[Ord. 93-5 § 407,
1993; amended by Ord. 99-21 § 4,
1999; Ord. 2001-3 § 4,
2001; Ord. 2002-11 § 3,
2002]
A. Principal Permitted Uses on the Land and In Buildings.
1. Detached single-family dwelling units;
2. Retail sales of goods and services located within a detached single-family
dwelling unit on an individual lot as a shared principal use with
the residential use where the residential uses must occupy at least
50% of the gross floor area of the principal building. Restaurants,
theaters, dry cleaning establishments, or any other use which utilizes
either a condenser or compressor within its net habitable floor area
shall not be permitted;
3. Professional offices and office buildings limited to doctors, dentists,
architects, engineers, lawyers, insurance brokers, real estate agents
or other similar licensed professional uses;
6. Public playgrounds, public conservation areas, public parks, public open spaces and public purpose uses (see Section
16.20.010 for standards);
7. Public utilities as conditional uses under N.J.S.A. 40:55D-67 (see Section
16.56.010 for standards);
8. Community residences for the developmentally disabled, community
shelters for victims of domestic violence, community residences for
the terminally ill, community residences for persons with head injuries,
and adult family care homes for elderly persons and physically disabled
adults subject to the standards and requirements for single-family
dwelling units located in the same district.
B. Accessory Uses Permitted.
1. Private residential swimming pools (see Section
16.52.160 for standards) and other usual recreational facilities, customarily associated with residential dwelling units;
2. Private residential sheds for the storage of objects owned by the
residents of the property, each not exceeding 15 feet in height, and
altogether not exceeding 150 square feet in gross floor area;
3. Boat trailers, boats on blocks and boats on trailers to be parked
or stored within any yard area, provided that they are set back from
any property line the distance specified for accessory buildings within
Section 16.24.010(D) of this title, vehicular access to the property
is not impeded, and no more than one boat (on or off a trailer) or
boat trailer may be parked or stored in the front yard. Their dimensions
shall not be counted in determining total building coverage and they
shall not be used for temporary or permanent living quarters while
situated on the lot. All boats and trailers parked or stored on any
property within the Borough shall be currently registered with the
appropriate agency;
4. Off-street parking and private garages, either attached or detached (see Subsection
F of this section and Section
16.52.080);
5. Fences and walls not to exceed four feet in height in front yards and six feet in height in side and rear yards (see Section
16.52.030 for additional standards);
6. Home occupations (see Section
16.08.020 for definition and Subsection
I of this section);
7. Signs (see Subsection
G of this section and Section
16.52.130);
8. Satellite dish antennae as conditional uses under N.J.S.A. 40:55D-67 (see Section
16.56.010 for standards).
C. Maximum Building Height. No building shall exceed 32 feet in height and 2 1/2 stories except as allowed in Section
16.60.010. On any non-conforming lot of less than 40 feet in width no building shall be erected consisting of more than one habitable story or exceeding 24 feet in height.
D. Area and Yard Requirements.
Requirement
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Single-Family Detached Dwelling Units
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Detached Dwellings With Retail Uses, Professional Offices and
Child Care Centers
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Quasi-Public Uses
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Principal Building Minimum
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Lot area
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4,800 square feet
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6,000 square feet
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8,000 square feet
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Lot frontage
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60 feet
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60 feet
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80 feet
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Lot width
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60 feet
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60 feet
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80 feet
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Lot depth
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80 feet
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80 feet
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100 feet
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Side yard
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10 feet 1; 15 feet both1
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10 feet each1
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10 feet each1
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Front yard
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15 feet2
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15 feet2
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15 feet
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Rear yard
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20 feet
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10 feet
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20 feet
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Accessory Building Minimum
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Distance to side line
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5 feet
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5 feet
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5 feet
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Distance to rear line
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5 feet
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5 feet
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5 feet
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Distance to other building
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5 feet
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5 feet
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5 feet
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Maximum
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Building coverage
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35%
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35%
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35%
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Lot coverage
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75%
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80%
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75%
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NOTES:
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1
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(Reserved)
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2
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See Section 16.60.010 for exceptions in developed neighborhoods.
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E. General Requirements.
1. At least the first five feet adjacent to any lot line for a nonresidential
use shall not be used for parking and shall be planted and maintained
in lawn area or ground cover and landscaped with evergreen shrubbery.
2. Unless otherwise specifically approved by the board as part of a
site plan application, no merchandise, products, equipment or similar
material or objects shall be displayed outside. All solid waste not
stored within a nonresidential building shall be stored within a totally
enclosed container located in a manner to be obscured from view from
parking areas, streets and adjacent residential areas or zoning districts
by a fence, wall, planting or combination of all three.
Where merchandise, products, equipment or similar material or
objects are approved by the board to be displayed or stored outside,
the materials shall be suitably screened to be obscured from view
from adjacent residential uses and must be situated within the property
lines of the principal use.
3. All areas not utilized for buildings, parking, loading, access aisles
and driveways or pedestrian walkways shall be suitably landscaped
with shrubs, ground cover, seeding or plantings and maintained in
good condition.
4. All buildings shall be compatibly designed whether constructed all
at one time or in stages over a period of time. All building walls
facing any street or residential district line or residential lot
shall be suitably finished for aesthetic purposes.
5. The minimum setback area for any nonresidential use shall include
a planted buffer of five feet in width along any common property line
with a residential district or use.
F. Minimum Off-Street Parking. Each individual use shall provide parking
spaces according to the following minimum provisions. Where a permitted
use of land includes different specific activities with different
specific parking requirements, the total number of required parking
spaces shall be obtained by computing individually the parking requirements
for each different activity and adding the resulting numbers together.
1. Detached dwelling units shall provide two spaces per unit.
2. Retail activities and professional offices shall provide parking
at a ratio of one parking space per 250 square feet of net habitable
floor area or part thereof.
3. Child care centers shall provide parking at a ratio of one parking
space per employee plus one additional parking space for every eight
children. Adequate spaces shall be provided for the loading and unloading
of children which shall take place on-site and not in the public right-of-way.
4. Quasi-public uses shall provide adequate parking spaces which shall
be determined at the time of site plan review.
G. Permitted Signs.
1. Dwelling units: information and direction signs as defined in Section
16.52.130(A)(5);
2. Nonresidential.
a.
Nonresidential buildings and retail activities located within
detached dwellings each may have one sign, attached or freestanding,
not exceeding 5% of the front facade of the building or 20 square
feet, whichever is smaller. Any freestanding sign shall not exceed
15 feet in height and shall be set back at least five feet from all
street and property lines.
b.
Additionally, where a principal use occupying at least 700 square
feet of segregated area within a building has direct access from the
outside, a sign not exceeding eight square feet in area identifying
the name of the activity also shall be permitted. Such additional
sign(s) shall be attached flat against the building at the entrance
to the activity.
H. Minimum Floor Area. Dwelling units: 720 square feet at the first
floor level per dwelling unit, except that where the dwelling unit
is located above a permitted retail use, 720 square feet at the second
floor level per dwelling unit.
I. Home Occupations.
1. Such occupation may be pursued in the principal dwelling unit structure
or in one or more secondary buildings which are accessory to such
principal dwelling unit structure.
2. The use of the property for the home occupation shall be clearly
incidental and subordinate to its use for residential purposes by
its occupants, and not more than 20% of the gross floor area of all
buildings shall be used in the conduct of the home occupation. Moreover,
when such a use is conducted within the principal dwelling unit, the
minimum net habitable floor area as required elsewhere by ordinance
shall be met for the residential use.
3. No person other than members of the household residing on the premises
plus one outside employee or other assistant shall be engaged in the
occupation.
4. The residential character of the lot and building shall not be changed,
no occupational sounds shall be audible outside the building, and
no equipment shall be used which will cause interference with radio
or television reception in neighboring residences. No display of products
shall be visible from the street, nor shall any materials be stored
outside the dwelling unit.
5. The home occupation shall not generate the business or care of more
than two clients at any one time and shall be by appointment only.
The home occupation shall not include the breeding, raising, care,
boarding or maintenance of animals.
6. The home occupation shall not necessitate the need to park more than
two vehicles at any time in addition to those ordinances used by the
residents of the home. Such vehicles shall be limited to passenger
automobiles and must be parked off-street. The home occupation shall
not reduce the parking or yard requirements of the dwelling. There
may be parked on the premises not more than one vehicle owned or operated
in conjunction with the home occupation. No other vehicle(s) owned
or operated in conjunction with the home occupation shall be parked
overnight, stored or repaired, either on- or off-premises, within
a residential zone, and no such vehicle(s) shall be parked overnight
or stored on a street.
7. There shall be no exterior evidence of the home occupation other
than one unlighted nameplate identifying the home occupation only
by name, title or hours of operation, not exceeding three square feet
in area, either attached or freestanding (maximum of three feet in
height) and set back at least five feet from all street rights-of-way
and property lines.