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Scotch Plains City Zoning Code

§ 23-3.6A

R-2A Residence Zone.

Berwyck Chase and Sterling Chase.
a. 
Permitted primary uses.
1. 
One-family detached dwellings, including zero-lot line units, with attached garages. A "zero-lot line unit" is defined as a one-family detached dwelling located on a separate lot with setbacks on the front, rear and one side.
2. 
A homeowner's association created by master deed may install and maintain recreational facilities such as pools, tennis courts and accessory structures and uses and stormwater management uses.
b. 
Permitted secondary uses and buildings.
1. 
Customary residential storage buildings not in excess of 200 square feet of building area.
2. 
Shelters for domestic pets not in excess of 50 square feet of building area, exclusive of runs.
3. 
Other customary residential secondary structures and buildings, such as private swimming pools, private tennis courts, fireplaces, trellises, post lights, recreational apparatus, secondary structures and buildings customarily associated with a swimming pool on the premises (not exceeding 200 square feet and providing that no residential living quarters are contained therein), and the like (unless prohibited by the master deed or bylaws of a homeowners' association).
c. 
Other provisions and requirements.
1. 
Residential uses shall provide not fewer than two off-street parking spaces for each dwelling unit, one of which shall be a garage and the second of which may be a driveway leading thereto.
2. 
Any common open space shall be dedicated to the Township or maintained by the developer or by an association for the ownership and maintenance of the open space, as required in N.J.S.A. 40:55D-43. The Township Council is not obligated to accept any offer of dedication of common open space.
3. 
Development in the R-2A Zone shall also be regulated by a developer's agreement signed by the Township to implement its Fair Share Housing Plan, and where there may be a conflict between the developer's agreement and this subsection, the developer's agreement shall control. If any other section of this chapter or Code of the Township of Scotch Plains conflict with this Subsection 23-3.6A or the developer's agreement, this Subsection 23-3.6A and the developer's agreement shall control.
4. 
Portions of lots may be within the wetlands or 100-year floodplains of streams, provided that no building or land disturbance shall occur within those areas, unless permitted by the appropriate agencies.
d. 
Schedule of lot, yard, building and site requirements.
1. 
In this zone district, all roads shall be private and shall have a right-of-way width of at least 30 feet, a paved width of 28 feet, pavement thickness of eight inches thick composition, two inches mix No. 5, six inches mix No. 1 and granite block curbing. No sidewalks shall be required. Turnaround radius of dead-end streets shall not be required to exceed 40 feet.
2. 
The street line shall be considered as the rear of the curb.
3. 
Minimum lot and yard dimensions:
(a) 
Minimum lot size: 7,500 square feet.
(b) 
Minimum lot width: 65 feet.
(c) 
Front yard: 25 feet (front-entry garage); 20 feet (side-entry garage).
(d) 
Side yards: 12 feet (zero-lot line lots — one side only); six feet (non-zero lot line lots — two side yards).
(e) 
Rear yard: 15 feet.
(f) 
Maximum height: 35 feet.
(g) 
Maximum stories: 2 1/2.
(h) 
Maximum lot coverage: 35%.
(i) 
Maximum density: three units per acre.
(j) 
Signs: same as permitted in R-1 Zone District.