1.   The Continuing Care Retirement Community is designed primarily for persons aged fifty-five (55) and over.

2.   The following uses shall be permitted as principal uses within the Continuing Care Retirement Community.

3.   Residential Uses:

(a)    Long-term care nursing centers. 

(b)    Assisted living care.

(c)    Single family detached dwellings.

(d)    Single family attached dwellings.

(e)    Multi-family dwellings.

4.   Public Uses:

(a)    Public park, recreational areas and greenways.

(b)    Public libraries.

5.   Institutional Uses

(a)    Churches and similar places of worship.

6.   The following uses shall be permitted as accessory uses in the Continuing Care Retirement Community for the exclusive use of residents and their guests. It shall be the burden of the applicant to demonstrate how these uses will be restricted to residents and their guests.

(a)    Medical facilities.

(b)    Common dining facilities. 

(c)    Group recreation facilities.

(d)    Adult day care.

(e)    Gift stores.

(f)     Food and beverage stores.

(g)    Personal care services.

7.   Each accessory use shall be located in a building occupied by residential uses or in a community activities building.

8.   Each accessory commercial use shall not exceed two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet of net floor area (for accessory commercial uses net floor area as defined herein shall also exclude food preparation areas and lavatories).

9.   The total area reserved of commercial accessory uses shall not exceed four (4%) percent of the total land area including buildings, sidewalks, open space, access drives and parking, and no more than twenty five thousand (25,000) square feet, whichever is less.

10.  Applications for a Continuing Care Retirement Community within the CR and SR zoning districts shall follow provisions for Conservation Subdivisions|tag=gloss_CONSERVATION SUBDIVISION DESIGN, in 208-1607 of this Ordinance for the determination of required greenway preservation area required.

11.  The Continuing Care Retirement Community shall meet the following area, density, coverage and yard requirements.  

(a)    Minimum development area shall be ten (10) acres.

(b)    Maximum density for residential units shall be six (6) units per acre.

(c)    Maximum impervious surface ratio shall be fifty (50%) percent.

(d)    Yards shall meet the following minimum setback requirements:

(e)    Front yard:  Fifty (50’) feet.

(f)     Side yards:  Forty (40’) feet.

(g)    Rear yard:  Fifty (50’) feet.

(h)    More than one building on a single lot shall meet the following minimum interior yard spacing requirements:

(i)     Front to front: Seventy (70’) feet.

(ii)     Front to side: Fifty (50’) feet.

(iii)    Front to rear: Seventy (70’) feet.

(iv)    Side to rear: Thirty (30’) feet.

(v)    Side to side: Fifteen (15’) feet.

(vi)    Rear to rear: Fifty (50’) feet.

(vii)   Corner to corner: Twenty (20’) feet.

12.  Staging of development.  When the Continuing Care Retirement Community is to be developed in stages, the following criteria must be met:

(a)    The land development plan presented to the Township must show the approximate location and type of use for each stage of the development.

(b)    The percentage of nonresidential development of each stage shall not exceed the percentage of residential development represented on the staging plan.

13.  Public/community water and public/community sewer shall be required.

14.  The Continuing Care Retirement Community shall provide proof that all applicable State, County and Township licenses have been obtained.

Last Updated on September 29, 2008
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