Where possible, loading and staging areas should be provided to the interior of the site, allowing additional buffering to be provided by the proposed warehouse buildings.
Where a warehouse is proposed within 500 ft of a residential use or zone, school, daycare center, house of worship, and/or active recreation, the setbacks of all improvements shall be 500 ft from the legally existing structures, or the minimum setback, whichever is greater.
Where a warehouse use is proposed adjacent to a residential use, auxiliary structures housing rooftop mechanical equipment shall be screened from ground level views with a visually impervious structure compatible with the exterior materials of the building’s façade. If the required screening is not achieved by such structure, the equipment screen shall be set back a minimum of 15 feet from the vertical plane established by the façade of the uppermost floor. The total area encompassed by the mechanical equipment screening shall not exceed 45% of the total roof area.
All Buffers, yard and landscaping requirements shall conform to §244-193. In addition, the following conditions shall supersede the requirements of §244-193 where these conditions are the more stringent.
The required buffer along front property lines shall be 100 feet.
Side and rear yard buffers shall be:
Where a lot line drainage or utility easement is required, the buffer yard shall be measured from the inside edge of the easement.
DASTI, McGUCKIN, McNICHOLS, CONNORS, ANTHONY & BUCKLEY
COUNSELLORS AT LAW
25 feet where the property line abuts a warehouse/industrial use or zone.
50 feet where the property line abuts a commercial use or zone.
100 feet when the property line abuts a residential use or zone.
620 WEST LACEY ROAD
FORKED RIVER, N.J. 08731
(1) A raised earthen berm shall be constructed within the yard buffer along the entire length of the street frontage (except where necessary to accommodate required ingress and egress) and along any property line which abuts a residential, retail, or agricultural zone. Existing vegetation, walls, and/or fences may be provided where a berm is not appropriate for the lot conditions. Existing vegetation must provide dense visual screening blocking the view of the warehouse from any public traveled way, or neighboring use.