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Pitman City Zoning Code

§ 35-11.5

Design Requirements.

[Ord. No. 3-2011]
a. 
Any proposed development consisting of more than one building or use shall consist of a group of properly related and compatible uses comprising a single or unified architectural and landscaping scheme, with buildings, parking and service areas and circulation and open spaces designed as an integrated and harmonious unit.
b. 
Each use also shall comply with all other pertinent general provisions of the zoning ordinance and all pertinent standards of design in the subdivision ordinance.
c. 
Each manufacturing or processing use permitted in the district shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building.
d. 
Each use shall provide and maintain attractively landscaped grounds, or make any other suitable screening provision which is necessary to adequately safeguard the non-industrial character of adjacent districts, and each building shall be designed so as to minimize its traditional industrial appearance, and shall, insofar as practicable, afford minimum external evidence of the nature of the operation conducted therein.
e. 
In no case shall the distance between any two buildings be less than the average height of the two adjacent buildings nor less than 30 feet.
f. 
All parking, loading and service areas shall be arranged to facilitate proper and safe internal circulation and shall comply with the provisions of § 35-26.
g. 
All off-street parking and loading areas plus all internal streets shall be built to Borough specifications. Parking areas shall be laid out with raised barriers or painted stalls to facilitate efficient use. Any such lot which provides space for more than 20 motor vehicles shall be landscaped including shrubs and trees distributed throughout the parking area.
h. 
The paved cartway width of all internal streets shall be determined on an individual basis, but in no case shall be less than 20 feet. The cartway shall be of sufficient width to safely accommodate the fire equipment as may be determined necessary by the Borough Engineer or Fire Marshal. All principal industrial service streets shall have the a 50 foot right-of-way width, unless specifically waived by the Borough.
i. 
Any parking lot or area for off-street parking or for the storage or movement of motor vehicles which abuts a street shall be separated from the street by a raised curb, planting strip, wall, or other suitable barrier against unchanneled motor vehicle entrance or exit, except for necessary accessways. The layout of any such lot shall be designed in such a manner as not to require vehicles to back out on the street, and the capacity of the lot shall be sufficient to prevent backup of vehicles on a public street while awaiting entry to the lot.
j. 
Each separate use or grouping of buildings shall have not more than two accessways in any one street or for each 300 feet of frontage and, where practicable access to parking areas shall be provided by a common service driveway or minor street in order to avoid direct access on a major street. No such accessway shall be more than 30 feet in width, exclusive of any median strip.
k. 
All outside lighting, including sign lighting, shall be directed in such a way as not to create a nuisance, and all such lighting shall be arranged so as to protect the street or highway and adjoining property from direct glare or hazardous interference of any kind.
l. 
The proposed development shall be served by public water and sanitary sewer facilities.
m. 
No building or tract shall be utilized for any use that is noxious, offensive or hazardous as defined in § 35-25.
n. 
Areas provided for loading and unloading of delivery trucks and other vehicles and for the servicing of shops by refuse collection, fuel or other service vehicles shall be adequate in size and shall be so arranged that they may be used without blockage or interference with the use of accessways or automobile parking facilities.
o. 
All buildings shall have exterior walls of noncombustible materials. No buildings shall have exterior walls of frame construction.