[Res. 1-24-79]
No use or occupancy of any building, structure or land shall
hereafter be changed to a different use or occupancy and no building
or structure or part thereof shall hereafter be erected, constructed,
reconstructed, moved or structurally altered unless it conforms with
all of the regulations herein specified for the district in which
it is located except as hereinafter provided.
[Res. 1-24-79]
Every principal building shall be built upon a lot having frontage on a public street which either has been approved to Township standards or for which such improvements have been insured by the posting of a performance guarantee pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 25, Subdivision and Site Plan Review Ordinance, of the Township.
[Res. 1-24-79]
No part of a yard, or other open space, or off-street parking
or loading space required about or in connection with any building
for the purpose of complying with this ordinance shall be included
as part of a yard, open space or off-street parking or loading space
similarly required for any other building.
[Res. 1-24-79]
No yard or lot existing at the time of passage of this ordinance
shall be reduced in size or area below the minimum requirements set
forth herein. Yards or lots created after the effective date of this
ordinance shall meet at least the minimum requirements established
by the ordinance.
[Res. 1-24-79]
Within each district, the regulations set by this ordinance
shall be minimum regulations and shall apply uniformly to each class
or kind of structure or land.
[Res. 1-24-79]
A lot failing to meet the district requirements for area or
width and which is demonstrated to have been of public record and
not contiguous to other land in the same ownership at the time of
enactment of this ordinance, may be used for a permitted use in the
district in which it is located only upon the issuance of a variance
by the Zoning Board of Adjustment after public hearing and a showing
by the applicant that he cannot reasonably obtain additional space
to meet ordinance requirements. Any variance granted under this section
shall constitute the minimum adjustment necessary to permit a reasonable
use of the lot.
[Res. 1-24-79]
If two or more lots or combinations of lots or portions of lots
with contiguous frontage in single ownership are of record at the
time of passage or amendment of this ordinance, or become of record
thereafter, and if all or part of the lots do not meet the requirements
for lot width and area as established by this ordinance, the lands
involved shall be considered to be an undivided parcel For the purpose
of this ordinance and no portion of said parcel shall be used or sold
which does not meet lot width and area requirements established by
this ordinance, nor shall any division of the parcel be made which
leaves any remaining lot with width or area below the requirements
stated in this ordinance.
[Res. 1-24-79]
Building setback lines for a corner lot shall be the same as
required on the adjoining lot along either block.
[Res. 1-24-79]
In the case of irregularly shaped lots, the minimum lot width
specified in the Schedule shall be measured at the rear line of the
required front yard area, provided that in no case shall the distance
between the side lot lines be reduced to less than 50 percent of the
minimum width requirement.
[Res. 1-24-79]
All required yard and other open areas shall be maintained with
no portion of such area used as building area or covered by an impervious
surface. The following shall constitute the only exceptions: permitted
animal feeding areas, arbor and trellises, barbecues or outdoor fireplaces,
building projections, cultivated fields or gardens, fences, flagpoles
and clothesline poles, outdoor furniture, playground equipment or
games, ponds and streams, private sewage disposal systems, swimming
pools, temporary garden structures, tree wells, water systems, air
conditioning units or private power generating units. No structure,
projection or other improvement shall be erected within three feet
fell of any street or road line.
[Res. 1-24-79]
Building projections including bays, chimneys, cornices and
gutters may extend into required yard areas for a distance not to
exceed five feet and shall not be located within ten feet of any property
line.
[Res. 1-24-79]
The building area of all roofed structures and buildings shall
be included in the determination.
[Res. 1-24-79]
All buildings and structures shall be subject to height limitations
specified in Schedule of District Regulations except: chimneys, spires,
towers, elevator penthouses, tanks, antennas, and flagpoles. The height
of any such structure above the base on which it is fixed or attached
shall not exceed two times the district height restriction nor be
greater than the shortest distance from such base to any property
line.
[Res. 1-24-79]
Where a building lot has frontage on a road that is proposed
for right-of-way widening on the Master Plan or Official Map of the
Township, the required front yard area shall be measured from such
proposed right-of-way line.)
[Ord. August 1983]
a.
Solar equipment appurtenant to a solar energy system constructed
on the roof or walls of the man structure may exceed by five feet
the maximum height limits established by the district schedule and
may project no more than five feet into the required front, side or
rear yards provided such equipment is no closer than ten feet to any
property line.
b.
Solar equipment not constructed on the roof or walls of the main
structure shall not exceed 15 feet in height and shall not be constructed
within any required front yard area. Such equipment may be constructed
within a side or rear yard but shall in no case be any closer than
ten feet to a side or rear property line.
[Ord. 1981]
The right to farm all land is hereby recognized to exist as
a natural right and is also hereby ordained to exist as a permitted
use everywhere in the Township of Greenwich, regardless of zoning
designation and regardless of specified uses and prohibited uses set
forth elsewhere in this ordinance, subject only to the restrictions
and regulations for intensive fowl or livestock farms and subject
to Township Health and Sanitary codes. The Right to Farm as it is
used in this subsection includes the use of large irrigations pumps
and equipment, aerial and ground seeding and spraying, large tractors,
numerous farm laborers and the application of chemical fertilizers,
insecticides and herbicides, all for the purpose of producing from
the land agricultural products such as vegetables, grains, hay, fruits,
fibers, wood, trees, plants, shrubs, flowers and seeds. This Right
to Farm shall also include the right to use land for grazing by animals,
subject to the restrictions for intensive fowl or livestock farms.
The foregoing uses and activities included in the Right to Farm, when
reasonable and necessary for the particular farming, livestock or
fowl production, and when conducted in accordance with generally accepted
agricultural practices, may occur on holidays, Sundays and weekdays,
at night and in the day, and the noise, odors, dust and fumes that
are caused by them are also specifically permitted as part of the
exercise of this right. It is expressly found that whatever nuisance
may be caused to others by such uses and activities so conducted,
is more than offset by the benefits from farming to the neighborhood
and community, and to society in general, by the preservation of open
space, the beauty of the countryside and clean air and by the preservation
and continuance of farming operations in Greenwich Township and in
New Jersey as a source of agricultural products for this and future
generations.
