles of not less than twenty-four (24) feet in width. All access roads that do not contain angled parking shall comply with the current Residential Site Improvement Standards (N.J.A.C. 5:21) for the width of the cartway inclusive of any on-street parallel parking areas. All such construction, paving and curbing shall be completed in accordance with the subdivision regulations of Edison Township. All interior roads shall provide suitable access for ingress, egress and circulation for emergency vehicles, by providing additional width of drive aisles, adequate turning radius at corners and appropriate delineated Fire Lanes, subject to the review of the Edison Township Fire Department.

Parking. All parking shall be confined to the areas specifically designated on the site plan for that purpose. Parking area shall be paved and curbed and provided with an adequate system of stormwater drainage. No parking area (other than driveway parking spaces located in front of a garage) may be placed closer to a building than ten (10) feet. Parking areas may be constructed in the front, side and rear yards, but in no event closer than ten (10) feet to a lot line (other than driveway parking spaces located in front of a garage).

Buildings.

Utilities. For all garden apartments, the applicant for the site plan approval shall arrange with the serving utilities for the underground installation of the utilities' distribution supply lines and service connections in accordance with the provisions of the applicable standard terms and conditions incorporated as part of its tariff on file with the State of New Jersey Board of Public Utility Commissioners and shall submit to the Planning Board prior to the granting of site plan approval a written instrument from each serving utility which shall evidence full compliance with the provisions of this section; provided, however, that sites which abut existing streets where overhead electric or telephone distribution supply lines have theretofore been installed on any portion of the streets involved may be supplied with electric and telephone service from the overhead lines or extensions, but the service connections from the utilities' overhead lines shall be installed underground.