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Word usage. The singular shall include the plural
and the plural shall include the singular. The word "building" shall
include the word "structure." The present tense shall include the
future tense.
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ACCESSORY BUILDING
ACCESSORY USE
AGRICULTURAL USE
AMUSEMENT PARLOR OR ARCADE
AUTOMATIC AMUSEMENT DEVICE
BUILDING
BUILDING AREA
BUILDING LINE
CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY
COMMUNITY RESIDENCE FOR PERSONS WITH HEAD INJURIES
COMMUNITY RESIDENCE FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL
CONDITIONAL USE
DWELLING
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ELECTRIC SUBSTATION
FACADE
FAMILY
FARM BUILDING
FAST-FOOD RESTAURANT
GARAGE
HEIGHT OF BUILDING
HOME OCCUPATION
LOT
LOT, CORNER
LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLD
MODERATE-INCOME HOUSEHOLD
NONCONFORMING BUILDING OR STRUCTURE
NONCONFORMING USE
PARKING SPACE
PERSON WITH HEAD INJURY
PRIVATE GARAGE
PROCESSING UNIT
PUBLIC GARAGE
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SINGLE AND SEPARATE OWNERSHIP
STREET
STREET LINE
STRUCTURAL ALTERATION
TELEPHONE CENTRAL OFFICE
YARDS
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Terms defined. The words and phrases listed below
shall be construed throughout this chapter to have the meanings indicated,
provided that the words and phrases defined in the Municipal Land
Use Law, P.L. 1975, c. 291 (N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.), shall have
general application to this chapter.
A building subordinate to the main building on a lot and
used for purposes customarily incidental to those of the main building.
A use subordinate to the main use of land or of a building
on a lot and customarily incidental thereto.
The use of the premises for common agricultural and ordinary
farm site activities and farmland uses and all other activities and
improvements as specifically permitted by the New Jersey Right to
Farm Act (N.J.S.A. 4:1C-1 et seq.) and activities which shall deem
the property eligible to receive farmland assessment pursuant to N.J.S.A.
54:4-23.1 et seq., including, the production, storage, keeping, harvesting,
grading, packaging, processing, boarding, or maintenance, for sale,
lease, or personal use, of plants and animals useful to humans, including
but not limited to: forages and sod crops; grains and seed crops;
dairy animals and dairy products; poultry and poultry products; livestock,
including beef cattle, sheep, llamas, horses, ponies, mules and goats,
including the breeding, boarding, raising, rehabilitating, training
and grazing of any or all such animals; bees and apiary products;
fur animals; trees and forest products; fruits of all kinds, including
grapes, nuts, and berries; vegetables; nursery, floral, ornamental,
and greenhouse products; or lands devoted to a soil conservation or
forestry management program.
[Added 11-16-2020 by Ord. No. 10-2020; amended 3-15-2021 by Ord. No. 2-2021]
Any place or premises wherein four or more coin-operated
amusement devices are maintained for use and operation by the public.
[Added 9-19-1983 by Ord. No. 13-1983]
Any machine which, upon the insertion of a coin, slug, token,
plate or disc, may be operated by the public generally for use as
a game, entertainment or amusement, whether or not registering a score,
including, but not limited to, such devices as marble machines, pinball
machines, skill ball, mechanical grab machines and all games, operations
or transactions similar thereto under whatever name they may be indicated.
It shall include video-type games or machines or similar devices that
use a display screen for points, lines and dots of light that can
be manipulated to simulate games or other types of entertainment.
It shall not include, nor shall this definition apply to, music-playing
devices.
[Added 9-19-1983 by Ord. No. 13-1983]
Any structure, including an annex or addition, that requires
for its use a fixed location on the land; provided, however, that
an interior change or alteration of a structure shall also be deemed
to be a building for the purposes of this chapter.
The aggregate of the maximum horizontal cross-section areas
of all buildings on a lot, excluding cornices, eaves and gutters.
The line parallel to the street line at a distance therefrom
equal to the depth of the required front yard.
A certificate is issued by the Housing Officer for change
of occupancy or change of ownership of owner-occupied or rental unit
single-family dwellings or duplex dwellings, two units or less and
by the Construction Code Official for new construction or rehabilitation
indicated the building or structure may lawfully be occupied.[1]
A community residential facility licensed pursuant to P.L.
1977, c.448 (N.J.S.A. 30:11B-1 et seq.) providing food, shelter and
personal guidance, under such supervision as required, to not more
than 15 persons with head injuries, who require assistance, temporarily
or permanently, in order to live in the community, and shall include,
but not be limited to: group homes, halfway houses, supervised apartment
living arrangements and hostels. Such a residence shall not be considered
a health care facility within the meaning of the Health Care Facilities
Planning Act, P.L. 1971, c. 136 (N.J.S.A. 26:2H-1 et seq.).
[Added 12-28-2000 by Ord. No. 34-2000]
Any community residential facility operated as a hospice
program providing food, shelter, personal guidance and health care
services, under such supervision as required, to not more than 15
terminally ill persons.
[Added 12-28-2000 by Ord. No. 34-2000]
A use permitted in a particular zoning district only upon
a showing that such use in a specified location will comply with the
conditions and standards for the location or operation of such use
as contained herein and upon the issuance of an authorization therefor
by the Planning Board.
SINGLE-FAMILYA building, on a lot, designed and occupied exclusively as a residence for one family.
TWO-FAMILYA building, on a lot, designed and occupied exclusively as a residence for two families.
MULTIPLEA building, on a lot, designed and occupied exclusively as a residence for three or more families.
An assemblage of equipment, for purposes other than generation
or utilization, through which electric energy in bulk is passed for
the purpose of switching or modifying its characteristics to meet
the needs of the general public, provided that in residence districts
an "electric substation" shall not include rotating equipment, except
that which is incidental to the operation of the substation as such,
the storage of materials, trucks or repair facilities, nor the housing
of repair crews.
The total wall surface, including door and window areas,
of a building's principal face. In the case of a corner building which
fronts on more than one street, only one face shall be used to calculate
the facade area.
Any number of persons living and cooking together as a single
housekeeping unit.
Any building used for storing agricultural equipment or farm
produce, housing livestock or poultry and processing dairy products.
The term "farm building" shall not include dwellings.
An establishment designed for over-the-counter service or
cafeteria-buffet style service and which primarily serves a limited,
standardized menu of quickly prepared or preprepared foods, such as
hamburgers, fried chicken, fried fish and the like, packaged in paper
or other types of disposable wrappers and containers for immediate
service to patrons, primarily for immediate consumption, whether or
not interior sitting facilities are provided.
A building, structure or any portion thereof used for housing
or repairing motor vehicles.
A building's vertical measurement from the mean level of
the ground abutting the building to a point midway between the highest
and lowest points of the roof, provided that chimneys, spires, towers,
elevator penthouses, tanks and similar projections of the building,
and structures supporting utility or transmission facilities, shall
not be included in calculating the height.
A lawful occupation customarily or traditionally carried
on within a dwelling by the inhabitants thereof, which use is incidental
and subordinate to the use of the dwelling for living purposes and
does not change the character thereof or involve the use of mechanical
equipment other than that customarily used for purely domestic or
hobby purposes. A "home occupation" in a residence district shall
not be interpreted to include the following: a barbershop, beauty
shop or hair stylist, tearoom, tourist home, mortuary, convalescent
home, commercial kennel or similar use of a commercial nature or any
occupation involving the display and sale of merchandise from the
premises.
A parcel of land on which a main building and any accessory
buildings are or may be placed, together with the required open spaces.
The area of a lot which abuts a street shall be measured to the street
line only.
A lot or parcel of land abutting on two or more intersecting
streets. Each corner lot shall have two front yards, a minimum of
one side yard and one rear yard. The side yard shall be located perpendicular
to the street upon which the unit fronts.
[Added 12-1-2003 by Ord. No. 21-2003]
A household whose gross annual income does not exceed 50%
of the regional median gross income adjusted for household size and
as adopted by the New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing.
A household whose gross annual income is equal to or more
than 50% but less than 80% of the regional median gross income as
adopted by the New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing.
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 reasons of such adoption, revision or amendment.[2]
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 reasons of such adoption, revision or amendment.[3]
An open space or a garage on a lot used for parking motor
vehicles, the area of which is not less than 200 square feet and to
which there is access from a street. The dimensions of a parking space
shall be not less than nine feet in width and not less than 19 feet
in depth. Aisle space between rows of parked vehicles shall not be
less than 24 feet for ninety-degree parking and not less than 20 feet
for 60° or less parking.
A person who has sustained an injury, illness or traumatic
changes to the skull, the brain contents or its coverings which results
in a temporary or permanent physiobiological decrease of mental, cognitive,
behavioral, social or physical functioning which causes partial or
total disability.
[Added 12-28-2000 by Ord. No. 34-2000]
An accessory building used for the storage of motor vehicles
and farm equipment, which may include one commercial vehicle owned
and used by the owner or tenant of the premises, and for the storage
of not more than two private noncommercial vehicles owned and used
by persons other than the owner or tenant of the premises.
An assembly of equipment or apparatus in which is conducted
any operation or series of operations that cause a physical or chemical
change in a material or a mixture of materials.
A building, not a private garage or service station, used
primarily for the storage and/or repair of motor vehicles of any type
of ownership.
Any name, nameplate identification, poster, billboard, public
display or illustration, structure or device used for visual communication
which is affixed, painted or represented, directly or indirectly (which
includes light projection methods), upon a building, post or other
surface for the purpose of bringing any subject to the attention of
the public or which advertises or identifies a business, commodity,
service, product or structure. A "sign" shall include banners, flags,
streamers, temporary window signs and animated mechanical or electrical
or other types of attention-attracting devices.
CANOPY SIGNAny sign which is displayed beneath a sidewalk canopy or sidewalk awning so as to be perpendicular to that sidewalk.
COMPLEX IDENTIFICATION SIGNA sign which identifies either an office complex or an industrial park without reference to individual tenants or uses.
DIRECTIONAL SIGNA sign which identifies the entrance or exit of a site.
DIRECTORY SIGNAny sign which contains a complete listing of either all tenants in a building complex and/or a complete listing of all buildings in a building complex.
FREESTANDING SIGNAny sign, not attached to a building, which is erected, constructed, supported or maintained on a post or pole or other bracing or supporting device.
MOBILE SIGNAny sign which is not permanently attached to a building or not placed in the ground in such a fashion as to be permanent in a manner conforming to the Uniform Construction Code; or which is located or attached to a trailer, is on wheels or another similar attachment such that the sign may be moved from place to place, either within the lot or to another location.
OFF-SITE COMMERCIAL ADVERTISING SIGNA sign which directs attention to a business commodity, service or entertainment conducted, sold or offered at a location other than the premises on which the sign is located.
PROJECTING SIGNA sign which is suspended or supported from a building so as to be perpendicular to the facade from which it projects.
SIGNBOARDAny structure or part thereof on which lettered or pictorial matter is displayed for advertising or notice purposes.
TENANT SUITE SIGNAn outdoor sign which identifies each particular business in a multitenant structure, which has no common lobby and which is located at the main entrance of that particular business.
The ownership of a lot by one or more persons, partnership
or corporation, which ownership is separate and distinct from that
of any adjoining lot.
A public street, road or any way which has been dedicated
to public use, or a private street, road or way which has been approved
by the Township Council.
[Amended 12-1-2003 by Ord. No. 21-2003]
The dividing line between a lot and the outside boundary
of a public street, road or highway legally open or officially plotted
by the Township, or between a lot and a private street, road or way
over which the owners or tenants of two or more lots held in single
and separate ownership have the right-of-way. Where a street line
has not been established, it shall be computed as 25 feet from the
center of the existing street.
Any change in or addition to the supporting members of a
building or structure, such as bearing wall partitions, columns, beams
or girders.
A building and its equipment erected and used for the purpose
of facilitating the transmission and exchange of telephones or radio-telephone
messages between subscribers and other business of the telephone company,
but in residence districts the term shall not include public business
facilities, the storage of materials, trucking or repair facilities,
nor the housing of repair crews.
FRONTThe required open space extending along the street line throughout the full width of the lot, exclusive of overhanging eaves, gutters, cornices and steps.
SIDEThe required open space extending along the side line of the lot throughout the full depth of the lot, exclusive of overhanging eaves, gutters, cornices and steps.
REARThe required open space extending along the rear line of the lot throughout the full width of the lot, exclusive of overhanging eaves, gutters, cornices and steps.
