There is hereby established a comprehensive
zoning plan for the City of Garfield, which plan is set forth in the
text, maps and schedule that constitute this chapter. Said plan is
adopted for the purpose set forth in Sections 40:55-30, 40:55-31 and
40:55-32 of the Revised Statutes of the State of New Jersey[1] and more particularly for the protection and promotion
of the public health, safety and welfare in the following manner:
A.
Protecting and conserving the total of land values
throughout the City and the value of buildings appropriate to the
various districts established by this chapter, except as the maintenance
of such values for any particular piece of property is properly subordinated
to the general welfare, especially to the future development of the
City as set forth in its Master Plan; which plan establishes long-range
objectives for the most beneficial, economically productive and socially
satisfactory relationships among the residential, commercial and industrial
areas within the City, which land use objectives are to be incorporated
within this chapter by amendment from time to time as speedily as
compatible with the need for orderly transition from predominant existing
land uses to those set forth in the Master Plan.
B.
Assuring a harmonious relationship among the various
districts established by this chapter, minimizing such conflicts among
uses as may arise in connection with the orderly expansion of various
use districts in accordance with the purposes and the intent of this
chapter and in furtherance of the objective of the Master Plan of
the City, and bringing about the gradual conformity of the uses of
land and buildings throughout the City to the comprehensive zoning
plan set forth in this chapter.
C.
Aiding in bringing about the most beneficial relation
between the uses of land and buildings and the movement of traffic
through and the circulation of traffic within the City, having particular
regard to the avoidance of congestion in the highways and streets
in the City and the provision of safe and convenient traffic access
appropriate to the various uses of land and buildings throughout the
City, with due regard to the City's relationship to adjoining municipalities
and its location and economic integration within the Passaic Valley
area and the New York-North Jersey metropolitan region.
D.
Facilitating the orderly transition of retail trade
from obsolete business strips strung out along main thoroughfares
to modern, compact, designed shopping centers in order to reduce the
harmful effects upon the general welfare caused by vacant and blighted
business structures, to increase the efficiency and safety of traffic
movement on main thoroughfares, to assure for the residents of Garfield
the convenience of nearby modern shopping facilities and to gain for
the municipality the ratables represented by modern retail centers.
E.
Encouraging the renewal and redevelopment of blighted
and obsolete neighborhoods by providing the maximum flexibility in
zoning regulations commensurate with reasonable protection of established
values.
[1]
Editor's Note: See now N.J.S.A. 40:55D-62 et seq. Certain provisions of the Zoning Ordinance as adopted 12-20-1960, and subsequently amended, were deleted from this chapter by Ord. No. 1732, adopted 5-20-1980, because they were not in agreement with the provisions of the Municipal Land Use Law (N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.) or were covered by Ch. 188, Land Use, of this Code, or were not desired by the governing body. These provisions are as follows (numbered is that used in original Ord. No. 1266): Art. IV, Paragraphs B and E(4); Art. IX, Paragraphs A (as amended), B, D, E(2), (3), (4), (5), (6) and F; Article X, Paragraphs B and C.
