The purpose of this chapter is to establish rules, regulations,
standards and procedures for review of all development in order to:
B.
Preserve existing natural resources
and give proper consideration to the physical constraints of the land.
C.
Provide for safe and efficient
vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian circulation.
D.
Provide for appropriate screening,
landscaping, signing and lighting.
E.
Ensure efficient, safe and aesthetic
land development.
F.
Provide for compliance with appropriate
design standards to ensure adequate light and air, proper building
arrangements and minimum adverse effect on surrounding property.
G.
Develop proper safeguards to minimize
any adverse impact on the environment.
H.
Ensure the provision of adequate
water supply and quality drainage and stormwater management, sanitary
facilities and other utilities and services.
I.
Provide for appropriate recreation,
open space and public use areas.
J.
Promote the public health, safety,
convenience and general welfare of the Township and to carry out the
objectives of the Municipal Land Use Law.
K.
Ensure orderly growth and development,
the conservation, protection and proper use of land and adequate provisions
for circulation, utilities and services.
L.
Ensure the conservation and environmental
protection of all land, water and air resources within the jurisdiction
of Raritan Township and throughout the region.
The provisions of this chapter shall be administered by the
Township Planning Board and, where applicable, the Township Zoning
Board of Adjustment in accordance with the Municipal Land Use Law,
Chapter 291, P.L. 1975, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq., as amended and
supplemented.
[Amended by Ord. No. 01-9; Ord. No. 02-21; Ord. No. 02-47;
Ord. No. 02-53; Ord. No. 02-54; Ord. No. 02-58; Ord. No. 04-22; Ord.
No. 06-11; Ord. No. 06-31; Ord. No. 08-30; Ord. No. 10-7; Ord. No.
10-27; Ord. No. 11-3; Ord. No. 12-5; 3-20-2018 by Ord. No. 18-1]
Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions
shall be used in the interpretation and construction of this chapter.
The word "building" shall include the word "structure"; the word "used"
shall include the words "arranged," "designed," "constructed," "altered,"
"converted," "rented," "leased" and "intended to be used"; and the
word "abut" shall include the words "directly across from," "adjacent
to" and "next to."
The relinquishment of property, or a cessation of the use
of the property, by the owner or lessee without any intention of transferring
rights to the property to another owner or of resuming the use of
the property.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A second dwelling unit on a single-family residential lot
which is accessory to the principal single-family residence on the
lot. The accessory apartment can be: attached to or constructed within
a single-family residence; located on the same lot in an accessory
building; or incorporated into an existing accessory building such
as a detached garage. An accessory apartment may have an independent
means of access or an access from within the single-family residence.
Accessory apartments have a separate kitchen, sleeping and bathing
areas from the principal single-family residence on the lot.
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
See "accessory apartment."
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A use, structure or building subordinate to the principal
use of a building on the same lot and serving a purpose customarily
incidental to the use of the principal building. In the case of an
accessory structure or building, it shall be detached from the principal
building. All structures or buildings on nonresidential lots are considered
principal structures on the lot and shall conform to requirements
for principal structures.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
An establishment primarily engaged in overall management
and general supervisory functions, such as executive, personnel, finance,
legal, and sales activities, performed in a single location or building
or other branches or division of the same property.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The Township Planner and/or Land Use Enforcement Officer.
See "sign."
Any housing unit with an acquisition price or rent level
not exceeding the maximum resale or rent level for low- and moderate-income
housing and as further defined in N.J.A.C. 5:93-1.1 et seq.[1]
One or more persons designated to represent the applicant
before the Planning Board.
A use primarily concerned with the scientific study of farm
animals and agricultural products, located in a farm environment,
and where no products are manufactured or produced on the premises
for sale.
See "farm."
As applied to a building or structure, a change or rearrangement
in the structural parts or in the existing facilities or an enlargement,
whether by extension of a side or by increasing in height or by moving
from one location or position to another.
Existing parking areas which are to be surfaced, resurfaced,
redesigned, restriped to indicate a new layout, curbed, or redesigned
to accommodate a new traffic pattern, and similar changes which require
review by the Board.
The square footage of an existing building which will undergo
a change or rearrangement in the structural parts or in the means
of egress to the space, or where the use of the space will be more
intensively utilized, such as the change from a storage area to an
office, retail or manufacturing area, or from a residential to a nonresidential
use.
An arrangement in which households maintain private rooms
yet share kitchen and bathroom facilities, central heat, and common
areas. Alternate living arrangements include boarding homes, residential
health care facilities, group homes for the developmentally disabled
and mentally ill, and congregate living arrangements. See also "community
residences for the developmentally disabled."
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
An open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and
sports.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A building or portion thereof designed or used for the care,
examination or treatment of domestic animals.
One of several individual dwelling units designed and erected
as an integrated development in one or several buildings with singleness
of use and operation and which utilizes such common facilities as
pedestrian walks, parking and garage areas, open space or recreation
areas, and utility and sanitary systems.
The legal or beneficial owner or owners of land to be subdivided
or developed. The holder of an option or contract to purchase with
the written permission of the current property owner, or other person
or persons having an enforceable proprietary interest in such land,
may be considered to be an applicant for the purpose of this chapter.
Such person may also be known as the "developer."
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The application form and all accompanying documents required
by this chapter for approval of a site plan and/or subdivision.
Forms required and supplied by the Planning Board and Zoning
Board of Adjustment to be submitted with an application for each submission.
A plan that has been granted final approval by the appropriate
approving authority.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
An institutional use that is a facility containing residences
for the elderly that provides rooms, meals, personal care assistance
and the supervision or administration of medications. The facility
must be licensed by the New Jersey Department of Health, the New Jersey
Department of Community Affairs, or another appropriate agency. A
designated number of beds in the facility shall be restricted to low-
and moderate-income households per Medicaid requirements. Assisted
living facilities may include programs to meet the needs of residents
with Alzheimer's disease or other dementia. Such programs shall provide
individualized care based upon assessment of the cognitive and functional
abilities of Alzheimer's and dementia residents who have been admitted
to the program.
[Amended 11-18-2020 by Ord. No. 20-30; 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Accurate and precise land survey of post-construction site
features and characteristics, including all buildings, structures,
infrastructure, boundaries and features. As-built surveys shall have
a raised seal and signature from a New Jersey licensed professional
land surveyor.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A dwelling unit which is physically linked to one or more
other dwelling units forming a single dwelling structure.
Part of the building that is immediately below and wholly
or partly within the roof framing and which is not used as a living
space.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A roof-like cover that projects from the wall of a building for the purpose of shielding a doorway or window from the elements. Any signage located on an awning is considered wall signage, see § 296-163D(4).
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
An awning constructed with a rigid frame that cannot be retracted,
folded or collapsed.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
An awning that is temporary or is periodically retracted
into the face of the building.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any yard and/or structure used or intended to be used for
the conducting and operating of the business of selling, buying, storing
or trading in used or discarded metal, glass, paper, cordage, or any
used or disabled fixtures, vehicles or equipment of any kind.
[Amended 11-18-2020 by Ord. No. 20-30[2]]
A retail service establishment which is a financial institution
that is authorized to accept deposits and provide loans and financial
services to the general public or members in the case of a credit
union.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
See "flood elevation (100-year)."
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Overnight accommodations and a morning meal in a dwelling
unit (B&B) provided to transient occupants for compensation. Typical
bed-and-breakfast stays are a week or less and do not include long-term
stays over one month. See also "short-term rental."
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A mound of earth or the act of pushing earth into a mound.
Berms are typically two feet to six feet in height and are used to
shield, screen and buffer undesirable views and to separate incompatible
land uses. They also provide visual interest, decrease noise, control
the direction of water flow, and act as dams.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
State-of-the-art technology as applied to a specific problem
and including a schedule of activities, prohibited practices and maintenance
procedures.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
See "sign (street graphics)."
Those birds kept as indoor pets in cages, and shall specifically
exclude chickens, roosters, ducks, geese and/or other fowl.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The area bounded by one or more streets or a municipal boundary, of sufficient size to accommodate a lot or lots of the minimum size required in Part 3, Zoning, of this chapter and as further specified herein.
A person who is not related to the head of the household
and who pays for the privilege of boarding or rooming within the same
residential unit as the head of household
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A strip of land providing a natural vegetation screen or
a fence or other means so as to continually restrict a clear view
beyond the buffer strip.
The area of a lot remaining after the minimum yard and open
space requirements of the Zoning Ordinance have been met and exclusive
of additional constrained areas including but not limited to steep
slopes, wetlands and buffers and flood hazard areas.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A combination of materials to form a construction adapted
to permanent, temporary or continuous occupancy and having a roof.
The three-dimensional space within which as structure is
permitted to be built on a lot; it is defined by maximum height regulations,
minimum yard requirement, building coverage, lot coverage and other
bulk standards of the zone.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The vertical distance measured from the mean level of the
ground surrounding the building measured at fifteen-foot intervals
within 15 feet of the foundation to a point midway between the highest
and lowest points of the roof, but not including chimneys, spires,
towers, elevator penthouses, tanks and similar projections.
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A line formed by the intersection of a horizontal plane at
average grade level and a vertical plane that coincides with the exterior
surface of the building on any side. In case of a cantilevered section
of the building, the vertical plane will coincide with the most projected
surface. All yard requirements are measured to the building line.
Written permission issued by the proper municipal authority
for the construction, repair, alteration, or addition to a structure.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A structure in which is conducted the principal use of the
site on which it is situated. In any residential district, any dwelling
shall be deemed to be a principal building on the zone lot on which
it is located.
A building or portion thereof which is used for conducting
the affairs of a business, service, industry or government and within
which a product or merchandise for sale to the public is not offered.
However, personal services, such as barbershops and beauty shops,
and repair services, such as radio and television repair shops, are
not to be included within the definition of "business office." A bank,
trust company, savings and loan or similar establishment for the custody,
loan, exchange or issue of money, for the extension of credit and
for facilitating the transmission of funds is not to be included within
the definition of "business office." See also "office."
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A type of restaurant primarily serving coffee drinks and
meals, sandwiches and/or desserts and which often includes an outdoor
seating area and provides table service indoors and out.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A restaurant in which patrons wait on themselves, carrying
their food from counter, where it is displayed or served, to their
tables.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A standard measure of tree size for trees to be newly planted.
The measurement is taken six inches above the ground for trees four
inches in diameter or less and 12 inches above the ground for trees
over four inches in diameter.
A predominantly open space facility designed for outdoor
recreational use by persons residing on the site for short periods
in seasonal quarters.
A roof-like structure that functions as a shelter for a drive-through
area (such as at a bank) or fuel pumps at gas stations.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A structure containing facilities for washing automobiles
and automatic or semiautomatic application of cleaner, brushers, rinse
water, and heat for drying. Car wash establishments may perform polishing
and provide detailing. Some car washes provide vacuum machines to
allow owners to clean the interior of their vehicles.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A certificate issued by the Construction Official upon completion
of construction, alteration or change in occupancy of a building.
Said certificate shall acknowledge compliance with all requirements
of this chapter, such adjustments thereto granted by the Zoning Board
of Adjustment and/or all other applicable requirements. See also "certificate
of occupancy, permanent."
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A certificate issued by the Construction Official upon completion of construction, alteration or change in occupancy of a building. Said certificate shall acknowledge compliance with all requirements of this title, such adjustments thereto granted by the Board of Adjustment and/or all other applicable requirements. See § 296-79.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A temporary certificate granted for a specified period of time, not exceeding one year, issued by the Construction Official upon partial completion of construction, alteration or change in occupancy of a building. A temporary certificate of occupancy shall not be issued by the Construction Official until the Land Use Enforcement Officer has issued a certificate of development compliance setting forth the Planning Board's conditions associated with the granting of the temporary certificate of occupancy. See § 296-78.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A written endorsement of a plan for soil erosion and sediment
control by the Hunterdon County Soil Conservation District which indicates
that the plan meets the standards promulgated by the State Soil Conservation
Committee as set forth in the latest Standards for Soil Erosion and
Sediment Control in New Jersey.
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any change of use of all or a portion of a building, structure
or land that substantially differs from the previous use.
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A watercourse with a definite bed and banks which confine
and conduct continuously or intermittently flowing water.
Any facility which is maintained for the care, development
or supervision of six or more children under 13 years of age who attend
the facility for less than 24 hours a day and which is subject to
state licensure or life-safety approval pursuant to the provisions
of the Child Care Center Licensing Act, P.L. 1983, c. 492 (N.J.S.A.
30:5B-1 to 30:5B-15). Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-66.6, child-care
centers upon state licensure shall be permitted uses in all nonresidential
districts and excluded from parking and density requirements.
[Amended 11-18-2020 by Ord. No. 20-30; 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Domesticated chickens, ducks, peahens, and the like, excluding
roosters and male chickens of any age. Chickens are not considered
"household pets" or "birds" as defined in this chapter. See also "poultry"
and "fowl."
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
An institutional use that includes a building or group of
buildings, designed or intended for public worship. For the purpose
of this title, the word "church" shall include chapels, congregations,
cathedrals, temples, mosques or similar designations, as well as parish
houses, convents and such accessory uses. Also known as a house of
worship.
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Systems, structures and physical improvements for the movement
of people, goods, water, air, sewage or power by such means as streets,
highways, railways, waterways, towers, airways, pipes and conduits,
and the handling of people and goods by such means as terminals, stations,
warehouses and other storage building or transshipment points.
A use of a building, structure or lot by a federal, state,
or municipal agency, or its duly appointed agent, including public
works, yards, parks and recreational facilities, educational facilities,
public hospitals, public museums, public libraries, public community
centers, theaters, public stadiums and arenas.
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The removal of all standing trees on a lot or a portion of
a lot.
A social or service organization not organized or conducted
for profit and which is not an adjunct to or operated by or in conjunction
with a public tavern, cafe or other place of business.
A residential development of detached dwelling units planned
as a single entity in accordance with the provisions of this chapter
and which has common or public open space as an appurtenance.
The New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing.
Storage of refinery products for distribution or resale.
The raising of plants within a greenhouse for income, but
not including retail sales from within the greenhouse unless the greenhouse
is located in a business zone where such sales are permitted.
Forest resources owned and managed by a public entity. In
the Township, this includes trees and forests on municipal properties
such as the municipal buildings and facilities, parks and open space
owned in part or in whole by the Township.
Residential facilities, as defined in N.J.S.A. 40:55D-66.2,
licensed by the state, providing food, shelter, and personal guidance,
with supervision, to developmentally disabled or mentally ill persons
who require assistance, temporarily or permanently, in order to live
in the community. CRDDs include group homes, halfway houses, intermediate
care facilities, and supervised apartment living arrangements.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
An application form completed as specified by this chapter and
the rules and regulations of the Planning Board and all accompanying
documents required by this chapter for approval of an application.
However, if the application is found incomplete, the developer shall
be notified, in writing, of the deficiencies within 45 days of the
submission of such application, or it shall be deemed properly submitted.
The Planning Board may require such additional information,
not specified by this chapter, or any revisions in the accompanying
documents as are reasonably necessary to make an informed decision
as to whether the requirements necessary for the approval of the application
have been met. The application shall not be deemed incomplete for
the lack of any such additional information or any revisions in the
accompanying documents so required by the Board. An application shall
be certified as complete immediately upon the meeting of all requirements
specified in this chapter and in the rules and regulations of the
Planning Board and shall be deemed complete as of the day it is so
certified by the administrative officer for purposes of the commencement
of the time period for action by the Planning Board.
A use permitted in a particular zoning district only upon a showing that such a use in a specified location will comply with the conditions and standards for the location or operation of such as contained in Part 3, Zoning, of this chapter and upon the issuance of authorization therefor by the Planning Board.
A legal arrangement providing for individual ownership of
a portion of a building and/or land parcel, and including arrangements
for the maintenance responsibilities of such building and/or land
parcel.
A voluntary, legal agreement that permanently limits uses
of the land in order to protect its conservation values.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The municipal official specified in the Building Code and
designated as such by the Township Committee.[4]
An authorization to build issued by the Township Construction
Official after a determination that all applicable Township requirements
have been met.
Has the same meaning as set forth in N.J.A.C. 8:24-1.5.
[Added 9-6-2022 by Ord.
No. 22-18]
Has the same meaning as set forth in N.J.A.C. 8:24-1.5.
[Added 9-6-2022 by Ord.
No. 22-18]
A public or private recreational facility, usually restricted
to members and their guests, which generally includes a clubhouse,
dining and eating establishments, and recreational facilities such
as golf course(s), tennis courts, and swimming pools.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A restriction on the use of land usually set forth in the
deed.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The zone around the base of a tree where the majority of
the root system is found. This zone is calculated by multiplying the
diameter at breast height (DBH) of the tree by 1.5 feet. For example:
a tree with a six-inch DBH would have a CRR = 6 inches x 1.5 feet
= 9 feet.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A minor street or a portion of a minor street in which accessibility
is limited to only one single means of ingress and egress.
Retail service establishments located in publicly accessible
buildings and structures that are used primarily for the performance,
exhibition or benefit of arts and heritage activities, including,
but not limited to, performing arts, visual arts, museums and galleries.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A stone, concrete, or other improved boundary marking the
edge of the roadway or paved area. Belgian block curb is standard
for the Township.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The opening along the curbline at which point vehicles may
enter or leave the roadway.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The connecting link between the street curb and the ramp
or driveway curb.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A low curb with a slope designed to be crossed easily.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A portion of land surface of an area from which earth has
been removed or shall be removed by excavation; the depth below original
ground surface to excavated surface.
Calendar days, including weekends and holidays.
A platform, either freestanding or attached to a building,
that is supported by pillars or posts. May be roofed or unroofed,
provided there are no walls.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A legal document conveying ownership of real property.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The number of families, individuals, dwelling units, households,
or housing structures per area of land to be developed.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The State Department of Environmental Protection. Also referred
to as "Department" in DEP regulations.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The State Department of Environmental Protection.
The legal or beneficial owner or owners of a lot or of any
land proposed to be included in a proposed development, including
the owner of an option or contract to purchase or other person having
an enforceable interest in such land.
The division of a parcel of land into two or more parcels;
the construction, reconstruction, conversion, structural alteration,
relocation or enlargement of any building or other structure, or of
any mining, excavation or landfill; and any use or change in the use
of any building or other structure or land or extension of use of
land, for which permission may be required by the Township.
Money paid by an individual, person, partnership, association,
company or corporation for the improvement of property as permitted
by COAH rules.
The diameter of a tree measured 4 1/2 feet (forestry
method) above the ground level on the downhill side for existing trees.
Diameter at breast height may appear as the abbreviation "dbh" (diameter
at breast height).
Any portion of the territory of the Township of Raritan within
which certain uniform regulations and requirements or various combinations
thereof apply under the provisions of this chapter.
Any activity involving the clearing, excavating, storing,
grading, filling or transporting of soil or any other activity which
causes soil to be exposed to the danger of erosion.
A channel, with or without a supporting ridge on the lower
side, constructed across or at the bottom of a slope.
The removal of surface water or groundwater from land by
drains, grading or other means, and includes control of runoff to
minimize erosion sedimentation during and after construction or development,
and means necessary for water supply preservation or prevention or
alleviation of flooding.
A limiting line established by a series of perpendicular
drop points marking the maximum radius of the crown of an existing
tree, but not less than six feet from the trunk, whichever is greater,
and within which no construction or disturbance shall occur.
A private roadway providing access to a street or highway.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A covered pit or underground structure through which water
is piped or directed from roofs, basement floors, other impervious
surfaces, swales, or pipes to seep or percolate into the surrounding
soil.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any building or portion thereof designed or used primarily
as the residence or sleeping place of one or more persons. A dwelling
is not a mobile home, hotel, motel, hospital, nursing home, dormitory,
fraternity or sorority house, rooming house, boardinghouse, or similar
structure under the terms of this chapter.
One or more rooms, including cooking facilities, in a structure
designed as a unit for occupancy by not more than one family for living
and sleeping purposes.
A building on a single lot containing two dwelling units,
each of which is totally separated from the other by an unpierced
wall extending from ground to roof or an unpierced ceiling to floor
extending from exterior wall to exterior wall, except for a common
stairwell exterior to both dwelling units. Duplex dwelling units are
substantially similar in size such that one dwelling is not accessory
to the other.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Four attached dwellings in one building in which each unit
has two open space exposures and shares one or two walls with an adjoining
unit or units or shares a common garage wall with an adjoining unit.
A detached building or dwelling unit designed for or occupied
exclusively by one or more persons living as a single, nonprofit housekeeping
unit.
A single-family dwelling attached to another single-family
dwelling by a common vertical wall, with each dwelling located on
a separate lot.
[Amended 11-18-2020 by Ord. No. 20-30]
A grant of one or more property rights by the property owner
to and/or for use by the public, a corporation, utility, government
or another person or entity.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A separate living quarters, accessory to a primary residence
on the premises, not exceeding 750 square feet of gross floor area,
for the use of and occupancy by not more than two persons who are
relatives by blood, marriage or adoption of an owner/occupant of the
primary residence on the premises. One of the ECHO unit occupants
shall be 60 years of age or older.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A request for modification of an existing wireless tower
or base station that does not constitute a substantial change (as
defined herein) and involves co-location of new transmission equipment,
removal of transmission equipment, or replacement of transmission
equipment.
[Added 5-21-2019 by Ord.
No. 19-08]
A man-made deposit of soil, rock or other materials.
Any obstruction within a delineated floodway.
The Raritan Township Environmental Commission.
A statement of the effect of proposed development and/or
other major private or governmental actions on the environment.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The natural resources of an area that are important to its
ecology, including natural habitats, steep slopes, wetlands, tree
canopies, and endangered plants or animal species.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The value of a property determined by the Municipal Tax Assessor
through a process designed to ensure that all property in the municipality
is assessed at the same assessment ratio or ratios required by law.
Estimates at the time of building permit may be obtained by the Tax
Assessor utilizing estimates for construction cost. Final equalized
assessed value will be determined at project completion by the Municipal
Tax Assessor.
The detachment and movement of soil or rock fragments or
the wearing away of the land surface by water, wind, ice and gravity.
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A plan designed to minimize erosion, ensure proper waste
disposal, and protect trees on a building site in compliance with
the New Jersey Soil Erosion and Sediment Control Act.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The erection, construction, alteration or maintenance, by
public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies, of underground
or overhead gas, electrical, steam or water transmission or distribution
systems, including electric substations, telephone dial center, towers,
poles, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire
alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants, and other
similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith reasonably
necessary for the furnishing of adequate service by such public utilities
or municipal or other governmental agencies, or for the public health
or safety or general welfare. "Essential services" shall include firehouses
and first aid and emergency aid squads, whether provided by a municipal
or nonprofit agency.
A deed, bond, cash, or other security delivered to a third
person or agency and delivered by the third person to the grantee
only upon fulfillment of a condition.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
An economic unit where business is conducted or services
or industrial operations are performed.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
See "cut."
The vertical location of the ground surface prior to cutting
or filling.
The exterior walls of a building exposed to public view or
that wall viewed by persons not within the building.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A plan or proposal by which a municipality would satisfy
its obligation to create a realistic opportunity to meet its fair
share of low- and moderate-income housing needs of its region and
which details the affirmative measures the municipality proposes to
undertake to achieve its fair share of low- and moderate-income housing.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
One or more persons occupying a dwelling unit as a single
nonprofit housekeeping unit, who are living together as a bona fide,
stable and committed living unit, being a traditional family unit
or the functional equivalent thereof, exhibiting the generic character
of a traditional family.
[Amended 11-18-2020 by Ord. No. 20-30]
A private residence of a family day-care provider which is
registered as a family day-care home pursuant to the "Family Day Care
Provider Registration Act (N.J.S.A. 30:5B-16 et seq.)" Pursuant to
N.J.S.A. 40:55D-55.5b, family day-care homes are permitted uses in
all residential districts in a municipality.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A parcel or parcels of land comprised of or in aggregate
total of five or more acres, exclusive of a minimum of one acre used
for a dwelling and any additional area covered by municipal, county
or state roads. Said five or more acres shall be devoted to the production
either for sale or consumption by the owner of plants and animals
generally accepted as useful to man, including but not limited to
forages and sod crops; grains and feed crops; dairy animals and products;
poultry and poultry products; livestock, including beef cattle, sheep,
horses, ponies, mules, hogs, dairy cattle or goats, including the
breeding and grazing of any and all such animals; bees and apiary
products; fur-bearing animals; and trees and forest products, including
the processing and sale of these products on the property where produced.
Land shall be deemed a farm when devoted to the production of fruits
of all kinds, including grapes, nuts and berries; vegetables; and
nursery, floral, ornamental and greenhouse products, including the
processing of these products on the property where produced. See also
"right to farm."
[Amended 11-18-2020 by Ord. No. 20-30; 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The sale of seasonal products raised on the premises only
and which may be sold from a table or other similar portable display.
A structure designed for the display and sale of seasonal
farm produce, 50% of which is raised on the premises and/or other
farm parcel owned or cultivated by the farm stand operator. Such use
shall require a conditional use permit.
Any structure on agricultural land designed, constructed,
and used to house farm implements, livestock, or agricultural produce
or livestock grown or raised on the premises. All farm structures
shall be considered accessory structures, whether or not a principal
structure exists on the same lot.
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The seasonal selling or offering for sale at retail of vegetables
or produce, flowers, or orchard products, occurring in a predesignated
area, where the vendors are individuals who have raised the vegetables
or produce or have taken the same on consignment for retail sale.
A retail food service operation in which a limited or specialized
list of quickly prepared or preprepared food items is offered for
on-premises and off-premises consumption, or where a drive-up window
exists for ordering food items, or where vehicle food service or consumption
of food within a vehicle exists on the premises.
An artificially constructed barrier of wood, masonry, stone,
wire, metal or any other manufactured material or combination of materials.
Height measurements for fences include the height of the post used
to secure the fence material.
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Sand, gravel, earth or other materials of any composition
whatsoever placed or deposited by any person.
The official action of the Planning Board taken on a preliminary
approved major subdivision or site plan after all conditions, engineering
plans and other requirements have been completed or fulfilled and
the required improvements have been installed.
The final elevation of the ground surface conforming to the
proposed design.
The assembly that holds the lamp (bulb) in a lighting system.
It includes the elements designed to give light output control, such
as a reflector (mirror) or refractor (lens), the ballast, housing,
and the attachment parts.
A combination of warehouse storage and office space developed
for sale or lease to individual tenants where each tenant occupies
a combination warehouse and office space. Flex spaces are typically
developed with several spaces in one structure and are often used
by trade industries such as plumbers, electricians, contractors and
similar uses that require truck and equipment storage with an associated
office space. The warehouse portion of the use could also include
some light manufacturing such as cabinet making, assembly of products
and similar production uses.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Elevation of flooding having a 1% chance of being equaled
or exceeded in a given year, which is also referred to as the base
flood elevation.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Elevation of flooding have a 0.2% chance of being equaled
or exceeded in a given year.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
As defined by the Flood Hazard Area Control Act Rules set
forth at N.J.A.C. 7:13, is the land, and the space above that land,
which lies below the Flood Hazard Area Control Act design flood elevation.
The flood hazard area design flood elevation is a flood equal to the
100-year flood plus an additional amount of water in fluvial areas
to account for possible future increases in flows due to development
or other factors. This additional amount of water also provides a
factor of safety in cases when the 100-year flood is exceeded. Structures,
fill, and vegetation that are situated on land that lies below the
flood hazard area design flood elevation are described as being "in"
or "within" the flood hazard area.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The official map on which the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) has provided flood profiles, as well as the Flood Insurance
Rate Map(s) and the water surface elevation of the base flood.
A luminaire or bulb which projects light in a specific direction
in a wide beam, typically 100° or more.[5]
The quotient achieved by dividing the gross floor area by
the net area of the lot. The sum of the gross horizontal areas of
all enclosed floors of a building, including cellars, basements, mezzanines,
penthouses, corridors, and lobbies from the exterior face of exterior
walls, or from the center line of a common wall separating two buildings,
but excluding any space with a floor-to-ceiling height of less than
seven feet. See also "gross floor area."
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Particles of gas-borne matter, not including process material,
arising from the combustion of solid fuel, such as coal or wood.
Also known as a mobile retail food establishment, is a vehicle
in which food or beverages are transported, stored, or prepared for
retail sale at temporary locations.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A unit of illuminance on a surface one foot square in area
onto which there is a uniform flux of one lumen.
A unit of luminance of a surface reflecting or emitting light
at the rate of one lumen per square foot. The average luminance of
any reflecting surface in footlamberts is the product of the illuminance
in footcandles striking the surface times the reflectance of the surface.
Domesticated chickens, ducks, peahens, and the like, excluding
roosters and male chickens of any age. Fowl are not considered "household
pets" or "birds" as defined in this chapter. See also "poultry" and
"chickens."
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A light fixture which cuts off all upward transmission of
light.
A fixture with housing or attachment thereto which prevents
a line of sight to the bulb when viewed from another property and
which prevents a line of sight to any part of the light source at
or above a horizontal plane running through the lowest portion of
the fixture.
A building used for the preparation of the deceased for burial
and the display of the deceased and rituals connected therewith before
burial or cremation. Funeral homes may include incidental sales of
burial supplies.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A detached or attached structure used only for the storage
of vehicles owned or rented by the occupant of the principal structure
or his or her family, accessory residential uses, not for human habitation
and does not include used car sales. Attached is ok as part of the
house, detached is nonhabitation for storage and accessory/no bathrooms.
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any garage other than a private garage which is open to the
public and used for the storage of motor vehicles.
Any building, land area, or other premises, or portion thereof,
used for the servicing and repair of automobiles, including as an
accessory use the sale and installation of lubricants, tires, batteries,
and similar vehicle accessories.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any building, land area, or other premises, or portion thereof,
used for the retail dispensing or sales of vehicular fuels.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any building, land area, or other premises, or portion thereof,
used for the retail dispensing or sales of vehicular fuels; servicing
and repair of automobiles; and including as an accessory use for the
sale and installation of lubricants, tires, batteries, and vehicle
repairs. Car wash facilities are included in this definition as accessory
uses.
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A retail establishment of up to 5,000 square feet selling
primarily food products, household items, newspapers and magazines,
candy, and beverages, and a limited amount of freshly prepared foods
such as sandwiches and salads for off-premises consumption. A convenience
store shall be permitted on the same lot as a gasoline station so
customers can purchase goods while filling their vehicle with fuel.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A computer generated mapping system for collecting, storing
and analyzing and integrating information about physical and man-made
features on maps.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The discomfort experienced by an observer with a direct line
of sight to a light source which often results in annoyance, discomfort
or loss of visual performance causing visual impairment.
A tract of land laid out for at least nine holes for playing
the game of golf that may include a clubhouse, dining and snack bars,
pro shop, and practice facilities.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any stripping, cutting, filling, stockpiling, or any combination
thereof, and shall include the land in its cut or filled condition.
A permit issued by the Township Engineer to authorize work
to be performed under this chapter in situations not requiring subdivision
approval or site plan approval.
A natural or constructed path, usually broad and shallow,
covered with erosion-resistant grasses, used to conduct surface water
from a field diversion or other feature.
The sum of the gross horizontal area of the several stories
of a building. Floor area shall not include cellar space or any floor
space where the average floor-to-ceiling height is less than seven
feet.
The Raritan Township Green Team, authorized and appointed
by the Township Committee created in accordance with Sustainable Jersey,
provides the leadership to develop plans, implement programs and assist
with educational opportunities that support the creation of a sustainable
community.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A community residence for the developmentally disabled or
a shelter for victims of domestic violence, as defined by N.J.S.A.
40:55D-66.2, housing more than six persons, excluding staff.
A retail service establishment in an enclosed structure that
provides facilities for aerobic exercises, exercise classes, exercise
equipment, game courts, swimming facilities and/or saunas, showers,
massage rooms and lockers. Accessory uses may include eating facilities
and shops selling a variety of sporting equipment and clothing.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Those surfaces which do not absorb water, including pervious
and porous pavements. All structures, surfaced parking areas, streets,
driveways, sidewalks, and any areas in concrete, asphalt and packed
stone shall be considered "hard surface" within this definition.
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Includes, but is not limited to, inorganic mineral acids
of sulfur, fluorine, chlorine, nitrogen, chromium, phosphorous, selenium,
and arsenic and their common salts; lead, nickel and mercury and their
inorganic salts or metallo-organic derivatives; petroleum products
and radioactive material; and coal tar acids, such as phenols and
creosols, and their salts.
Hunterdon County Health Department (designated).
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
See "building height."
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
An area that is used for the landing and takeoff of helicopters,
but without any auxiliary facilities such as helicopter parking areas,
waiting rooms, fueling or maintenance equipment.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A structure, place, natural object, or configuration, or
portion thereof, of historical, archeological, cultural, or architectural
significance and designated as such by federal, state, county or municipal
government.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A hobby is considered to be a regular activity that is done
for enjoyment, typically during one's leisure time. Hobbies include
collecting themed items and objects, engaging in creative and artistic
pursuits, playing sports, or pursuing other amusements.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
An electrical generation unit which is installed outside
of a home and is designed to act as a source of backup power during
temporary electrical outages.
[Added 3-5-2019 by Ord.
No. 19-01]
Is a permitted conditional use in a commercial zone including
a single business conducted from a portion of an existing single-family
dwelling or from another building on property on which there is an
existing single-family dwelling. Home businesses shall be limited
to retail specialty shops and activities; artisans' workshops and
offices and shops, including antique, gift, book, bakery, bicycle
and candy sales; galleries; photography and art studios; coin, stamp
and beauty shops; cabinet making; tutoring; tailoring; professional
occupations; shoe repairing; private and nursery schools; dog care;
barbershops; caterers; hobby shops; fruit and vegetable markets; florists;
real estate agencies; and insurance brokers.
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A business, business activity, profession, occupation, or
trade activity that is conducted by one or more occupants of a dwelling,
as an accessory use to the residential use of the dwelling, for economic
gain. There are three categories of home occupations:
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
CATEGORY A HOME OCCUPATIONA home occupation that is knowledge-based and includes paid endeavors that leverage consumer-based information and communication technology to sell products or deliver services. A Category A home occupation does not involve making or storing of any products or goods for sale and does not involve any nonresident employees or customers coming to the home.
CATEGORY B HOME OCCUPATIONA home occupation that includes but is not limited to the office of a physician, dentist, lawyer, optometrist, architect, engineer, planner, artist, accountant, real estate or insurance agent, or similar profession, where clients or patients visit the premises on which the home occupation is located. This includes one-on-one in-person professional and services and craft production or low-volume sales of small goods that require limited storage space and deliveries.
CATEGORY C HOME OCCUPATIONSAll other home occupations that do not meet the definitions of Category A or Category B home occupations but still meet the definition of home occupation.
An area of a residence not exceeding 200 square feet and
used by an occupant of such residence for office or studio purposes
only, provided that there is no exterior indication of such office
or studio use, and provided that such use does not require parking,
deliveries or other external traffic other than that normally required
by the residential use. This definition includes the tutoring of not
more than five children and the traffic associated therewith.
An incorporated nonprofit organization operating in a development
under recorded land agreements, through which each lot owner shall
be a member and each dwelling unit is subjected to a charge for a
proportionate share of the expenses for the organization's activities
and maintenance, including any maintenance costs levied against the
association by the Township, and each owner and tenant has a right
to use the common property.
The amount of light striking a vertical or horizontal plane.
Any building containing beds for four or more patients and
used for the diagnosis, treatment or other care of human ailments
and staffed by licensed physicians.
A facility offering transient lodging accommodations, with
no provision for cooking in any individual room or suite, to the general
public and providing additional services such as restaurants, meeting
rooms, and recreational facilities.
See "pets, household."
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
See "Church."
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The portion of the Master Plan consisting of reports, statements,
proposals, maps, diagrams, and text design to meet the municipality's
fair share of its region's present and prospective housing needs,
particularly with regard to low- and moderate-income housing.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, an
organization that recommends standards for the lighting industry.
See "accessory apartment."
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A development containing low- and moderate-income units.
This term includes, but is not necessarily limited to, new construction,
conversion of a nonresidential structure to a residential structure,
and the creation of new low- and moderate-income units through the
substantial rehabilitation of a vacant residential structure.
Development regulations governing the use and development
of land for low- and moderate-income units.[6]
A professional office use that is flexibly designed to accommodate
small businesses that require office space. The space can be shared
by multiple entities that share services such as a centralized reception
desk, conference room(s), break room(s), restrooms, etc.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A tract of land that is planned, developed, and operated
as a coordinated and integrated facility for a number of separate
industrial uses, with consideration for circulation, parking, signage,
utility needs, aesthetics, and compatibility.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A use which is universally considered of value to the community
because it fundamentally serves the public good and promotes the general
welfare. Such uses include, but are not limited to, a hospital, school,
child-care center, group home, or a wind, solar or photovoltaic energy
facility or structure.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A nonprofit or quasi-public use, such as a church, school,
library or hospital, or a municipally owned or operated building,
structure or land used for public or quasi-public purpose.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Retail service establishments for the teaching and practice
of dance, drama, art, language, martial arts, music, aerobics, sports,
fitness, photography and the like. These uses may, from time to time,
hold group events such as birthday parties.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
In a criminal or quasi-criminal proceeding, any citizen of the
State of New Jersey; and
In the case of a civil proceeding in any court or in an administrative
proceeding before a Municipal Agency, any person, whether residing
within or without the Township, whose right to use, acquire or enjoy
property is or may be affected by any action taken under the provisions
of this chapter, or whose rights to use, acquire or enjoy property
under this chapter or under any other law of this state or of the
United States have been denied, violated or infringed by an action
or a failure to act under this chapter.
The specific species which are not native to New Jersey and
have been recognized to overwhelm species native to the area.
An undeveloped substandard lot in separate ownership from
surrounding property and not meeting area or bulk requirements for
the zone in which it is located.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A yard, building, covered space or space kept, maintained
or existing for the purpose of buying or selling, exchanging or storing
of rags, old metals, old bottles and glassware, old paper, old plumbing
fixtures, salvaged items, debris, dismantled vehicles or parts thereof,
unlicensed vehicles, and any other old material, commonly called "junk,"
and including dismantling operations of the above materials and items.
A junkyard shall not include the storage of old material to be used
by the person or firm storing the same for permitted on-site manufacturing
purposes.
An establishment, the principal function of which is the
sale of dogs or services related to dogs. It shall include an establishment
for the boarding, trimming, grooming, training and/or breeding of
dogs for which a fee is charged. Kennels may also include pet day
care.
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
An accessory use of a single-family dwelling by a breeder
or dog fancier who is a resident thereof, where six or more dogs of
a licensable age are kept for the principal purpose of hunting, breeding
for enhancement or perpetuation of a given breed, for practice tracking,
for exhibition in dog shows, for field or obedience trials, or for
guarding or protecting of the householder's property. The surplus
offspring of dogs bred by a hobby breeder may be sold, and such sales
shall not be considered commercial breeding, provided there are no
more than two litters per year, and provided further that the sale
of the offspring is not the primary function of the kennel. There
shall be no more than a total of 20 dogs of licensable age; otherwise,
the standards of a commercial kennel shall apply.
Any ground, soil or earth, including marshes, swamps, drainways
and areas not permanently covered by water.
The filling of low areas, surface deposition or the raising
of the surface of the ground by the dumping, depositing or placing
of waste materials, vehicles, building materials, household waste,
or junk, vegetated or developed.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Is a professional licensed by the State of New Jersey who
is responsible for obtaining all records, measurements, and evidence
to prepare a correct and accurate land survey and for preparing and
providing the corresponding description of property, prepared on company
letterhead for the deed of conveyance.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A description of how land is used or occupied.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
See "administrative officer."
An establishment providing washing, drying, or dry-cleaning
machines on the premises for rental use to the general public.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A program that sets standards used internationally for the
design, construction, and maintenance of environmentally sustainable
buildings and infrastructure.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A place containing books, data, magazines, newspapers and
other information for reading, study and research along with community
rooms, computer and educational resources, child care, art and programs
for the community.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A land use where the primary activity involved is one of
the fabricating or assembling of standardized parts as contrasted
to a processing activity which would change the nature or character
of the product or raw material.
The bulb and lens, diffuser, or reflective enclosure.
Light projected onto a property from a fixture not located
on that property.
The area within the wall exteriors above the main grade level,
but excluding cellars, attics, garages or porches.
An off-street space or berth used for the loading or unloading
of cargo, products, or materials from vehicles.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A parcel or portion of land separated from other parcels or portions by description and area as on a subdivision of record, or survey map, or by metes and bounds for purpose of sale, lease or separate use. A street passing through land shall be considered as having divided the land into lots. A building lot shall be one meeting the minimum area and dimension requirements as specified in Part 3, Zoning, of this chapter and fronting on an approved and improved street.
LOT AREAThe computed area contained within the
lot lines, excluding any street rights-of-way.
LOT, CORNER or CORNER LOTA lot abutting upon two
or more streets at their intersection or upon two parts of the same
street, which streets or parts of the same street form an interior
angle of less than 135°. The point of intersection of the street
lot lines is the corner.
LOT DEPTHThe mean distance between the front and
rear lot lines.
LOT, INTERIOR or INTERIOR LOTAny lot not a corner
lot.
LOT LINE, FRONT or FRONT LOT LINEThe dividing line
between the lot and a street.
LOT LINE, REAR or REAR LOT LINEThe lot line opposite
and most distant from the front lot line.
LOT LINE, SIDE or SIDE LOT LINEA lot line other
than a front or rear lot line. A side lot line separating a lot from
a street is called a "side street lot line."
LOT, THROUGHAny lot, not a corner lot, which connects
two generally parallel streets.
LOT WIDTHThe distance between the two side lot
lines measured at the required setback line.
LOT FRONTAGEThe side of a lot fronting on a street; front lot line.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
LOT CIRCLEA lot width requirement from § 296-139A(4) that requires for all lots, that it must be possible to inscribe a circle of a diameter equal to the minimum lot width required in the zone.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
LOT, FLAGA lot not meeting minimum frontage requirements and where access to the public road is by a private right-of-way or driveway that creates the "flag pole" where the buildable portion of the lot is at the end of the flag pole as the "flag" creating a flag-shaped lot.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The reduction in size of some lots in a subdivision, and
the corresponding increase in the size of other lots in the same subdivision,
in order to achieve an improvement in lot layout without any change
in overall development intensity.
Affordable according to Federal Department of Housing and
Urban Development or other recognized standards for home ownership
and rental costs and occupied or reserved for occupancy by households
with a gross income equal to 50% or less of the median gross household
income for households of the same size within the housing region in
which the housing is located, and is subject to affordability controls.
A unit of measure of the quantity of light that falls on
an area of one square foot, every point of which is one foot from
the source of one candela.
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A complete lighting unit consisting of a light source, pole,
and all mounting brackets, if appropriate, and all necessary mechanical,
electrical, and decorative parts.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any security, other than cash, which may be accepted by the
Township for the maintenance of any improvements required by this
chapter.
A plan of major development of one or more lots on which
is shown:
The existing and proposed conditions of the lot, including,
but not necessarily limited to, topography, vegetation, drainage,
floodplains, marshes and waterways;
The location of all existing and proposed buildings, drives,
parking spaces, walkways, means of ingress and egress, drainage facilities,
utility services, landscaping, structures and signs, lighting, and
screening devices; and
Any other information that may be reasonably required in order
to make an informed determination pursuant to this chapter requiring
review and approval of site plans by the Planning Board.
Any subdivision not classified as a minor subdivision.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Consists of one or more transportable sections which are substantially
constructed off-site and, if more than one section, are joined together
on-site;
Is built on a permanent chassis;
Is designed to be used, when connected to utilities, as a dwelling
on a permanent or nonpermanent foundation; and
Is manufactured in accordance with the standards promulgated
for a manufactured home by the secretary pursuant to the "National
Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974,"
P.L. 93-383 (42 U.S.C. § 5401 et seq.) and the standards
promulgated for a manufactured or mobile home by the commissioner
pursuant to the "State Uniform Construction Code Act," P.L. 1975,
c. 217 (N.J.S.A. 52:27D-119 et seq.).
A composite of the mapped and written proposals recommending
the physical development of the Township, which shall have been duly
adopted by the Planning Board.
An area of mature deciduous and/or nondeciduous trees covering
one acre or more, contributing either 30% or more largely deciduous
and/or nondeciduous canopy trees having a ten-inch or greater caliper
or any grove of deciduous and/or nondeciduous trees consisting of
eight or more trees having an eighteen-inch or greater caliper.
A method of describing the boundaries of land by directions
(bounds) and distances (metes) from a known reference point.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A retail service facility that brews beer, mead or hard cider,
or similar fermented beverages, on the premises in small batches and
is licensed as a microbrewery by the State of New Jersey. Sales of
the product and accessory items may be located on site and distributed
from the site. A tasting room may be stand alone or as an accessory
to a microbrewery.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A retail service facility that distills spirits and is licensed
by the State of New Jersey as a microdistillery. Sales of the product
and accessory items may be located on site and distributed from the
site. A tasting room may be stand-alone or as an accessory to a microdistillery.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any facility within the state which is owned or operated
by the federal government and which is used for the purposes of providing
logistical, technical, material, training, and any other support to
any branch of the United States military.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The largest contiguous acreage of a lot, excluding existing or proposed street rights-of-way, freshwater wetlands and their associated transition areas as determined and/or verified by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, floodplains, stormwater detention and/or retention facilities, existing easements precluding structures, bufferyards as required under § 296-66 and state open waters.
The largest contiguous area of a lot, excluding existing or proposed street rights-of-way, freshwater wetlands and their associated transition areas as determined and/or verified by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, floodplains, stormwater detention and/or retention facilities, existing easements precluding structures, bufferyards as required under § 296-66 and state open waters.
See "Self-Storage Facility."
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A development encompassing less than an acre (43,560 square
feet) of land disturbance and less than a 1/4 acre (10,890 square
feet) of impervious coverage.
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any development plan consisting of an expansion of, or addition
to, an existing conforming structure or use not exempted from site
plan review by this chapter and not accounting for more than 4,000
cubic feet of enclosed or roofed area, or more than 5,000 square feet
of impervious surface, providing that such development plan does not
involve a planned development, the installation of any road improvements
or the expansion of public facilities. A development plan classified
as a minor site plan that requires a variance shall require public
notice and advertisement according to law.
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any subdivision resulting in not more than two lots, fronting
upon an existing street, not involving any new street, planned development,
or the extension of any off-tract improvement. The remaining land
shall not be considered as one of the two lots.
The development of a neighborhood, tract of land, building,
or structure with a variety of complementary and integrated uses,
such as, but not limited to, residential, office, manufacturing, retail,
public, and recreation, in a compact urban form. Where mixed-use is
permitted in this chapter, it shall include a combination of uses
permitted in the zone district in which the property is located. For
example, if residential is not permitted, a mixed-use development
may include retail and office space.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Housing affordable according to Federal Department of Housing
and Urban Development or other recognized standards for home ownership
and rental costs and occupied or reserved for occupancy by households
with a gross household income equal to more than 50% but less than
80% of the median gross household income for households of the same
size within the housing region in which the housing is located, and
is subject to affordability controls.
An institutional use that consists of a building or group
of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics,
monks, or nuns living in communities or alone.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A series of attached dwelling structures, where each unit
has convenient access to parking space for the use of the unit's occupant.
The units, with the exception of the manager's or caretaker's, are
designed to provide sleeping accommodations for automobile transients
or overnight guests without the provision for cooking in any room
or suite. A single-family home on the motel property, occupied by
the owner/manager, is a permitted accessory use.
Three or more residences in a single structure.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The application of plant or other suitable materials on the
soil surface to conserve moisture, hold soil in place, and aid in
establishing plant cover.[7]
The Township Planning Board or Zoning Board of Adjustment,
or the governing body when acting pursuant to this chapter.
The ground surface in its original state before any grading,
excavating or filling.
The acreage of a lot, excluding the area of existing or planned
street rights-of-way, and excluding the area of any easements which
preclude the development of structures.
See "net acreage."
A business licensed by the State of New Jersey for the sale
of new, or new and used, vehicles.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any vertical structure accessory to, but not attached to,
the principal structure on any residential lot.
A lot, the area, dimension or location of which was lawful
prior to the adoption, revision or amendment of a zoning ordinance,
but which fails to conform to the requirements of the zoning district
in which it is located by reason of such adoption, revision or amendment.
A structure, the size, dimension or location of which was
lawful prior to the adoption, revision or amendment of a zoning ordinance,
but which fails to conform to the requirements of the zoning district
in which it is located by reason of such adoption, revision or amendment.
A use or activity which was lawful prior to the adoption,
revision or amendment of a zoning ordinance, but which fails to conform
to the requirements of the zoning district in which it is located
by reason of such adoption, revision or amendment.
A commercial operation engaged in growing plants and/or trees
under intensive management practices for use in another location.
A condition or situation that results in an interference
with the enjoyment and use of property.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
An institutional use that is a long-term care facility or
a distinct part of a facility licensed or approved as a nursing home,
infirmary unit of a home for the aged, or a governmental medical institution.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Includes but is not limited to:
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any structure, fill, excavation, channel modification, rock,
gravel, refuse or matter in, along, across or projecting into any
channel, watercourse or flood hazard area which may impede, retard
or change the direction of the flow of water, either in itself or
by catching or collecting debris carried by such water, or that is
placed where the flow of water might carry the same downstream to
pose a dance to life or property; and
Any tree, trash receptacle, street curb, parking meter, newspaper
box, street sign or basement entry hatch lying within the area of
the outdoor dining area.
A principal or accessory use consisting of a room or group
of rooms used for conducting affairs of a business, profession, service,
industry or government and generally furnished with desks, tables,
files, and communication equipment.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Not located on the property which is the subject of a development
application nor in a contiguous portion of a street or right-of-way.
A map adopted in accordance with the Municipal Land Use Law,
Chapter 291, Laws of 1975, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-2 et seq., or any prior
act authorizing such adoption, and which map shall be deemed to be
conclusive with respect to the location and width of streets, public
parks and playgrounds, drainage rights-of-way, flood control basins,
public areas and historic sites.
Located on the lot in question.
Located on the property which is the subject of a development
application, or in a contiguous portion of a street or right-of-way.
Any parcel or area of land or water essentially unimproved
and set aside, dedicated, designated or reserved for public or private
use or enjoyment, or for the use and enjoyment of owners and occupants
of land adjoining or neighboring such open space. Such areas may be
improved with only those buildings, structures, streets and off-street
parking and other improvements that are designated to be incidental
to the natural openness of the land.
Land within or related to a development, not individually
owned or dedicated for public use, which is designed and intended
for the common use or enjoyment of the residents of the development,
and may include such complementary structures and improvements as
are necessary and appropriate.
A commercial operation engaged in the cultivation of trees
bearing fruit or nuts or providing other products, such as, but not
limited to, maple syrup.
The consumption of food by the public at tables located outside
of the restaurant on a patio, deck or within that more or less rectangular
portion of the sidewalk which lies within the area bounded by the
public street, the principal facade, and the imaginary perpendicular
lines running from the outer edge of such principal facade to the
public street; and containing readily removable tables, chairs, umbrellas,
temporary railings, barriers and/or planters; and which may be enclosed
by fixed walls or ceilings, fences, landscaping walls, retractable
awnings, removable barriers, tents or other semi-permanent or permanent
enclosures.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The storage of goods, materials, equipment, etc., outside
an enclosed building.
A zoning district that is placed over an underlying zone
or zones and that creates an additional zone that is triggered by
an action of an applicant to utilize the overlay zone standards in
place of or in addition to the underlying zone. The underlying zone
standards remain intact.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any individual, firm, association, syndicate, copartnership,
or corporation having sufficient proprietary interest in the land
sought to be subdivided to commence and maintain proceedings to subdivide
the same under this chapter. Such person may also be known as the
"developer."
A piece of land formally described and recorded with block
and lot numbers, by metes and bounds, by ownership, or in such a manner
as to specifically identify the dimensions and/or boundaries. Informally
used as land in general.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Entrances and exits to parking areas.
An open area, other than a street or public way, used for
the parking of automobiles or other vehicles and available to the
public, whether for a fee, free, or as an accommodation for clients
or customers.
A space in a parking area with stall dimensions, access,
and signage conforming to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Joint utilization of a parking area for more than one use;
involves parking spaces that are used at different times by different
uses. A shared parking space serves several stores so that a vehicle
does not have to be moved from place to place.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
An off-street space available for the parking of a motor
vehicle and which has an area of at least 162 square feet, exclusive
of passageways, driveways and access aisles appurtenant thereto and
giving access thereto.
For purposes of notice, any applicant for development, the owners of the subject property, and all owners of property and governmental agencies entitled to notice under § 296-22.
A level, landscaped, and/or surfaced area, also referred
to as a terrace, directly adjacent to a principal building at or within
three feet of the finished grade and not covered by a permanent roof.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any security which may be accepted by a municipality, including
cash, provided that a municipality shall not require more than 10%
of the total performance guarantee in cash.
A test designed to determine the ability of ground to absorb
water. A permeability test may apply to development of stormwater
management facilities, septic systems and other cases where groundwater
absorption is in question.
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any use which shall be allowed subject to the provisions
of this chapter.
Any individual, resident, corporation, utility company, partnership,
firm or association.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any substance or mixture of substances labeled, designed,
intended for or capable of use in preventing, destroying, repelling,
sterilizing or mitigating any insects, rodents, nematodes, predatory
animals, fungi, weeds and other forms of plant life or viruses, except
viruses on or in living man or other animals. The term "pesticide"
shall also include any substance or mixture of substances labeled,
designed or intended for use as a defoliant, desiccant, or plant regulator.
See "pet, household."
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A retail services use that provides general care of animals
during business hours (no overnight boarding). At these facilities,
pets, typically canines (dogs), are generally supervised throughout
their stay and mingle with other dogs. The target clientele are typically
dog owners who are unable to provide personal care, exercise or a
private yard for their pet during the day. An outside area or run
is a typical accessory use to a pet day-care facility. Includes pet
grooming and training facilities.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A fully domesticated animal kept on a residential property
for companionship, not commercial purposes, such as a dog, cat, small
reptile, bird, rabbit, fish, turtle or a rodent.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
See "solar or photovoltaic energy facility or structure."
Planned unit development, planned unit residential development,
residential development, residential cluster, planned commercial or
planned industrial development.
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
PLANNED COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENTAn area to be developed according to a single entity containing one or more structures with common areas to accommodate commercial or office uses or both and any residential and other uses incidental to the predominant use.
An area of at least 10 contiguous or noncontiguous acres in
size to be planned, developed, operated, and maintained as a single
entity and containing one or more structures with appurtenant common
areas to accommodate office, retail, and commercial uses, and other
uses incidental to the predominant commercial use.
PLANNED RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT (PRD)An area developed as a single entity according to an approved plan and containing a variety of dwelling unit types, open space and recreation areas, and commercial and/or public and quasi-public uses, all primarily for the benefit of the residential development.
PLANNED INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTAn area to be developed according to a plan as a single entity containing one or more structures with common areas to accommodate industrial uses and any other uses incidental to predominant use.
An area of at least 10 contiguous or noncontiguous acres in
size to be planned, developed, operated, and maintained as a single
entity and containing one or more structures with appurtenant common
areas to accommodate industrial, manufacturing, warehousing, office,
retail, and commercial uses, and other uses incidental to the predominant
industrial use.[8]
The Planning Board of the Township of Raritan.
The part of a street right-of-way between the public right-of-way
and the portion of the street reserved for vehicular traffic or between
the abutting property line and the curb or traveled portion of the
street, exclusive of any sidewalk.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The map of a subdivision or site plan.
The final map of all or a portion of the subdivision which
is presented to the Planning Board for final approval in accordance
with the regulations and which, if approved, shall be filed with the
County Clerk for recording in accordance with the law. A plat that
receives final approval shall have been prepared by a New Jersey licensed
professional engineer or land surveyor in accordance with all of the
provisions of N.J.S.A. 46:26B-1 et seq.
[Amended 11-18-2020 by Ord. No. 20-30]
A map of a major subdivision containing information required
in this chapter and submitted in accordance with the procedures set
forth in this chapter for the purpose of securing preliminary approval.
The sketch map of a subdivision, of sufficient accuracy to be used for the purpose of discussion and classification, and meeting the requirements of Article X.
A structure made utilizing post-frame construction. "Pole
barn" is a traditional name for a large agricultural structure with
no basement, a high ceiling and wide-open spaces but could include
any structure built with post-frame construction.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Domesticated chickens, ducks, peahens, and the like, excluding
roosters and male chickens of any age. Chickens are not considered
"household pets" or "birds" as defined in this chapter. See also "chickens"
and "fowl."
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The conferral of certain rights prior to final approval after
specific elements of a development plan have been agreed upon by the
Planning Board and the applicant.
Architectural drawings prepared during early and introductory
stages of the design of a project illustrating in a schematic form
its scope, scale and relationship to its site and immediate environs.
The main purpose for which any lot and/or building is used.
The office of a member of a recognized profession maintained
for the conduct of his or her profession. Such professions shall be
limited to those of medicine, dental services, veterinary services,
law, planning, architecture, engineering, art, religion, music and
other professions which require a similar degree of training and experience.
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any use which shall not be allowed under any circumstances.
Public parks, playgrounds, trails, paths and other recreation
areas; other public open spaces; scenic and historic sites; and sites
for schools and other public buildings and structures.
An institutional or public use that includes any building
used exclusively for public purposes by any department or branch of
government. Also includes buildings of an institutional nature and
serving a public need, such as schools; libraries; museums; post offices;
police, rescue, and fire stations; and public utilities and services.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The land reserved or dedicated for the installation of stormwater
sewers or drainage ditches, or required along a natural stream or
watercourse for preserving the channel and providing for the flow
of water to safeguard the public against flood damage, sedimentation
and erosion.
An open space area conveyed or otherwise dedicated to a municipality,
Municipal Agency, board of education, state or county agency or other
public body for recreational or conservational uses.
Sanitary effluent from a building or structure carried in
force mains, collectors, interceptors and trunks to a central sewage
treatment facility owned and operated by the Raritan Township Municipal
Utilities Authority.
Any public building, structure or land used primarily for
public, quasi-public or public franchise purposes.
A water supply, storage and distribution system that is operated
by the Township of Raritan, the Borough of Flemington or the holder
of a franchise water utility and consisting of a system of water mains
bringing water into the Township, to storage facilities and to distribution
lines, for service and distribution to multiple users (as differentiated
from a single home, single subdivision or commercial or industrial
tract or user).
For the purpose of this chapter, the provision of public water
to a development shall mean connection into the existing water supply
and distribution system as above described or extension of such system
as above described to the site of the development. Water supply primarily
from groundwater via a well or wells specifically provided for a development,
whether on site or off tract, shall not be considered public water
irrespective of whether such well or wells are privately owned and
operated or owned and/or operated by a franchise water utility.
A majority (1/2 plus one) of the full membership of a board
or agency.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The portion of rainfall which becomes direct surface runoff.
Clubs or recreation facilities operated by a nonprofit organization
and open only to bona fide members of such nonprofit organization.
Recreation facilities operated as a business and open to
the general public for a fee. This definition shall include training
facilities as defined elsewhere in this section.
Any use or structure owned and managed by a federal, state,
or Municipal Agency, or its duly appointed agent, for the purpose
of active recreational activities.
A building or part thereof in which the training and education
of persons in various forms of recreational activities is performed
for gain or profit. Said use may include accessory retail sales of
goods and services associated with the specific recreational activity
conducted on the site. Examples shall include karate/martial arts,
swimming, scuba, tennis, batting, fencing, gymnastics, dancing, boxing,
and wrestling.
A vehicular-type portable structure without permanent foundation
that can be towed, hauled, or driven and is primarily designed as
a temporary living accommodation for recreational and camping purposes.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The process by which waste products are reduced to raw materials
and transformed into new and often different products.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A plan for the collection, separation, and storage of materials
for the purpose of recycling those materials.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The restoration of a property previously in a dilapidated
or substandard condition for human habitation or use, without drastically
changing the plan, form, or style of architecture.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A church, mosque, synagogue, temple or other similar place
of worship.
A facility that engages in the production of electric energy
from solar technologies, photovoltaic technologies, or wind energy.
Facilities of 20 acres or more are permitted in every industrial zone
pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-66.11.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Housing that is occupied by a tenant paying rent to an owner,
with no part of the rent being used to acquire equity in the property.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A nursery-grown, certified tree, properly balled, marked
with a durable label indicating genus, species and variety, and satisfying
the standards established for nursery stock and installation thereof
set forth by the American Nursery and Landscape Association.
[Amended 11-18-2020 by Ord. No. 20-30]
A facility for investigation into the natural, physical or
social sciences, which may include engineering and product development.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
An individual who resides on the residential property or
contractor hired by the individual who resides on the residential
property where a tree(s) regulated by Ordinance No. 24-7[9] is removed or proposed to be removed.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A health care facility, associated with a licensed long-term
care facility, that provides food, shelter, supervised care and related
services in a homelike setting.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
An retail services establishment located within the principal
building, the primary activity of which is the preparation of food
for consumption by the public on its premises.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Establishments engaged in the selling of goods or merchandise
to the general public for personal or household consumption and rendering
services incidental to the sale of such goods.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The further division or relocation of lot lines of any lot or
lots within a subdivision previously made and approved or recorded
according to law.
The alteration of any streets or the establishment of any new
streets within any subdivision previously made and approved or recorded
according to law, but does not include conveyances so as to combine
existing lots by deed or other instrument.
Establishments providing services or entertainment to the
general public for personal or household use, including eating and
drinking places; finance, real estate and insurance offices; personal
services such as beauty salons; theaters and indoor commercial recreation;
health, education and social services; and museums and galleries.
Incidental retail sales are also permitted within a retail services
establishment. Also includes establishments conducting an off-premises
service for individuals, businesses, industry, government and other
enterprises which includes, but is not limited to, repair, construction,
delivery, or other professional services.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Retail sales establishments in freestanding industrial style
one-story buildings, with floor areas of approximately 100,000 square
feet to 200,000 square feet.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
To change the zoning classification of particular lots or
parcels of land.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Uses and structures designed for the quartering of horses
and/or for providing instruction in horsemanship.
Public policy designed to protect farmers against municipal
regulations, private nuisance suits, and unnecessary constraints on
essential agricultural management practices, if these practices are
consistent with federal and state law and are not a threat to the
public health and safety. Right to Farm issues are determined by the
Hunterdon County Agricultural Board and/or the State Agricultural
Development Commission.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A strip of land acquired by reservation, dedication, prescription,
or condemnation and intended to be occupied by a street, crosswalk,
railroad, electric transmission line, oil or gas pipeline, water line,
sanitary or storm sewer, or other similar uses;
Generally, the right of one to pass over the property of another.
That line determining the limit of the right-of-way, either
existing or contemplated.
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The highest continuous horizontal line of a roof. On a sloping
roof, the roofline is the principal ridgeline or the highest line
common to one or more principal slopes of the roof. On a flat roof,
the roofline is the highest continuous line of the roof or parapet,
whichever is higher.
A facility having regular sessions of instruction conducted
by regularly employed instructors and teachers who teach those subjects
which are fundamental and essential in general education, and which
provides education under the supervision of the New Jersey Department
of Education or a lawfully constituted ecclesiastical governing body,
or a corporation meeting the requirements of the New Jersey Department
of Education.
A building and premises for the storage of buses used primarily
for the purposes of transporting children to and from educational
institutions, such as, but not limited to, elementary schools and
high schools. Accessory uses may include the repair and maintenance
of the buses that are stored on site but shall not include the pickup
or dropoff of passengers.
See "research facility."
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The person designated by the Planning Board as Secretary
to the Board.
Solid material, both mineral and organic, that is in suspension,
is being transported, or has been moved from its site or origin by
air, water or gravity as a product of erosion.
A barrier or dam built across a waterway or at other suitable
locations to retain rock, sand, gravel, or silt or other material.
The reservoir space allotted to the accumulation of submerged
sediment during the life of the structure.
The deposition of soil that has been transported from its
site of origin by water, ice, wind, gravity or other natural means
as a product of erosion.[10]
A building or group of buildings containing separate, individual,
and private storage spaces of varying sizes available for lease or
rent for varying periods of time.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A planned development designed for, and occupied by, at least
one person 55 years of age or older per dwelling unit, where such
development emphasizes social and recreational activities but also
provides personal services, limited health facilities, and transportation.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Housing designed for, and occupied by, at least one person
55 years of age or older per dwelling unit, and which has significant
facilities and services designed to meet the needs of older persons.
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
All dishes, utensils, containers, tablecloths, napkins, cutlery
and other items used in the operation or decoration of the outdoor
dining area.
Establishments providing services or entertainment as opposed
to products to the general public, including eating and drinking places;
finance; real estate; insurance; personal services; motion pictures;
amusement and recreation services; health, educational and social
services; and museums and galleries.
The distance between a building or structure greater than
three feet in height and any lot line.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
An accessory structure or building used primarily for storage.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A business totally contained within the building.
Two or more commercial establishments in excess of 50,000
square feet of gross floor area in one or more structures, designed
and operated as a coordinated, integrated unit with respect to parking
service, signs, etc. Uses may include retail and service establishments,
offices and office structures, theaters, recreational facilities,
motels and hotels, and auto service stores where gasoline, oil and
grease, batteries, tires and automobile accessories may be supplied
and dispensed directly to the motor vehicle trade, and where minor
repair service is rendered, and uses accessory to all such permitted
uses.
The accessory use of a dwelling unit for occupancy by someone
other than the unit's owner or permanent resident for a period
of 30 or less consecutive days, up to a cumulative total period of
not to exceed 180 days in a calendar year, which dwelling unit is
regularly used and kept open as such for the lodging of guests, and
which is advertised or held out to the public as a place regularly
rented to transient occupants.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A residential dwelling unit that is used and/or advertised
for rent as a short-term rental by transient occupants as guests.
Dwelling units rented to the same occupant for more than 30 continuous
days, licensed bed-and-breakfast establishments, licensed rooming
or boarding houses, hotels, and motels shall not be considered short-term
rental property.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The paved surface provided for the exclusive use of pedestrians
and situated between and extending from any building line to the curb
of any street (excluding therefrom any unpaved area).
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A triangular-shaped portion of land established at street
intersections in which nothing is erected, placed, planted, or allowed
to grow in such as a manner as to obstruct the sight distance of motorists
entering or leaving the intersection.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any announcement, declaration, demonstration, billboard, display,
illustration, bulletin board, letters, numbers, logos, statues, banners,
flags, pennants, clocks, plants, thermometers, or lights or combination
of lights used to promote or advertise the interest of any person,
group of persons, corporation, place or product when the same is placed,
erected, attached, painted, printed or grown so as to be visible to
the general public.
A sign shall not include any display of official court or public
office notices, or any official traffic control device, nor shall
it include the flag, emblem or insignia of nation, state, county,
municipality, school or religious group.
SIGN TERMS.
See "off-premises sign."
Advertising sign means:
Movement of a sign or any segment thereof, such as rotating,
revolving, moving up or down, or any other type of action involving
a change of position, of a sign body or segment thereof, whether caused
by mechanical, illusional or other means;
A lighted sign on an intermittent or flashing circuit or the
movement of any light used in connection with any sign, such as blinking,
traveling, flaring or changing degree of intensity of color.
AREA OF FACADEThe area of the wall of a building, not including roof areas of any type.
BANNERS AND PENNANTSAdvertising affixed to poles, wires or ropes, and made of the cloth or plastic materials, etc. Government flags are excluded from this definition.
BROKEN PLANDiscontinuous surfaces separated by air space.
CANOPY SIGNA sign attached to and suspended from an overhang or ceiling.
CUT-OUT LETTER OR NUMBERAny figures cut out in the shape of a letter or number and supported independently on an awning or directly on a wall of a building. Any frame or artificial background support enclosing and letters excludes a letter from the classification of cut-out.
GRAPHICAny device use for visual communication.
GROUND SIGNA freestanding sign mounted on any support other than a structure in which people live, work, or congregate.
INDIRECT LIGHTINGThe use of fluorescent (and other vapor light) or incandescent lighting apart from, but directed towards, the surface of the sign.
INTERIOR LIGHTINGThe use of fluorescent (and other light) or incandescent to illuminate sign from behind the lettering or from inside the sign structure.
KIOSKA small, many sided structure placed in a public area, upon which posters, signs, messages, etc., are affixed.
LANDSCAPE SIGNSSigns placed on the ground create through the use of plant materials, ground forms, rocks and other natural materials.
MARQUEES, CANOPIES OR AWNINGSVarious forms of permanent, temporary or portable roof-like coverings for entrances, windows, etc.
NEIGHBORHOOD IDENTIFICATION SIGNA sign identifying the entrance to a particular subdivision or other housing project which is recognized by a given name.
OFF-PREMISES SIGNA sign which directs attention to a business, profession, commodity, service or entertainment conducted, sold or offered elsewhere than on the lot or premises where the sign is located.
ON-PREMISES SIGNA sign which directs attention to a business, profession, commodity, service or entertainment conducted, sold or offered on the lot or premises where the sign is located or to which it is affixed.
ORGANIZATION SIGN DISPLAYA sign which combines all of the civic, service, religious, etc., signs normally found scattered along the roadside into one well-designed graphic.
POLITICAL SIGNSGraphics advertising candidates for political office or involving a ballot issue.
PROJECTING SIGNA graphic attached to a building or other structure and extending from the building wall or structure.
RESIDENTIAL NAMEPLATEA graphic permitted for the sole purpose of identifying the following: inhabitants residing therein, the house name or address.[11]
A development plan of one or more lots on which is shown:
The existing and proposed conditions of the lot, including,
but not necessarily limited to, topography, vegetation, drainage,
floodplains, marshes and waterways;
The location of all existing and proposed buildings, drives,
parking spaces, walkways, means of ingress and egress, drainage facilities,
utility service, landscaping, structures and signs, lighting, and
screening devices; and
Any other information that may be reasonably required in order
to make an informed determination pursuant to this chapter requiring
review and approval of site plans by the Planning Board.
The degree of deviation of a surface from the horizontal,
usually expressed in percent or degree.
Any and all unconsolidated mineral and organic material of
whatever origin on the immediate surface of the earth that serves
as a natural medium for the growth of terrestrial plants; it generally
overlies bedrock and can be readily excavated.
[Amended 11-18-2020 by Ord. No. 20-30]
A scheme which fully indicates necessary land treatment measures,
including a time schedule for their installation, which shall effectively
control soil erosion and sedimentation. Such measures shall be equivalent
to or exceed standards promulgated by the State Soil Conservation
Committee.
A facility or structure for the purpose of supplying electrical
energy produced from solar or photovoltaic technologies, whether such
a facility or structure is a principal use, a part of the principal
use, or an accessory use or structure.
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Major Solar or Photovoltaic Energy Facility or Structure (Solar
Farm).
Major solar of photovoltaic energy facility or structure or
major solar or photovoltaic energy system — A system of fuel
cells, solar or photovoltaic panels and equipment for the production
of energy that is not a minor solar photovoltaic energy or structure.
Minor solar or photovoltaic energy facility or structure or
minor solar photovoltaic energy system — A fuel cell, solar
or photovoltaic panel or system of panels for the production of energy
that:
Uses solar energy as its fuel; is located on the power beneficiary's
premises; is designed and intended primarily to offset part or all
of the beneficiary's requirements for energy consumption on site;
and is secondary to the beneficiary's use of the premises for
other lawful purpose(s);
Is intended to mitigate electrical system improvement requirements;
and
Generates not more than 110% of the power consumed by the beneficiary's
premises, which shall be documented through the submission of power
company electricity usage bills for the 12 months prior to the date
of application, or another form of documentation acceptable to the
Raritan Township Engineer. This documentation shall be provided at
the time of application.
If the solar or photovoltaic energy facility or structure is
not located on the same property as the use it serves, then the facility
shall be treated as a major solar or photovoltaic energy facility
or structure.
A public or private event established for a limited duration
of time with the intent to discontinue such use upon the expiration
of the time period.
[Amended 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any tree with a diameter at breast height (dbh) of 24 inches
or greater.
A luminaire or bulb which projects light in a specific direction
in a narrow beam, typically 45° or less.
The parking space in which vehicles park.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
An agency of the state established in accordance with the
provisions of N.J.S.A. 4:24-1 et seq.
Land areas where the slope exceeds 12%. See § 296- 143.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The keeping, either enclosed or unenclosed, of any goods,
junk, material, merchandise, or vehicles in the same place for more
than 24 hours.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any storm drainage technique which retards or detains runoff,
such as a detention or retention basin, parking lot storage, rooftop
storage, porous pavement, dry wells, or any combination thereof.
See Article XXV, Stormwater Control.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
That portion of a building included between the surface of
any floor and the surface of the floor above it or, if there is no
floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next
above it.
A permit issued by the Department under the provisions of
N.J.S.A. 58:1A-1 to 58:1A-26.
[Amended 11-18-2020 by Ord. No. 20-30]
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, parkway, viaduct, drive
or other way which is an existing state, county or municipal roadway,
or which is shown upon a plat heretofore approved pursuant to law,
or which is approved by official action, or which is shown on a plat
duly filed and recorded in the office of the county recording officer
prior to the appointment of a planning board and the grant to such
board of the power to review plats, and includes the land between
the street lines, whether improved or unimproved, and may comprise
pavement, shoulders, gutters, curbs, sidewalks, parking areas, and
other areas within the street lines.
Interstate or state highways carrying the major portion of
through traffic in the Township.
A street which carries traffic from minor streets to the
secondary, primary and arterial roads. It shall include the principal
entrance street(s) of a residential development.
Minor ways used primarily for vehicular service access to
the rear or side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.
A street which is parallel to and adjacent to an arterial
or primary road and which provides access to abutting properties and
protection from through traffic and does not impede traffic flow on
the major road.
A street which is used primarily for access to the abutting
properties and not for through traffic. Such a street is also known
as a "local street" and includes culs-de-sac.
State and county roads carrying through traffic and traffic
from one part of the Township to another.
County and local roads designed to move traffic originating
in the Township to the primary and arterial highways.
A tree planted in the sidewalk, planting strip, and/or in
the public right-of-way adjacent to (or specific distance from) the
portion of the street reserved for vehicular traffic. This also includes
trees planted in planting strips within the roadway right-of-way,
i.e., islands, medians, pedestrian refuges.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any activity which removes or disturbs the vegetation surface
cover, including clearing and grubbing operations.
Any assembly of materials above or below the surface of land
or water, including, but not limited to, buildings, paving, fences,
dams, levees, bulkheads, dikes, jetties, embankments, wharves, piers,
docks, landings, obstructions, pipelines, causeways, culverts, roads,
railroads, bridges, and the facilities of any authority, utility,
municipality, county, state or other governmental agency.
Any person or other legal entity commencing proceedings under
the provisions of this chapter to effect a subdivision of land hereunder
for himself or herself or for another.
The division of a lot, tract or parcel of land into two or more
lots, tracts, parcels or other divisions of land for sale or development.
The following shall not be considered subdivisions within the meaning
of this chapter if no new streets are created:
Divisions of land found by the Planning Board or Technical Review
Committee thereof appointed by the Chair to be for agricultural purposes
where all resulting parcels are five acres or larger in size;
[Amended 11-18-2020 by Ord. No. 20-30]
Divisions of property by testamentary or intestate provisions;
Divisions of property upon court order, including, but not limited
to, judgments of foreclosure;
Consolidation of existing lots by deed or other recorded instruments;
and
The conveyance of one or more adjoining lots, tracts, or parcels of land, owned by the same person or persons, and all of which are found and certified by the administrative officer to conform to the requirements of Part 3, Zoning, of this chapter and are shown and designated as separate lots, tracts or parcels on the Tax Map of the Township.
The term "subdivision" shall also include the term "resubdivision."
A committee of at least three Planning Board members appointed
by the Chairman of the Board for the purpose of reviewing this title
and such duties relating to land subdivision which may be referred
to as "this Committee" by the Board.
A modification that substantially changes the physical dimensions
of an eligible support structure, as defined by 47 CFR 1.50001(c),
as may be amended, but which currently provides the following criteria:
[Added 5-21-2019 by Ord.
No. 19-08]
For towers other than towers in the public right-of-way, it
increases the height of the tower by more than 10% or by the height
of one additional antenna array with separation from the nearest existing
antenna not to exceed 20 feet, whichever is greater; for other eligible
support structures, it increases the height of the structure by more
than 10% or more than 10 feet, whichever is greater [changes in height
should be measured from the original support structure in cases where
deployments are or will be separated horizontally, such as on buildings'
rooftops; in other circumstances, changes in height should be measured
from the dimensions of the tower or base station, inclusive of originally
approved appurtenances and any modifications that were approved prior
to the passage of the Spectrum Act, 47 CFR § 1.40001(b)(7)(i)(A)];
For towers other than towers in the public right-of-way, it
involves adding an appurtenance to the body of the tower that would
protrude from the edge of the tower more than 20 feet, or more than
the width of the tower structure at the level of the appurtenance,
whichever is greater; for other eligible support structures, it involves
adding an appurtenance to the body of the structure that would protrude
from the edge of the structure by more than six feet;
For any eligible support structure, it involves installation
of more than the standard number of new equipment cabinets for the
technology involved, but not to exceed four cabinets; or, for towers
in the public right-of-way and base stations, it involves installation
of any new equipment cabinets on the ground if there are no preexisting
ground cabinets associated with the structure, or else involves installation
of ground cabinets that are more than 10% larger in height or overall
volume than any other ground cabinets associated with the structure;
It entails any excavation or deployment outside the current
site;
It would defeat the concealment elements of the eligible support
structure; or
It does not comply with conditions associated with the siting approval of the construction or modification of the eligible support structure or base station equipment; provided, however, that this limitation does not apply to any modification that is noncompliant only in a manner that would not exceed the thresholds identified in Subsections A through D of this definition.
A determination by COAH approving a municipality's housing
element and fair share plan in accordance with the provisions of the
Fair Housing Act, N.J.S.A. 52:27D-301 et seq., and the regulations
promulgated thereunder. A grant of substantive certification shall
be valid for a period of six years in accordance with the terms and
conditions contained therein.
A water-filled enclosure, permanently constructed or portable,
having a depth of more than 18 inches below the level of the surrounding
land, or an above-surface pool, having a depth of more than 30 inches,
designed, used, and maintained for swimming and bathing.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Establishment in which people receive permanent or temporary
decorative tattoos from a tattoo artist. Such establishments also
have body piercing and accessory sales to the tattoo parlor.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A committee of at least three Planning Board members appointed
by the Chair of the Board for the purpose of reviewing this chapter
and performing such duties relating to land subdivision which may
be referred to the Technical Review Committee by the Board.
[Amended 11-18-2020 by Ord. No. 20-30]
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A parcel of land containing a tower, sending and receiving antennas
attached to the tower, and a prefabricated or modular structure or
cabinets containing electronic equipment;
A Federal Communications Commission (FCC) licensed facility,
designed and used for the purpose of transmitting, receiving, and
relaying voice data signals from various wireless communication devices
and equipment.
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Amateur radio transmission facilities and facilities used exclusively
for receive-only antennas are not classified as telecommunications
cell sites.
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A use, structure or establishment with a limited duration
with the intent to discontinue such use or structure upon the expiration
of the time period.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A retail or retail food establishment that operates at a
fixed location for a limited period of time in connection with a fair,
carnival, circus, picnic, concert, public exhibition, or similar transitory
gathering. Annual permits may also be issued by the Township Board
of Health Secretary subject to inspections.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Stabilization of erosive or sediment-producing areas.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A structure that typically does not have a foundation or
footings and will be removed when the designated time period, activity,
or use for which the temporary structure was erected has ceased. Such
structures are not to adhere to Schedule I as long as the structure
is on the subject property and out of the Township right-of-way.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A building or part of a building used to show motion pictures
or where live performances are held such as plays, dance performances
or concerts.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The removal of undesirable, competitive, diseased or damaged
trees so as to cultivate and improve the development of remaining
trees on the lot.
See "lot, through."
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A single-family dwelling with two common or party walls,
meeting fire wall construction standards, separating it from adjacent
units on both sides, or one party wall in the case of a building at
the end of a group of attached dwellings.
[Amended 11-18-2020 by Ord. No. 20-30]
The municipal official designated by the Township Committee
as the Township Engineer.
A report analyzing anticipated roadway conditions, parking,
circulation and access before and after a proposed development. The
report may include an analysis of mitigation measures and a calculation
of fair-share financial contributions for traffic improvements. Mitigation
measures may include road widenings, intersection improvements, and
traffic control devices.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A typed or printed verbatim record of the proceedings or
a reproduction thereof.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The removal of the right to develop or build, expressed in
dwelling units per acre or floor area, from land in one zone district,
and the transfer of that right to land in another zone where such
transfer is permitted, in accordance with the New Jersey Statutes.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A site at which solid wastes are prepared for transport to
a processing facility or land disposal site.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any person or a guest or invitee of such person, who, in
exchange for compensation, occupies or is in actual or apparent control
or possession of residential property, which is either: 1) registered
as a short-term rental property, or 2) satisfies the definition of
a short-term rental property. It shall be a rebuttable presumption
that any person who holds themselves out as being an occupant or guest
of an occupant of the short-term rental is a transient occupant.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any self-supporting woody plant which reaches a typical mature
height of 12 feet or more at maturity and has a typical diameter at
breast height (dbh) of four inches or greater.
The diameter of the trunk of a young tree, measured six inches
from the soil line. For young trees whose caliper exceeds four inches,
the measurement is taken 12 inches above the soil line.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The top layer or crown of mature trees.
A commercial operation engaged in growing trees under intensive
management practices for use in another location.
To kill or to cause irreparable damage that leads to the
decline and/or death of a tree. This includes, but is not limited
to, excessive pruning, application of substances that are toxic to
the tree, over-mulching or improper mulching, and improper grading
and/or soil compaction within the critical root radius around the
base of the tree that leads to the decline and/or death of a tree.
Removal does not include responsible pruning and maintenance of a
tree, or the application of treatments intended to manage invasive
species.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The total of single or one-direction vehicle movements entering
and leaving a specified land use or site over a designated period
of time.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The total number of vehicle trip ends produced by a specific
land use or activity.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
An area and building where trucks load and unload cargo and
freight and where the cargo and freight may be broken down or aggregated
into smaller or larger loads for transfer to other vehicles or modes
of transportation. Trucking terminals do not include wholesale or
retail distribution facilities.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The teaching or instruction of academic subjects to not more
than four students simultaneously.
Two units connected by a common wall but having separate,
complete living accommodations, including kitchen and bathroom.
The purpose or activity for which land or buildings are designed,
arranged, or intended or for which land or buildings are occupied
or maintained.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
The generation, transmission, and/or distribution of electricity,
gas steam, communications, and water; the collection and treatment
of sewage and solid waste; and the provision of mass transportation.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Permission to depart from the literal requirements of the provisions of this chapter pursuant to § 296-6.
Stabilization of erosive or sediment-producing areas by covering
the soil with permanent seeding, producing long-term vegetative cover;
short-term seeding, producing temporary vegetative cover; or sodding,
producing areas covered with a turf or perennial sod-forming grass.
Any motorized vehicle, when used for recreational travel
on trails, non-highway roads and cross-country travel over natural
terrain; such vehicles include but are not limited to: motorcycles,
dune buggies, snowmobiles, and all-terrain vehicles.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A person who served in the active United States military,
naval, air, or space service, and who was discharged or released therefrom
under conditions other than dishonorable.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A medical office where animals are given medical care and
the boarding of animals is limited to short-term care incidental to
the medical procedures performed.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A medical facility where animals are given medical care and
up to twenty-four-hour emergency care. Boarding of animals is incidental
to the medical care given on-site and may be longer term.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Permission to depart from the requirements of an ordinance
with respect to the submission of required documents.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any building or structure in which the principal use involves
the storage of goods and materials.
Any natural or artificial collection of water, whether permanent
or temporary.
[Added6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any natural or artificial waterway, stream, river, creek,
ditch, channel, canal, conduit, culvert, drain, waterway, gully, ravine
or wash in which water flows in a definite direction or course, either
continuously or intermittently, and which has a definite channel,
bed and banks, and shall include any area adjacent thereto subject
to inundation by reason of overflow of floodwater.
An area that is inundated or saturated by surface water or
groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and
that under normal circumstances does support, a prevalence of vegetation
adapted for life in saturated soil conditions.
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
Any building, premises or land in which or upon which the
principal business, operation or industry involves any handling and
resale of goods in comparatively large quantities to others, but not
usually to the ultimate consumer of an individual item.
An open space which lies between the principal building or
group of buildings and the nearest lot line and which is unoccupied
and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as herein permitted.
YARD, FRONT or FRONT YARDAn open space extending
the full width of the lot between a principal building and the front
lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except
as may be specified elsewhere in this chapter.
YARD, REAR or REAR YARDAn open space extending
the full width of the lot between a principal building and the rear
lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except
as may be specified elsewhere in this chapter.
YARD, SIDE or SIDE YARDAn open space extending
from the front lot line to the rear lot line between a principal building
and the nearest lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground
upward, except as may be specified elsewhere in this chapter.
The Zoning Board of Adjustment of the Township.
See "administrative officer."
[Added 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12]
A document signed by the administrative officer:
Which is required by ordinance as a condition precedent to the
commencement of a use or the erection, construction, reconstruction,
alteration, conversion or installation of a structure or building;
and
Which acknowledges that such structure or building complies with the provisions of Part 3, Zoning, of this chapter or variance therefrom duly authorized by the appropriate Municipal Agency.
[1]
Editor's Note: N.J.A.C. 5:93 expired 10-16-2016.
[2]
Editor's Note: The former definition of "barbershop and beauty
shop," which immediately followed this definition, was repealed 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12.
[3]
Editor's Note: The definition of "common open space" which
immediately followed this definition, was repealed 11-18-2020 by Ord. No. 20-30.
See the definition of "open space, common" in this section.
[5]
Editor's Note: The definition of "flood map," which immediately
followed this definition, was repealed 11-18-2020 by Ord. No. 20-30.
The former definitions of "floodplain" and "floodplain (500-year),"
both adopted 11-18-2020 by Ord. No. 20-30, which immediately followed
this definition, were repealed 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12.
[6]
Editor's Note: The former definition of "institution," which
immediately followed this definition, was repealed 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12.
[7]
Editor's Note: The former definition of "multiple-family dwelling,"
which immediately followed this definition, was repealed 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12. See now "multifamily dwelling."
[8]
Editor's Note: The former definition of "planned residential development," which immediately followed this definition, was repealed 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12 and included as Subsection B of this definition.
[10]
Editor's Note: The former definition of "selective cutting,"
which immediately followed this definition, was repealed 6-5-2024 by Ord. No. 24-12.
[11]
Editor's Note: The former definition of "silviculture,"
which immediately followed this definition, was repealed 6-5-2024
by Ord. No. 24-12.
