Land Use Ordinance - June 2008 - City of Vineland

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City of Vineland Land Use Ordinance Amendment Design Standards for Community Design (1) Front yard fencing. Chain link fencing is discouraged in any yard facing a street. (2) Service and loading areas. Loading docks, truck parking, outdoor storage, utility meters, HVAC equipment, trash dumpsters, trash compaction, and other service functions shall be incorporated into the overall design of the primary building using screening walls of compatible material, style, color, texture, pattern, trim, and details and landscaping. The wall shall be one (1) foot higher than the largest object being screened, but not more than ten (10) feet high, on all sides where access is not needed. An opaque gate, with the same height as the wall, shall be included where access is needed. Enclosures should not be visible from any street or sidewalk. The maximum height in the screening requirement takes into account the height of a semi tractortrailer. If such trucks will not be making deliveries or staging in this area, the recommendation for maximum height may be lowered to eight feet, at the discretion of the Planning Board. (3) Mechanical equipment. Mechanical equipment at ground level shall be placed on the parking lot side of the building away from view from any streets and sidewalks and shall be screened from view by fencing, vegetation, or by being incorporated into a building utilizing the same materials as the principal building, i.e., stone, brick or stucco. The screening shall be at least equal to the width and height of the equipment to be screened from view. F. Access. Adjacent shopping centers or office parks are often not directly connected. As a result, customers or clients who wish to shop in both centers or visit both sites, must exit the parking lot of one, travel a short distance on a major thoroughfare, and then access the next site. A cross access easement reduces traffic on the major thoroughfare and reduces safety hazards. This in turn, can have positive business benefits by providing easy access to one site from another. The purpose of these access regulations is to promote shared access and cross access arrangements for the convenient, orderly, and safe movement of pedestrians and vehicles. (1) Joint use driveways and cross access easements. A system of joint use driveways and cross access easements should be established wherever feasible and the building site should incorporate the following: H:\VINE\00012\Plans\Ordinance Amendment Revised 05~28~08 ~ Design Standards.doc D-25
City of Vineland Land Use Ordinance Amendment Design Standards for Community Design (a) A continuous service drive or cross access extending the entire length of each parcel served to provide for driveway separation. Along a State highway, the driveway separation shall be consistent with the State access management classification system and standards. (b) Stub-outs and other design features to make it visually obvious that the abutting properties may be tied in to provide cross access via a service drive. (c) A unified access and circulation system plan that includes coordinated or shared parking areas is encouraged wherever feasible. (2) Access for out parcels and phased development plans. The design of good internal vehicle circulation in parking areas and on local streets reduces the number of driveways that businesses need for access to the major roadway. Requiring a unified access and circulation plan will ensure long term coordination regardless of a change in owners and tenants. In the interest of promoting unified access and circulation systems, development sites under the same ownership or consolidated for the purposes of development and comprised of more than one building site should not be considered separate properties in relation to the access standards of this code. The number of connections permitted shall be the minimum number necessary to provide reasonable access to these properties, not the maximum permitted for that frontage. All necessary easements, agreements, and stipulations required for joint use driveways and cross access easements shall be met. This shall also apply to phased development plans. All access to out parcels must be internalized using the shared circulation system of the principal development. Access to out parcels shall be designed to avoid excessive movement across parking aisles and queuing across surrounding parking and driving aisles. G. Pedestrian access and circulation. To support multi-modal transportation options, pedestrian access and circulation is as important as vehicle access and circulation. The basic pedestrian network is the sidewalk system along public and private roads. This section expands that network by establishing connections to pedestrian pathways that are internal to development projects. The purpose and intent of this section is to provide opportunities for alternative modes H:\VINE\00012\Plans\Ordinance Amendment Revised 05~28~08 ~ Design Standards.doc D-26
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