[Ord. No. 869, § 1, 2-8-1982; Ord. No. 935, § 5, 7-8-1985; Ord. No. 1133, § 21, 9-27-1993; Ord. No. 1204, § 1, 10-29-1996; Ord. No. 1253, § 12, 1-26-1998; Ord. No. 1476, §§ 34, 35, 6-11-2007]
The plan for the office park shall include specific evidence and facts showing that it has considered and made provision for, and the development shall be executed in accordance with, the following essential conditions:
A. Development shall consist of a harmonious grouping of buildings, service and parking area, circulation and open spaces, planned and designed as an integrated unit in such manner as to constitute a safe, efficient and convenient office park project. The distance at the closest point between buildings or groups of attached buildings shall be not less than seventy-five (75) feet.
B. The appropriate use of property adjacent to the office park shall be safeguarded. Where such office park abuts any residential district, a suitable and uninterrupted buffer area, not less than fifty (50) feet in depth, and planted in accordance with the requirements of Section 505.3.E. of the Township Subdivision and Land Development Ordinance, shall be provided and maintained by the owner of the office park or an association of owners thereof. Lighting facilities shall be arranged in such manner as will protect the highway and neighboring properties from direct glare or hazardous interference of any kind.
C. All buildings within the Planned Office Park District shall be served by Township sanitary sewage disposal systems and public water supply.
D. Adequate provisions shall be made for safe and efficient ingress and egress to and from public streets and highways serving the Planned Office Park District without undue congestion to or interference with the normal traffic flow within the township. All points of vehicular access to and from the public streets shall be located not less than two hundred and fifty (250) feet from the intersection of any public street lines with each other.
E. Adequate provisions shall be made for safe and efficient pedestrian and vehicular traffic circulation within the boundaries of the Planned Office Park District.
F. Off-street parking.
1. (a) Four and one-half spaces per one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross leasable floor area, except in the case of hotel usage which shall require one and one-half (1 1/2) parking spaces for each hotel room or suite. All ancillary uses of the hotel shall be included for the requirement of one and one-half (1 1/2) parking spaces for each hotel room or suite. The required parking may be reduced to [one and three-tenths] (1.3) parking spaces for each hotel room or suite when authorized by special exception on a showing that sufficient parking will be available and readily accessible to the hotel facility within the planned office park.
(b) The size of the parking space for one vehicle shall consist of a rectangular area having dimensions of not less than nine (9) feet in width and eighteen (18) feet in length. Aisles serving such parking spaces shall have a minimum width of twenty-six (26) feet.
(c) Parking spaces may consist of enclosed areas such as basements, attached or detached garages, or open space parking areas including open lot, deck and roof parking areas.
(d) In no case shall any parking area be permitted closer than fifty (50) feet to any residential district except that parking shall be permitted up to within ten (10) feet of any limited access highway.
(e) Adequate loading area shall be provided in addition to the required parking area and shall be so designed that its use will not block or otherwise interfere with pedestrian or vehicular traffic flow within the Planned Office Park District.
(f) Land upon which off-street parking and loading spaces are located shall be owned or controlled by the same entity which owns or controls the land on which the principal use is located.
G. All utility lines serving the buildings within the Planned Office Park District shall be placed underground.
H. If the development of the Planned Office Park District is to be carried out and to progress in stages, each stage shall be so planned that the foregoing requirements and the intent of this Ordinance shall be fully complied with by the developer at the completion of any stage of development.
I. Required minimum area, street frontage and yard regulations.
(1) District area, forty (40) acres;
(2) Lot area, four (4) acres;
(3) Building setback from district boundary line, one hundred (100) feet; except where bounded by a limited access highway, in which case the building setback may be fifty (50) feet;
(4) Building setback from street line, one hundred (100) feet;
(5) Building setback from a property line, fifty (60) feet;
(6) Distance between buildings, seventy-five (75) feet;
(7) District frontage, no less than one thousand (1,000) feet of frontage along public roads.
J. Building coverage. The maximum building coverage shall be twenty-five (25) percent of the total lot area.
K. Maximum height. The maximum height of any building or other structure erected or used in the Planned Office Park District shall be six (6) stories.
L. Impervious surface coverage. The maximum impervious surface coverage, including buildings, driveways, parking and storage areas, shall be sixty-five (65) percent of the total lot area.
M. Green space area requirement. The minimum required green space area on any lot shall not be less than thirty-five (35) percent.