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Greenwich Township City Zoning Code

§ 16-19B.20

Service stations and auto repair shops.

[Ord. No. 1999-1]
Motor vehicle/automobile service stations, filling or gasoline stations and motor vehicle repair garages, shall comply with the requirements of the B-I Zone, except where altered as follows:
a. 
Each lot shall have a minimum lot size of two acres.
b. 
All buildings shall have minimum floor area of 1,500 square feet, except for shelter kiosks which may be associated with the station. A convenience store shall be permitted with a service station, provided that the convenience store not exceed a maximum of 5,000 square feet and further provided that said store meet all other bulk provisions of the zone and site plan/design provisions of the chapter.
c. 
A landscape buffer strip shall be established and maintained along all lot lines (or boundaries of the area leased for the use in the case of a planned shopping center) other than street lines, except that access driveways may cross, but not otherwise be located within the buffer strip, if necessary. Such buffer strips shall be a minimum of 25 feet in width except where a greater area is required in conjunction with a required frontage buffer, commercial landscape strip or transition buffer as required by Subsection 16-4.14, in which case the greater of the buffer/landscape areas shall be provided.
d. 
Where the required buffer is not superseded by that identified in Subsection 16-4.14, the buffer shall be landscaped by the planting of grass and/or ground cover, shrubs and trees. Two shrubs and one tree shall be provided for each 500 square feet of area, or fraction thereof, of the buffer strip. If located within a planned shopping center, the landscaping of the use shall be consistent with the overall landscape plan of the center. If not part of the center, the buffer strip requirement identified above in Subsection 16-19B.20c, shall also contain screening of dense hedges (not less than three feet in height at the time of planting) and/or decorative fencing (six feet in height).
e. 
No public or private garage accommodating more than five vehicles and no service stations shall have any entrance or exit within 200 feet of the entrance to a public school, public library, theater, church, hospital, public park, playground or fire station.
f. 
The site plan shall show the number and location of fuel tanks to be installed, the dimensions and capacity of each storage tank, the depth the tanks will be placed below finished grade, the number and location of pumps to be installed, the type of structure and accessory buildings to be constructed and the number of automobiles which are to be garaged. All public garages and service stations shall be so arranged and all gasoline pumps shall be so placed, as to permit all services to be rendered entirely within the lot lines. No gasoline or oil pumps shall be placed within 40 feet of any street line or lot line.
g. 
Accessory goods for sale may be displayed out of doors on the pump islands(s) and building island only. The outdoor display of oil cans, and/or antifreeze and similar products may be on the above islands only if contained within a suitable stand or rack, but not to include tie racks or sheds. Tires shall be stored only inside the principal building. No vending machines shall be located out of doors.
h. 
All areas of the site not landscaped or in a buffer area shall be paved with an asphalt bituminous or cement binder pavement which shall be graded and drained to dispose of all surface water, as approved by the Township Engineer.
i. 
Any repair of motor vehicles shall be performed in a fully enclosed building, and no motor vehicle shall be offered for sale on the site. No motor vehicle parts or partially dismantled motor vehicle shall be stored outside of an enclosed building.
j. 
No vehicles shall be permitted to be standing or parked on the premises of a filling station other than those used or served by the employees.
k. 
Any outdoor storage of waste materials or supplies shall be to the rear of the building and within an area entirely enclosed by a board-on-board fence enclosure to a height of not less than six feet. The area of such enclosure shall not exceed 100 square feet and shall not be closer than 15 feet to any lot or street line and not closer than 25 feet to another lot which is within a residential district or a street line which is across the street from a residential district except where any of the provisions of Subsection 16-4.14 require a greater area, in which case such area shall be provided.
l. 
No waste material whatsoever shall be discharged into any watercourse or storm drainage system.