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Moorestown City Zoning Code

ARTICLE XIII

RTC-1 Residence Town Center-1 Districts

§ 180-40 Use restrictions and regulations.

In all RTC-1 Residence Town Center-1 Districts the following uses, and no others, of lands and buildings are permitted:
A. 
Single-family and two-family detached dwellings.
B. 
Single-family and two-family semidetached dwellings.
C. 
Multiple-family dwellings, provided that a building or a lot does not contain more than six dwelling units, when authorized as a conditional use by the Planning Board.
[Amended 6-14-1993 by Ord. No. 1666-93]
D. 
Home occupations as allowed in the R-1 Zone and as permitted therein.
[Added 6-14-1993 by Ord. No. 1666-93[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also provided for the renumbering of former Subsection D as Subsection E.
E. 
Accessory uses and accessory structures on the same lot with and customarily incidental to any of the foregoing permitted uses, including the renting of not more than three rooms, without housekeeping privileges, in a main dwelling to not more than a total of four nontransient roomers or boarders, provided that off-street parking space is available exclusively for said roomers or boarders as follows: one space for each roomer or boarder having use of a motor vehicle, but in no case less than one space for each room so rented.

§ 180-41 Height, bulk, area and buffer requirements.

[Amended 8-12-1985 by Ord. No 1239]
Height, bulk, area and buffer requirements shall be as follows:
A. 
Height: The maximum allowable height is 35 feet.
B. 
Front yards:
(1) 
All front yards shall be equal to the average building setbacks of existing main buildings within 100 feet of both sides of the lot or lots on which the proposed building is to be located. (Any vacant lots within that distance shall be assumed to have a front yard equal to the average of the lots abutting them or, if those are vacant, the first lots with an existing building.)
(2) 
Front yards required under this section shall be solely devoted to landscaping and a driveway. Parking lots are specifically prohibited between the street and the front of any building.
C. 
Lot area, rear and side yards and lot coverage requirements:
(1) 
Single-family detached dwellings and two-family detached dwellings:
(a) 
Minimum rear yard: 15 feet.
(b) 
Minimum lot area: 4,000 square feet per dwelling unit.
(c) 
Minimum side yard: each eight feet wide.
(d) 
Maximum lot coverage by all buildings, impervious surfaces, driveways and parking lots: 60%.
(2) 
Single-family semidetached dwellings and two-family semidetached dwellings:
(a) 
Minimum rear yard: 15 feet.
(b) 
Minimum lot area: 4,000 square feet per dwelling unit
(c) 
Minimum side yard: one side yard, 10 feet wide.
(d) 
Maximum lot coverage by all buildings, impervious surfaces, driveways and parking lots: 60%.
(3) 
Multifamily dwellings:
(a) 
Minimum rear yard: 25 feet.
(b) 
Minimum lot area: 4,000 feet per dwelling unit.
(c) 
Minimum side yard: each 15 feet wide.
(d) 
Maximum lot coverage by all buildings, impervious surfaces, driveways and parking lots: 60%.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection C(4), Home professional office, which followed this subsection, was deleted 6-4-1993 by Ord. No. 1666-93.
D. 
Buffers. With off-street parking for four or more cars, excluding single-width driveways, all lots shall be provided with at least a five-foot-wide buffer strip in the required side and rear yards and on which no impervious cover is allowed. The buffer area must be provided with a permanent landscape screen of trees and shrubs and/or fencing. The purpose of the screen is to block any view of the off-street parking lot from the street, other than along a driveway, and from all abutting residential properties. Landscape plans shall include a minimum of 60% evergreen material. The shrubs shall be a minimum of three feet in height at the time of planting and have a mature height of at least five feet. Evergreen trees shall be at least five feet in height at the time of planting and must be accompanied by low-growing material to supplement the screen when these trees are mature and have a tendency to lose lower branches. Deciduous trees shall have a caliper of at least 2 1/2 inches in diameter, measured four feet above the ground.