The title of this chapter is an "Ordinance to
Limit and Restrict to Specified Districts or Zones and to Regulate
Therein Buildings and Structures According to Their Construction and
the Nature and Extent of Their Use and the Nature and the Uses of
Land in the Borough of Emerson in the County of Bergen and Providing
for the Administration and Enforcement of Provisions Herein Contained
and Fixing Penalties for the Violations Thereof."
This chapter shall be known and may be cited
as the "Zoning Ordinance of the Borough of Emerson."
The intent of this chapter is to provide control
over the use of land in the Borough of Emerson based on studies of
existing land uses, physical characteristics and the judgment of the
Land Use Board as to the future growth and development of the Borough.
Such regulations are enacted in order to promote and to protect the
public health, safety, morals, comfort, convenience and general welfare
of the people.
Such regulations are deemed necessary to achieve
the following purposes:
A. Promote orderly development: to protect the character
and maintain the stability of residential, business, industrial and
open areas within the Borough and to promote the orderly and beneficial
development of such areas.
B. Limit congestion on streets: to limit congestion in
the public streets and to protect the public health, safety, convenience
and general welfare by providing for the access of emergency vehicles
and for the off-street parking of motor vehicles.
C. Protect against hazards: to provide protection against
fire, explosion, noxious fumes and other hazards in the interest of
the public health, safety, comfort and general welfare.
D. Regulate intensity of use: to regulate the intensity
of use of zoning lots and to determine the area of open spaces surrounding
buildings, which spaces shall be necessary to provide adequate light
and air, privacy and convenience of access to property and to protect
the public health.
E. Regulate location of buildings: to establish building
lines and the location of buildings designed for residential, commercial,
industrial or other uses within such lines.
F. Establish standards of development: to fix reasonable
standards to which buildings or structures shall conform.
G. Prohibit incompatible uses: to prohibit uses, buildings
or structures which are incompatible with the character of the various
districts or the permitted uses within specified zoning districts.
H. Regulate alterations of existing buildings: to prevent
such additions to and alterations or remodeling of existing buildings
or structures as would not comply with the restrictions and limitations
imposed hereunder.
I. Conserve taxable value of land: to conserve the taxable
value of land and buildings throughout the Borough.
J. Implement Master Plan: to assist in implementing the
duly adopted Master Plan of Emerson.