Cemeteries may be permitted in certain districts specified in this chapter, subject to the standards of this chapter and the following special standards.
(A) The area to be occupied by the cemetery shall not have more than 51% of its land area in recorded plots.
(B) The continuity of all roads present or planned for adjacent areas shall be satisfactory resolved to provide safe and prompt access and egress to and from such areas.
(C) All ingress and egress shall be directly to a public road having a right-of-way of not less than that of a secondary thoroughfare (86 feet) or the proposed right-of-way of a major thoroughfare on the township’s adopted thoroughfare plan.
(D) All sides of the cemetery shall be screened from any residential view by providing a continuous and completely obscuring wall or fence, four feet six inches in height, measured from the surface of the ground. The Planning Commission may permit a chain-link type fence adequately screened with deciduous and evergreen material.
(E) Approval shall be given contingent on a satisfactory drainage plan approved by the Township Engineer and the County Health Department.
(Ord. passed 10-11-2000) Penalty, see § 153.999