In the C Commercial District, the following use and area regulations
shall apply:
A.
Use regulations. A building may be erected or used and a lot may
be used or occupied for any of the following purposes and no other:
(1)
Any use permitted in the R-2 Residence District.
(2)
Apartments in combination with business uses.
(3)
Hotels or tourist houses.
(4)
Retail stores; restaurants; offices, agencies or studios; banks;
personal service shops, such as tailor dressmaking, beauty, barber
and shoe repair; and mortuaries.
(5)
Contractor, craftsmen's or general service shops, including plumbing,
heating, carpentry, welding and similar shops.
(6)
Private schools, clubs or lodges and places of amusement, recreation
or assembly.
(7)
Hand or automatic self-service laundries.
(8)
Newspaper publishing or job printing establishments.
(9)
Bakery or confectionery shops for the production of articles to be
sold only at retail on the premises.
(10)
Public garages, motor vehicle service stations, automobile sales
agencies and parking garages or lots, provided that all facilities
are located and all services are conducted on the lot.
(11)
Any use of the same general character as any of the above permitted
uses, provided that no use which is noxious or hazardous shall be
permitted.
(12)
Accessory uses on the same lot with and customarily incidental to any of the above permitted uses and signs when erected and maintained in accordance with the provisions of Article X hereof.
(13)
Any establishment having as a substantial or significant portion
of its stock-in-trade books, magazines, other periodicals, films and
other viewing material which are distinguished or characterized by
their emphasis on matters depicting, describing or relating to specified
sexual activity, sexual conduct or specified anatomical areas, provided
that no such use shall be located within 500 feet of the property
line of any similar use or of any place of worship, school, recreational
or health-care facility, library or establishment licensed for sale
or consumption of alcoholic beverages. This subsection does not authorize
or permit the sale or rental of obscene material, as defined in N.J.S.A.
2C:34-2, to any person 18 years of age or older or, as defined in
N.J.S.A. 2C:34-3, to any person under the age of 18 years in the Commercial
District or at any other location in the Borough of Swedesboro. Sales
or rentals of such materials are not authorized or permitted by this
chapter and are not legal anywhere in the Borough of Swedesboro.
[Added 4-20-1987]
(14)
Unless otherwise specifically permitted within this chapter,
no more than one principal dwelling or principal building shall be
permitted on one lot, and no more than one principal use shall be
permitted on one lot.
[Added 3-3-2014 by Ord. No. 4-2014]
(15)
Microbrewery/limited brewery facility.
[Added 5-16-2016 by Ord.
No. 5-2016]
B.
Area regulations. Every building hereafter erected or used, in whole or in part, as a dwelling shall comply with the area requirements prescribed for the R-2 Residence District in § 340-11B hereof. For commercial and other buildings, no part of which is used as a dwelling, the following area regulations shall apply:
(1)
Lot area. For uses which are not served by the Borough sewer system,
a lot area sufficient in size to assure adequate sewer disposal shall
be provided. A certificate of adequacy by the Swedesboro Board of
Health shall be required.
(2)
Building area. Not more than 60% of the area of each lot may be occupied
by buildings.
(3)
Front yard. There shall be a front yard on each street on which a lot abuts, which shall be not less than 20 feet in depth, subject to the provisions of § 340-28. The front yard on the long side of a corner lot may be reduced to a depth of not less than 10 feet.
(4)
Side yards. Side yards are not required for buildings used exclusively
for commercial or other nondwelling purposes, subject to the following
provisions:
(5)
Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard on each lot, which shall be
not less than 20 feet in depth.
