Fredon Township City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XII
PRRD Planned Golf Course Recreational/Residential Development Zone
§ 550-71 Purpose.
The Planned Golf Course Recreational/Residential Development Zone is established in recognition of the existing Bear Brook development in Fredon Township. Bear Brook is a fully developed project, which was developed under the Planned Recreational/Residential Development conditional use standards for the AR-6 Zone in place at the time of its approval. In order to avoid the existing uses, structures, and site layout from being rendered nonconforming due to the elimination of the former AR-6 Zone and eighteen-hole golf course, the Township hereby revises the Planned Golf Course Recreational/Residential Development Zone.
§ 550-72 Permitted uses.
Permitted uses are as follows:
A.
Single-family detached dwellings; single-family semiattached dwellings.
B.
Catering hall, banquet facility.
C.
Golf course (nine and eighteen-hole) and nonmotorized recreational uses including but not limited to mountain biking, cross-country skiing, horseback riding, etc., and an associated recreational facility/clubhouse locker rooms, snack area, kitchen, pro shop/gift shop.
D.
Public utilities, wastewater/stormwater facilities, bus shelters, etc., where required or deemed necessary to balance of property or zone uses.
§ 550-73 Accessory Uses.
Common ancillary uses including but not limited to the following:
A.
Golf course (one to eight holes); nonmotorized recreational uses including mountain biking, cross-country skiing, their associated storage;
B.
Residential garages, tennis courts, swimming pools, decks, sheds, fences, walls, pergolas, lampposts, trellises;
D.
Greenhouses, maintenance garages and/or storage buildings;
E.
Public utilities, wastewater/stormwater facilities, bus shelters etc.
F.
Parking;
G.
[1]Solar systems: Residential will be limited to the lesser of 15 kilowatts (15 kw) or 110% of the average of the three prior years' electrical energy consumption. Ground-mounted solar arrays subject to Board and/or site plan approval. All nonresidential solar arrays and installation shall require site plan approval and an accessory use limited to on-site power.
§ 550-74 Area, yard, bulk and design requirements.
A.
Setback. There shall be a minimum of 75 feet between all proposed buildings or structures and all property/tract boundaries.
B.
Parking: in accordance with Article XXII or ITE requirements as recommended by the Board Engineer.
C.
Height restrictions. The maximum height of all buildings and other structures not elsewhere regulated by this chapter shall be 35 feet and 2 1/2 stories.
D.
Coverage. The maximum impervious surface coverage within the entire zone district shall be 20%.
E.
Landscaped buffers. Landscaped buffers shall be provided between residential uses both within and adjacent to the development and the active recreational and nonresidential structures wherever necessary to protect privacy and shield views.
F.
Relation of dwelling units to open space. A minimum of 7% of all units shall abut the common open space, golf course or other nonstructural recreational areas within the development.
G.
Single-family detached dwellings.
H.
Single-family semiattached dwellings.
(1)
Minimum lot area shall be 5,000 square feet.
(2)
Minimum lot width shall be 50 feet at the front of the dwelling unit line.
(3)
Minimum side yard, each, shall be 10 feet; total, both: 25 feet.
(4)
Minimum front yard setback for dwellings shall be 20 feet, for garages or carports 10 feet from any cartway.
(5)
Minimum rear yard setback shall be 20 feet.
(6)
As an alternative to meeting the design provisions of Subsection H (1) through (5) above, the units may be clustered using a maximum net density of three units per acre, subject to intratract carrying-capacity limitations, with the common open space reserved to those units. All dwelling units shall be a minimum of 25 feet apart.
(7)
Maximum number of single-family semiattached dwellings shall not exceed 60% of the total number of dwellings in the development. Single-family semiattached dwellings shall be constructed in separate clusters from the single-family detached dwellings.
I.
Nonresidential buildings and structures on independent lots shall meet the following:
(1)
Minimum lot area shall be 50 acres.
(2)
Minimum principal building(s) setback shall be 200 feet from any residential use on any other property.
(3)
Minimum accessory building setback from a property line: 75 feet.
(4)
Minimum setback between buildings of 30 feet.
(5)
Maximum building coverage: 2%
(6)
Maximum impervious coverage: 10%
(7)
The maximum height of all principal buildings shall be 36 feet and 2 1/2 stories.
(8)
The maximum height of any accessory buildings shall be 20 feet and building size not exceeding 5,000 square feet in size.
(9)
All permitted uses for the property are subject to the limits of the existing and common easements and infrastructure (sanitary sewer, potable and stormwater, utilities, detention basins, lagoons, roads, landscaping, etc.). Said infrastructure and the zone's common elements shall be evaluated at the time of any site plan, subdivision or Board approval for a determination of whether or not any pro rata share of improvement is deemed necessary and appropriate to insure the proposed project as well as the health, safety and welfare of the district and community.
J.
Common open space.
(1)
Unimproved land, or lands not utilized for residential lots, or under private or separate ownership and/or membership recreational facilities shall be designated as common open space.
(2)
All residential property owners in the development shall have the right to use the designated common open space and any facilities located thereon.
(3)
All open space and all common elements in the development shall be deeded to a homeowners' and/or management association established to own and maintain the common elements as provided at N.J.S.A. 40:55D-43. The homeowners' and/or management association documents shall be submitted to the Township Attorney prior to final approval.
(4)
If a public or private membership recreational facility is discontinued from active use, for whatever reason, the minimum amount of open space required to meet planned golf course recreational residential development requirements, thereupon, shall be required to be conveyed, by deed or other appropriate instrument, to the ownership of the property owners within the planned golf course recreational/residential development, each individual property owner to be a tenant in common with all other individual property owners and to own an equal undivided proportional interest therein.
(5)
Any open space acreage in addition to the minimum acreage required to be set aside in order to meet the open space requirements of a planned golf course recreational/residential development may be retained by the owner of the discontinued public or private membership recreational facility; provided, however, that such additional open space shall not be disposed of, by sale or otherwise, except to an organization conceived and established to own and maintain the open space for the benefit of such development, and, thereafter, such organization shall not be dissolved, nor shall same dispose of any of its open space without first offering to dedicate same to the Township. Such open space, in excess of the minimum open space required for planned golf course recreational residential development, after a public hearing and approval by the Land Use Board, may be devoted to uses or activities permitted in the PRRD Zone. The Land Use Board, in reviewing any application for use of such excess open space which has been retained by the owner of the recreational facility, shall be guided by the intent and purpose of the establishment of the planned golf course recreational/residential development in the PRRD Zone, in the first instance.
(6)
Prior to the approval of any different or additional use of such excess open space, the Land Use Board shall have been clearly satisfied that the intent, purpose and benefits which originally attended the approval of the planned golf course recreational/residential development, in the first instance, continue and are not significantly altered by any such subsequent application for use of such excess open space.
K.
Engineering and construction design standards. Engineering and construction design standards shall be consistent with other requirements of this chapter and all other applicable ordinances.