Encourage innovation in design and reflect changes in land development technology to enhance the existing village character.

Provide for necessary commercial facilities and services.

Encourage the highest quality design and architecture.

Encourage better movement and transportation of people.

Prevent strip commercial development by ensuring that new development reflects and respects the existing and evolving village areas.

Provide a more defined sense of place along Schalks Crossing Road.

Preserve the residential integrity of adjacent areas.

Create a zone with enough flexibility that permits the land use variety of a village yet prohibits the chaotic character of an unplanned area.

Stores and shops for the conduct of any retail business.

Personal service establishments (e.g., tailor, barbershop or beauty salon).

General corporate and administrative offices as well as offices for professional services (e.g., physicians, lawyers or architects); small commercial offices (e.g., realtors or travel agencies); small governmental offices (e.g., post office branch or social security); and offices incidental to uses permitted in this section.

Restaurants and neighborhood taverns, excluding drive-in and curb service establishments.

Repair and servicing, indoors only, of any article for sale which is permitted in this district.

Funeral parlors.

Banks.

Attended laundry and retail dry-cleaning services, not including bulk processing and, in the case of dry-cleaning establishments, not providing for the storage of more than five gallons of flammable or toxic cleaning fluid on the premises.

Building structures and uses owned or operated by the Township of Plainsboro for municipal purposes.

All farm and agricultural uses permitted in residential districts in accordance with the provisions set forth in Article V of this chapter.

Carpentry, electrical, masonry, plumbing and painting services, provided that all activities are conducted and all materials are stored within a completely enclosed building and that only trucks incidental to the use located on the premises are permitted. Such trucks shall be parked in areas that are appropriately landscaped.

Copy centers and newspaper offices.

Child-care centers, subject to the minimum standards found in § 101-65F. Child-care centers as an accessory use are permitted, subject to the standards contained in § 101-13.4.

Parks and playgrounds.

Common open space.

Accessory uses and accessory buildings incidental to the above permitted uses and located on the same lot and within the same zoning district that permits the principal use.

Shopping centers, comprised of any of the above permitted uses.

Drive-through facilities for shopping center pad sites only, subject to the following:

Necessary public utilities and services pursuant to § 101-13.6.

(Reserved)

Facilities for the covering, altering, finishing or assembling of goods for sale exclusively on the premises, subject to the following special requirements:

The number and location of off-street parking spaces shall be determined by the schedule provided in § 85-44 of Chapter 85 of this Code entitled "Subdivision and Site Plan Review," and by maximizing shared parking opportunities between developments within the GB General Business Zone. The developer shall be required to submit a detailed shared parking analysis to establish the maximum number of parking spaces.

Parking stalls and access aisle dimensions shall be adequate to accommodate anticipated volumes, types of vehicles and turnover. Stalls set aside for compact cars shall be encouraged.

There shall be landscape improvements between the right-of-way of all streets abutting the property and off-street parking improvements and within front, side and rear setback areas, except where shared parking is approved. The landscape improvements shall include sidewalks, grass, shrubs, trees and decorative walls or fences, as appropriate, to shield adjacent roadways and nearby residential properties from parking lot automobile headlight glare, fumes and noise.

Curbing shall be provided in all off-street parking areas and along all access ways, as appropriate.

Off-street parking areas and access ways thereto shall be properly drained, and all such areas shall have a paved hard surface.

All off-street parking areas and access ways shall be so arranged that cars and trucks may be turned on the lot so that it is not necessary to back into any public roadway.

Shopping centers.

Building design and use.

Traffic and circulation.

Sewer and water.

Solid waste and litter management. Each permitted use shall provide an area for the orderly deposit and pickup of refuse which is concealed from the adjoining residential properties, customer parking areas, nearby roadways and the railroad. This area shall be visually screened by a decorative wall or fence and landscaping. The overall design shall be in architectural harmony with the principal building and shall not be located within buffer areas. Also, in association with a shopping center, an effective litter management plan shall be provided and approved by the Township. Such management plan shall be submitted with an application for final site plan approval.

Storage. All provisions and facilities for storage, other than pickup of refuse and recyclable materials, shall be contained within a principal building.

Environmental considerations.

Landscaping.

Plazas.

Lighting. Adequate lighting shall be provided to ensure safe movement of persons and vehicles and for security purposes. Directional lights shall be arranged and shielded in such a manner as not to create a hazard or nuisance to adjoining residential properties or to the traveling public. Spotlight-type fixtures attached to buildings and visible to the public shall not be permitted. Traditional freestanding light fixtures shall be required in select areas along Schalks Crossing Road, to supplement those to be installed as part of the public improvements of that roadway, and elsewhere as appropriate. The style of the freestanding light fixtures used shall be consistent with the traditional styled street light fixtures planned for the village area along Schalks Crossing Road. By way of example, a traditional street light and parking lot light fixture shall be similar to the Hagerstown Model V03 by HADCO, which is a high-quality traditional freestanding light fixture appropriate to a village environment. The height of such fixtures shall be appropriate to their setting.

Decorative walls and fences.

Signs. All proposed signs shall meet the standards of the Township Sign Ordinance set forth in Article XIV of this chapter. No more than two no internal illuminated facade signs shall be permitted for the pad site building. Such signs shall be designed as an integral element in the overall design of the building and shall be compatible with a traditional village environment.