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Greenwich Township City Zoning Code

§ 16-14.1

Permitted uses. 1

[Ord. No. 1987-11]
In the R-2 Rural Residential Zone, no lot shall be used and no structure shall be erected, altered or occupied for any purpose except the following:
a. 
Detached single-family dwellings and the accessory structures and uses customarily incidental thereto.
b. 
All farm and agricultural activities, including nurseries, poultry and livestock raising, provided that:
1. 
The keeping or raising of swine shall not be allowed except as a part of a general farming operation on a property of not less than 10 acres, and provided further that not more than 25 head shall be allowed in any case.
2. 
No building, fenced run or other enclosure for the shelter of swine shall be closer to any property line or zone boundary than 200 feet.
3. 
No building erected entirely or partially for the storage of hay or other flammable material shall be closer than 100 feet to any property line.
4. 
No building for the shelter of fowl or farm livestock shall be closer than 150 feet from an adjoining property line.
5. 
No garbage-fed swine shall be raised in the Township.
6. 
The minimum lot area for any farm or agricultural activity shall be five acres.
c. 
The sale of farm or dairy produce which has been raised on the farm from which it is to be sold except that no slaughtering shall be allowed.
d. 
A professional office, provided that the office space shall not comprise more than 25% of the habitable floor area of the principal building.
e. 
Home occupations, provided that:
1. 
Noise or other objectionable characteristics incident thereto shall not be discernible beyond the boundaries of the lot.
2. 
The total floor area, including accessory structures, devoted to any permitted home occupation shall not exceed 25% of the habitable floor area of the principal building.
f. 
Parks and playgrounds not operated for profit.
g. 
Public buildings, including public schools but not including correctional institutions or hospitals exclusively for the isolation of contagious diseases or for the insane.
h. 
Eleemosynary, charitable and philanthropic institutions.
i. 
Churches, provided that one off-street parking space shall be provided for each five seats.
j. 
Nonprofit parochial and private schools of an academic nature.
k. 
Not more than three garages for the motor vehicles owned by the resident family members, provided that not more than one commercial vehicle, of a rated capacity not exceeding 3/4 ton, owned and used by a resident of the premises, shall be stored in such facility.
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Editor's Note: Refer to § 16-20, Right to Farm The R-2 Rural Residential Zone provisions previously contained herein and adopted by Ord. No. 4/12/78 have been superseded in entirety by the provisions set forth herein.