[Ord. 93-5 § 408,
1993; amended by Ord. 99-21 § 5,
1999; Ord. 2001-3 § 5,
2001; Ord. 2002-11 § 3,
2002]
A. Principal Permitted Uses on the Land and in Buildings.
1. Detached single-family dwelling units;
2. Two-family dwelling units;
3. Apartments as conditional uses under N.J.S.A. 40:55D-67 (see Section
16.56.010 for standards);
4. Townhouses as conditional uses under N.J.S.A. 40:55D-67 (see Section
16.56.010 for standards);
6. 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 detached 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 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);
9. Usual recreational facilities for apartments, townhouses, hotels and motels such as public swimming pools (see Section
16.52.160 for standards);
10.
Restaurants, bars and night clubs in hotels and motels provided
they are limited to the first floor.
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 Dwellings
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Two-Family Dwellings
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Hotels and Motels
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Principal Building Minimum
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Lot area
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4,000 square feet
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8,000 square feet
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20,000 square feet
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Lot frontage
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40 feet
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80 feet
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200 feet
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Lot width
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40 feet
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80 feet
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200 feet
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Lot depth
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100 feet
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100 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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20 feet2
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Front yard
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15 feet3
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15 feet3
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20 feet
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Rear yard
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20 feet
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20 feet
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20 feet2
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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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10 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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75%
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80%
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NOTES:
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1
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(Reserved)
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2
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At least 40 feet shall be provided between any hotel or motel
and any principal structure on an adjacent lot.
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3
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See Section 16.60.010 for exceptions in developed neighborhoods.
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E. General Requirements.
1. The maximum number of dwelling units in a hotel or motel shall be
computed at a density of 43.56 dwelling units per acre and no hotel
or motel shall contain less than 20 dwelling units.
2. Each hotel or motel dwelling unit shall provide a minimum 300 square
feet of net habitable floor area for each unit and each unit shall
be at least 12 feet in width. Each hotel or motel dwelling unit shall
provide at minimum one private bath consisting of at least a bathtub
or shower, or both, a vanity or sink and a commode. No hotel or motel
dwelling unit, except for the on-site superintendent's apartment,
shall provide cooking facilities of any kind, including, but not limited
to stoves, hot plates and microwave ovens. There shall be a residency
limitation on all guests of 30 days, provided that the residency limitation
shall not apply to an employee living on the premises.
3. A permanent on-site superintendent's apartment or living quarters
shall be permitted within a hotel or motel and shall be included in
the calculation of the permitted density.
4. All areas not utilized for buildings, parking, loading, access aisles,
driveways or pedestrian walkways shall be suitably landscaped with
shrubs, ground cover, seeding or similar plantings and maintained
in good condition.
5. 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.
6. There shall be at least one trash and garbage pick-up location including
provision for recyclable materials provided for each hotel/motel.
F. Minimum Off-Street Parking. Each individual use shall provide parking
spaces according to the following minimum provisions;
1. Detached single- and two-family dwelling units shall each provide
two spaces per dwelling unit.
2. Apartments and townhouses: see Section
16.56.010 for standards.
3. Hotels and motels shall provide parking as follows.
[Amended 5-24-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-03; 7-26-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-06]
a.
Hotel and motel units up to 650 square feet in gross floor area
shall provide 1.25 off-street parking spaces per unit.
b.
Hotel and motel units over 650 square feet in gross floor area
shall provide two off-street parking spaces per unit.
c.
All additional uses located on the property shall be required
to provide off-street parking at a rate required by that use in accordance
with the Zoning Ordinance and those off-street parking space requirements
shall be in addition to the principal hotel and motel parking requirements
required.
G. Permitted Signs.
1. Dwelling units: information and direction signs as defined in Section
16.52.130(A)(5);
2. Apartments and townhouses: See Section
16.56.010 for standards;
3. Nonresidential.
a.
Hotels or motels may attach one sign, lighted or unlighted,
on the front facade of the building and shall not exceed 10% of the
face of the wall to which it is attached;
b.
For ancillary restaurants, bars and night clubs, one additional
attached sign may be permitted if there is a separate entrance to
the ancillary use; such sign shall be attached at the entrance to
the activity and shall not exceed 25 square feet;
c.
One freestanding sign, not exceeding 50 square feet, shall be
allowed for each principal building or group of principal buildings.
Freestanding signs, lighted or unlighted, shall not exceed 25 feet
or the height of the principal building, whichever is lower, and shall
be set back at least five feet from all street and property lines.
Any portion of the sign extending over a public walkway shall not
be less than 10 feet from grade level;
H. Minimum Floor Area.
1. Dwelling units: 900 square feet at the first floor level per dwelling
unit;
3. Hotel and motel units: See Subsection (E)(2) of this section.
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 ordinarily 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.