A.
Any word or term not defined herein or in the Municipal
Land Use Law shall be used with a meaning of standard usage for the
context in which the word is used.
B.
ACCESSORY BUILDING, STRUCTURE OR USE
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER
ADVERSE EFFECT
AGE-RESTRICTED DEVELOPMENT
AGRICULTURAL USE/PURPOSE
AGRICULTURE
ALTERNATIVE TOWER STRUCTURE
ALTERNATIVE TREATMENT CENTER
ANCHOR STORE
ANTENNA
APPROVING AUTHORITY
AUTOMOBILE SERVICE STATION
BACKHAUL NETWORK
BILLBOARD
BODY SHOP
BUILDING COVERAGE
BUILDING HEIGHT
BULK REGULATIONS
CANNABIS CULTIVATOR
CANNABIS DELIVERY SERVICE
CANNABIS DISTRIBUTION FACILITY
CANNABIS DISTRIBUTOR
CANNABIS MANUFACTURER
CANNABIS RETAILER
CANNABIS TESTING FACILITY
CANNABIS WHOLESALER
CATEGORY-SPECIFIC STORE
CHILD-CARE CENTER
CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT
COLLOCATION
COMMERCIAL WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES
COMMON PROPERTY
COMMUNITY/POWER RETAIL CENTER ESTABLISHMENT
DAY-CARE CENTER/DAY NURSERY
DAY-CARE CENTER/ADULT
DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL
DEVELOPMENT TRANSFER
DWELLING, DUPLEX
DWELLING, MULTIFAMILY (APARTMENT)
DWELLING, SEMIDETACHED SINGLE-FAMILY
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED
DWELLING, TOWNHOUSE
DWELLING UNIT
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
ELEEMOSYNARY OR PHILANTHROPIC INSTITUTION
ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREAS
FAA
FAMILY
FAMILY DAY-CARE HOME
FARM
(1)
(2)
FCC
FLAG LOT
FRONT ELEVATION
GARAGE
GOLF COURSE
GROSS FLOOR AREA
HEIGHT
HOME OCCUPATION
HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATION
(1)
(2)
(3)
INDUSTRIAL OR OFFICE PARK
LOADING SPACE
LOT AREA
LOT, CORNER
LOT COVERAGE
LOT FRONTAGE
LOT LINE
LOT WIDTH
OFFICE
MONOPOLE
PARKING BAY
PEDESTRIAN/BICYCLE PATH, SEPARATE
PERMITTED USE
PERSONAL SALES AND SERVICES
PETROLEUM DISTRIBUTION TERMINAL
PLAT, FINAL
PLAT, PRELIMINARY
PREEXISTING TOWERS AND ANTENNAS
PRINCIPAL USE
PRIVATE SCHOOL
PUBLIC PURPOSE
RECEIVING AREA or RECEIVING ZONE
RECREATION, ACTIVE
RECREATION, PASSIVE
RIGHT-OF-WAY
SCHOOL
SCHOOL, ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL, PAROCHIAL
SCHOOL, PRIVATE
SCHOOL, SECONDARY
SCHOOL, VOCATIONAL
SENDING AREA or SENDING ZONE
SETBACK LINE
SHOPPING CENTER
SIGHT TRIANGLE
SIGN
SILTATION BASIN
SITE PLAN, EXEMPT
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
SITE PLAN, MINOR
SITE PLAN, MAJOR
STREAMERS
STREET LINE
STRUCTURE
(1)
(2)
(3)
SUBDIVISION, MAJOR
SUBDIVISION, MINOR
SWIMMING POOL
TDR BANK
TDR DEVELOPMENT
TDR EASEMENT
TOWER
TOWER, MULTI-USER
TOWER, SINGLE-USER
TOWNHOUSE
TRANSFER OF DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS
UTILITY
VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
WATER'S EDGE
YARD
YARD, FRONT
YARD, REAR
YARD, SIDE
ZONING OFFICER
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
A subordinate building, structure or use incidental to the
principal use or building located on the same lot.
For the purposes of the receipt of applications for development and all other requests for action called for by the Land Development Board, the Administrative Officer shall be the Township Clerk; and in issues relating to completeness of applications under N.J.S.A. 40:55D-10.3, the Township Clerk shall make the determination of completeness in conjunction with the Technical Advisory Committee ("TAC") authorized under § 130-11 of this Code.
[Amended 8-18-1997 by Ord. No. 1997-17; 1-20-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-1]
Designs, situations or existing features creating or leading
to unsafe, unsatisfactory or noncomplying conditions, such as a layout
inconsistent with the zoning regulations;[1] insufficient street width; unsuitable street grade; unsuitable
street location; inconvenient street system; inadequate utilities
such as water, drainage, shade trees and sewerage; unsuitable size,
shape and location of any area reserved for public use or land for
open space in a planned development; infringement upon land subject
to flooding; and the creation of conditions leading to soil erosion
by wind or water from excavation or grading; all as set forth in N.J.S.A.
40:55D-38, or any amendments or supplements thereto, and measured
against the design and performance standards of this chapter.
A residential development, including accessory buildings
and required or permitted social, cultural, medical and recreational
facilities, limited to certain age groups conforming to 24 CFR Part
100, Subpart E, Housing for Older Persons, of the federal Fair Housing
Amendments Act of 1988, as it may be amended or superseded.
[Added 4-17-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-8]
Land devoted to agriculture. For purposes of this chapter,
"agricultural use" does not include a dwelling. See definition of
"farm."
Land devoted to the production of plants and animals useful
to man, including but not limited to forages and sod crops; grains
and feed crops; dairy animals and dairy products; poultry and poultry
products; livestock, including the breeding and grazing of any or
all of such animals; bees and apiary products; fur animals; trees
and forest products; fruits of all kinds; vegetables; nursery, floral,
ornamental and greenhouse products; and other similar uses and activities.
Mounting structures that camouflage or conceal the presence
of antennas or towers.
[Added 6-21-1999 by Ord. No. 1999-11]
An organization issued a permit pursuant to the Jake Honig
Compassionate Use Medical Cannabis Act, P.L. 2009, c.307 (N.J.S.A.
24:6I-1 et seq.) to operate as a medical cannabis cultivator, medical
cannabis manufacturer, medical cannabis dispensary, or clinical registrant,
as well as any alternative treatment center deemed pursuant to Section
7 of that Act (N.J.S.A. 24:6I-7) to concurrently hold a medical cannabis
cultivator permit, a medical cannabis manufacturer permit, and a medical
cannabis dispensary permit, as set forth by N.J.S.A. 24:6I-33.
[Added 6-17-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-09]
A department store, warehouse club or a home improvement
store and the like containing at least 100,000 square feet of gross
leasable area.
[Added 2-1-1999 by Ord. No. 1999-4]
Any structure or device used for the purpose of collecting
or transmitting electromagnetic waves, including but not limited to
directional antennas, such as panels, microwave dishes, satellite
dishes and omni-directional antennas.
[Added 6-21-1999 by Ord. No. 1999-11]
The Land Development Board of the Township of Lumberton unless
a different agency is designated by ordinance when acting pursuant
to the authority of N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.
[Added 9-5-1995 by Ord. No. 1995-17;
amended 1-20-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-1]
Land and building providing for the sale of fuel, lubricants
and automotive accessories and for maintenance and minor repairs for
motor vehicles, excluding body repairs and the storage of inoperable
and wrecked vehicles.
The lines that connect a provider's towers/cell sites to
one or more cellular telephone switching offices and/or long distance
providers or the public switched telephone network.
[Added 6-21-1999 by Ord. No. 1999-11]
An off-site lettered or pictorial advertising sign.
A use providing for the repair, repainting or restoration
of the bodies and frames of motor vehicles.
The area of a lot covered by buildings measured around the
periphery of the foundation(s).
The vertical distance measured from the finished grade of
the front elevation of a building to its highest point.
[Amended 4-5-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-12]
Standards and controls that establish the maximum and/or
minimum size of buildings and structures on a lot, the buildable areas
within which a building or structure may be located and including
area, coverage, floor area ratio, height setback, and yard of other
requirements that affect the physical placement of building and structures
on a parcel of land.
[Added 12-18-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-20]
A person or entity holding a Class 1 cannabis cultivator
license pursuant to N.J.S.A. 24:6I-31 et seq., and any regulations
duly adopted by the Cannabis Regulatory Commission. Class 1 licensees'
primary business is the growth, cultivation, or production cannabis
in this state, including the sale and transport of such cannabis to
other cannabis cultivators, or usable cannabis to cannabis manufacturers,
cannabis wholesalers, or cannabis retailers, but not to consumers.
[Added 6-17-2021 by Ord.
No. 2021-09]
A person or entity holding a Class 6 cannabis delivery license
pursuant to N.J.S.A. 24:6I-31 et seq., and any regulations duly adopted
by the Cannabis Regulatory Commission. Class 6 licensees' primary
business is the provision of courier services for consumer purchases
of cannabis items and related supplies fulfilled by a cannabis retailer
in order to make deliveries of the cannabis items and related supplies
to that consumer, and which services include the ability of a consumer
to purchase the cannabis items directly through the cannabis delivery
service, which after presenting the purchase order to the cannabis
retailer for fulfillment, is delivered to that consumer.
[Added 6-17-2021 by Ord.
No. 2021-09]
A facility or other place of business operated by a cannabis
distributor or cannabis delivery service in providing services as
a Class 4 or Class 6 licensee pursuant to license under N.J.S.A. 24:6I-31
et seq. and any regulations adopted by the Cannabis Regulatory Commission,
where such person or entity lawfully engages in the bulk distribution
or consumer delivery of cannabis, usable cannabis or cannabis products.
[Added 6-17-2021 by Ord.
No. 2021-09]
A person or entity holding a Class 4 cannabis distributor
license pursuant to N.J.S.A. 24:6I-31 et seq., and any regulations
duly adopted by the Cannabis Regulatory Commission. Class 4 licensees'
primary business is the transportation of cannabis in bulk intrastate
from one licensed cannabis cultivator to another licensed cannabis
cultivator or transporting cannabis items in bulk intrastate from
any one class of licensed cannabis establishment to another class
of licensed cannabis establishment. Class 4 cannabis distributors
may also engage in the temporary storage of cannabis or cannabis items
as necessary to carry out transportation activities.
[Added 6-17-2021 by Ord.
No. 2021-09]
A person or entity holding a Class 2 cannabis manufacturer
license pursuant to N.J.S.A. 24:6I-31 et seq., and any regulations
duly adopted by the Cannabis Regulatory Commission. Class 2 licensees'
primary business is processing cannabis items in this state by purchasing
or otherwise obtaining usable cannabis, manufacturing, preparing,
and packaging cannabis items, and selling, and optionally transporting,
these items to other cannabis manufacturers, cannabis wholesalers,
or cannabis retailers, but not to consumers.
[Added 6-17-2021 by Ord.
No. 2021-09]
A person or entity holding a Class 5 cannabis retailer license
pursuant to N.J.S.A. 24:6I-31 et seq., and any regulations duly adopted
by the Cannabis Regulatory Commission. Class 5 licensees' primary
business is purchasing or otherwise obtaining usable cannabis from
cannabis cultivators and cannabis items from cannabis manufacturers
or cannabis wholesalers, and reselling these to consumers either through
a retail store or use of a cannabis delivery service or a certified
cannabis handler for the off-premises delivery of cannabis items and
related supplies to consumers.
[Added 6-17-2021 by Ord.
No. 2021-09]
An independent, third-party entity meeting accreditation
requirements established by the Cannabis Regulatory Commission that
is licensed to analyze and certify cannabis items and medical cannabis
for compliance with applicable health, safety, and potency standards.
[Added 6-17-2021 by Ord.
No. 2021-09]
A person or entity holding a Class 3 cannabis wholesaler
license pursuant to N.J.S.A. 24:6I-31 et seq., and any regulations
duly adopted by the Cannabis Regulatory Commission. Class 3 licensees'
primary business entails the purchase or otherwise obtaining, storing,
selling and otherwise transferring, and may transport, cannabis items
for the purpose of resale or other transfer to either another cannabis
wholesaler or to a cannabis retailer, but not to consumers.
[Added 6-17-2021 by Ord.
No. 2021-09]
A retail store that has a narrow merchandising focus with
a large selection of products in specific merchandising lines, such
as consumer electronics, off-price apparel, sporting goods, books,
computer hardware and software, bulk foods, records and tapes or building
materials and home improvement products.
[Added 2-1-1999 by Ord. No. 1999-4]
An establishment providing for the care, supervision, and
protection of children licensed by the Department of Community Affairs
as a provider of services. By definition, a child-care center shall
not be considered an educational facility, or an educational use or
uses under the Zoning Code.
[Added 8-21-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-12]
Form of development that permits a reduction in lot area
and bulk requirements, provided there is no increase in the number
of lots permitted under a conventional subdivision plan or increase
in the overall density of development and the remaining land area
is devoted to open space, active recreation, preservation of environmentally
sensitive areas, or agriculture. The technique is available for use
only in those zoning districts in which it is approved for use and
then only after a conventional subdivision plan has been submitted
and approved by the Land Development Board to establish the maximum
number of units that can be built on the site.
[Amended 7-6-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-24]
Use of a common wireless telecommunications tower or a common
site by two or more wireless license holders or by one wireless license
holder for more than one type of communications technology and/or
placement of a wireless telecommunications tower on a structure owned
or operated by a utility or other public entity.
[Added 6-21-1999 by Ord. No. 1999-11]
Licensed commercial wireless telecommunication services,
including cellular, personal communications services, specialized
mobilized radio, enhanced specialized mobilized radio, paging and
similar services that are marketed to the general public.
[Added 6-21-1999 by Ord. No. 1999-11]
Land or water, or a combination, together with improvements
within or related to a development, designed and intended for the
use or enjoyment of all residents of the development. Common property
includes common open space and may contain such complementary structures
and improvements as are necessary and appropriate for its use or enjoyment.
A large retail center that contains at least 250,000 square
feet of gross leasable area (GLA) and includes at least one anchor
store containing at least 100,000 square feet of GLA. It typically
includes at least four smaller, category-specific tenants each having
20,000 square feet to 25,000 square feet of GLA. The community/power
retail center is usually managed as a unified shopping center. However,
recognizing the need for flexibility in this retail industry, the
community/power retail center may contain no more than two stores,
such as an anchor store or movie theater, owned on a fee simple basis.
These separate fee simple retail entities, which should contain at
least 100,000 square feet of GLA, may be provided as a separate pad
site or integrated with the primary community/power retail center
establishment.
[Added 2-1-1999 by Ord. No. 1999-4]
See "child-care center."
[Added 8-21-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-12]
A facility providing care for the elderly and/or functionally
impaired adults in a protective setting for part of a twenty-four-hour
day.
[Added 8-21-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-12]
The maximum number of dwelling units or square feet of nonresidential
floor area that could be constructed on a specific lot or in a specified
zone under the Master Plan and land use regulations in effect on the
date of the adoption of this chapter and in accordance with recognized
environmental constraints.
[Added 9-5-1995 by Ord. No. 1995-17]
The conveyance of development potential or the permission
for development from one or more lots to one or more other lots by
deed, easement or other means as authorized by this chapter.
[Added 9-5-1995 by Ord. No. 1995-17]
See "dwelling, semidetached single-family."
[Added 4-17-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-8]
One or more rooms with private bath and kitchen facilities
comprising an independent, self-contained dwelling unit in a building
comprising three or more such units.
[Added 4-17-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-8]
A building containing two dwelling units side by side on
adjoining lots and having a common or party wall and having separate
individual sewerage and water facilities and connections.
[Added 4-17-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-8]
A detached building containing one dwelling unit.
A building physically separated from other buildings or portions
of buildings which is occupied or intended to be occupied for residential
purposes by one family.
[Added 4-17-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-8]
A building containing three or more attached dwelling units
erected in a row on adjoining lots, each unit being separate from
the adjoining unit, but attached by a common or party wall, and each
unit having separate individual outside access and individual public
water and sewerage facilities and connections.
[Added 4-17-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-8]
A room or series of connected rooms containing living, cooking,
sleeping and sanitary facilities for one family.
A college or university authorized by the State Department
of Education to award degrees.
[Added 8-21-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-12]
A private or public organization that is organized and operated
for the purpose of providing a service or carrying on a trade or business
without profit and for charitable purposes. The term shall not mean
a child-care center or day-care center/day nursery.
[Added 8-21-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-12]
Areas which include, but are not limited to, stream corridors
and floodplains, streams, bodies of water, freshwater wetlands (as
defined by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection),
slopes greater than 15%, shallow depth to seasonally high water table
(two feet or less), highly acidic or erodible soils (as defined by
the Soil Conservation Service), mature stands of trees, aquifer recharge
areas, aquifer discharge areas, unique natural features and wildlife
habitats or such areas as may be designated by federal or state agencies
of jurisdiction.
[Added 9-5-1995 by Ord. No. 1995-17]
Federal Aviation Administration.
[Added 6-21-1999 by Ord. No. 1999-11]
One or more persons occupying a dwelling unit as a single,
nonprofit housekeeping unit, who are living together as a stable and
permanent living unit, being a traditional family unit or the functional
equivalent thereof.
[Amended 11-21-1994 by Ord. No. 1994-20]
A family day-care home means the private residence of a family
day-care provider which is registered as a family day-care home pursuant
to the Family Day Care Provider Registration Act (N.J.S.A. 30:5B-16
et seq.). Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55-66.5b, family day-care homes
shall be a permitted use in all residential districts of the community.
[Added 8-21-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-12]
[Amended 11-21-1994 by Ord. No. 1994-20]
PRINCIPAL FARM USESA lot of at least six acres, with the first acre devoted to the dwelling (if applicable) and at least five additional acres devoted to agricultural use, including the growing and harvesting of crops and the raising and breeding of farm animals, except that commercial piggeries are prohibited. Truck farms, fruit farms, nurseries, greenhouses, dairies and livestock produce are permitted.
ACCESSORY FARM USESBuildings incidental to farms such as greenhouses, buildings for the housing of seasonal workers for the farm's own use, barns and packing, grading and storage buildings limited to produce raised on the premises. Processing operations, buildings for the keeping of poultry, garages for the storage of farm equipment and farm stands are "accessory farm uses."
Federal Communications Commission.
[Added 6-21-1999 by Ord. No. 1999-11]
A lot with sufficient width for an access drive with the
enlarged buildable portion of the lot located at the end of the access
drive.
The face of a building that contains the front or main entrance.
[Added 4-5-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-12]
In residential districts, the term refers to a structure
that is accessory to a single- or two-family dwelling, is used for
the parking and storage of items owned by the residents thereof, and
is not a separate commercial enterprise available to the general public.
A garage is to contain more than 200 square feet; structures containing
less than 200 square feet shall be considered and regulated as a storage
shed regardless of the items placed within it.
[Added 7-6-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-24]
An area of 75 or more acres containing a full-sized golf
course of at least nine holes, together with usual accessory uses
such as but not limited to a clubhouse, dining room, refreshment stand,
swimming pool and tennis courts, provided that the accessory uses
are incidental to the operation of the golf course.
The total area measured around the outside of the building
at each story. If sharing a common wall, the area shall be measured
from the center of interior walls and the outside of exterior walls.
In residential uses, the gross floor area shall exclude the areas
of the garage, attic, open porch or patio, cellar, unfinished basement,
utility areas, heating and cooling rooms. In nonresidential structures,
the gross floor area shall exclude areas used for utility, heating,
cooling and other mechanical equipment but shall include all other
areas, including cellars, warehousing and storage areas.
When referring to a tower or other structure, the distance
measured from the finished grade of the parcel to the highest point
on the tower or other structure, including the base pad of any antenna.
[Added 6-21-1999 by Ord. No. 1999-11]
An occupation being conducted wholly or in part from a residence
or the residential lot as an accessory use.
A nonprofit corporation operating under a recorded land agreement
through which:
Each lot or dwelling unit owner shall be a member.
The owner of each lot or dwelling unit is subject
to a charge for a proportionate share of the organization's expenses
for activities and maintenance, including maintenance costs levied
against the association by the Township.
Each owner and tenant has a right to use the
common property.
A tract comprehensively planned for industrial or office
use, whether the buildings are erected in one development stage or
over a period of time, but where the streets, utilities and lots and/or
tenants' parcels are set forth on a plan for the entire tract prior
to construction of any portion of the tract. As development takes
place, changes may be made in the plans for the undeveloped section(s),
provided that the modifications conform to logical extensions of installed
segments of streets, drainage, utilities and other facilities. Parks
with no subdivided lots shall have buildings spaced so the mortgage
and/or lease lines conform to the requirements for lot lines to establish
conformance with this chapter for such matters as building setbacks,
buffers, driveway locations and distances between buildings.
An off-street berth on the same lot as the building being
served for the temporary parking of a vehicle while loading or unloading.
The area contained within the lot lines but not including
any portion of a street. The minimum lot area of a lot fronting on
a street proposed to be widened in the adopted Master Plan shall be
the minimum area required, plus the additional area needed to anticipate
the widening of the street.
[Amended 8-3-1992 by Ord. No. 1992-6]
A lot at the junction of two or more intersecting public
streets where the interior angle of intersection does not exceed 135°.
All yards on a corner lot which do not meet the definition of a front
yard shall be considered to be side yards. A private street or access
drive shall not be considered a public street until it has been dedicated
to and accepted by the Township.
[Amended 8-3-1992 by Ord. No. 1992-6; 7-21-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-6-008]
The area of a lot covered by buildings and other impervious
surfaces.[2]
The distance between the side lot lines measured along the
street line. The minimum "lot frontage" shall be the same as the lot
width except that on curved streets with an outside radius of less
than 500 feet, the lot frontage may be reduced to not less than 50%
of the required minimum lot width. On corner lots, the lot frontage
requirements shall be met for each street frontage and the measurement
shall be made from side lot line to front lot line or from front lot
line to front lot line, as the case may be.
[Amended 8-3-1992 by Ord. No. 1992-6]
Any line, including the street line, forming a portion of
the boundary of a lot.
A place for the transaction of business where reports are
prepared and records kept but where no retail sales or goods are offered
and where no manufacturing, assembling or fabricating takes place.
A single, freestanding pole-type structure, tapering from
base to top, and supporting one or more antenna for wireless transmission.
[Added 6-21-1999 by Ord. No. 1999-11]
A regularly repeated distance defined by a given number of
parking spaces. A parking bay may include one or two rows of parking
spaces with the associated landscape islands.
[Added 2-1-1999 by Ord. No. 1999-4]
A path constructed of permanent materials, as set forth in
this chapter, which does not share or occupy the same cartway or driving
surface used by motor vehicles and is used solely for pedestrian and
bicycle traffic.
[Added 9-5-1995 by Ord. No. 1995-17]
Any use of land or buildings permitted by this chapter.
Establishments primarily engaged in providing limited sales
and services involving the care of a person or his or her personal
goods and apparel, including, but not limited to, laundry, dry cleaning,
barbershops, beauty salon, tanning salon, candy and flower shops,
home movie rental and take-out food establishments.
[Added 4-17-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-8]
A place of business, the primary purpose of which is the
sale of petroleum products delivered to the customer by truck. Storage
facilities shall be permitted on the site but only to the extent needed
to support the distribution facility. A "petroleum distribution terminal"
shall not include long-term bulk storage facilities of the type commonly
known as a "tank farm."
[Added 4-18-1988 by Ord. No. 1988-7]
The plat of all or a section of a development submitted for
final approval.
The plat submitted as a part of the application for preliminary
approval.
[Amended 8-3-1992 by Ord. No. 1992-6]
Any tower or antenna for which a building permit has been
properly issued prior to the effective date of this chapter, including
permitted towers or antennas that have not yet been constructed, so
long as such approval is current, and not expired.
[Added 6-21-1999 by Ord. No. 1999-11]
The main purpose for which any lot and/or building is used.
An institution of education whose general course work is
comparable to the public school system and whose curriculum is approved
by the New Jersey Department of Education or the New Jersey Department
of Higher Education.
The use of land and/or building(s) by a municipal, county,
state or federal agency or authority.
An area designated in the Master Plan and this chapter within
which development is to be increased and which is consistent with
the provisions of N.J.S.A. 40:55D-118.
[Added 9-5-1995 by Ord. No. 1995-17;
amended 3-21-1996 by Ord. No. 1996-3]
Leisure time activities, usually of a more formal nature
and, in general, performed with other participants, often requiring
equipment and taking place at prescribed places, sites or fields.
[Added 9-5-1995 by Ord. No. 1995-17]
Any leisure time activity not considered active.
[Added 9-5-1995 by Ord. No. 1995-17]
The total width and length of the course of a street, watercourse,
utility alignment or other way and within, under or over which all
improvements and rights of access are confined.
Any building or parts thereof that is designed, constructed,
or used for education or institution in any branch of knowledge which
is licensed by the State Department of Education.
[Added 8-21-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-12]
Any school that meets state requirements for elementary education.
[Added 8-21-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-12]
A school supported, controlled, and operated by a religious
organization. See "school, private."
[Added 8-21-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-12]
Any building or group of buildings, the use of which meets
State Department of Education requirements for elementary, secondary,
or higher education and which does not secure the major part of its
funding from any governmental agency.
[Added 8-21-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-12]
Any school that is licensed by the State Department of Education
and authorized to award diplomas for secondary education.
[Added 8-21-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-12]
See "vocational school."
[Added 8-21-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-12]
An area designated in the Master Plan and this chapter within
which development is to be prohibited or restricted and which is otherwise
consistent with the provisions of N.J.S.A. 40:55D-118.
[Added 9-5-1995 by Ord. No. 1995-17;
amended 3-21-1996 by Ord. No. 1996-3]
A line parallel to a street line or lot line beyond which
a building is not permitted to project under the terms of this chapter.
The minimum yard requirements shall be the minimum required setbacks.
All setbacks from public streets shall be measured from the proposed
right-of-way width as shown on the adopted Master Plan.
[Amended 8-3-1992 by Ord. No. 1992-6]
A group of commercial establishments, the majority of which
are retail stores, built on a site which is planned, developed, owned
and managed as an operating unit and which provides on-site parking
in definite relationship to the types and total size of the commercial
establishments.
An area where unobstructed visibility is maintained outside
the right-of-way, as regulated in this chapter.
Any announcement, display or illustration used to advertise
or promote the interest of any person or product when the same is
placed in a position to be seen by the general public from any street
or public way.
A facility through which stormwater is directed and which
is designed to collect silt and eroded soil from a designated area.
The following shall be exempt from site plan review:
[Amended 8-3-1992 by Ord. No. 1992-6; 1-20-1998 by Ord. No.
1998-4]
Single-family dwellings and their accessory
buildings, structures and uses, except for home occupations, which
shall require site plan review.
Two-family dwellings and their accessory buildings,
structures and uses.
Fences, on single-family and two-family lots.
Building alterations which do not involve exterior
changes, which do not involve increased floor area, where there is
no change in use and where there is no increase in impervious surfaces.
Changes in tenancy which do not involve exterior building alterations, where there is no change in the actual use of the building (i.e., a clothing store becomes a clothing store, or a restaurant becomes a different restaurant) and where there is no increase in impervious surfaces. A change in use from a permitted use to another permitted use, where the proposed actual use is different from the existing actual use (i.e., changing a restaurant to a clothing store) would require site plan review, even though both uses might be permitted in that particular zone. However, said review shall be limited to the consideration of those items delineated and described at § 130-16B and C of this chapter.
[Amended 12-21-1998 by Ord. No. 1998-35]
A site plan for a development or building alterations requiring
fewer than 10 parking spaces, containing less than 2,500 square feet
of new floor area and adding no more than 10% to lot coverage.
All site plans not defined as minor or exempt.
Linear displays of fringed material no more than 12 inches
in height and of any length, made of weather-resistant material and
strung essentially parallel to the ground. Streamers shall be considered
signs for the purposes of this chapter, but they shall not be counted
as freestanding signs, and the area of the streamers shall not be
counted toward the sign area limitations of this chapter.
[Added 5-9-1988 by Ord. No. 1988-9]
The edge of the existing or future street right-of-way, whichever
would result in the widest right-of-way, as shown on the adopted Master
Plan or Official Map or as required by this chapter, forming the dividing
line between the street and property line. For the purposes of relating
the street line to the setback requirements of this chapter, this
definition shall control.
[Added 12-18-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-20]
Any construction or any production or piece
of work or any combination of materials, artificially built up or
composed of parts joined together in some definite manner, whether
installed on, above or below the surface of any parcel of land.
Examples of structures include, but are not
limited to, buildings, decks, fences, standards, signs, flagpoles,
towers, swimming pools, tennis courts, landfills, levees, bulkheads,
dikes, jetties, embankments, causeways, culverts, roads, railroads,
bridges, utility facilities, sound walls, acoustical barriers, whether
completed or under construction, alteration or repair.
For the purposes of this definition, a parcel
of land includes any body of water that may be located on the parcel.
Trees and other vegetation shall not be considered structures.
Any subdivision not classified as minor or exempt.
A subdivision of land that does not adversely affect the
development of the remainder of the tract or any adjoining property
and does not involve the creation of more than three lots fronting
on an existing improved street (including the remainder of the original
lot); planned development; any new street; or extension of any off-tract
improvement, the cost of which is to be prorated pursuant in accordance
with the terms of this chapter. Approval of a minor subdivision shall
be deemed final approval and as such shall be prepared in accordance
with the final plat requirements.
Facilities constructed or assembled above or below ground
having a depth of more than two feet and/or water surface of 100 square
feet or more, and designed and maintained for swimming purposes. Swimming
pools shall include all buildings, structures, equipment and appurtenances
thereto.
A municipally established development transfer bank created
to work in conjunction with the Burlington County Transfer of Development
Rights Bank in order to encourage the transfer of development credits
within the private market, provide for the acquisition of development
credits in hardship circumstances and secure agricultural loans using
TDR credits as collateral in conforming with the provisions of N.J.S.A.
40:55D-125.
[Added 9-5-1995 by Ord. No. 1995-17]
A development located within the receiving zone which utilizes,
to achieve a portion of its density, units obtained from credits or
rights transferred from parcels of land located in the sending zone.
[Added 9-5-1995 by Ord. No. 1995-17]
A deed-like document recorded against the title of a parcel
of land to create transferable development rights of credits. The
document shall restrict the use of the parcel of land against which
it is recorded in the fashion required by TDR easement form.[5]
[Added 9-5-1995 by Ord. No. 1995-17]
Any ground or roof mounted pole, spire, structure or combination
thereof that is designed and constructed primarily for the purpose
of supporting one or more antennas for telephone, radio and similar
communications purposes, including supporting lines, cables, wires,
braces and masks. The term includes radio and television transmission
towers, common-carrier towers, cellular telephone towers, alternative
tower structures, and the like.
[Added 6-21-1999 by Ord. No. 1999-11]
A tower to which is attached the antennas of more than one
commercial wireless telecommunications service provider or governmental
entity.
[Added 6-21-1999 by Ord. No. 1999-11]
A tower to which is attached only the antennas of a single
user, although the tower may be designed to accommodate the antennas
of multiple users as required by this chapter.
[Added 6-21-1999 by Ord. No. 1999-11]
One dwelling unit in a line of three or more attached dwelling
units, with each dwelling unit extending from the ground to the roof
and having individual outside entrances. No interior rooms or hallways
shall be shared with another dwelling unit.
[Amended 8-3-1992 by Ord. No. 1992-6]
A measure of the development potential of a parcel stated
in unit terms. One development right equals the right to build one
single-family detached dwelling or an equivalency. The term is synonymous
with "TDR," "development right," "TDR credit" or "credit."
[Added 9-5-1995 by Ord. No. 1995-17]
Services such as, but not limited to, sewage treatment, water
supply, gas, electric, telephone, and cable TV.
A secondary or higher education facility primarily teaching
usable skills that prepares students for jobs in a trade, and meeting
the state requirements as a vocational facility licensed by the Department
of Education.
[Added 8-21-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-12]
The edge of running or standing water at the time of year
when the depth to seasonal high water is at its shallowest (least)
depth.
[Added 9-5-1995 by Ord. No. 1995-17]
Space unoccupied, except as permitted in this chapter, extending
between any building and a lot line or street line. All "yard" dimensions
shall be measured parallel to the horizon and at right angles to either
a straight street line, lot line or building facade or perpendicular
to the point of tangency of curved lines and facades.
[Amended 8-3-1992 by Ord. No. 1992-6]
The area extending across the full width of a lot between
the street line and the nearest point of the building to the street
line, extending to the side lot lines from such point in lines parallel
or concentric to the street line. On lots with multiple lot frontages,
such as corner lots, the "front yard" standards shall apply to all
lot frontages.
[Amended 8-3-1992 by Ord. No. 1992-6]
The area extending across the full width of a lot between
the rear lot line and nearest point of the building to the rear lot
line, extending to the side lot lines from such point in lines parallel
or concentric to the street line.
[Amended 8-3-1992 by Ord. No. 1992-6]
The area extending from the front yard to the rear yard and
lying between each side lot line and the nearest point of the building
to a side lot line. On corner lots, all yards not meeting the definition
of a front yard shall be considered to be "side yards," and the "side
yard" shall be measured from each side lot line to the nearest point
of the building to a side lot line.
[Amended 8-3-1992 by Ord. No. 1992-6]
The officer designated by the Township Committee to administer
the zoning ordinance[6] and issue zoning permits.
[Amended 8-3-1992 by Ord. No. 1992-6]
[2]
Editor's Note: The original definition of
"lot depth," which immediately followed this definition, was deleted
8-3-1992 by Ord. No. 1992-6.
[3]
Editor's Note: The original definition of
"mobile home," which immediately followed this definition, was deleted
8-3-1992 by Ord. No. 1992-6.
[4]
Editor's Note: The former definitions of "marijuana alternative
treatment center,” “marijuana cultivation facility,”
“marijuana distribution,” “marijuana products,”
and “marijuana testing facility," added 10-23-2018 by Ord. No.
2018-27, were repealed 6-17-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-09. See now "alternative
treatment center" and other definitions relating to cannabis.
[5]
Editor's Note: The TDR easement form is on
file in the office of the Township Clerk.
