Where a use is not specifically permitted in any district, it
shall be deemed to be prohibited.
The following uses, structures, buildings, lots and signs are
specifically prohibited in any district:
A. Any sign that is not expressly related to a business, product, service or other use being lawfully conducted on the premises upon which such sign is located, unless such sign is otherwise specifically permitted in Article
48 of this chapter.
B. Auction shops and markets; provided, however, that this provision
shall not prohibit an auction of an estate as permitted or required
by law or any sole authority by any court or governmental agency having
appropriate jurisdiction, nor shall this prohibition apply to an indoor
auction of antique and used furniture, household items and collectibles
located in a zone where retail uses are permitted.
[Amended 5-17-1999 by Ord. No. 99-6]
C. Mobile homes, mobile home parks, trailer coach parks and other nonpermanent places of residence, with the exception of a temporary trailer used solely during fire reconstruction, pursuant to §
110-105.
D. Junkyards, automobile wrecking yards or disassembly yards or the
sorting or baling of scrap metal, paper, rags or other scrap material.
F. Privately operated dumps for the disposal of garbage, trash, refuse,
junk or other such material.
G. Stables, kennels and the keeping of live poultry, livestock or live
animals of any kind for commercial purposes, except in a pet shop
or a veterinarian office for post-operation observation.
H. Any light industrial use in a residential or business district.
J. Carnivals, circuses, amusement and live animal rides, amusement and
live animal exhibitions and similar type commercial amusements.
L. Conducting of business on a public street, sidewalk or right-of-way.
M. Quarries and other primary industrial operations that extract soil,
stone, gravel or other natural materials from the ground.
N. Factory outlet and warehouse sales.
O. Processing, packaging or handling of highly inflammable, explosive
or radioactive materials.
P. Slaughterhouses and rendering plants devoted to the rendering or
refining of animal parts, fats and oils.
Q. The manufacture of creosote, creosote products, coal tar, coal tar
products and yeast.
R. Incinerators or dumps, except when municipally owned and operated
by the Borough of Metuchen.
S. The storage of crude oil or any of its volatile products or any highly
inflammable liquids or gas in aboveground tanks with individual capacities
greater than 550 gallons and with total capacities greater than 1,100
gallons.
T. The manufacture and storage of illuminating gas.
U. Blast furnaces, boiler works and forge shops.
V. The manufacture or refining of asphalt.
W. The tanning of hides and skins.
X. The generation of privately used heat, electricity and/or power,
unless with smokeless fuels or with the use of approved and effective
smoke and fly-ash elimination equipment.
Y. Fast-food restaurants and drive-in restaurants.
[Added 3-17-2003 by Ord.
No. 2003-4]
Z. General Prohibitions on all cannabis businesses other than Class
3 Cannabis Wholesale services and Class 5 Cannabis Retail services.
In accordance with the authority granted to the Borough by N.J.S.A.
24:61-45, Ordinance No. 2021-10 is hereby amended to conditionally
permit Class 3 Cannabis Wholesale Services and Class 5 Cannabis Retail
Services within the Borough subject to the conditions, use, permitting,
and taxation requirements set forth in this Ordinance No. 2022-19.
As provided in Ordinance No. 2021-10, all other cannabis businesses
shall be prohibited from operating anywhere within the geographical
boundaries of the Borough of Metuchen.
[Added 6-28-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-10; amended 10-24-2022 by Ord. No.
2022-19]
No prohibitions set forth in this article shall prevent the
temporary or occasional operation or use of a flea market, sidewalk
sale, tent sale, festival, fair, carnival, circus or amusement or
animal rides or exhibitions at specific locations and under such rules
and regulations as may be set forth by separate Borough ordinance
or by permit, such as community-sponsored events.