The permitted primary uses include:
A.
Professional and business offices, including rental office buildings.
B.
Scientific research laboratories and other experimental testing or
research establishments, including applied engineering research such
as product development.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original Subsection c, which listed a wholesale
business establishment as a permitted use, which immediately followed
this subsection, was repealed 12-7-1981.
C.
Assembly, manufacturing and processing of electric, electronic, scientific,
photographic, excluding film, and optical instruments and goods; jewelry,
clocks and watches; housewares and small hardware; light machinery;
ceramic products, excluding structural building materials; and other
products and goods of a similar nature.
D.
Manufacturing of clothing and other textile products and textiles,
excluding dying and finishing; professional instruments; musical instruments;
silverware; toys; tools; hardware and light machinery, such as typewriters
and office machines; and pharmaceuticals and drugs.
E.
Manufacture and assembly of electronic and light electrical equipment
and small electrical appliances and supplies.
G.
Municipal or public utility uses, including utility lines, electric
substations or similar uses.
The following accessory uses are permitted:
[Added 12-6-1993 by Ord. No. 18-93]
The following conditional uses may be authorized, subject to the provisions of Article VII:
A.
Heliports and helistops, as private use facilities.
A.
Required conditions.
(1)
All industrial activities, processes or maintenance shall take place
within an enclosed building. Incidental storage of materials and vehicles
out of doors shall be shielded from any adjacent public streets or
residential areas by fencing, landscaping or other appropriate measures
as approved by the Township Planning Board.
[Amended 12-7-1981]
(2)
Each use located in this zone shall provide truck loading and unloading
space on the same lot and in other than the required front yard so
as to permit the transfer of goods in other than a public street.
B.
The following uses or activities are specifically prohibited in this
zone:
(1)
Auction markets.
(2)
Automobile wrecking yards, junkyards or disassembly yards or the
sorting or baling of scrap metal, paper, rags or other scrap material.
(3)
Gas (illuminating or heating) storage, except for consumption on
the premises.
(4)
Incineration, reduction, storage or dumping of slaughterhouse refuse,
rancid fats, garbage, trash, junk, dead animals or offal, except by
the municipality or its agents.
(5)
Outdoor sales of new or used motor vehicles or trailer coaches.
(6)
Petroleum or its derivatives, except when stored in underground tanks
and not in excess of 40,000 gallons of fuel oil or 20,000 gallons
of gasoline.
(7)
Residential dwelling units.
(8)
Blast furnaces, forges, sand and gravel pits and other extractive
industries.
(9)
Finishing and dying of textile products.
(10)
Chemical processing industries.
(11)
Trucking terminals, warehouses and distribution facilities.
[Added 12-7-1981]
(12)
All storage uses.
[Added 12-23-2021 by Ord. No. 2021.007]
A.
Height. The height of the principal structure shall not exceed 35
feet.
[Amended 12-7-1981]
B.
Front yard. There shall be a front yard of not less than 95 feet,
measured from the center line of the street. For each foot of height
in excess of 20 feet, the front yard setback will be increased by
five feet from the ninety-five-foot minimum.
[Amended 12-7-1981]
C.
Side yard. There shall be two side yards, and no side yard shall be less than 50 feet. Off-street parking, as regulated in Article V, is permitted in the side yard, provided that no parking area is located closer than 10 feet to any building or property line nor 25 feet to any street right-of-way or residential zone.
D.
Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard of not less than 50 feet. Off-street parking, as regulated in Article V, is permitted in the rear yard, provided that no parking area is located closer than 10 feet to any building or property line and 25 feet to any street right-of-way or residential zone.
E.
Minimum lot area. There shall be a minimum lot area of five acres
[216,800 square feet], measured within 750 feet of the front street
property line.
F.
Maximum building coverage. The total floor area of all buildings
shall not exceed 40% of the total lot area.
A building permit or certificate of occupancy shall be issued
only when the intended use will not exceed the following limitations
or violate the following requirements. All standards, including but
not limited to radiation, smoke emission, solid particle emission
or stream or noxious gas emission, shall be in accordance with regulations
by the Air Pollution Code of New Jersey, Department of Environmental
Protection, and shall meet the maximum standards as set forth therein.
A.
Fire and explosion hazards. All activities shall be carried on only
in fireproof structures which conform to the standards of the National
Board of Fire Underwriters or the Township Building Code[1] or Fire Prevention Code, whichever is the more restrictive.
All operations shall be carried on and explosive raw materials, fuels,
liquids and finished products shall be stored in accordance with the
standards of said Board of Fire Underwriters.
B.
Radioactivity. Any industry which emits radioactivity is prohibited.
C.
Odors. There shall be emission of odorous gases or other odorous
matter in such quantity as to be readily detectable without instruments.
Table III, Odor Thresholds, in Chapter 5 of the Air Pollution Abatement
Manual, copyright 1951, by the Manufacturing Chemists Association,
Inc., Washington, D.C., or the latest approved revision thereof, shall
be utilized as a guide in determining such quantities of offensive
odors.
D.
Smoke. There shall be no emission of visible gray smoke of a shade
darker than No. 1 on the Ringelmann Smoke Chart, as published by the
United States Bureau of Mines (Power's Micro-Ringelmann Chart, McGraw
Hill Publishing Company, copyright 1954, may be used), except that
visible gray smoke of a shade not darker than No. 2 on said chart
shall be emitted for not more than five minutes in any one-hour period.
These provisions, applicable to visible gray smoke, shall also apply
to visible smoke of a different color but with an equivalent apparent
opacity.
E.
Dust. Solid or liquid particles shall not be emitted in concentrations
exceeding 0.2 grain per cubic foot of the conveying gas or air. For
measurement of the amount of particles in gases resulting from combustion,
standard corrections shall be applied to a stack temperature of 500°
F.) and fifty-percent excess air.
F.
Gases and other forms of air pollution. No emission of fly ash, dust,
fumes, vapors, gases or other forms of air pollution shall be permitted
which can cause any damage to the health of persons, animals or vegetation
or other forms of property or which can cause any excessive soiling.
G.
Vibration. There shall be no vibration which is discernible to the
human sense of feeling beyond the immediate site on which such use
is conducted.
H.
Sound pressure levels.
(1)
At no point on the boundary of the property on which a use is conducted
shall the sound pressure level of any individual operation or plant,
other than background noises produced by sources not under control
of this chapter, such as the operation of motor vehicles or other
transportation facilities, exceed the decibel levels in the designated
octave bands shown below:
|
Octave Band
(cycles per second)
|
Sound Pressure Level
(decibels)
| |
|---|---|---|
|
0 to 75
|
72
| |
|
75 to 150
|
67
| |
|
150 to 300
|
59
| |
|
300 to 600
|
52
| |
|
600 to 1,200
|
46
| |
|
1,200 to 2,400
|
40
| |
|
2,400 to 4,800
|
34
| |
|
Above 4,800
|
32
|
(2)
Sound levels shall be measured with a sound level meter and associated
octave band analyzer manufactured according to standards prescribed
by the American National Standards Institute, Inc., New York, New
York. Measurements shall be made using the flat network of the sound
level meter. Impulsive-type noises shall be subject to the performance
standards hereinbefore prescribed, provided that such noises shall
be capable of being accurately measured with such equipment. Noise
capable of being so measured, for the purpose of this chapter, shall
be those noises which cause rapid fluctuation of the needle of the
sound level meter with a variation of no more than plus or minus two
decibels.
(3)
Noises incapable of being measured as indicated above, such as those
of an irregular and intermittent nature, shall be controlled so as
not to become a nuisance.
I.
Liquid or solid wastes.
(1)
No industrial operation shall discharge industrial wastes of any
kind into any reservoir, pond or lake or into the ground. The discharge
of untreated industrial wastes into a stream is prohibited. All methods
of sewage and industrial waste treatment and disposal shall be approved
by the Township Board of Health and the New Jersey State Department
of Environmental Protection. Effluent from a treatment plant shall,
at all times, comply with the standards of the New Jersey Department
of Environmental Protection, the Delaware River Basin Commission and
any other appropriate governmental agency with authority to regulate
water quality or waste disposal.
(2)
No effluent shall contain any other acids, oils, dust, toxic metals
or corrosive or other toxic substances in solution or suspension which
would create odors, discolor, poison or otherwise pollute the stream
in any way. In addition, no industrial use shall discharge into any
public sanitary sewer system quantities of water beyond the capacity
of said sewer system. The amount of effluent permitted shall be determined
by the Township Engineer.
J.
Glare. There shall be no direct or sky-reflected glare exceeding
0.5 footcandle measurable beyond the property line of the lot occupied
by such use. This regulation shall not apply to lights used at the
entrance or exit of service drives.
