In the HC Highway Commerce 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) Principal permitted uses on the land and in the buildings.
(b)
Eating or drinking place.
(c)
Banking facilities, including those with drive-through and bank
machine facilities.
(d)
Data processing and information processing centers.
(e)
General business or professional offices.
(g)
Medical clinic with offices for the practice of medicine by
more than one doctor and/or medical group for the examination of and/or
treatment of persons as outpatients and the laboratories incidental
thereto.
(h)
Movie theaters, performing arts facilities, and community centers.
(i)
Personal and business service establishments.
(k)
Supermarket, when located in a shopping center.
(l)
Recreation, exercise and health clubs and facilities when owned
and operated by a nongovernmental agency, including but not limited
to buildings for bowling alleys, indoor court games such as racquetball,
handball, squash, tennis, basketball and other facilities related
thereto including indoor swimming and sauna facilities.
(m)
Public park-and-ride facilities.
(n)
Garden center stores and facilities.
(o)
Microbrewery/limited brewery facility.
[Added 5-16-2016 by Ord.
No. 5-2016]
(2) Accessory uses permitted.
(a)
Off-street parking lots and structures.
(b)
Garages to house delivery trucks and other commercial vehicles.
(Unenclosed storage of trucks is not permitted.)
(3) 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]
(4) Conditionally permitted uses. The following uses are permitted subject to the additional requirements set forth in Article
XI.
[Added 5-20-2024 by Ord.
No. 6-2024]
(a)
Cannabis retail businesses with a Class V license under N.J.S.A.
24:6I-31 et seq.
B. Area regulations. Every building hereafter erected or used, in whole
or in part, shall comply with the area regulations as follows:
(1) Minimum lot size: one acre.
(2) Minimum frontage: 150 feet.
(3) Minimum lot width: 150 feet.
(4) Minimum lot depth: 200 feet.
(5) Minimum front yard: 35 feet.
(6) Minimum side yard (each):
(a)
Twenty feet adjacent to a nonresidentially zoned lot.
(b)
Thirty feet adjacent to a residentially zoned lot.
(7) Minimum rear yard:
(a)
Twenty feet adjacent to a nonresidentially zoned lot.
(b)
Thirty feet adjacent to a residentially zoned lot.
(8) Maximum building height. Height regulations are a function of setbacks
from any property or yard line. The height of any building shall not
exceed 35 feet at the building setback line from all public streets
and lot lines; increasing to a maximum permitted height of 50 feet
at the rate of one foot in height for each additional one foot that
the building is set back from the building setback line.
(9) Minimum building setback from another freestanding building within
the same commercial development: 20 feet or a distance equal to 50%
of the height of the taller of the buildings, whichever is greater.
(10)
Maximum building coverage (includes all principal and accessory
buildings located on a site): 25%.
(11)
Maximum impervious coverage: 70%.
(12)
Accessory structures shall be subject to all the same locational
requirements as principal buildings and shall not have a ground floor
area in excess of 5% of the area of the site; provided, however, that
canopies over gasoline pumps may be within 35 feet of a street line.
C. Buffers and landscaping.
(1) Landscaped buffers shall be provided as follows:
(a)
Adjacent to any street line: 25 feet.
(b)
Adjacent to a residential district: 25 feet.
(c)
Adjacent to a nonresidential district: 20 feet.
(2) Buffer plantings and interior parking lot landscaping shall be provided.