[Ord. 93-5 § 410,
1993; amended by Ord. 99-14 § 2,
1999; Ord. 99-18 § 2,
1999; Ord. 2002-22 § 4,
2006; Ord. No. 2010-13, §§ 1
— 3, 8-24-2010; Ord. No. 2011-10, §§ 1, 2, 10-25-2011; Ord. No. 2016-16, § 1, 7-26-2016]
A. Permitted Principal Uses on the Land and In Buildings.
1. Townhouse and apartments pursuant to Section 16.64; together with accessory buildings and uses permitted therein and swimming pools pursuant to Section
16.52.160;
2. Mixed uses of commercial and residential townhouse and/or residential
apartments;
3. Any principal permitted use in the SC district;
4. Retail sales of goods and services related to home improvement and
repair;
5. Retail sales of goods and services related to marine activities and
marinas including, but not limited to, the sales and rental of boats,
boat engines, boat supplies and fishing equipment;
6. Service stations as conditional uses under N.J.S.A. 40:55D-67 (see Section
16.56.010 for standards);
7. Fast food convenience stores as conditional uses under N.J.S.A. 40:55D-67 (see Section
16.56.010 for standards);
8. Fast food restaurants, including drive-ins, as conditional uses under N.J.S.A. 40:55D-67 (see Section
16.56.010 for standards);
9. Public utilities as conditional uses under N.J.S.A. 40:55D-67 (see Section
16.56.010 for standards);
10.
Fast food delicatessen, as conditional uses under N.J.S.A. 40:55D-67 (see Section
16.56.010 for standards).
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 16.62.080);
2. Signs (see Subsection
H of this section and Section
16.52.130);
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 additional standards);
4. Storage buildings not exceeding 20 feet in height;
5. Restaurants, bars, night clubs and usual recreational facilities
associated with and ancillary to hotels and motels;
6. 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.
1. No building between 8th and 9th Streets shall exceed 40 feet in height
and three stories. The measurement of height shall be taken from the
base flood elevation indicated on the current flood insurance rate
maps. Notwithstanding the building height for townhouse units and
developments is limited to 32 feet, and is further limited to two
stories of living space, above a garage or storage area. The following
blocks and lots are included in this area:
Block
|
Lot
|
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103
|
1.01
|
103
|
3
|
103
|
4.01
|
103
|
6
|
103
|
7
|
104
|
2.01
|
104
|
3.01
|
104
|
4.01
|
104
|
5.01
|
104
|
6.01
|
104
|
7.01
|
104
|
9.01
|
104
|
11
|
104
|
12
|
104
|
13
|
104
|
14
|
104
|
15
|
105
|
1
|
105
|
2
|
2. No building to the north side of 8th Street or the south side of
9th Street or east of Long Beach Boulevard shall exceed 35 feet in
height and three stories. The measurement of height shall be taken
from the base flood elevation indicated on the current flood insurance
rate maps. Notwithstanding the building height for townhouse units
and developments is limited to 32 feet, and is further limited to
two stories of living space, above a garage or storage area. The following
blocks and lots are included in this area:
Block
|
Lot
|
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96
|
1.02
|
98
|
1
|
98
|
2.01
|
99
|
1
|
99
|
2
|
99
|
3.01
|
99
|
5
|
99
|
6
|
99
|
7
|
99
|
8
|
99
|
9
|
99
|
10.01
|
99
|
15.01*
|
99
|
29
|
100
|
3
|
100
|
4
|
100
|
5
|
100
|
6
|
100
|
7
|
100
|
8
|
100
|
9
|
100
|
9.01
|
100
|
9.02
|
100
|
9.03
|
100
|
9.04
|
106
|
3
|
106
|
4.01
|
107
|
9
|
108
|
1
|
109
|
1.01
|
109
|
18.01
|
109
|
20
|
109
|
21
|
109
|
22
|
109
|
23
|
109
|
23.01
|
109
|
23.02
|
109
|
23.03
|
109
|
23.04
|
109
|
23.05
|
109
|
23.06
|
109
|
23.07
|
109
|
24.01
|
109
|
25.01
|
110
|
1
|
110
|
8.02
|
110
|
16.01
|
110
|
17.01
|
110
|
18
|
110
|
19.01
|
110
|
21**
|
110
|
22
|
110
|
23
|
110
|
24
|
110
|
25
|
111
|
1
|
NOTES:
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*
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95 Foot Depth Measured From 9th Street
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**
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100 Foot Depth Measured From 8th Street
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D. Area and Yard Requirements.
Requirement
|
Retail Uses
|
Related Uses
|
Hotels and Motels
|
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Principal Building Minimum
|
|
|
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Lot area
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10,000 square feet
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16,000 square feet
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43,560 square feet
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Lot frontage
|
100 feet
|
160 feet
|
200 feet
|
Lot width
|
100 feet
|
160 feet
|
200 feet
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Lot depth
|
100 feet
|
100 feet
|
200 feet
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Side yard (each)
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5 feet 1; 15 feet both
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10 feet
|
20 feet1
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Front yard
|
15 feet
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15 feet
|
20 feet
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Rear yard
|
10 feet2
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15 feet
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20 feet1
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Accessory Building Minimum
|
|
|
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Distance to side line
|
5 feet
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5 feet
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5 feet
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Distance to rear line
|
5 feet
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5 feet
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5 feet
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Distance to other building
|
10 feet
|
10 feet
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10 feet
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Maximum
|
|
|
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Building coverage
|
30%
|
30%
|
35%
|
Lot coverage
|
80%
|
80%
|
80%
|
NOTES:
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1
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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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2
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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. Outdoor 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 of 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.
9. Marine related activities may include the following uses:
a.
Maintenance, repair, refinishing, rebuilding, alteration of
boats, including necessary engine work and rebuilding; provided, however,
that any such activities shall not unreasonably involve noise, dirt,
pollution of air or water, or smoke, or any combination thereof.
b.
Sale of foods and beverages, boat fittings, marine supplies
and accessories, fishing equipment and bait, and petroleum products,
provided that no pump or storage facility for boat fuel shall be closer
than 35 feet to any property line, except a property line which is
a common line between two marinas or boat yards.
c.
The dry storage of new or used boats as an accessory use of
marine sales and service provided that enclosed boat storage shall
not exceed three stories or 32 feet. Storage which is not enclosed
and is defined as open storage shall not exceed 16 feet in height
and shall not exceed three tiers of boats. Such open storage shall
not be closer than 15 feet to any lot line. No such storage shall
be permitted except on a lot having a minimum of 25% of the total
area reserved for off-street parking with adequate ingress and egress.
10.
Townhouse and Apartments. The density of townhouse and apartment
units permitted in the zone will be 16 units per acre or fraction
thereof.
F. Minimum Off-Street Parking. Each individual use shall provide parking
spaces 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. Accessory apartments above the ground floor in mixed use buildings
shall provide one parking space for every two or more bedroom units.
7. Marine related activities shall provide parking at the ratio of one
parking space for every 1,000 square feet or fraction of net habitable
floor area used for inside or outside storage or dry dock or one parking
space for every four slips and one parking space for every four operational
boats not moored in slips, plus one space for every 250 square feet
or fraction of net habitable floor area used for offices, plus one
space for every vehicle owned and/or operated by the use operating
from the site. Where any charter or commercial vessel is permitted,
one parking space shall be provided for every three passengers for
which the vessel or vessels are licensed. Parking may not be provided
in space used for staging area, for cranes, boat lifts, or fuel pumps.
Parking areas may be utilized for winter storage but may not include
dry storage for year-round use or summer repair work. For purposes
of this section, the term "winter" is defined as commencing on December
1st of one year and ending on June 30th of any given following year.
8. 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.
9. Unless sufficient off-street parking can be provided on-site, the
second story (and the third story if permitted) 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.
10.
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.
12.
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. Each principal building shall provide at minimum one off-street loading
space at the side or rear of the building or within the building.
Each loading space shall be at least 15 feet in width by 40 feet in
length with adequate ingress and egress from a public street. Offices
shall not require a loading zone. There shall be no loading or unloading
from the street.
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 of 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.
I. Minimum Floor Area.
2. Hotel and motel units: See Subsection (E)(6) of this section.