In the R-3 Residential Zone, no building, structure or premises shall be used, and no building or structure shall be erected or structurally altered, except for the following permitted uses:
A. 
Single-family detached dwellings.
B. 
Semidetached dwellings.
C. 
Duplex (two-family) dwellings.
D. 
Townhouse (attached/row) dwellings.
E. 
Buildings, structures, and other uses owned and operated by the City of Camden for municipal purposes.
F. 
Parks, playgrounds or recreation areas, community center buildings, and libraries.
G. 
Public, private or parochial educational institutions.
The following accessory uses shall be permitted in this zone:
A. 
In-ground and aboveground swimming pools and/or other structures customarily incidental to a swimming pool on a property subject to the requirements of § 870-193.
B. 
Accessory buildings and structures, subject to the requirements of § 870-189.
C. 
Off-street parking and private garages, subject to the requirements of §§ 870-214 and 870-230 through 870-241.
D. 
Fences and walls, subject to the requirements of § 870-197.
E. 
Signs, subject to the requirements of § 870-253.
F. 
Porches, decks and patios, subject to the requirements of § 870-190.
Any use not listed above shall be prohibited in the R-3 Residential Zone, and specifically the following:
A. 
Signs in any form except as permitted in this chapter.
B. 
Lodging houses, boardinghouses, rooming houses, multifamily dwellings or any combination thereof.
C. 
Wireless telecommunications facilities.
The following conditional uses shall be permitted in this zone:
A. 
Places of worship.
B. 
Community residences for persons with head injuries and for the developmentally disabled and/or community shelters for victims of domestic violence, as required by N.J.S.A. 40:55D-66.1, subject to the standards and requirements for single-family detached dwellings located within this zone and to the requirements of § 870-204.
C. 
Family day-care homes, subject to the requirements of § 870-202.
D. 
Parabolic dish antennas, subject to the requirements of § 870-210.
E. 
Public utility facilities, subject to the requirements of § 870-191.
F. 
Cemetery, subject to the requirements of § 870-208.
G. 
Home occupation and home professional offices, subject to the requirements of § 870-201.
Table 3
Area Regulations for the R-3 Residential District
Bulk Standards
Type of Development
Requirements
Single-Family
Semi-Detached1
Duplex3
Townhouse4
Minimum lot area per dwelling unit or site area (square feet)
2,000
2,000
2,000
1,500
Maximum lot area per dwelling unit or site area (square feet)
4,000
3,000
4,000
3,000
Minimum lot width (feet)
20
20
20
20
Minimum lot depth (feet)
100
100
100
75
Maximum height7
3 stories or
35 feet
3 stories or
35 feet
3 stories or
35 feet
3 stories or
35 feet
Minimum depth of front yard8 (feet)
10
10
10
10
Minimum aggregate width of side yards (feet)
25
25
25
N/A5
Minimum width of each side yard (feet)
10
102
10
See Note 6
Minimum depth of rear yard (feet)
10
10
10
10
Maximum lot building coverage
60%
60%
60%
60%
Maximum lot impervious coverage
80%
80%
80%
80%
Table 3 Notes:
1.
Single-family semidetached dwelling unit with the units side-by-side as opposed to one on top of another.
2.
Zero feet for common wall.
3.
Two-family detached dwelling unit; a building on a single lot containing two dwelling units, each of which is totally separated from the other by unpierced ceiling and floor extending from exterior wall to exterior wall.
4.
One of a series of three or more dwellings attached side-by-side in a row.
5.
N/A — not applicable.
6.
Interior lots at zero feet; end of corner lots at 10 feet.
7.
A structure shall not have a height less than two stories or 30 feet measured from the average grade line perimetering the building to the top of the main roof cornice line, excluding necessary utility-type roof structure.
8.
A front yard setback shall be provided to be not less than 10 feet. Where there is an existing building on each of two lots adjacent to a lot on which a proposed building is to be erected and both buildings have an alignment nearer to the street than the required front yard and where both buildings are within 100 feet of the proposed building, the average of the existing front yard depths of each adjacent lot shall be the minimum required front yard depth of the lot on which the proposed building is to be erected.
9.
Maximum residential gross density is 29.5 dwelling units per acre.