Requirements

Recreational campgrounds may be established by special use permit provided that the following requirements are satisfied:

(Ord. dated 5-21-24)

A.  The lot or parcel on which the campground is located shall contain a minimum of forty acres and shall have frontage on a public street.

B.  The facility shall contain a maximum of eight individual campsites per acre of land, excluding wetlands and excluding land devoted to streets, accessory buildings, accessory structures and accessory uses.

C.  A two-hundred-foot buffer shall be located on the perimeter of the lot or parcel on which the campground is located.  The perimeter buffer, except for that portion adjacent to a public street, shall contain a vegetative buffer consisting of trees, bushes, or other vegetative material or plantings, either original to the site or planted, that shields the campground from the view of adjacent property.  The vegetative buffer shall be located ten feet from the perimeter lot line(s) and shall be a minimum of twenty-five feet wide and a minimum of ten feet in height. The planning board shall review the plan for landscaping the vegetative buffer during major land development approval.

(Ord. dated 5-21-24)

D.  No campsite, accessory building, accessory structure or accessory use, stormwater management structure or facility, or on-site wastewater treatment system shall be located within the two-hundred-foot perimeter buffer. Wells may be located within the two-hundred-foot perimeter buffer.

E.  The campground shall comply with all local ordinances and state statutes regulating such facilities. 

(Ord. dated 5-21-02(part); Ord. dated 7-19-16)