§ 154-159. Purpose.

The purposes and objectives of these objectives are as follows:

A. 

To promote appropriate and controlled economic development along Routes 38 and 73 within Mount Laurel Township.

B. 

To create a balance between commercial and service uses and continuing residential growth, which will:

(1) 

Provide the Township with an adequate, nonresidential ratable base, with resulting lower tax rates; and

(2) 

Provide convenient access for Mount Laurel residents to local retail sales and services, with resulting local employment opportunities.

C. 

To encourage large-scale commercial and service facilities at appropriate locations along Route 73 and Route 38 but only on a site where there is also secondary ingress and egress with a traffic signal controlled intersection thus avoiding strip development which would contain multiple, uncontrolled curb cuts.

D. 

To encourage such large-scale development on tracts of adequate size which will include sufficient buffers, limitations on signage, provisions of pedestrian features, integration of architecture and flexibility in meeting the needs of retail and service tenants and users.

E. 

To encourage consolidation and redevelopment of small, older commercial tracts and uses into unified, integrated commercial and service complexes.

F. 

To avoid piecemeal rezoning of lands within Mount Laurel Township.