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Borough of Rockleigh, NJ
Bergen County
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Zoning Map New Laws (4) Index Notes (6)
[1973 Code § 88-2; Ord. No. 09-04-04, adopted 10/4/2004; Ord. No. 06-09, adopted 10/10/2006; Ord. No. 2009-13, adopted 9/8/2009; Ord. No. 2009-14, adopted 9/8/2009; Ord. No. 2014-1 § 2; Ord. No. 2014-3 § 1]
a. 
For the purpose of promoting the public health, safety, morals and general welfare and to assume the most appropriate use of the land, the Borough of Rockleigh is hereby divided into the following eight classes of zones:
A Zone: Residential
B Zone: Commercial
C Zone: Light Industry
T Zone: Transition
H Zone: Historic
HF Zone: Historic Fringe Area
P Zone: Public
AH Zone: Animal Husbandry Commercial
b. 
The H Zone, Historic District; HF Zone, Historic Fringe Area; and AH Zone, Animal Husbandry Commercial Zone shall be overlay districts to the A Zone, Residential.
[Ord. No. 2014-3 § 1]
[1973 Code § 88-3; Ord. No. 1-1-98, adopted 2/12/1998; Ord. No. 2009-13, adopted 9/8/2009; Ord. No. 2013-7; Ord. No. 2014-1]
Such zones or districts shall have the boundaries and areas as shown on a map entitled, "Zoning Map - 2013, Rockleigh Borough, Planning Board, Bergen County, New Jersey" dated December 2013 and prepared by Neglia Engineering Associates.
The Zoning Map is included as an attachment to this chapter.
a. 
The Zoning Map - 1977 as revised through 1990 of the Borough of Rockleigh adopted by Ordinance No. 12-76-1 is hereby amended to change the zone designation of Block 10.01, Lot 2 and the easterly portion of Block 11, Lot 1 from the A Residential Zone District to the C Light Industry Zone District which amendment is set forth on the proposed Zoning Map attached hereto and made a part hereof and in the attached Metes and Bounds Description made a part hereof by reference.
[Ord. No. 1-1-98, adopted 2/12/98]
b. 
The Planning Board has reviewed the 1991 Zoning Map and has advised that all properties east of Piermont Road are in the Historic Zone District except for one, namely, Tax Lot 5 in Block 202 which is in the Historic Fringe Area Zone and the Planning Board has recommended that all properties east of Piermont Road should be in the Historic Zone including Tax Lot 5 in Block 202. The 1991 Zoning Map is hereby amended to provide that Tax Lot 5 in Block 202 shall be in the Historic Zone.
[Ord. No. 05-04-05, adopted 6/14/2005]
c. 
The ARH Zone is hereby eliminated and shall henceforth be part of the newly created T, Transition Zone created herein.
There is hereby created a T Transition Zone which zone shall be composed of the following properties: Block 102, Lots 14, 15, 16. Except as amended in Ordinance No. 2009-14 introduced simultaneously with this Ordinance No. 2009-13, all zoning regulations previously applicable to the BT Zone and the ARH Zone shall apply to the T Zone.[1]
[Ord. No. 2009-13, adopted 9/8/2009]
[1]
Editor's Note: See also § 34-9 for the T Zone.
d. 
The P Zone shall be amended to provide for the separation of the P Zone into two sub-zones, the P Public Zoning District and PD Public Developed Zoning District.[2]
[Ord. No. 2009-13, adopted 9/8/2009]
[2]
Editor's Note: The PD Zone was eliminated by Ordinance No. 2014-3 § 1.
e. 
The 2009 Zoning Map of the Borough of Rockleigh be and is hereby amended so as to provide that Block 102, Lot 19 heretofore in the PD Public Developed Zone shall be rezoned to the C Light Industrial Zone.[3]
[Ord. No. 2012-03, adopted 2012]
[3]
Editor's Note: The PD Zone was eliminated by Ordinance No. 2014-3 § 1.
f. 
AH Zone boundary. The boundary of the AH Zone is hereby established as shown on the map accompanying this chapter and made a part hereof and entitled "Zoning Map - December 2013, Rockleigh Borough, Planning Board, Bergen County, New Jersey" prepared by Neglia Engineering Associates and shall be that area of the Borough of Rockleigh contained by Piermont Road, Willow Avenue and Rockleigh Road to the center lines thereof.
[Ord. No. 2014-1 § 2]
g. 
Revision of C Zone Boundary. The boundary of the C Zone as shown on the "Zoning Map - December 2013, Rockleigh Borough, Planning Board, Bergen County, New Jersey" prepared by Neglia Engineering Associates, is hereby amended so as to provide that Block 102, Lots 3 and 4 heretofore in the HF Historic Fringe District, shall be rezoned to C Zone -Light Industry.
[Added 12-21-2020 by Ord. No. 2020-7]
[1973 Code § 88-4]
The boundaries of these zones are hereby established as shown on the Zone Map. These zone boundary lines are intended to follow property lines as they existed at the time of the passage of this chapter and as shown on the then existing assessment map, or the centerlines of streets wherever so shown as boundaries.
[1973 Code § 88-5]
The districts created by this chapter, as well as the regulations, limitations and restrictions hereinafter set forth, may be changed, modified or altered in the manner provided by N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq. now in effect or which may hereafter be revised, amended, supplemented or enacted.