Housing for the elderly utilizing apartment house buildings and/or townhouses or row houses and/or single-family detached dwelling units.

Signs, subject to the provisions of Article XXII.

Only the following accessory uses are permitted under the conditions specified. Unless indicated otherwise, no accessory use is permitted within a rear yard, side yard, front yard or courtyard as required herein:

Lot area and frontage. Where a lot is to be used for housing for the elderly, there shall be a street frontage of not less than 50 feet, a minimum lot area of 10 acres and a maximum of 10 dwelling units per acre.

Building area. Not more than 20% of each lot shall be occupied by buildings, and not more than 40% of the lot shall be covered by impervious surfaces and buildings.

Front yard. There shall be a front yard on each street upon which the lot abuts, the depth of which shall be at least 75 feet where abutting an R-1, R-1A, R-2 and R-3 Residence District and 50 feet where abutting all other districts. The front yard area shall be planted with trees, shrubbery and ground cover for screening in accordance with an overall landscape plan approved by the Newtown Township Planning Commission and shall be maintained continuously in a neat and attractive manner by the property owner, with existing trees and grading preserved insofar as possible.

Height regulations.

Side and rear yards. For each building, there shall be separate side and rear yards, neither of which shall be less than 50 feet. Further, in the case of a group of buildings, there shall be not less than 50 feet between buildings at any point where walls contain windows, excluding enclosed walkways. In all other cases, there shall be no less than 30 feet between buildings.

Buffer area. There shall be a buffer area along each property line, the depth of which shall be at least 20 feet measured from the property line. The buffer area may be included in any front, side or rear yard areas required under the provisions of this article. The buffer area shall be planted with trees, shrubbery and ground cover for screening in accordance with an overall landscape plan approved by the Newtown Township Planning Commission and shall be maintained continuously in a neat and attractive manner by the property owner. Existing trees and grades are to be preserved insofar as possible.

Building frontage, depth or length. The greatest dimension in frontage, length or depth of the building section erected, altered or used under this article, excluding covered walkways, enclosed corridors and bridges, shall not exceed 150 feet. However, the Board of Supervisors, upon recommendation of the Newtown Township Planning Commission, may, in connection with any land development application, approve buildings with greater dimensions if it determines that such buildings are architecturally pleasing and suitable for housing elderly people and avoid monotony and excessive bulk.

No part of any front yard shall be used for off-street parking purposes.

There shall be no outside storage of any kind.

A separate toilet room and bathing facilities shall be provided for each dwelling unit.

All driveways and off-street parking facilities shall be paved.

All facilities shall be designed and constructed for use by the handicapped and elderly. Site design and traffic circulation design shall allow for the safe movement of handicapped and elderly people.

Each development shall be serviced with public water and fire hydrants.

The development shall be serviced with public sanitary sewer facilities.

All utility services in the development shall be underground, and any aboveground equipment shall be screened by landscaping.

The development shall be constructed in accordance with an overall plan and shall be designed as a single architectural theme with appropriate common landscaping. All buildings shall be arranged in a group or groups, and mechanical and site utility equipment projecting from buildings shall be screened from public view.

In addition to requirements contained within the Township Building Code[1] and other Township and state requirements, the following safety provisions shall be provided:

Exterior walks. Concrete walks not less than six feet in width shall be constructed to Township standards along all public streets by which the site is bounded, except that the Board of Supervisors, as part of a land development application, may reduce the width to that required by other provisions of Township ordinances if it is demonstrated by the applicant that such a requirement is unnecessary.

Interior walks. Concrete walks not less than six feet in width shall provide convenient and safe pedestrian access from all building entrances to other buildings and to accessory recreation areas, including laundry facilities, parking compounds, carports or garages, and to sidewalks adjacent to public streets, provided that, upon demonstration by the applicant, as part of a land development application, that such a requirement in unnecessary, the Board of Supervisors may reduce the width at specific locations to not less than four feet in width.

Where interior walks cross vehicle areas, such as parking compounds or driveways, the walkway shall be continued uninterrupted across the vehicular area in such a way that it is permanently and readily distinguishable therefrom. In addition, other appropriate means, such as signs, curbing, wheel blocks, differentiation in elevation and other similar devices, shall be used to lessen the likelihood of any parked vehicles encroaching on such walks.