Business and professional offices and uses.

Municipal parks, playgrounds, buildings and uses deemed appropriate and necessary by the Township Council.

Townhouse developments at a density of not over 12 units per acre, including recreation and parking facilities for the exclusive use of residents and their guests.

Garden apartments of a density of not over 12 units per acre, including recreation and parking facilities for the exclusive use of residents and their guests.

Any secondary use enumerated in Subsection 23-3.5b, except the keeping of horses.

Off-street parking facilities in conjunction with a permitted office use.

Any conditional uses as specified in Subsection 23-5.2a, b, c, d, and f.

Off-street parking space shall be provided as follows:

For townhouses, not more than six dwelling units shall be located in a single structure.

For garden apartments, not more than 16 dwelling units shall be located in a single building, and there shall be a setback in the building facade of at least four feet for not over each eight units.

Minimum tract size for townhouses and garden apartments shall be one acre.

Maximum building coverage for townhouses and garden apartments shall be 40%.

Maximum height for townhouses and garden apartments shall be 40 feet and three stories, notwithstanding the definition of "garden apartment" in § 23-1.8.

Minimum gross floor area for townhouse and garden apartment units shall be 600 square feet.

No apartment unit shall be located in a basement or cellar.

Separate exterior front entrances shall be provided to each townhouse and garden apartment unit. Individual rear entrances shall also be provided for every townhouse unit, but may be combined in garden apartments to serve more than a single unit, provided that such rear entryway is not from a common foyer or hallway with a front entryway.

A resident superintendent shall be provided in any garden apartment development with more than 25 dwelling units.

For townhouse and garden apartment buildings, the minimum distance between buildings front to front or front to rear shall be 30 feet. The minimum distance end to end shall be 10 feet. The minimum distance front to side shall be 15 feet, and the front facade of a building shall not overlap the side wall of an adjoining building by more than eight feet. The nearest point of any individual townhouse or garden apartment buildings shall be a minimum of 20 feet from edge of pavement of any access roadway. Interior courts shall be at least 30 feet wide and shall be no longer than twice their width.

For townhouses and garden apartments, at least 10% of the site area shall consist of landscaped open space exclusive of building area, parking area, and access drives. For garden apartments, at least 5% of the site area (which may be included in the foregoing 10%) shall be common open space developed for active or passive recreation use of the residents of the project, including sitting areas, play areas, and the like; for townhouses, at least 10% of the site area shall be so developed, but may include individual patios.

Wherever any use except a one-family dwelling in this zone is on a lot which abuts a residence zone, a ten-foot-wide buffer area shall be provided adjacent to the zone boundary in a manner approved by the Planning Board. Such buffer area shall be suitably planted and maintained with landscape materials of such species and sizes so as to form an effective visual screen.

To comply with the statewide electric vehicle supply/service equipment (EVSE) and Make-Ready parking spaces law as per P.L. 2021, c. 171, subject to the determination by the Township approving authority that there is sufficient available capacity by means of the ability of a parking space in an adjoining or other municipal parking lots, the applicant, if approved, shall be responsible to pay a one-time payment as determined by a cost estimate provided by the Township Engineer per deficient EVSE or Make-Ready parking space. The intent of this payment is to provide for EVSE and Make-Ready parking spaces to be supplied in any municipal parking lot only after it has been determined by the Township Council or Land Use Board, whichever may be applicable, that the applicant has insufficient area to install the required number of EVSE or Make-Ready parking spaces on the subject property. If the applicant provides the required number of EVSE or Make-Ready parking spaces per state regulation on the subject property, then no payment is required under this section. This rate shall be calculated, and a separate bill shall be provided by the Tax Collector of the Township of Scotch Plains. This calculation and payment to the Township of Scotch Plains does not entitle the payee to reserved spaces in any municipal lot.