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Mount Arlington City Zoning Code

§ 17-33.6

Essential Services.

a. 
Essential Services, Enclosed or Permanent Structures. Such uses shall include electric substations, transformers, switches and auxiliary apparatus serving a distribution area, and water pumping stations, water towers, sewage pumping stations, and package sewage treatment plants. They shall be subject to the following regulations:
(1) 
Such facility shall not be located on a residential street, unless no other site is available and shall be so located as to draw the minimum of vehicular traffic to and through such streets.
(2) 
The location, design, and operation of such facility may not adversely affect the character of the surrounding residential area.
(3) 
Adequate fences, barriers, and other safety devices shall be provided.
(4) 
Buffers, landscaping, berms, and similar measures shall be required by the Planning Board as part of site plan review.
b. 
Essential Services Open. Such uses shall be limited to the erection, construction, alteration or maintenance by public utilities or Borough for other governmental agencies, or as approved by a Borough agency as part of a development plan approval, of underground gas, oil, electrical, telephone, steam, water or sewage transmission lines or systems and underground and/or surface equipment, including but not limited to poles, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants, and other similar equipment and accessories. Such facility shall be reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate service by such public utilities, Borough, other governmental agencies or private or semi-private entities if approved by a municipal agency as part of a development plan application, in furtherance of the public health, safety or general welfare.