A.
ACCESSORY BUILDING OR STRUCTURE
ACCESSORY USE
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER
ALTERATION OF STRUCTURE
APARTMENT
APPLICANT
APPLICATION FOR DEVELOPMENT
APPROVING AUTHORITY
BILLBOARD
BOARDER
BUILDING HEIGHT
BUILDING or STRUCTURE
CAFRA PLANNING MAP
CAFRA CENTERS, CORES OR NODES
CANNABIS RETAILER
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT
CIRCULATION
COMMON OPEN SPACE
COMMON OWNERSHIP
COMPACTION
CORE
COUNTY REVIEW AGENCY
CRITICAL AREA
DEPARTMENT
DESIGNATED CENTER
DESIGN ENGINEER
DEVELOPER
DEVELOPMENT
DEVELOPMENT REGULATION
DRAINAGE AREA
DRAINAGE RIGHT-OF-WAY
DWELLING
EASEMENT FOR UTILITY INSTALLATIONS
EMPOWERMENT NEIGHBORHOOD
ENVIRONMENTALLY CRITICAL AREAS
EROSION
FAMILY
FENCE
FINAL APPROVAL
FINAL PLAT
FINANCIAL SERVICE CENTER
FLOOR AREA
GARAGE, PRIVATE
GARAGE, PUBLIC
GARDEN APARTMENTS
HIGH-RISE APARTMENT
IMPERVIOUS SURFACE
INFILTRATION
LAND
LIVING FENCE
LOT
LOT AREA
LOT, CORNER
LOT DEPTH
LOW-RISE APARTMENT
MAINTENANCE GUARANTY
MAJOR DEVELOPMENT
MAJOR SUBDIVISION
MASTER PLAN
MAUSOLEUM
MID-RISE APARTMENT
MINOR SUBDIVISION
MUNICIPAL AGENCY
MUNICIPALITY
NODE
NONCONFORMING LOT
NONCONFORMING STRUCTURE
NONCONFORMING USE
NUTRIENT
OFFICIAL MAP
OFF-SITE
OFF-TRACT
ON-SITE
ON-TRACT
OPEN SPACE
OWNER
PARKING AREA
PARKING SPACE
PARTY IMMEDIATELY CONCERNED
PERFORMANCE GUARANTY
PERSON
PLAT
POLLUTANT
PRELIMINARY PLAT
PRINCIPAL USE
QUORUM
RECHARGE
RESUBDIVISION
RETIREMENT COMMUNITY
SEDIMENT
SIGHT TRIANGLE
SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED DWELLING
SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED HOUSING
SINGLE OWNERSHIP
SITE
SKETCH PLAT
SOIL
STATE DEVELOPMENT AND REDEVELOPMENT PLAN METROPOLITAN PLANNING
AREA (PA1)
STATE PLAN POLICY MAP
STORMWATER
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT BASIN
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT MEASURE
STORMWATER RUNOFF
STORY
STREET
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
STREET LINE
SUBDIVIDER
SUBDIVISION
SUBDIVISION COMMITTEE
SWIMMING POOL, PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL
TIDAL FLOOD HAZARD AREA
TOWNHOUSE
URBAN COORDINATING COUNCIL EMPOWERMENT NEIGHBORHOOD
URBAN ENTERPRISE ZONE
URBAN REDEVELOPMENT AREA
VARIANCE
WATERS OF THE STATE
WETLANDS or WETLAND
YARD, FRONT
YARD, REAR
YARD, SIDE
Certain words and phrases are used in this chapter
which, for the purposes hereof, are defined as follows:
A subordinate building or structure on the same lot with
a main building, or a portion of the main building, occupied or devoted
exclusively to an accessory use. Where an accessory building is attached
to a main building in a substantial manner by a wall or roof, such
accessory building shall be considered part of the main building.
A private garage shall be considered an accessory building.
A use naturally and normally incident and subordinate to
the principal use of the premises or lot.
The Municipal Clerk, unless a different municipal official
or officials are designated by this chapter.
A change in the supporting members of a structure, an addition,
diminution, change in use, or conversion of a structure or a part
thereof, or removal of a structure from one location to another. This
definition shall not be construed to mean that a change in use from
one use permitted in a zone to another use permitted in that same
zone shall be an alteration.
A dwelling unit located within the same building with at
least two other dwelling units.
[Added 10-13-2016 by Ord.
No. 2016-14]
A developer submitting an application for development.
The application form and all accompanying documents required
by this chapter for approval of a subdivision plat, site plan, conditional
use, zoning variance or direction of the issuance of a permit pursuant
to this chapter.
The Planning Board.
[Amended 12-10-1996 by Ord. No. 96-14]
A commercial sign structure that advertises/directs attention
to a person, business, organization, product, service or activity
which is conducted, sold or offered at a location other than the premises
upon which the sign structure is located.
[Added 12-14-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-24]
A person who is not related to the head of the household
and who pays for the privilege of boarding.
The vertical distance from the average ground elevation around
the foundation to the level of the highest point of the roof surface.
Anything or any part thereof constructed, placed or erected,
whether portable, prefabricated, sectional or otherwise, which requires
permanent or temporary location on the ground or attachment to something
having such location, including any excavation or foundation therefor,
and excepting driveways or self-propelled licensed vehicles.
The geographic depiction of the boundaries for Coastal Planning
Areas, CAFRA Centers, CAFRA Cores and CAFRA Nodes pursuant to N.J.A.C.
7:7E-5B.3.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
Those areas within boundaries accepted by the Department
pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:8E-5B.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
Any person or entity holding a Class 5 Cannabis Retailer
license issued by the State of New Jersey that purchases or otherwise
obtains usable cannabis from cannabis cultivators and cannabis items
from cannabis manufacturers or cannabis wholesalers and sells these
to consumers from a retail store, and may use a cannabis delivery
service of a certified cannabis handler for the off-premises delivery
of cannabis items and related supplies to consumers.
[Added 10-12-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-16; amended 12-14-2023 by Ord. No.
2023-23]
A governmental acquisition of real property or major construction
project.
Systems, structures and physical improvements for the movement
of people, goods, water, air, sewage or power by such means as streets,
highways, railways, waterways, towers, airways, pipes and conduits,
and the handling of people and goods by such means as terminals, stations,
warehouses and other storage buildings or transshipment points.
An open space area shown on a recorded subdivision and designed
and intended for the use or enjoyment of residents and owners of two
or more lots. Common open space may contain such complementary structures
and improvements as may be approved by the Planning Board as necessary
and appropriate for the use or enjoyment of residents and owners of
the lots involved.
Ownership of two or more contiguous parcels of real property
by one person or by two or more persons owning such property jointly
as tenants by the entirety or as tenants in common.
The increase in soil bulk density.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
A pedestrian-oriented area of commercial and civic uses serving
the surrounding municipality, generally including housing and access
to public transportation.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
An agency designated by the County Board of Chosen Freeholders
to review municipal stormwater management plans and implementing ordinances.
The county review agency may either be: a county planning agency;
or a county water resource association created under N.J.S.A. 58:16A-55.5,
if the ordinance or resolution delegates authority to approve, conditionally
approve, or disapprove municipal stormwater management plans and implementing
ordinances.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
Any area in any zoning district of the Borough of Netcong wherein the land or water thereon falls within the guidelines and classifications established in Article XI, Critical Areas, of this chapter.
[Added 9-12-1989]
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
A State Development and Redevelopment Plan Center as designated
by the State Planning Commission, such as urban, regional, town, village,
or hamlet.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
A person professionally qualified and duly licensed in New
Jersey to perform engineering services that may include, but not necessarily
be limited to, development of project requirements, creation and development
of project design and preparation of drawings and specifications.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
The legal or beneficial owner or owners of a lot or of any
land proposed to be included in a proposed development, including
the holder of an option or contract to purchase or other person having
an enforceable proprietary interest in such land.
The division of a parcel of land into two or more parcels,
the construction, reconstruction, conversion, structural alteration,
relocation or enlargement of any building or structure, any mining
excavation or landfill, and any use or change in the use of any building
or other structure, or land or extension of use of land, by any person,
for which permission is required pursuant to this chapter or under
the Municipal Land Use Law , N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq. In the case
of development of agricultural lands, “development” means:
any activity that requires a state permit; any activity reviewed by
the County Agricultural Board (CAB) and the State Agricultural Development
Committee (SADC), and municipal review of any activity not exempted
by the Right to Farm Act, N.J.S.A. 4:1C-1 et seq.
[Amended 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
A zoning ordinance, subdivision ordinance, site plan ordinance,
official map ordinance or other Borough regulation of the use and
development of land, or amendment thereto, adopted and filed pursuant
to Chapter 291 of the Laws of New Jersey 1975.[1]
A geographic area within which stormwater, sediments, or
dissolved materials drain to a particular receiving water body or
to a particular point along a receiving water body.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
The lands required for the installation of stormwater sewers or drainage ditches or required along a natural stream or watercourse for preserving the channel and providing for the flow of water therein to safeguard the public against flood damage in accordance with Chapter 1 of Title 58 of the Revised Statutes.[2]
A building or portion thereof designated for use exclusively
for residential occupancy, including one-family dwellings, two-family
dwellings and multiple-family dwellings, but not including apartment
hotels, hotels, motels, tourist courts, trailers, boardinghouses,
rooming houses, hospitals, institutional homes, clubs and the like.
The perpetual right granted to and held by the Borough of
Netcong for the installation, maintenance or repair of any utility,
such as electric power, light, telephone, water, gas or sewer.
A neighborhood designated by the Urban Coordinating Council
in consultation and conjunction with the New Jersey Redevelopment
Authority pursuant to N.J.S.A. 55:19-69.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
An area or feature which is of significant environmental
value, including, but not limited to: stream corridors; natural heritage
priority sites; habitat of endangered or threatened species; large
areas of contiguous open space or upland forest; steep slopes; and
wellhead protection and groundwater recharge areas. Habitats of endangered
or threatened species are identified using the Department’s
Landscape Project as approved by the Department’s Endangered
and Nongame Species Program.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
The detachment and movement of soil or rock fragments by
water, wind, ice or gravity.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
One or more individuals occupying a dwelling unit and living
together as a single household unit with common access to, and common
use of, all facilities comprising the dwelling unit, as distinguished
from a boarding or rooming house, fraternity or sorority house, club,
motel and other similar uses.
[Amended 8-14-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-10]
An artificially constructed barrier of any material or combination
of materials erected to enclose, screen, or separate areas. For purposes
of this chapter, a wall or living fence shall be considered a fence
and subject to the same restrictions.
[Added 10-9-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-12]
The official action of the Planning Board taken on a preliminary
approval, major subdivision or site plan after all conditions, engineering
plans and other requirements have been completed or fulfilled and
the required improvements have been installed or guaranties properly
posted for their completion, or approval conditioned upon the posting
of such guaranties.
The final map of all or a portion of the subdivision which
is presented to the Planning Board for final approval in accordance
with these regulations and which, if approved, shall be filed with
the Clerk of Morris County for recording in accordance with law.
A nonbank entity that does not accept deposits or make loans
like traditional banks and financial institutions but that provides
monetary services that include the sale or redemption of travelers
checks or money orders, money wire transfers, check cashing and currency
exchange.
[Added 6-9-2011 by Ord. No. 2011-5]
The area of all floors, computed by measuring the inside
dimension of the outside walls in a building, excluding the floors
of the following: crawl spaces, basements, porches, breezeways, patios,
terraces, garages and carports. The floor area of a second floor room
or attic shall be included if the ceiling height is at least seven
feet, notwithstanding that the room or attic has minor ceiling slopes,
provided that the knee walls are at least five feet in height.
A building designed and used for the storage of privately
owned motor vehicles. Nothing herein can be construed to prohibit
its use, however, for the storage of one commercial vehicle.
Any building, premises or land in, at or upon which gasoline
or motor fuel is sold to the public, or upon which business, service
or industry involving the storage, maintenance, washing or servicing
of motor vehicles is conducted or rendered.
An apartment in a building with 10 or more levels (floors).
[Added 10-13-2016 by Ord.
No. 2016-14]
A surface that has been covered with a layer of material
so that it is highly resistant to infiltration by water.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
The process by which water seeps into the soil from precipitation.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
Improvements and fixtures on, above or below the surface.
A barrier or enclosure on a property border comprised of
living material such as shrubs or other plantings located to screen
or separate areas.
[Added 10-9-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-12]
A parcel of land occupied or proposed to be occupied by one
building and the accessory buildings or uses customarily incident
to it, including such open spaces as are required by this chapter
and such open spaces as are arranged and designed to be used in connection
with such buildings, which parcel of land has its principal frontage
on a public street or a private street of record; said private street
must provide access to an accepted public street.
An area of land which is determined by the limits of the
lot lines bounding that area and is always expressed in terms of square
feet or acres. Any portion of a lot included in a street right-of-way
shall not be included in calculating lot area. In the event that more
than one plot or lot as set forth on any map filed in the office of
the Clerk of the County of Morris, or lot as set forth on the present
or future maps of the Borough of Netcong, is used in part or in full
with one or more other such lots or plots for the erection of a building
and its accessories, including yards required by this chapter, the
aggregate of all such plots or lots shall, for the purpose of this
chapter, be deemed to be one lot.
A lot located at the junction of and fronting on two or more
intersecting streets.
The mean distance from the street line of the lot to the
rear lot line, measured generally parallel to the side lines of the
lot. The greater frontage of a corner lot is its depth and its lesser
frontage is its width.
An apartment in a building that has one or two levels (floors).
[Added 10-13-2016 by Ord.
No. 2016-14]
Any security which may be accepted by the Borough for the
maintenance of any improvements required by this chapter.
Any development that provides for ultimately disturbing one
or more acres of land. Disturbance for the purpose of stormwater management
is considered the placement of impervious surface or exposure and/or
movement of soil or bedrock or clearing, cutting, or removing of vegetation.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
All subdivisions not classified as minor subdivisions.
A composite of the mapped and written proposals recommending
the physical development of the municipality which shall have been
duly adopted by the Planning Board.
A permanent structure or building used for the entombment
of human remains in crypts, vaults or niches. A mausoleum shall be
distinguished from a single or multiple vault in that it shall be
constructed on the premises, shall be a single integrated structure
and shall not, as in the case of a vault, consist of one or more containers
constructed off of the cemetery premises and installed singly or in
a series at the cemetery premises.
[Added 9-10-1998 by Ord. No. 98-12]
An apartment in a building that has more than two levels
(floors) and less than 10 levels.
[Added 10-13-2016 by Ord.
No. 2016-14]
Any subdivision containing not more than three lots fronting
on an existing minor street, not involving any new street, off-tract
improvement or the extension of municipal facilities and not adversely
affecting the development of the remainder of the parcel or adjoining
property and not in conflict with any provision or portion of the
Master Plan Official Map, Zoning Ordinance or this chapter.
The Planning Board.
[Amended 12-10-1996 by Ord. No. 96-14]
Any city, borough, town, township or village.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
An area designated by the State Planning Commission concentrating
facilities and activities which are not organized in a compact form.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
A lot the area, dimension or location of which was lawful
prior to the adoption, revision or amendment of a zoning ordinance,
but fails to conform to the requirements of the zoning district in
which it is located, by reason of such adoption, revision or amendment.
A structure the size, dimension or location of which was
lawful prior to the adoption, revision or amendment of a zoning ordinance,
but which fails to conform to the requirements of the zoning district
in which it is located, by reason of such adoption, revision or amendment.
A use or activity which was lawful prior to the adoption,
revision or amendment of a zoning ordinance, but which fails to conform
to the requirements of the zoning district in which it is located,
by reason of such adoption, revision or amendment.
A chemical element or compound, such as nitrogen or phosphorus,
which is essential to and promotes the development of organisms.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
A map adopted in accordance with Article 5 of Chapter 291
of the Laws of New Jersey 1975.[4] Such map shall be deemed conclusive with respect to the
location, width and extent of streets, public parks and playgrounds,
drainage rights-of-way and any other areas shown thereon.
Located outside the lot lines of the lot in question but
within the property (of which the lot is a part) which is the subject
of a development application or contiguous portion of a street right-of-way.
Not located on the property which is the subject of a development
application nor on a contiguous portion of a street right-of-way.
Located on the lot in question.
Located on the property which is the subject of a development
application or on a contiguous portion of a street or right-of-way.
Any parcel or area of land or water essentially unimproved
and set aside, dedicated, designated or reserved for public or private
use or enjoyment or for the use and enjoyment of owners and occupants
of land adjoining or neighboring such open space, provided that such
areas may be improved with only those buildings, structures, streets
and off-street parking and other improvements that are designed to
be incidental to the natural openness of the land.
Any individual, firm, association, syndicate, copartnership
or corporation having sufficient proprietary interest in the land
sought to be developed to commence and maintain proceedings to develop
the same under this chapter.
An open area other than a street, public way or access driveway,
but including aisles that serve parking spaces, used for the parking
of motor vehicles and available for use as a service or privilege
to employees, clients, customers, suppliers or residents.
An off-street space for parking of one motor vehicle being
not less than 18 feet long by nine feet wide, exclusive of access
drives or aisles. The width should be measured perpendicular to the
access of the length and shall have adequate provision for ingress
and egress. This size space is consistent with the New Jersey Residential
Site Improvement Standards.
[Amended 10-13-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-14]
Any security which may be accepted in lieu of a requirement
that certain improvements be made before the Planning Board or other
approving body approves a plat, including a performance bond.
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm,
association, Borough of Netcong, or political subdivision of this
state subject to municipal jurisdiction pursuant to the Municipal
Land Use Law, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
The map of a subdivision.[5]
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter
backwash, sewage, garbage, refuse, oil, grease, sewage sludge, munitions,
chemical wastes, biological materials, medical wastes, radioactive
substance [except those regulated under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954,
as amended (42 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.,], thermal waste, wrecked or discarded
equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, industrial, municipal, agricultural,
and construction waste or runoff, or other residue discharged directly
or indirectly to the land, groundwaters or surface waters of the state,
or to a domestic treatment works. “Pollutant” includes
both hazardous and nonhazardous pollutants.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
The preliminary plat indicating the proposed layout of the subdivision which is submitted to the Municipal Clerk for Planning Board consideration and tentative approval and meeting the requirements of Article VII of this chapter.
The primary or predominant use of the premises.
The majority of the full authorized membership of a municipal
agency.
The amount of water from precipitation that infiltrates into
the ground and is not evapotranspired.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
The further division or relocation of lot lines of any lot
or lots within a subdivision previously made and approved or recorded
according to law; or the alteration of any street or the establishment
of any new streets within any subdivision previously made and approved
or recorded according to law, but does not include conveyances so
as to combine existing lots by deed or other instruments.
Residential units similar to apartments and condominiums
usually restricted to adults or senior citizens, and located in self-contained
villages. Special services such as medical, dining, and retail facilities
may be available.
[Added 10-13-2016 by Ord.
No. 2016-14]
Solid material, mineral or organic, that is in suspension,
is being transported, or has been moved from its site of origin by
air, water or gravity as a product of erosion.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
A triangular-shaped portion of land established at street
intersections in which nothing is erected, placed, planted or allowed
to grow in such a manner as to limit or obstruct the sight distance
of motorists entering or leaving the intersection.
[Added 11-11-1999 by Ord. No. 99-25]
A building consisting of a suite of one or more rooms designed
for occupancy by one family.
Any single-family detached home on an individual lot.
[Added 10-13-2016 by Ord.
No. 2016-14]
Ownership by one person or ownership by two or more persons,
jointly or as tenants by the entirety or as tenants in common, of
a separate parcel of real property not adjacent to land in the same
ownership.
The lot or lots upon which development is to occur or has
occurred.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
The sketch map of a subdivision of sufficient accuracy to be used for the purpose of discussion and classification and meeting the requirements of Article VII of this chapter.
All unconsolidated mineral and organic material of any origin.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
An area delineated on the State Plan Policy Map and adopted
by the State Planning Commission that is intended to be the focus
for much of the state’s future redevelopment and revitalization
efforts.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
The geographic application of the State Development and Redevelopment
Plan’s goals and statewide policies, and the official map of
these goals and policies.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
Water resulting from precipitation (including rain and snow)
that runs off the land’s surface, is transmitted to the subsurface,
or is captured by separate storm sewers or other sewage or drainage
facilities, or conveyed by snow removal equipment.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
An excavation or embankment and related areas designed to
retain stormwater runoff. A stormwater management basin may either
be normally dry (that is, a detention basin or infiltration basin),
retain water in a permanent pool (a retention basin), or be planted
mainly with wetland vegetation (most constructed stormwater wetlands).
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
Any structural or nonstructural strategy, practice, technology,
process, program, or other method intended to control or reduce stormwater
runoff and associated pollutants, or to induce or control the infiltration
or groundwater recharge of stormwater or to eliminate illicit or illegal
nonstormwater discharges into stormwater conveyances.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
Water flow on the surface of the ground or in storm sewers,
resulting from precipitation.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
That portion of a structure included between the surface
of a floor, other than that of a basement, and the surface of the
next floor above, or if there is no floor above it, then the space
between the floor and the ceiling next above it.
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, lane, parkway, viaduct,
alley or other way which is an existing state, county or municipal
roadway, or a street or way shown upon a plat heretofore approved
pursuant to law or approved by official action, or a street or way
on a plat duly filed and recorded in the office of the Morris County
Clerk prior to the appointment of a Planning Board and the grant to
such Board of the power to review plats, and includes the land between
the street lines, whether improved or unimproved, and may comprise
pavement, shoulders, gutters, sidewalks, parking areas and other areas
within the street lines. For the purpose of this chapter, streets
shall be classified as follows:
ARTERIAL STREETSThose which are used primarily for fast or heavy traffic.
COLLECTOR STREETSThose which carry traffic from minor streets to the major system of arterial streets, including the principal entrance streets of a residential development and streets for circulation within such a development.
MINOR STREETSThose which are used primarily for access to the abutting properties.
MARGINAL ACCESS STREETSStreets which are parallel to and adjacent to arterial streets and highways and which provide access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
ALLEYSMinor ways which are used primarily for vehicular service access to the back or side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.
The edge of the existing or future street right-of-way, whichever
would result in the widest right-of-way, as shown on an adopted Master
Plan or Official Map or as required by this chapter, forming the dividing
line between the street and the lot.
[Amended 11-11-1999 by Ord. No. 99-25]
Any individual, firm, association, syndicate copartnership,
corporation, trust or any other legal entity commencing proceedings
under this chapter to effect a subdivision of land hereunder for himself
or for another.
The division of a lot, tract or parcel of land into two or
more lots, sites or other divisions of land for the purpose, whether
immediate or future, of sales or building development except that
the following divisions shall not be considered subdivisions; provided,
however, that no new streets or roads are involved: divisions of land
for agricultural purposes where the resulting parcels are three acres
or larger in size, divisions of property by testamentary or intestate
provisions or divisions of property upon court order. "Subdivision"
also includes resubdivision and, where appropriate to the context,
relates to the process of subdividing or to the lands or territory
divided.
A committee of at least three Planning Board members appointed
by the Chairman of the Board for the purpose of classifying subdivisions
in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and performing such
other duties relating to land subdivision as may be conferred on this
Committee by the Board.
Includes artificially constructed swimming pools or tanks,
plastic or otherwise, established or maintained upon any premises
by any individual for his own or his family's use or for the use of
guests of his household.
A flood hazard area which may be influenced by stormwater
runoff from inland areas, but which is primarily caused by the Atlantic
Ocean.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
Attached multiple-family dwelling units where the only separation
between units is vertical.
[Added 10-13-2016 by Ord.
No. 2016-14]
A neighborhood given priority access to state resources through
the New Jersey Redevelopment Authority.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
A zone designated by the New Jersey Enterprise Zone Authority
pursuant to the New Jersey Urban Enterprise Zones Act, N.J.S.A. 52:27H-60
et seq.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
Previously developed portions of areas:
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
Permission to depart from the literal requirements of the
zoning provisions of this chapter.[6]
The ocean and its estuaries, all springs, streams, wetlands,
and bodies of surface water or groundwater, whether natural or artificial,
within the boundaries of the State of New Jersey or subject to its
jurisdiction.
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
An area that is inundated or saturated by surface water or
groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and
that under normal circumstances does support, a prevalence of vegetation
typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions, commonly
known as “hydrophytic vegetation."
[Added 4-13-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-7]
An open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a building,
situated between that part of the building nearest the street and
the street line of the lot.
The space between that part of the building nearest the rear
line and the rear line of the lot occupied by the building.
An open, unoccupied space, unless occupied by a use specifically
permitted, on the same lot with a building, situated between that
part of the building nearest the side line and the side line of the
lot and extending through from the front building line to the rear
building line.
[1]
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.
[2]
Editor's Note: See now N.J.S.A. 58:1A-1 et
seq.
[3]
Editor's Note: Schedule I, Area and Bulk Requirements, is included at the end of this chapter.
[4]
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.
[5]
Editor’s Note: The former definition of "political campaign
sign," added 9-8-2011 by Ord. No. 2011-11, and which immediately followed
this definition, was repealed 3-8-2012 by Ord. No. 2012-5.
B.
Word usage. Words used in the present tense include
the future; the singular number includes the plural, and the plural,
the singular; the word "lot" includes the word "plot"; the word "building"
includes the word "structure"; the word "occupied" includes the words
"designed or intended to be occupied"; the word "used" includes the
words "arranged, designed or intended to be used." Any word used herein
but not specifically defined in this section shall be interpreted
and defined consistent with the Municipal Land Use Law, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1
et seq.
