A. 
No building or structure shall be erected and no existing building or structure shall be moved, altered, added to or enlarged, nor shall any land or building be designed, used or intended to be used for any purpose or in any manner other than as specified among the uses hereinafter listed as permitted in the district in which such building or land is located.
B. 
No building or structure shall be erected, reconstructed or structurally altered to exceed in height the limit hereinafter designated for the district in which such building is located.
C. 
No building or structure shall be erected, no existing building or structure shall be altered, enlarged or rebuilt, nor shall any open space surrounding any building be encroached upon or reduced in any manner, except in conformity to the yard, lot area and building location regulations hereinafter designated for the district in which such building or open space is located.
D. 
No yard or other open space provided about any building for the purpose of complying with the provisions of this chapter shall be considered as providing a yard or open space for any other building, and no yard or other open space on one lot shall be considered as providing a yard or open space for a building on any other lot.
E. 
No minimum off-street parking area or loading or unloading area shall be considered as providing off-street parking, loading or unloading for a use or structure on any other lot or parcel than the principal use to which it is ancillary, except as provided herein.
Any lawful use occupying any building, structure, lot or land at the time of the effective date of this chapter or any amendment thereto which does not comply after the effective date of any amendment thereto with the use regulations of the district in which it is situated may be continued in the building or structure or upon the lot or land so occupied.
A. 
Any nonconforming use or structure existing at the time of the passage of this chapter may be continued upon the lot or in the building so occupied, and any such structure may be restored or repaired if the cost of repair or restoration of the current equalized value of the new construction is less than 50% of the current equalized assessed value of the existing structure, or as otherwise provided by applicable law.
B. 
Any nonconforming use or structure existing on the effective date of this chapter may be restored or repaired in the event of partial destruction thereof, provided that the cost of such restoration and repair, in compliance with all existing construction codes of the City of Hackensack and does not exceed 50% of the market value of the structure, less foundation systems, at the time of the partial destruction.
C. 
In the event of a partial destruction of a structure devoted to a nonconforming use, the owner or occupant shall, within 90 days after such event, give notice in writing to the Administrative Officer or the Construction Official of his intention to restore or repair the structure, and within 90 days after date of notice, commence and diligently proceed to the completion of the work.
D. 
Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the strengthening or restoring to a safe or lawful condition any part of any building or structure declared unsafe or unlawful by the Construction Official, Zoning Officer, or other authorized state or City official.
E. 
Nothing contained in this article shall prohibit the modernization of existing nonconforming structures; provided, however, that such modernization does not entail any extension, enlargement, addition or change of the nonconforming use.
Any nonconforming building or structure lawfully under construction on the effective date of this chapter, pursuant to plans filed with the Construction Official and approved by him and all other municipal boards and agencies as required under law, may be completed and may be used for the nonconforming use for which it was designed, to the same extent as if such building had been completed and been in use on the effective date of this chapter, provided that such building or structure shall be completed within one year after the effective date thereof.
A. 
In the event that there is an abandonment of any nonconforming use in accordance with applicable law, including evidence of nonuse by the owner for a period of time reflecting the intent of the owner(s) to no longer use the property for the nonconforming use, other than a national emergency or Act of God, the same shall be deemed to be an abandonment of such nonconforming use. Any subsequent exercise of such abandoned nonconforming use shall be deemed a violation of the terms of this chapter.
B. 
No nonconforming use or structure which shall have been discontinued or abandoned for a period exceeding 12 months shall be resumed; provided, however, that no such use or structure shall be resumed if the premises upon which such use or structure existed is devoted to a conforming use after the discontinuance or abandonment of the nonconforming use.
A. 
Any expansion of a nonconforming building or nonconforming use, if permitted by variance, and any expansion of any conditional use shall require, in each case, compliance with this chapter, including, for example, and not by way of limitation, required open spaces, required planted areas, required buffer areas and required parking spaces.
B. 
A one- or two-family residential building which complies with the use requirements of this chapter and is nonconforming because of the interior side yard regulations may be enlarged, provided that there shall be no other violations of the Zoning Ordinance.
(1) 
Similarly, for the purposes of this subsection only, a zoning violation does not exist when the existing front setback is nonconforming but is in keeping with the established front yard setbacks of more than half of the existing structures within 100 feet of each side of the property.
No permit for the erection of any building or structure shall be issued unless the lot abuts a street giving access to such proposed building or structure. Such street shall be an existing state, county or municipal street or highway; a street shown upon a plat approved by the Land Use Board; or a street on a plat duly filed in the office of the County Recording Officer prior to the passage of this chapter or any prior ordinance which required prior approval of plats by the governing body or other authorized body. Before any such permit shall be issued, such street shall have been certified to be suitably improved to the satisfaction of the governing body or such suitable improvement shall have been assured by means of a performance guaranty in accordance with standards and specifications for road improvements approved by the governing body, as adequate in respect to the public health, safety and general welfare of the special circumstances of the particular street.