[Added 9-9-2019 by Ord. No. 19-08[1]]
Within the B-1 Business District, no lot, tract or parcel of land shall be used, and no building structure shall be constructed, altered, erected or placed to be used, for any purpose other than the following:
A. 
Retail sales or service uses such as those listed below, as well as uses substantially similar to them, and except as where otherwise permitted conducted entirely within the confines of a building, and involving the sale of goods or rendering of services directly to the ultimate consumer:
(1) 
Stores for retail sales, including but not limited to: clothing, personal furnishings and accessories, and shoe stores; music, video, and bookstores; office supplies and stationery stores; antiques stores; camera and photographic supply stores; gift, novelty, craft, hobby and souvenir stores; jewelry and watch stores; luggage and leather goods stores; stores selling sporting and recreational goods and supplies; furniture stores; drapery and curtain stores; carpet, floor covering, home decor and furnishing stores; florists; retail bakery stores; delicatessens and take-out food stores, grocery stores, fruit and vegetable markets, candy, nut and confectionery stores, meat and fish stores, and specialty food stores; and retail shopping centers combining a number of permitted retail stores.
(2) 
Shops for personal service and repairs, including but not limited to: beauty and barber shops, nail salons and day spas; shoe repair and tailors; appliance repair; locksmiths; photographers; laundry pickup or dropoff centers; travel agencies; real estate offices; establishments selling and servicing electronic goods, computers and appliances; massage establishments employing only licensed massage and body therapists, and establishments offering physical fitness, training and wellness facilities, such as Pilates, yoga, cycling and cross-training.
B. 
Business, professional medical and executive offices.
C. 
Banks, financial institutions, and insurance offices, but not drive-through banks.
D. 
Nursery schools and day-care centers.
E. 
Public parks, playgrounds and uses owned and operated by the Borough of Woodcliff Lake.
F. 
Clubs, lodges and fraternal organizations.
G. 
Restaurants and coffee shops, excluding drive-through restaurants or drive-through coffee shops.
H. 
Accessory uses which are customary and incidental to the principal permitted uses.
I. 
Outdoor dining as an accessory use in conjunction with permitted restaurants and coffee shops, but only in conformance with the following supplementary standards:
(1) 
Outdoor dining uses or outdoor dining areas shall be permitted as accessory uses only in conjunction with a permitted restaurant or coffee shop and shall be required to obtain site plan approval, including outdoor dining areas that are added to existing restaurants.
(2) 
Outdoor dining areas shall be permitted entirely within the front yard of the property containing the restaurant and/or wholly or partially within the sidewalk or the public right-of-way in front of the restaurant.
(3) 
Outdoor dining areas shall be set back at least 15 feet from all residentially zoned property lines and 10 feet from all driveways.
(4) 
Such setback area shall be suitably landscaped and screened as appropriate to block noise, glare, lighting and other potential impacts from adjoining properties and from vehicular movements within the property.
(5) 
No outdoor entertainment, music or public address system shall be permitted within the outdoor dining area.
(6) 
No exterior lighting that illuminates beyond the boundaries of the property or the outdoor dining area in excess of 0.5 footcandle shall be permitted.
(7) 
In computing the number of off-street parking spaces required for restaurants with outdoor dining areas the outdoor dining area and its seating capacity shall be included. However, where such outdoor seating represents a relocation of indoor seating such that there will be no increase in the overall seating capacity of the restaurant, such areas shall not be included.
(8) 
All signage, including signage on awnings, canopies and umbrellas and other fixtures, shall be in compliance with Borough codes regulating signage.
(9) 
In the event that the outdoor dining extends to a sidewalk in front of another space in the same building or an adjacent property, the applicant shall obtain the written permission of the owner(s) and/or tenant(s), if any, of the building or space abutting any additional sidewalk frontage.
(10) 
Outdoor dining areas that are to be located within the public right-of-way shall only be located on sidewalks that are at least eight feet in width. Sidewalks less than eight feet but more than six feet in width may be considered for outdoor dining areas, provided the additional public safety issues created by the narrower width, which issues would include sidewalk surface and separation of pedestrians from vehicular traffic, are adequately addressed.
(11) 
Outdoor dining areas within a public right-of-way shall be located in a manner that promotes efficient and direct pedestrian movement. A minimum of one unobstructed pedestrian path at least four feet wide shall be maintained at all times.
(12) 
The perimeter around the outdoor dining area on a side within a public right-of-way may be delineated using nonpermanent fixtures such as railings, potted plants, decorative chains, or other approved fixtures. The permanent anchoring of tables, chairs, umbrellas, awnings, canopies, railings or other fixtures may be approved by the approving board, provided such anchoring meets all other applicable codes, ordinances and laws, and the applicant provides adequate assurances that the sidewalk will be repaired in a manner consistent with Borough requirements, or in the case of an outdoor dining area within the public right-of-way of a county road, the county requirements concerning sidewalk repair, in the event any permanently anchored fixture is removed. The approving board may require as a condition of approval that any fixture not permanently anchored shall be removed from the outdoor dining area during any time when the outdoor dining area or abutting business establishment is not open for business.
(13) 
Tables, chairs, umbrellas, and canopies. Awnings and any other fixtures shall be of uniform design and shall be made of quality materials and workmanship to ensure the safety and convenience of users and to enhance the visual quality of the Broadway Corridor environment. Design materials and colors shall be compatible with the restaurant to which they are accessory and shall be approved by the Planning Board.
J. 
Mixed-use development with residential dwelling units and one or more of the other principally permitted uses listed in this subsection. Mixed-use buildings must comfort with the following supplementary standards:
(1) 
Residential dwelling units provided within a mixed-use development shall not exceed a density of 10 units per acre.
(2) 
The ground-floor of any mixed-use development shall not be 100% residential use but must provide at least a portion for one or more of the other principally permitted uses listed in this subsection.
(3) 
If a parking garage is provided within a mixed-use building, the garage shall be entirely enclosed and screened. Building facades enclosing the garage should be similar and compatible in design, aesthetics, and detailing as other building facade portions.
(4) 
Within the ground floor of a mixed-use development, no residential dwelling unit or parking area shall be allowed to directly face the street frontage and shall be separated from the street frontage by space dedicated to one or more other principally permitted uses listed in this subsection. Notwithstanding this requirement, a lobby accessory to the residential component may be located in an area directly facing the street frontage.
(5) 
There must be separate entrances for residential and nonresidential uses within a mixed-use development.
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Editor's Note: This ordinance also superseded former § 380-41, Permitted uses, as amended.
[Added 9-9-2019 by Ord. No. 19-08; amended 6-21-2021 by Ord. No. 21-07]
Any uses other than those permitted by § 380-41 are prohibited, but the following uses are expressly prohibited:
A. 
Automotive uses, of any kind, except car rental establishments.
B. 
Commercial amusements, either as a principal or accessory use, except as permitted in Chapter 92, Amusement Devices, of the Code of the Borough of Woodcliff Lake.
C. 
Any drive-through or drive-in uses or service, whether principal or accessory.
D. 
The sale of any product or service by outdoor vending machine.
E. 
Supermarkets, pharmacies or drugstores, discount/warehouse clubs and big box general retail stores.
F. 
Discount stores and auction houses.
G. 
Businesses selling, distributing, cultivating, growing or facilitating the sale and/or use of either recreational and/or medicinal marijuana, including any ancillary or related paraphernalia.
[Added 9-9-2019 by Ord. No. 19-08[1]]
Within the B-2 and B-3 Business Districts, no lot, tract or parcel of land shall be used, and no building structure shall be constructed, altered, erected or placed to be used, for any purpose other than the following:
A. 
Business uses of a strictly retail sales or service type, conducted entirely within the confines of a building and involving the sale of goods or rendering of services directly to the ultimate consumer and limited to the following:
(1) 
Stores for the retail sale and display of goods and products, provided that the area devoted to storage of said goods and products does not exceed the area devoted to sales and display, except that the area devoted to storage of farm products may exceed the area devoted to sales and display of farm products.
(2) 
Shops for personal service and repairs, such as beauty and barber shops, shoe repair, appliance repair, locksmiths, photographers, and laundry and dry-cleaning establishments (excluding those which use equipment for laundry or dry-cleaning processing on premises).
(3) 
Business, professional and executive offices and personal business service establishments such as travel agencies and real estate sales offices.
(4) 
Banks and similar financial institutions.
(5) 
Nursery schools and day-care centers.
B. 
Business uses for the wholesale storage and sale of farm products conducted entirely within the confines of a building.
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Editor's Note: This ordinance also superseded former § 380-42, Prohibited uses, as amended.
[Added 9-9-2019 by Ord. No. 19-08; amended 6-21-2021 by Ord. No. 21-07]
Any uses other than those permitted by § 380-42 are prohibited. Without in any manner limiting the generality and prohibition of this section, nothing contained in this section shall be construed to permit any of the following uses in any business district:
A. 
Accessory buildings and accessory parking structures, except farm accessory buildings.
B. 
Automotive uses, such as body and fender shops, automobile glass shops, radiator repair shops, muffler shops, transmission repair shops, new and used car lots, junkyards and automobile wrecking yards.
C. 
Car-washing establishments.
D. 
Commercial amusements, either as a principal or accessory use, except as permitted in Chapter 92, Amusement Devices, of the Code of the Borough of Woodcliff Lake.
E. 
Commercial storage or warehouses.
F. 
Discount stores and auction houses.
G. 
Dog kennels, veterinary practices or animal hospitals.
H. 
Funeral parlors.
I. 
Hotels or motels.
J. 
Manufacture, assembly or treatment which is not clearly incidental to a permitted retail business use conducted on premises.
K. 
Massage parlors, saunas or steam baths and health spas.
L. 
Motorcycle and motorbike sales and service establishments.
M. 
Moving and storage warehouse establishments.
N. 
Outdoor parking or storage of trailers of all types.
O. 
Repair or machine shops, unless clearly accessory to a permitted retail use conducted on premises.
P. 
Residential use.
Q. 
Boardinghouse or rooming house.
R. 
Restaurants, except when permitted as a conditional use in the B-2 and B-3 Zones and subject to those requirements.
S. 
Sales, processing, assembling, servicing or storage of materials, merchandise, supplies or displays shall be prohibited in front, side or rear yards or any area of open space, including any aisle, sidewalk, walkway, driveway or accessway.
T. 
Self-operated and coin-operated dry-cleaning establishments and laundromats, and any other self-operated establishment.
U. 
Service stations (gasoline) for motor vehicles.
V. 
Stone yard or monument works.
W. 
Woodworking or metalworking shops.
X. 
Airplane and helicopter takeoff and landing areas.
Y. 
Any business involving the sale of fuel.
Z. 
Businesses selling, distributing, cultivating, growing and/or facilitating the sale and/or use of either recreational and/or medicinal marijuana, including any ancillary or related paraphernalia.
[Added 8-7-1995 by Ord. No. 95-9; amended 9-18-1995 by Ord. No. 95-11]
A. 
Purpose; scope.
(1) 
The purpose of this section is the regulation of the opening and closing hours of all business and commercial establishments to which the public is invited in the interest of the protection of the employees, patrons and law enforcement officers. It has been determined that unprotected and understaffed business and commercial enterprises are prey to the criminal element in our society during the late night and early morning hours and that certain security devices must be provided in order to protect the general public who use these establishments.
(2) 
This section promulgates a regulatory scheme addressed to those items that reduce the incidence of crime in commercial establishments.
(3) 
The provisions and requirements of this section shall not apply to nor include any business or commercial establishment issued a license or permit for on-the-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages or permitted to carry on a business or commercial activity under the laws of the United States, the State of New Jersey or other municipal ordinance not consistent with the provisions of this section.
B. 
Closing hours in Business Districts B-2 and B-3; security personnel. No business or commercial establishment to which the public is invited shall be open between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 5:30 a.m. Eastern standard time (2300 and 0530 hours) unless:
(1) 
There are two employees who have received training in security procedures and crime prevention on continuous duty in that part of the business or commercial establishment to which the public is invited.
(2) 
In addition thereto, the business or commercial establishments shall employ a security officer or the premises shall have in operation a security device approved by the Chief of Police of the Borough of Woodcliff Lake which may consist of a silent and/or audible burglar alarm connected to a central security monitoring system designed to activate police response; a closed circuit television connected to a central security monitoring system designed to activate police response or such other device which can be activated instantaneously to notify law enforcement officers that a crime or disorderly persons activity is in progress.
(3) 
In addition thereto, business or commercial establishments shall have adequate and balanced lighting so that clerks are able to see outside while the police are still able to see in and shall remove any type of gondolas, racks and signage in front of the cash registers in order to make the register and clerks visible to outside observers and to the police.
[Added 8-7-1995 by Ord. No. 95-9]
A. 
Purpose; scope. The purpose of this section is to exercise to the fullest extent the powers granted to the Borough to manage land use through zoning to the fullest extent permitted by the Municipal Land Use Law[1] and the Constitution of the United States and the State of New Jersey and to generally exercise the police power. The Mayor and Council of the Borough of Woodcliff Lake do find that it is necessary to regulate the hours of service or operation of certain commercial establishments located in the B-1 Business Zoning District of the Borough of Woodcliff Lake. This district is located in a residential milieu and it is necessary, therefore, to regulate the hours of operation in order to protect the health, peace and comfort of the surrounding residential uses as well as the public health and welfare of the residential community.
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Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.
B. 
All commercial uses as defined in this section that may exist in the B-1 Business District, with the exception of pharmacies, hotels or professional, corporate or business offices open to the public, are hereby prohibited from conducting any business whatsoever between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 5:30 a.m. of the next day.
A. 
Restaurants located in office buildings of 50,000 square feet or more and used exclusively for offices shall be subject to the following specific conditions:
(1) 
A restaurant may be located in office buildings of at least 50,000 square feet, and the area of the restaurant must not exceed 5% of the gross floor area of the entire building.
(2) 
There shall be adequate seating for all diners and no stand-up service.
(3) 
Incidental takeout service with takeout only for in-building, on-premises consumption.
(4) 
No exterior signs, no signs visible from the exterior and no window signs; directory signs shall be permitted consistent in size with other tenants' signs.
(5) 
No food to be served on disposable plates or in disposable containers with disposable knives, forks and spoons.
(6) 
One parking space shall be provided for each two seats plus one space for each employee.
(7) 
No bar and/or service of alcoholic beverages.
(8) 
No dancing or entertainment.
(9) 
No restaurant shall serve after 10:00 p.m.
(10) 
Subject to site plan review and review of interior layout by the Planning Board; any change in the approved interior layout must be submitted for reapproval.
B. 
Accessory recreational uses housed in the same structure as the principal use. Premises in the Executive and Administrative Office District (EAO) may be used for accessory recreational uses, provided that:
(1) 
The total building coverage of the buildings comprising the principal use and the premises used for accessory recreational purposes does not exceed 25% of the total area of the lot.
(2) 
No structures (other than necessary fences) shall be constructed above grade for accessory recreational uses.
(3) 
No accessory recreational uses shall be permitted in the front yard, required side yards or required zone setbacks of any lot.
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Editor's Note: See also Article IX, Executive and Administrative Office Districts.
A. 
B-1 Business District.
[Amended 7-1-1996 by Ord. No. 96-3; 5-16-2022 by Ord. No. 22-06]
(1) 
Each lot shall have a minimum frontage at street line of 75 feet.
(2) 
Each lot shall have a minimum area of 75,000 square feet.
(3) 
Each lot shall have a maximum building coverage of 40% and maximum total surface coverage of 50%.
(4) 
No building exceeding three stories or 40 feet in height shall be erected on any lot.
(5) 
Each lot shall have the following minimum yards: rear, 25 feet; and side yards shall not be required except to provide access to the rear yard at least 10 feet wide, either as a side yard or an easement from an adjoining lot having access to the street.
(6) 
Building setbacks shall be at least 70 feet from the center line of the street.
(7) 
In no event shall the vertical distance of any side of a building exceed 40 feet from the lowest finished grade adjacent to the building to the highest point of the building.
B. 
B-2 Business District.
(1) 
Each lot shall have a minimum frontage at street line of 150 feet.
(2) 
Each lot shall have a minimum area of 10,000 square feet.
(3) 
Each lot shall have a maximum building coverage of 30%.
[Amended 7-6-1993 by Ord. No. 93-7]
(4) 
No building exceeding 2 1/2 stories or 36 feet in height shall be erected on any lot.
(5) 
Each lot shall have the following minimum yards: rear, 40 feet; side yards, 20 feet each.
(6) 
Building setbacks shall be at least 50 feet from the right-of-way line.
(7) 
In no event shall the vertical distance of any side of a building exceed 36 feet from the lowest finished grade adjacent to the building to the highest point of the building.
[Added 7-1-1996 by Ord. No. 96-3]
C. 
B-3 Business District.
(1) 
Each lot shall have a minimum area of 65,000 square feet.
(2) 
Each lot shall have a minimum frontage at street line of 135 feet.
(3) 
Each lot shall have a maximum building lot coverage of 30% and maximum total surface coverage of 80%.
[Amended 7-6-1993 by Ord. No. 93-7]
(4) 
No building exceeding 2 1/2 stories or 36 feet in height shall be erected on any lot, except that if a building shall be built on a slope, that portion of the building or structure on the lowest natural grade of the slope may be 48 feet in height, including all roof appurtenances of every kind and nature (notwithstanding the definition of building height), and provided that the roof at that portion of the building or structure at the lowest grade does not stand any higher than the height of the roof at that portion of the building or structure at the highest grade.
(5) 
Each lot shall have the following minimum yards: rear, 40 feet; side yards, 20 feet.
(6) 
Building setbacks shall be at least 50 feet from the right-of-way line.
[Amended 3-16-2000 by Ord. No. 00-1]
Ingress and egress to lots in the B-1 Business District shall be limited to Broadway, and ingress and egress to lots in the B-2 Business District shall be limited to Chestnut Ridge Road, Tice Boulevard, County Road and an access road connecting County Road and Tice Boulevard as delineated in the Master Plan.