The following supplementary regulations shall
apply:
A. Supplementary height regulations.
[Amended 6-1-1982 by Ord. No. 82-13-826]
(1) In nonresidential zones where a building has frontage
on two or more streets or other public ways, the height limitation
shall apply only as measured from the finished grade level at the
midpoint of the front of the building. Church spires, belfries, towers
designed for purely ornamental purposes, and chimneys shall be exempt
from the provisions of the schedule limiting height and bulk of buildings,
provided that their aggregate area at midheight is not over 20% of
the total area of the roof.
(2) In any zone, spires, belfries, chimneys, cupolas and
similar structures on buildings owned by the Borough shall be exempt
from the provision of the schedule limiting height.
B. Courts of nonresidential buildings.
(1) Inner courts. No inner court shall have a minimum
dimension less than the average height of all surrounding walls.
(2) Outer courts. The minimum width of an outer court
shall be 20 feet, and the depth thereof shall not exceed its width.
C. Motor vehicle service stations.
(1) The minimum lot size for such service stations shall
be 20,000 square feet, and the minimum street frontage shall be 150
feet.
(2) Entrance and exit driveways shall have an unrestricted
width of not less than 16 feet and not more than 36 feet, shall be
located not nearer than 10 feet from any property line and shall be
so laid out as to avoid the necessity of any vehicle leaving the property
to back out across any public right-of-way or portion thereof. No
driveway shall be located within 25 feet of any street intersection,
such distance to be measured from the nearest outside corner of the
intersecting rights-of-way.
(3) Vehicle lifts or pits, dismantled and disabled automobiles
and all parts or supplies shall be located within a building enclosed
on all sides.
(4) All service or repair of motor vehicles, other than
such minor servicing as change of tires or sale of gasoline or oil,
shall be conducted in a building fully enclosed on all sides. This
requirement shall not be construed to mean that the doors to any repair
shop are required to be kept closed at all times.
(5) The storage of gasoline or flammable oils in bulk
shall be located fully underground and not nearer than 35 feet to
any property line other than the street line.
(6) No gasoline pumps shall be located nearer than 20
feet to any street line, and no structure shall be placed closer than
35 feet to any street.
(7) No building permit for a motor vehicle service station
shall be issued within a distance of 1,500 feet from any existing
station nor within a distance of 250 feet of any school, church, hospital
or place of public assembly designed for the simultaneous use and
occupancy by more than 100 persons, and the distances shall be measured
in a straight line between the nearest points of each lot or premises,
regardless of the zone where either premises are located.
[Amended 12-15-1981 by Ord. No. 81-30-811]
(8) A minimum of 10% of the property shall be reserved
for planting, which shall consist of grass, perennials, annuals or
trees. Adjacent residential property shall be protected with all-year-round
screening as approved by the Borough.
(9) Separate male and female restrooms shall be provided
and maintained, and entrances to each shall be remote from each other.
(10)
Only those products associated with immediate
servicing, such as oil, water and antifreeze, may be stored outside
of the premises and then only in amounts required for a normal day's
operation.
(11)
No car wash shall be permitted as a prime or
major service, and no extensive auto body work, such as wrecked cars
or storage of same, shall be permitted.
(12)
Motor vehicle sales as a prime or major part
of the business shall not be permitted, and a maximum of only one
such vehicle at a time may be parked on the premises.
D. Animal hospitals and animal kennels. Animal hospitals
and animal kennels shall be located no closer than 200 feet to any
residential zone line. Such facilities shall be maintained in an enclosed
structure and shall be of soundproof construction and so operated
as to produce no objectionable odors at the zone lot boundary line.
Open kennels, exercise pens or runways shall not be located closer
than 400 feet to any property line and shall be subject to noise and
odor controls established for an enclosed building.
[Added 3-15-1995 by Ord. No. 95-5-1121]
E. 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.
[Added 6-16-2021 by Ord. No. 21-23-1573]