495 Fairfield Rd, East Windsor, NJ 08520

Planned Unit Development District

In order that the public health, morals, safety and general welfare be furthered in an era of increasing urbanization and of growing demand for housing of all types and design; to provide for necessary commercial and educational facilities conveniently located to such housing; to provide for well located, clean, safe, pleasant industrial sites involving a minimum of strain on transportation facilities, to encourage the planning of new towns; to encourage innovations in residential, commercial and industrial development and renewal so that the growing demands of the population may be met by greater variety in type, design and layout of buildings and by the conservation and more efficient use of open space ancillary to said buildings; so that greater opportunities for better housing and recreation, shops and industrial plants conveniently located to each other may extend to all citizens and residents of the Township; and in order to encourage a more efficient use of land and public services, or private services in lieu thereof, and to reflect changes in the technology of land development so that resulting economies may endure to the benefit of those who need homes; to lessen the burden of traffic on streets and highways; to encourage the building of new towns incorporating the best features of modern design; to conserve the value of the land; and, in aid of these purposes, to provide a procedure which can relate the type, design and layout of residential, commercial and industrial development to the particular site and the particular demand for housing and other facilities, including the foregoing at the time of development in a manner consistent with the preservation of the property values within established residential areas and to insure that the increased flexibility of substantive regulations over land development authorized herein is subject to such administrative standards and procedures as shall encourage the disposition of proposals for land development without undue delay, this section is enacted pursuant to the authority granted by the Municipal Planned Unit Development Act 1967.