Permitted cemetery uses include all typical cemetery services, including, but not limited to committal services, burial services, scattering services, memorial services, prayer services, Military Honors, sunrise services, holiday services and religious services and other commemorative services which may include music as well as temporary facilities required to support said events. Cemetery use may include Audubon or other natural designations and walking paths or arboretum trails.

Permitted accessory uses shall include all uses typically undertaken at a cemetery including but not limited to offices, maintenance yards, the stockpiling and removal of soil, the disposal of cremated remains, the memorialization of the dead by way of religious or other memorial services, the installation of features and monuments including, but not limited to gates, head markers, gravestones, statues, terraced walls, gardens, flags, fountains, water features and other such customary items, on-site outdoor storage of equipment.

Permitted accessory structures shall include any structure typically found at a cemetery which shall include but not be limited to buildings for meetings and gatherings, buildings for storage of maintenance equipment, offices, vaults, columbaria, mausoleum buildings (both public and private), pavilions or other open air structures for protection from the elements during a service, features and monuments including, but not limited to gates, head markers, gravestones, statues, terraced walls, gardens, flags, fountains, water features and other such customary items. Fences, gates, dumpsters, signage (including a main entrance sign) and lighting shall be permitted under Chapter 12, Land Use Standards. Notwithstanding the foregoing, signage and entranceways shall be permitted on each public right-of-way frontage.

Primary Access. Primary access shall be provided via an existing driveway located on a County highway. A second primary access may be provided from a State highway, subject to NJDOT approval and site plan approval.

Secondary Access. One secondary access driveway limited to maintenance, service and administrative uses, and egress only shall be permitted on a State highway and one on a County highway.

Residential Buffer. A minimum landscaped buffer at least 50 feet in width shall be established and maintained adjacent to any residential use, which shall effectively screen the cemetery use from view of the adjacent residential use.

Perimeter Buffer. A minimum landscaped buffer at least 100 feet in width shall be established and maintained adjacent to any public road, State, County or local.

There shall be no new disturbance of existing forest, tree lines and hedgerows that serve as the required buffer without prior site plan approval. Clearing for access driveway shall be permitted, subject to site plan approval; however, such clearing shall be limited to the minimum amount necessary to construct such access driveways.

All development in excess of 100 sq. ft. or 10 feet in height shall be subject to the review and buffering requirements of § 13-13E, Ridgeline and Hillside Viewshed Protection Overlay Zone.

Graves:

Permitted Accessory Buildings:

Parking and Access Roads. All designated parking areas and internal access roads shall be set back from tract boundaries not less than 100 feet. To the extent that temporary parking may be required during burial services, such parking may be permitted within 100 feet of the tract boundary for enhanced access by the elderly or disabled.

Stockpile and Maintenance Areas. All areas used for stockpiling of material, soil and supplies and maintenance activities shall be set back from property boundaries at least 100 feet from any public right-of-way and 50 feet from any property boundary. The location and development of all such areas shall be subject to site plan approval and shall be screened from view off site through the use of a berms or fences and/or landscaping as may be required by the Board.