The restrictions and controls intended to regulate development in each zone district are set forth in the attached schedules, which are supplemented by other sections of this chapter.
Except as hereinafter otherwise provided:
A. 
No building or structure shall be erected and no existing building or structure shall be moved, altered, added to or enlarged, nor shall any land or building be designed, used or intended to be used for any purpose or in any manner other than as specified among the uses hereinafter listed as permitted in the district in which such building or land is located.
B. 
No building or structure shall be erected, reconstructed or structurally altered to exceed in height the limit hereinafter designated for the district in which such building is located.
C. 
No building or structure shall be erected, no existing building or structure shall be altered, enlarged or rebuilt, nor shall any open space surrounding any building be encroached upon or reduced in any manner, except in conformity to the yard, lot area and building location regulations hereinafter designated for the district in which such building or open space is located.
D. 
No yard or other open space provided about any building for the purpose of complying with the provisions of this chapter shall be considered as providing a yard or open space for any other building, and no yard or other open space on one lot shall be considered as providing a yard or open space for a building on any other lot.
E. 
No minimum off-street parking area or loading or unloading area shall be considered as providing off-street parking, loading or unloading for a use or structure on any other lot or parcel than the principal use to which it is ancillary, except as provided herein.
F. 
No commercial trailers, or vehicles used or intended for conveyance upon public highways either under their own power or by attachment to a motor vehicle or through other means of transportation, shall be used for the storage of any type of goods or materials on any premises in any zoning district within the Township of Verona. Any commercial trailers or vehicles described in the preceding sentence shall be deemed to be used for storage purposes if the trailer or vehicle remains on the premises in excess of seven days.
G. 
Number of principal residential structures per lot restricted. Every residential building or residential structure hereafter erected or structurally altered shall be located on a lot, and in no event, except in the case of garden apartments, apartment buildings and planned developments, shall more than one principal building or structure and its accessory buildings be located on one lot.
H. 
General use restriction. Any use not specifically designated as a principal permitted use, an accessory use or a conditional use is specifically prohibited from any zone district in the Township of Verona.
A. 
The following uses are not permitted, accessory or conditional uses and are prohibited in all zone districts in the Township of Verona. This list is not exhaustive of all uses that are prohibited.
[Amended 6-21-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-15]
Uses Specifically Prohibited
Acetylene gas manufacture or storage
Alcohol manufacture
Ammonia, chlorine or bleaching powder manufacture
Arsenals, storage or manufacture of gun powder, ammunition and blasting material
Asphalt manufacture or refining
Auction rooms; flea markets
Auto laundries (car washes), except when operated in conjunction with a duly authorized new car agency and when located on the same property
Automobile junkyards or wrecking yards
Boardinghouses or rooming housing
Bingo halls or bingo parlors or similar types of amusement establishments, except in halls owned and operated by churches and similar charitable organizations
Blast furnace, forge plants, rolling mills, foundry
Body modification establishments
Boiler works
Brick, pottery, tile or terra cotta manufacture
All classes of cannabis establishments or cannabis distributors or cannabis delivery services as said terms are defined in Section 3 of P.L. 2021, c. 16,[1] but not the delivery of cannabis items and related supplies by a delivery service
Carrousels (permanent), ferris wheels, merry-go-rounds, roller coasters, miniature and practice golf courses, shooting galleries
Cellular communication towers, cells and antennas
Celluloid or film manufacture or extraction of products therefrom
Cement, cinder block, lime, gypsum or plaster of paris manufacture
Chemical manufacture or storage of chemicals having a flammable, explosive or toxic base or which have an odor
Coke ovens
Community drop-in centers or rehabilitation centers for those afflicted with drug abuse alcoholism, diseased, or mental illness
Cotton oil manufacture
Disinfectant, insecticide or poison manufacture
Distillation of coal, petroleum, refuse, grain, wood or bone
Dog pounds or animal shelters
Dormitories, fraternity or sorority houses
Dye manufacture
Emery cloth and sandpaper manufacture
Establishments for the distribution of free food, toiletries, clothes, household goods, etc., including soup kitchens
Explosives or fireworks manufacture and storage
Fat-rendering plant
Fertilizer manufacture
Fish and meat: wholesale smoking or curing
Freak shows or wax museums
Glue, size, adhesive or gelatin manufacture
Grain drying or food manufacture from refuse, marsh or grain
Harboring or keeping of exotic pets
House-wreckers yard or secondhand lumberyard
Incineration, except publicly owned incinerators or accessory to an apartment building or hospital, reduction, storage or dumping of slaughterhouse refuse, rancid fats, garbage, dead animals or offal
Junkyards or the storage, sorting or bailing of junk, scrap iron, paper, bottles, metal or rags
Keeping of livestock
Match manufacture
Motels, tourist camps or cabins; trailer camps or courts
Oilcloth and linoleum manufacture
Paint, oil, varnish, turpentine, shellac, enamel, japanning, lacquer or solvents manufacture
Paper pulp manufacture
Petroleum refining
Plastics manufacture or the manufacture of articles from plastic having an inflammable base
Pool hall
Potash works
Power forging, riveting, hammering, punching, chipping, drawing, rolling or tumbling of metals except as necessary incident of manufacture of which these processes form a minor part and which are carried on without objectionable noise audible beyond the limits of the lot
Printing ink manufacture
Psychic reader
Quarry, sand pits, gravel pits, topsoil stripping
Raw hides or skins storage, cleaning, curing, pickling or tanning or retanning
Rock or stone crusher
Rubber, latex or gutta-percha manufacture or treatment
Sexually oriented business as defined by N.J.S.A. 2C
Shoddy manufacture or wool scouring
Slaughtering or wholesaling of animals or fowl
Smelting, smelters, and foundries
Soap manufacture
Solar or photovoltaic panels, ground-mounted
Starch, glucose or dextrin manufacture
Steel furnace or rolling mill
Stockyards
Sugar refining
Sulphurous, sulphuric, acetic, nitric, picric, carbolic or hycrochloric acid manufacture
Tar distillation or manufacture
Tallow, grease or lard manufacture or refining
Tattoo parlors
Tobacco manufacture or treatment
Used automobile sales, except when operated by an authorized new car agency and located on the same or adjoining lot
Use Group H-High hazard use as defined in the Building Code
Video and pinball game arcade
Yeast plant
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Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 24:6I-33.