This zone district is designed to encourage the development of retail and office uses in combination with residential uses where appropriate.

(Ord. No. 05-19, § 2, 3-21-2019)

A.

Principal uses.

1.

Retail and service businesses.

2.

Business and professional offices.

3.

Banks and fiduciary institutions.

4.

Restaurants, taverns, grills and other eating establishments.

5.

Single-family and two family detached residential uses as permitted and regulated in the R-3 Zone District.

6.

Multi-family dwelling units with a permitted commercial use on first floor.

B.

Accessory uses.

1.

Uses that are customarily incidental to the above principal permitted uses.

C.

Conditional uses, pursuant to the requirements in section 15-35.

1.

Institutional uses, government uses and public utility facilities.

(Ord. No. 05-19, § 2, 3-21-2019)

Any use other than those listed above is prohibited as part of a village center mixed use planned development. The following uses are specifically prohibited:

A.

Home occupation or home office.

B.

Restaurants with exterior drive-up window service.

C.

Strip shopping centers.

D.

Garden Apartments.

(Ord. No. 05-19, § 2, 3-21-2019)

A.

Minimum lot area: 8,000 square feet.

B.

Minimum front yard: 10 feet.

C.

Minimum side yard: 10 feet for one side yard.

D.

Minimum rear yard: 20 feet.

E.

Minimum frontage: 60 feet.

F.

Maximum height: 45 feet or 3 stories, whichever is less. The maximum building height shall be reduced to thirty-five (35) feet or two and one-half stories and for structures or portions thereof located within seventy-five (75) feet of a residential zone district.

G.

Maximum impervious coverage: 70 percent of the total lot area.

H.

Dwelling units shall not exceed 10 units per acre or eight units per structure.

(Ord. No. 05-19, § 2, 3-21-2019)

A.

Development within the SS/VO zone shall be designed to be in keeping with the concepts and planning principles which are stated in the Township Master Plan with special attention to the Mount Freedom Village Planning Study Update. In addition, development in the SS/VO zone shall adhere to the Village Center Design Standards set forth in section 15-61 of this Chapter.

B.

Affordable Housing: For developments of six (6) or more dwelling units, the developer shall provide dwelling units affordable to very-low, low and moderate income residents pursuant to the regulations of the Council on Affordable Housing or any other state agency or court with jurisdiction over affordable housing. A minimum of fifteen (15%) percent of the residential units developed should be available to very-low, low and moderate income families if they are offered for rent. A minimum of twenty (20%) percent of the units should be available to very-low, low and moderate income families if they are offered for sale.

C.

Parking is not permitted in front yards. To the greatest extent possible, parking should be provided behind the stores and shops on Sussex Turnpike.

D.

Residential and non-residential uses are permitted in the same structure. Residential uses shall be located on the floor above all non-residential uses in a mixed-used structure.

E.

Properties which participate in a shared parking program may provide less than the minimum number of required spaces for the cumulative parking requirements. The shared parking program shall be approved by the Planning Board.

(Ord. No. 05-19, § 2, 3-21-2019)