[Ord. 93-5 § 409,
1993; amended by Ord. 99-14 § 1,
1999; Ord. 2002-2 §§ 1,
2, 2002; Ord. 2006-22 § 3,
2006]
A.
Principal Permitted Uses on the Land and In Buildings.
1.
Retail sales of goods;
2.
Retail sales of services, excluding commercial dry cleaning establishments
and nonportable appliance, equipment or machine services or any other
type of service which requires truck, van or trailer pick-up or delivery
of the equipment or item to be serviced;
3.
Delicatessens, bakeries, candy stores, food markets and grocery stores,
provided that no other activities associated with other permitted
principal uses are conducted on the site;
4.
Banks, including drive-in facilities;
5.
Offices and office buildings;
6.
Restaurants, bars, night clubs and taverns, excluding drive-in facilities
and delivery service;
7.
Theaters;
8.
Child care centers;
9.
Funeral homes;
10.
Hotels and motels;
B.
Accessory Uses Permitted.
1.
Off-street parking and private garages to house delivery trucks or other commercial vehicles (see Subsection F of this section and Section 15.62.080);
2.
Storage buildings not exceeding 20 feet in height;
3.
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 adc standards);
5.
Usual recreational facilities for hotels and motels such as public swimming pools (see Section 16.52.160 for standards);
6.
Restaurants, bars and night clubs in hotels and motels provided they
are limited to the first floor;
7.
Only one accessory apartment is permitted in mixed-use buildings,
only above the ground floor and only where occupied by permitted local
retail and service activities, funeral homes, offices and/or banks
and where such floor is limited to the permitted apartment residential
use;
[Amended 5-25-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-07]
C.
Maximum Building Height. No building shall exceed 35 feet in height and 2 1/2 stories except that hotels and motels shall not exceed three stories and except as further provided in Section 16.60.010 of this title.
D.
Area and Yard Requirements.
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Requirement
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Retail Uses, Restaurants and Food Markets
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Offices, Banks, Theaters, Funeral Homes and Child Care Centers
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Hotels and Motels
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Principal Building Minimum
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Lot area
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4,800 square feet
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6,000 square feet
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20,000 square feet
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Lot frontage
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60 feet
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60 feet
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200 feet
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Lot width
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60 feet
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60 feet
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200 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 (each)
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5 feet1
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5 feet1
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20 feet3
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Front yard
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15 feet2
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15 feet2
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20 feet
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Rear yard
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10 feet4
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10 feet4
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20 feet3
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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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90%
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85%
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80%
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NOTES:
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1
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In order to encourage an end product which provides parking,
access and architectural continuity even where development occurs
piecemeal and with diverse ownership, commercial buildings may be
attached and may be built to the interior side line(s) in order to
be attached. Attached buildings may include two walls which must be
keyed to each other. Where buildings are built to both side lines,
the site plan shall be accompanied by appropriate legal documentation
and plans showing properly located loading and trash receptacles with
permitted access across adjacent properties. If structures are not
attached, the side yard(s) shall be five feet, with the minimum distance
of 10 feet between any two buildings.
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2
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See Section 16.60.010 for exceptions in developed neighborhoods.
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3
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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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4
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The minimum rear yard shall be 15 feet where a lot abuts a residential
district or use.
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E.
General Requirements.
1.
One building may contain more than one use provided that the total
building coverage of the combined uses does not exceed the maximums
specified for the district and, further, that each use occupies a
minimum gross floor area of 20% of the gross floor area of the entire
building or 500 square feet, whichever is greater. Storage areas shall
be included in gross floor area.
2.
Outside display.
a.
Unless otherwise specifically approved by the board as part
of a site plan application, no merchandise, product, equipment or
similar material or objects shall be displayed or stored outside.
b.
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 uses and must be situated within the property lines
of the principal use.
c.
In any case, no sidewalk area shall be obstructed or utilized
for any commercial purpose and no food shall be dispensed directly
to any person standing or occupying prescribed sidewalk area. Moreover,
if approved, any dispensing of food or other merchandise shall be
done only to persons actually within the lot lines of the lot occupied
by the vendor.
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 shall be suitably finished
for aesthetic purposes.
5.
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.
6.
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.
7.
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.
8.
The minimum setback area 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 individually computing the parking requirements
for each different activity and adding the resulting numbers together.
1.
Retail and service activities, food markets, funeral homes, banks
and offices shall provide parking at the ratio of one parking space
per 250 square feet of net habitable floor area or part thereof. Additionally,
drive-in banks shall provide room for at least eight automobiles per
drive-in window for queuing purposes.
2.
Restaurants, bars, night clubs and taverns shall provide one parking
space for every four seats, but in all cases, a sufficient number
of spaces to prevent any parking along public rights-of-way or private
driveways, fire lanes and aisles. Additionally, night clubs, bars
or taverns shall provide a minimum of one parking space for every
500 square feet of net habitable floor area or part thereof, in addition
to the seating requirement.
3.
Theaters shall provide one space for every three seats.
4.
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.
5.
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.
6.
An accessory apartment above the ground floor in mixed use buildings
shall provide one parking space for an efficiency or one bedroom unit
or two parking spaces for a unit with two or more bedrooms.
7.
Parking areas for individual use shall be designed to be interconnected
with adjacent properties and shall utilize common entrance(s) and
exit(s) where feasible, to minimize access points to the street.
8.
Unless sufficient off-street parking can be provided on-site, the
second and third stories of a building are restricted to accessory
apartment uses, ancillary storage for the permitted commercial uses
on the first floor or other restricted uses which have marginal parking
requirements associated therewith.
9.
Where the required number of off-street parking spaces cannot be
provided on-site, the board may grant a variance pursuant to N.J.S.A.
40:55D-70c, from the parking requirement with consideration given
to whether or not acceptable alternate provisions can be made to accommodate
the parking needs off-site, including but not limited to a lease arrangement
of other parking facilities or contribution to a dedicated fund for
the provision of public parking, either on- or off-street.
11.
Furniture store or carpet store shall provide 1.2 spaces per
1,000 square feet of gross floor area of the entire building. Storage
areas shall be included in gross floor area.
G.
Minimum Off-Street Loading.
1.
The necessity and adequacy of loading facilities for each activity
shall be analyzed during site plan review.
2.
There shall be at least one trash and garbage pick-up location including
provision for recyclable materials collection provided by each building
which shall be separated from the parking spaces by either a location
within the building or in a pick-up location outside the building
which shall be a steel-like, totally enclosed container, or equivalent,
located in a manner to be obscured from view from parking areas, streets
and adjacent residential uses or zoning districts by a fence, wall,
planting or combination of all three. If located within the building,
the doorway may serve both the loading and trash/garbage functions
and if located outside the building, it may be located adjacent to
or within the general loading area(s) provided the container in no
way interferes with or restricts loading and unloading functions.
H.
Permitted Signs.
1.
One sign, lighted or unlighted, may be attached on each principal
building facade. The total area of the sign shall not exceed 20% of
the area of the face of the wall upon which such sign is attached.
Where more than one use occupies a building, a sign for each principal
use not exceeding 20% of the portions of the building devoted to that
use may be attached to the entrance to each use.
2.
One freestanding sign is allowed for each principal building or group
of buildings and shall not exceed 25 feet in height or the height
of the principal use, whichever is lowest, and 32 square feet in area.
Any freestanding sign shall be set back at least five feet from all
street and property lines and any portion of the sign standing over
a public walkway shall not be less than 10 feet from any grade level.
