[Amended 2-22-05 by Ord. No. R2005-1]
Within the R-3 Residential District, the following uses shall
be permitted:
A. Single-family detached dwellings.
B. Buildings and land uses for agricultural purposes. Agricultural purposes
shall include the keeping of up to two horses. In the event a lot
contains an area of four or more acres, an additional horse may be
kept on such parcel for each additional acre.
[Amended 7-14-2020 by Ord. No. 2020-08]
[Amended 4-22-14 by Ord. No. 2014-01]
The following accessory uses shall be permitted:
B. Any other similar use which the Land Use Board determines to be one
customarily incidental to the principal permitted use on the premises,
provided that the principal permitted use is not a nonconforming use.
[Amended 4-22-14 by Ord. No. 2014-01]
C. The following are prohibited as accessory uses: real estate sales
office, barber shop, beauty parlor and dance studio, and any similar
uses which the Land Use Board may deem to be of a sufficiently high
intensity with respect to vehicular traffic, pedestrian traffic or
otherwise, and which may be deemed inconsistent with existing or future
abutting residential uses.
[Added 7-9-2019 by Ord.
No. 2019-11]
All trailers placed on property. All trailers, including but
not limited to boat trailers, equipment trailers, car trailers, and
utility trailers, must have a current New Jersey registration to be
placed on any residential property.
[Amended 4-22-14 by Ord. No. 2014-01]
The following uses shall be permitted only after review and
approval by the Land Use Board in accordance with the regulations
governing the approval of conditional uses as set forth in this chapter
and subject to the grant of site plan approval by the Land Use Board
in accordance with the applicable standards and requirements for the
grant of site plan approval for such use in the same manner as if
such use were located in a commercial zone district:
A. Churches, including parish houses and Sunday school buildings.
B. Hospitals and nursing homes.
C. The office of a medical doctor, psychiatrist, chiropractor, dentist,
architect, engineer, surveyor, attorney, optometrist or accountant,
or any such substantially similar professional occupation when located
within the dwelling of such practicing professional, subject to the
following conditions and limitations:
(1) Not more than one nameplate or professional sign not over four square
feet in area, which may be illuminated only with the express permission
of the Land Use Board during such hours and subject to such limitations
as the Board may impose.
[Amended 4-22-14 by Ord. No. 2014-01]
(2) Provision shall be made for adequate off-street parking to accommodate
the resident professional and any employees, clients or business invitees
thereof, provided that in no event shall fewer than five off-street
parking spaces be so provided. Such off-street parking areas shall
be adequately screened and buffered in accordance with the requirements
imposed by the Board.
(3) Not more than two persons who are not bona fide residents of such
dwelling may be employed in such office.
(4) The structure in which such office is situated shall be the bona
fide principal residence of such professional practitioner.
(5) The portion of such residential dwelling house dedicated or devoted
to such office use shall not exceed 25% of the gross living area of
such building.
D. Home occupations as defined in Section
76-7 shall be guided by the following considerations:
(1) The proposed use must be entirely consistent with the principal use
of the premises for residential purposes.
(2) The proposed use shall not result in any undue increase in traffic,
parking, noise, odor or any other factor detrimental to adjoining
residences.
(3) The proposed use shall not be a use permitted in any business district
unless such use is one which the Land Use Board expressly finds to
be customarily conducted in the home and usually considered to be
a home occupation.
[Amended 7-27-99 by Ord. No. 99-04; 2-25-03 by Ord. No. 2003-08; 2-22-05 by Ord. No. R2005-1]
A. General single family residential requirements.
(1) Maximum coverage. The coverage of all buildings on the lot shall
not exceed 10%.
(2) Building height. No building shall exceed 35 feet in height measured
from the lowest point of the finished grade to the highest point of
the structure.
(3) Minimum area, bulk and yard requirements shall be as follows:
(a)
Minimum lot size: 130,680 square feet or three acres in the
R-3 zone districts.
Editor's Note: No new requirement contained in this Ordinance
shall apply to any existing lot with a gross area less than that prescribed
for a lot in the respective zone, provided that all regulations prescribed
for the zone are complied with and further provided that the lot was
properly subdivided after Planning Board/Land Use Board approval and
pursuant to the provisions of the then-existing subdivision ordinance.
(b)
Minimum lot width as measured at the minimum building setback
line: 150 feet.
(c)
Minimum lot frontage as measured at the edge of the right-of-way:
150 feet.
(d)
Minimum lot depth: 200 feet.
(e)
Minimum front yard setback; 50 feet from the edge of the street
right-of-way provided that such right-of-way shall be not less than
50 feet in width. In the event that such right-of-way shall be less
than 50 feet in width, such minimum front yard setback shall be increased
by 1/2 the difference between 50 feet and the actual width of the
dedicated right-of-way.
(f)
Minimum distance from the principal structure to any lot line
other than the street line: 35 feet.
(g)
Minimum distance from any accessory structure to any lot line
other than the street line: 10 feet.
(h)
Minimum road frontage on a cul-de-sac street: 75 feet.
B. Minimum lot area for any conditional use permitted pursuant to Section
76-28, Subsections
A and
B shall be five acres, and the bulk dimensions of the lot supporting such conditional use shall be twice the minimum lot dimensions required for a conventional single family residential lot as required by Section
76-29, Subsection
A.
C. Flag lots shall be permitted in accordance with all applicable requirements
of the Flag Lot Ordinance, as amended.
[Amended 7-27-99 by Ord. No. 99-04]
A. Density. The maximum density shall be one unit per five acres (.2
units per acre). Rounding shall not apply.
B. Minimum area bulk and yard requirements shall be as follows:
(1) Minimum lot size: 40,000 square feet.
(2) Minimum lot width as measured at the minimum building setback line:
100 feet.
(3) Minimum lot frontage as measured at the edge of the right-of-way:
100 feet.
(4) Minimum lot depth: 200 feet.
(5) Minimum front yard setback: 50 feet.
(6) Minimum distance from the principal structure to any other lot line:
35 feet.
(7) Minimum distance from any accessory structure to any lot line other
than the street line: 10 feet.
(8) Minimum road frontage on a cul-de-sac or curved street: 50 feet.
C. Common driveways.
(1) Common driveways may be permitted for good cause shown to the Land
Use Board, but in no event shall a common driveway serve more than
four lots.
[Amended 4-22-14 by Ord. No. 2014-01]
(2) Lots with access provided by a common driveway shall not be required
to abut an improved public street. Any approval involving one or more
lots not abutting a street but having an approved common driveway
shall be deemed to have effectively directed the issuance of a permit
for the erection of a building or structure on such lot(s) if and
when such construction shall be otherwise authorized, provided that
the applicant shall have given notice for and shall have received
a variance pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-36.
(3) The maximum length of a common driveway shall be 1,000 feet.
(4) The minimum width of a common driveway shall be 16 feet with 2-foot
graded-and-stoned shoulders within an easement having a minimum width
of 25 feet.
(5) Provisions for the long term maintenance of the common driveway shall
be established and approved at the time of subdivision approval. Appropriate
covenants shall be included in any deed to perfect and/or convey title
to any approved lot or lots.
D. Exercise of this development option shall preclude further subdivision,
which shall be enforced by approved deed restriction(s).