[Amended 11-18-1986 by Ord. No. 86-33-950; 1-1-1987 by Ord. No. 86-38-955]
A. 
Approval required for storage of certain vehicles with the Borough. Certain vehicles, boats, house trailers and other conveyances as hereinafter provided shall not be parked or stored within the Borough of Cresskill without the written authorization and approval of the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Cresskill, which approval shall be by resolution.
B. 
Approval required for storage of commercial vehicles in residential districts; exception. No owner or lessee of any premises in a residential district as set forth in the Cresskill Zoning Ordinance shall store a commercial vehicle on said premises without the written authorization and approval of the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Cresskill, which approval shall be by resolution, unless it is the only commercial vehicle stored thereat and has a body, box or platform adapted for carrying goods or materials with a registered gross vehicle weight of not more than 5,000 pounds.
C. 
Approval required for certain vehicles in residential districts. The following vehicles shall not be parked or stored in a residential district unless the aforementioned approval is obtained from the governing body:
(1) 
Commercial vehicles with registered gross vehicle weights of more than 5,000 pounds.
(2) 
Any other truck, trailer or vehicle with a registered gross vehicle weight of more than 5,000 pounds.
(3) 
Any unregistered vehicles.
(4) 
Motorboats, sailboats or other watercraft more than 20 feet in length.
(5) 
House trailers, housing units, mobile homes and self-propelled housing units.
(6) 
Collapsible housing units, whether assembled or disassembled.
(7) 
Animal conveyances, either trailer or self-propelled.
D. 
Permit required for temporary portable storage units on private property. A temporary portable storage unit (PODS) not exceeding eight feet in height, eight feet in width and 16 feet in length can be utilized on private property only for a limited purpose. The limited purpose is the temporary storage of furniture, clothing or other household belongings, coming from or to a structure on the property that is being renovated or sold. A permit from the Construction Official is required before locating a unit on private property. The fee is $150 per unit, payable upon issuance of a building permit, for a ninety-day time period when a building permit issues but $50 per unit for only 30 days if no building permit issues. After the initial thirty-day period and upon inspection by the Construction Official, an additional thirty-day permit extension, in extraordinary circumstances, may be granted for an additional fee of $25 per unit. The permit will require that the location of the unit be nonobstructive to traffic and be in an area not unnecessarily disruptive of the residential character of the neighborhood and not in the front yard area, except driveways.
[Added 5-16-2007 by Ord. No. 07-06-1334]
Off-street loading berths, open or enclosed, are permitted accessory to any use, except in all residence zones. However, no off-street loading berth shall be located in a front yard or within 10 feet of any side or rear lot line that abuts a residence zone. Such abutting loading berths and those across the street from a residence zone shall be screened by an opaque fence, wall or evergreen hedge on that part of the buffer area that is closest to the loading berth.
A. 
Schedule of requirements. Accessory off-street parking spaces, open or enclosed, shall be provided for any lot as specified in Article X, Zone Bulk and Parking Regulations, and as specified below for each use in any zone. Any land which is developed as a unit under single ownership and control shall be considered a single lot for the purpose of these regulations.
[Amended 12-18-1996 by Ord. No. 96-21-1156; 2-18-2015 by Ord. No. 15-02-1470]
Use
At Least 1 Parking Space for Each
(unless otherwise specified below)
Catering facilities
3 seats
Eating and drinking places
5 seats
Golf courses and country clubs
1.2 per members
Other types of private recreation
2.5 members or accommodations
Home occupation for professional office use other than a physician
3 spaces for such use
Hospitals, acute-care facilities, nursing homes
2 for every 3 beds
Congregate or assisted living
1 for every bed
Motor vehicle service stations
Employee
Places of worship, libraries and other public buildings
200 square feet of floor area, but not less than 1 space for each 5 seats where provided
Professional offices of physicians
5 spaces for each physician
Schools
12 students
Undertakers
2 employees, plus 15 spaces for each chapel
Uses not listed
As determined by the Planning Board to prevent the frequent parking on the street by persons visiting or connected with each use
B. 
Areas computed as parking spaces. Areas which may be computed as open or enclosed off-street parking spaces include any private garage, carport or other area available for parking, other than a street or a driveway. However, a driveway within a required front yard for a one-family residence may count as one parking space, other than a corner lot as provided in § 275-44.
C. 
Location and ownership of required accessory parking facilities. Required accessory parking spaces, open or enclosed, must be provided upon the same lot as the use for which they are required. The Planning Board may waive parking requirements when, in the opinion of the Board, the use is adequately served by municipal off-street parking facilities.
[Amended 9-19-2001 by Ord. No. 01-32-1240]
D. 
Size of spaces. Three hundred square feet shall be considered one parking space to provide room for standing area and aisles for maneuvering. Entrance and exit roadways shall not be computed as parking space except for a one-family residence as in Subsection B of this section.
E. 
Access. Unobstructed access to and from a street shall be provided. Such access shall consist of at least one ten-foot lane for parking areas with less than 20 spaces and at least two ten-foot lanes for parking areas with 20 spaces or more.
F. 
Drainage and surfacing. All open parking areas shall be properly drained, and all such areas shall be provided with a macadam surface, except for parking spaces accessory to a one-family residence. See also § 275-71C.
G. 
Joint facilities. Required parking spaces, open or enclosed, may be provided in spaces designed to serve jointly two or more establishments, whether or not located on the same lot, provided that the number of required spaces in such joint facilities shall be not less than the total required for all such establishments, except as provided for in Subsection H of this section.
H. 
Combined spaces. When any lot or adjacent lots contain two or more uses having different parking requirements, the parking requirements for each use shall apply to the extent of that use. Where it can be conclusively demonstrated that one or more such uses will be generating a demand for parking primarily during periods when the other use or uses is not or are not in operation, and provided that such spaces are within 300 feet of all uses, the Planning Board may reduce the total parking spaces required for that use with the least requirement.
I. 
Unlisted uses. For all other buildings or uses not specifically delineated in the schedules, the Planning Board shall determine the minimum required parking spaces and shall apply as a standard, wherever practicable, the requirements in the schedule applicable to the type of building or use most similar in nature and function to the proposed building or use not so listed.
A. 
Uses for which required. Accessory off-street loading berths shall be provided for any lot or any use specified herein. Any land which is developed as a unit under single ownership and control shall be considered a single lot for the purpose of such requirement.
(1) 
For a public library, museum, art gallery or similar quasi-public institution or governmental building, community center, hospital or sanitorium, nursing or convalescent home, institution for children or the aged or school with floor area of 10,000 square feet, one berth shall be required. For each additional 25,000 square feet or fraction thereof, one additional berth shall be required.
(2) 
For buildings with professional, governmental or business offices with floor area of 10,000 to 25,000 square feet, one berth shall be required. For each additional 25,000 square feet or fraction thereof up to 100,000 square feet, one additional berth shall be required. For each additional 50,000 square feet or fraction thereof, one additional berth shall be required.
(3) 
For buildings with retail sales and service establishments, one berth for 8,000 to 25,000 square feet of floor area shall be required, and one additional berth shall be required for each additional 25,000 square feet of floor area or fraction thereof so used.
(4) 
For undertakers, one berth for each three chapels shall be required. Such berths shall be at least 10 feet wide, 20 feet long and 7 1/2 feet high.
B. 
Size, location and access. Each required loading berth, except for undertakers, shall be at least 12 feet wide, 40 feet long and 14 feet high. Unobstructed access, at least 10 feet wide, to and from a street shall be provided. Such access may be combined with access to a parking lot. All permitted or required loading berths shall be on the same lot as the use to which they are accessory, except as provided in Subsection C of this section.
C. 
Joint facilities. Permitted or required loading berths, open or enclosed, may be provided in spaces designed to serve jointly two or more adjacent establishments, provided that the number of required berths in such joint facilities shall not be less than the total required for all such facilities.
A. 
Access near street corner. No entrance or exit for any accessory off-street parking area with over 10 parking spaces nor any loading berth shall be located within 50 feet of the intersection of any two street lines.
B. 
On lots divided by zone boundaries. When a lot is located partly in one district and partly in another, the regulations for the district requiring the greater number of parking spaces or loading berths shall apply to all of the lot. Parking spaces or loading berths on such a lot may be located without regard to district lines, provided that no such parking spaces or loading berths shall be located in any Residence Zone, unless the use to which they are accessory is permitted in such zone or by special permission of the Planning Board.
C. 
Supplementary parking regulations in Professional Office Zones, In P Zones wherever space is provided for the parking of 10 or more vehicles in the open, such spaces shall be individually identified by means of pavement markings and shall be screened by a substantial solid wall or fence or thick hedge five feet in height above the average finished grade of the parking area. No parking space shall be located in any front yard or within three feet of any lot line in side or rear yards. The parking of motor vehicles within 15 feet of any wall or portion thereof, which wall contains a window, other than a bathroom or kitchen window, with a sill height of less than eight feet above the level of the parking space is prohibited. No service of any kind shall be permitted to be extended to users of the lot, including automobile service, repair or fueling, and no gasoline, oil, grease or other supplies shall be stored or sold in any such lot or in any garage on such lot.
D. 
Supplementary regulations for parking spaces adjacent to Residence Zones.
(1) 
Wherever a parking lot abuts the side or rear lot line of a lot in a Residence Zone, the parking lot shall, besides conforming with Article XV, be screened from such adjoining lot by a substantial and sightly wall or fence or thick hedge, with a height of five feet.
(2) 
Wherever a parking lot for three or more cars in any nonresidential zone is located across the street from any Residence Zone, it shall be screened from the view of such zone by a thick hedge located along that part of the buffer area that is closest to the parking lot, such hedge to be interrupted only at points of ingress and egress. The open area between such hedge and the street shall be landscaped in harmony with the landscaping prevailing on neighboring properties fronting on the same street. A fence five feet high may be required while such hedge is growing to a suitable thickness.
(3) 
Identification and directional signs shall not exceed an area of three square feet each and shall be limited to such as are essential for the particular use.