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Borough of Cresskill, NJ
Bergen County
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[Amended 9-2-1986 by Ord. No. 86-18-935; 12-20-2017 by Ord. No. 17-14-1508; 12-19-2018 by Ord. No. 18-22-1508A; 6-16-2021 by Ord. No. 21-23-1573]
No building or premises shall be used and no building or part of a building shall be erected or altered which is arranged, intended or designed to be used, in whole or in part, for any uses except the following, which shall be permitted, conditional upon approval as to use by the Planning Board in accordance with the procedures and subject to the general conditions set forth in Chapter 218, Site Development Plan, and all such establishments shall have at least one person in attendance during hours of operation. Permitted uses are as follows:
A. 
Retail stores, such as but not limited to drugstores, food stores, luncheonettes, variety stores or combinations thereof.
B. 
Billiard parlors and personal service stores, such as but not limited to barbershops, beauty parlors and tailors.
C. 
Service establishments furnishing services other than of a personal nature, but excluding motor vehicle storage, repair or service except as accessory to a permitted motor vehicle service station.
D. 
Motor vehicle service stations, subject to the supplementary regulations as set forth in § 275-48C.
E. 
Railroad and public utility rights-of-way and structures necessary to serve areas within the Borough, subject to such conditions as the Planning Board may impose in order to protect and promote the health and safety and general welfare of the community and the character of the neighborhood in which the proposed structure is to be constructed.
F. 
Signs necessary to an establishment located on the same lot, provided that such signs shall be limited as set forth in Article XIV and as follows:
(1) 
Not more than one such sign shall be permitted for each tenant on the premises on each wall fronting on a street.
(2) 
The aggregate area, in square feet, of all signs on any wall shall be no greater than 1/2 the length, in feet, of such wall.
(3) 
Such sign or signs shall be parallel to the face of the building, and no part thereof, including any illuminating devices, shall project more than 12 inches beyond the face of the wall to which applied nor any distance beyond or above the building in any other direction.
G. 
Professional office uses.
H. 
Multifamily dwellings, both market rate and affordable, restricted to the second and third floors only. Within the Commercial Zone, only permitted nonresidential uses shall occupy the ground level or first floor in a mixed-use building.
[Added 6-16-2021 by Ord. No. 21-23-1573]
In a C Commercial Zone, the operation of medicinal and retail marijuana establishments, which includes retail marijuana and/or marijuana paraphernalia stores, marijuana cultivation facilities, marijuana products manufacturing facilities, and marijuana testing facilities, and the operation of retail marijuana social clubs are prohibited within the Borough of Cresskill and, therefore, all activities related to the above-mentioned retail uses such as, but not limited to, cultivation, extraction, manufacturing, processing, storing, laboratory testing, labeling, transporting, delivering, dispensing, transferring and distributing are expressly prohibited in any zone within the Borough of Cresskill.
All permitted uses and all storage accessory thereto, other than off-street parking, shall be carried on in buildings fully enclosed on all sides.
[Amended 10-3-2018 by Ord. No. 18-17-1529; 6-16-2021 by Ord. No. 21-23-1573]
A. 
All uses not listed in § 275-19 are prohibited.
B. 
Marijuana establishments, prohibition. The operation of medicinal and retail marijuana establishments, which includes retail marijuana and/or marijuana paraphernalia stores, marijuana cultivation facilities, marijuana products manufacturing facilities, and marijuana testing facilities, and the operation of retail marijuana social clubs are prohibited within the Borough of Cresskill and, therefore, all activities related to the above-mentioned retail uses such as, but not limited to, cultivation, extraction, manufacturing, processing, storing, laboratory testing, labeling, transporting, delivering, dispensing, transferring and distributing are expressly prohibited in any zone within the Borough of Cresskill.
Site development plan approval, in accordance with Chapter 218, Site Development Plan, shall be required prior to the issuance of building permits for the erection or enlargement of all structures and related accessory structures and prior to the issuance of certificates of occupancy for any change of use.
All uses are subject to performance standards as set forth in Article XV.[1]
[1]
Editor’s Note: Former § 275-23.1, Conditional uses, added 12-19-2007 by Ord. No. 07-14-1342, as amended, which immediately followed this section, was repealed 12-20-2017 by Ord. No. 17-14-1508.