There shall be two Business Districts: the B-1
Business District and the B-2 Downtown Business, covering all land
on Grand Central Avenue (N.J. Route 35 North) to a depth not exceeding
100 feet. The B-1 Business District is in two parts along Grand Central
Avenue, the first situated between the southern border of the Borough
and the south side of Vance Avenue and from the north side of Guyer
Avenue along Grand Central Avenue to the northern border of town.
The B-2 Downtown Business District is located along Grand Central
Avenue between the north side of Vance Avenue and the south side of
Guyer Avenue. For the purpose of this chapter, every lot bounded by
Grand Central Avenue shall be deemed to front thereon.
[Added 12-21-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-18 (1071)]
Permitted and/or preexisting apartment houses, hotels, motels
or boardinghouses or bed-and-breakfast units are subject to the following
conditions:
A. There shall be off-street parking in accordance with the following:
(1) Apartment houses: two parking spaces for each unit.
(2) Hotel: two parking spaces for each rental room.
(3) Motel: two parking spaces for each rental unit.
(4) Boardinghouse, rooming house or bed-and-breakfast: one parking space
for each rental unit, plus two parking spaces for each resident family.
(5) Each parking space shall be accessible and shall constitute an area
of at least nine feet in width and 18 feet in length.
B. Eighty percent of the dwelling units within any hotel, motel, boardinghouse,
rooming house or bed-and-breakfast shall contain not more than one
bedroom.
C. Not more than two apartment dwelling units may be erected for every
5,000 square feet of land area. In the event that an apartment, hotel,
motel, boardinghouse, or rooming house use is made in conjunction
or combination with another use of a commercial nature, the combination
shall be limited to two uses and the total number of units for both
uses shall be limited to two units for every 5,000 square feet of
land area. Boardinghouses, rooming houses or bed-and-breakfast units
may contain up to six bedroom units per 5,000 square feet of land
area.
D. No cooking facilities shall be permitted in any sleeping area within
any hotel, motel, boarding house, roominghouse or bed-and-breakfast.
E. No cooking facilities shall be permitted within an apartment dwelling
unit that does not contain at least one separate bedroom.
F. The maximum building height of any apartment house, hotel, motel,
bed-and-breakfast, boardinghouse or rooming house shall be 2 1/2
stories or 30 feet, whichever is less, and shall contain no more than
two floors, over each other, of living area. Detached garages shall
not exceed 18 feet in height.
G. Bed-and-breakfast establishments may be erected in early-1900's-style
houses and may be used to provide lodgings in not more than six rooms
housing not more than two people per room, plus the owner/operator,
for every 5,000 square feet of land area. No individual guest or boarder
shall be lodged for a period greater than 60 consecutive or cumulative
days in any calendar year. If breakfast or other meals are provided
on the premises, they shall be served only to registered guests and
not the general public, and the kitchen facilities shall pass inspection
by the Health Inspector serving the Borough of Lavallette.
H. The apartment house, hotel, motel, boardinghouse, rooming house or
bed-and-breakfast must otherwise comply with all other provisions
of this chapter and any other ordinances of the Borough of Lavallette
pertaining thereto, as well as all applicable laws of the State of
New Jersey.