Within any GAR Garden Apartment Residential Zone, no premises,
building, or structure shall be used and no building or structure
shall be erected or altered to be used, in whole or in part, for any
other than an apartment house or group of apartment houses known as
garden apartments, subject to the following regulations:
A. The maximum number of apartments shall be no more than 15 apartments
per acre, including new on-site streets.
B. The maximum building coverage of the garden apartment lot shall be
no more than 17%.
C. In any garden apartment building or group of garden apartment buildings
there shall be a minimum of 80% of the apartments containing only
one bedroom and there shall be a maximum of 20% of the apartments
containing two bedrooms. Only one- and two-bedroom apartments shall
be permitted.
D. There shall be a minimum lot area of four acres for any garden apartment
site, including any on-site streets.
E. The number of dwelling units per building and the general plan of
the building must be approved by the municipal agency.
F. The maximum number of stories for any building shall be 2 1/2 and
the maximum building height shall be 32 feet. Cellars shall be permitted,
but the use of any cellar must be specified in detail in the site
plan. No dwelling units shall be permitted in cellars or basements.
A cellar is defined as that area below the first floor level when
the first floor level is at ground level. A basement is defined as
that area below first floor level when the first floor level is up
to but not including four feet above ground level.
G. Yards; distance between buildings.
(1)
Minimum yard requirements shall be as follows:
(2)
Distance between buildings shall be twice the height of the
buildings.
H. Each apartment unit in each apartment building shall contain separate
bedrooms, separate bathroom, separate living room and separate kitchen
facilities, which kitchen facilities shall be located separate and
apart from other rooms. A bedroom shall be construed as any separate
room other than a dining room, living room, kitchen or bathroom.
I. The minimum floor area for each apartment unit shall be 598 square
feet for one-bedroom apartments and 800 square feet for two-bedroom
apartments.
J. The floor plan of each garden apartment is to be approved by the
municipal agency. The approved plan shall not be altered in any way
without the consent of the municipal agency.
All roads and other accessways within a garden apartment development
shall be private roads constructed, paved, curbed and maintained to
a right-of-way width of not less than 25 feet with a curbed radii
of 20 feet. However all main entrance and exit roads must be a minimum
of 30 feet wide. All such construction, paving, curbing and maintenance
shall be completed in accordance with specifications set by the Department
of Public Works and Utilities of the Borough. All interior roads and
accessways shall be kept open for access by all emergency vehicles
and the Department of Public Works and Utilities. Maintenance, cleaning
and snow removal on all such roads shall be carried out by the management
of the development according to the satisfaction of the Borough. Any
failure on the part of the owner to comply shall result in the work
being done by the Borough at the expense of the owner, and, to the
extent permitted by law, such expenses shall become a lien against
said property.
Garages shall not be allowed as separate structures but may
be built under the apartment structure as hereinafter provided:
A. Size. Each garage space shall be at least 10 feet wide and 22 feet
in depth.
B. Vehicular access to garages shall be from the side or rear of the
building.
C. The entrance to such garages shall not be on any main access street
or public street.
The outside walls of all buildings shall be of brick or stone,
as approved by the municipal agency and in accordance with the New
Jersey State Uniform Construction Code. Interior walls separating
dwelling units shall be constructed with fire-resistant material meeting
building standards.
All principal buildings shall:
A. Provide not less than two exterior exposures for each unit, each
of which shall be properly pierced so as to provide through ventilation
or cross ventilation for each unit.
B. Have television antenna equipment built into the building to eliminate
individual antenna being erected upon the roof. This subsection shall
not apply to a common antenna tower.
C. Not allow any air-conditioning unit to project more than two inches
from the face of the wall of the building in which it is installed.
D. Provide, in the basement area, no less than 600 cubic feet of storage
space for each garden apartment unit in the building, to be apart
from garage space requirements.
E. Provide, in an enclosed basement area, laundry facilities for the
exclusive use of the occupants of the building. No outside clothes
lines or clothes hanging facilities or devices shall be provided or
allowed.
Garbage and waste disposal facilities are to be maintained, and all garbage, waste and litter shall be removed at the expense of the management of the garden apartment development. Furthermore, such disposal systems shall come under the jurisdiction of the Health Department and be policed under Chapter
316, Littering, of the Borough Code. Such facilities must be shown on the site plan and approved by the municipal agency.