Township of Saddle Brook, NJ Article VB O-LR Office Low-Rise Zone District

[Added 10-6-1994 by Ord. No. 1086]

§ 206-9.7 Objectives.

It is the purpose of the O-LR Office Low-Rise Zone District to provide for the development and redevelopment needs of an area currently occupied by commercial and industrial buildings in an accessible and fairly central location.

§ 206-9.8 Permitted uses.

In the O-LR Office Low-Rise Zone District, no building or premises shall be used and no building or part of a building shall be erected, constructed or altered which shall be arranged, intended or designed to be used for any purpose other than the following uses:

A. Professional, business and governmental offices.

B. Medical and dental offices and clinics.

C. Banks, saving and loan institutions, mortgage company offices, brokerage houses and other investment-related offices.

D. Multistory garage structures.

§ 206-9.9 Conditionally permitted uses.

Conditionally permitted uses shall be as follows:

A. Private vocational/technical schools or studios for the instruction of nursing, secretarial skills, arts, dancing, music, languages or photography.

B. Hotels including restaurants, auditoriums, conference centers, meeting halls or club rooms, when operated in conjunction with a hotel.

§ 206-9.10 Permitted accessory uses.

Permitted accessory uses shall be as follows:

A. Accessory uses and structures customarily incidental to the principal permitted use.

B. Signs utilized in conjunction with the principal use subject to the provisions of §§ 206-59 through 206-73.

C. Parking decks and garages to house motor vehicles and delivery trucks or other commercial vehicles when accessory to a permitted nonresidential use.

§ 206-9.11 Prohibited uses.

All uses listed in Article VI, §§ 206-10 through 206-24, and uses prohibited under Chapter 147, Article I, shall be prohibited. In addition, the following uses shall be specifically prohibited:

A. Structures exceeding three stories or 35 feet in height.

B. Residential uses.

C. Fabrication, assembly or manufacturing operations.

D. Retail, wholesaling, warehousing and/or other industrial uses.

E. Garbage transfer stations.

F. All uses prohibited in the I and B-2 Zones.

G. Public utilities and public services, including but not limited to railway stations or bus terminals, telecommunication centers and delivery/cargo transfer stations.

§ 206-9.12 Area and yard requirements for permitted uses.

Area and yard requirements for permitted uses shall be as follows:

A. Minimum area: 20,000 square feet.

B. Maximum lot coverage by building: 40%.

C. Maximum lot coverage by building pavement and parking structure: 60%.

D. Floor area ratio (FAR): 1.20.

E. Width: 100 feet.

F. Yard requirements. (Note: In the O-LR Office Low-Rise Zone, the yard requirements for front, side and rear offsets may be reduced to one foot for utilities or off-street parking structures that are constructed entirely below grade.)

(1) Front yard: 30 feet.

(2) One side yard: 20 feet.

(3) Both side yards: 40 feet.

(4) Corner lot: 25 feet.

(5) Rear yard: 25 feet.

G. Off-street parking: § 206-37, Schedule III.

H. Minimum landscaped area: 20%.

I. Maximum structure height (stories): three. (Note: Parking levels used exclusively for the parking of motor vehicles shall not be counted as part of the number of stories permitted, nor shall such levels or part of levels which are used solely for off-street parking be counted as part of the FAR, provided that the number of floors thus qualifying does not exceed three floors.)

J. Maximum structure height: 35 feet.

§ 206-9.13 Area and yard requirements for conditionally permitted uses.

Area and yard requirements for conditionally permitted uses shall be as follows:

A. Hotels.

(1) Maximum lot coverage building and pavement and parking structure: 60%.

(2) Maximum lot coverage by building: 35%.

(3) Minimum landscaped area: 30%.

B. Off-street parking requirements for all conditionally permitted uses shall be provided on site.

C. All private educational and technical schools or studios shall provide at least one parking space for each teacher, employee or student.

§ 206-9.14 Off-street loading requirements.

A. For any building erected hereafter in the O-LR Office Low-Rise Zone, off-street loading spaces shall be provided in such amount and manner that all loading and unloading operations will be conducted entirely within the boundaries of the lot concerned and no vehicle or conveyance shall in any manner use public streets, sidewalks or rights-of-way for loading or unloading operations, other than for ingress and egress to the lot.

B. Every structure shall provide, at the side or rear of the structure, at least the minimum number of off-street loading spaces as required in §§  206-36 through 206-38. There shall be no loading or unloading from the street in the O-LR Office Low-Rise Zone District, and loading and unloading from Route 46 shall be prohibited.

§ 206-9.15 Screening of parking and loading areas.

In the O-LR Office Low-Rise Zone, all parking areas and loading and unloading areas in conjunction with an office or business use shall be screened from adjacent residential districts and parks by a hedge, fence or wall at least six feet in height or other protective device as approved by the Planning Board.

§ 206-9.16 Signs.

A. All signs in the O-LR Office Low-Rise Zone District shall be in full compliance with the requirements of §§  206-59 through 206-73. This section and all other sign ordinances of the Township of Saddle Brook shall be read together, and these requirements shall be construed in the most restrictive manner.

B. Billboards or off-site advertising signs shall be prohibited in the O-LR Office Low-Rise Zone. For purposes of this Article, a "billboard" shall be defined as a commercial advertising sign or structure which advertises a business, product or service not on or offered upon the premises on which subject sign is located.

C. No site plan shall be approved where a preexistent billboard is to remain after redevelopment.

§ 206-9.17 Landscaped open space area.

In order to provide for much needed pervious areas for drainage purposes in the O-LR Office Low-Rise Zone District, a minimum of 20% of total lot areas shall be maintained in lawns, gardens or buffer strips, subject to site plan approval.

§ 206-9.18 Planted buffer strips.

Where a lot in an O-LR Office Low-Rise Zone District abuts a lot in any residential district, there shall be provided along such lot lines on such business lot a planted buffer strip at least 20 feet wide abutting the residential district which shall not be utilized for roadway or parking and shall be landscaped and planted so as to create an effective evergreen visual screen.

§ 206-9.19 Sight rights; visibility at intersections.

On a corner lot in any O-LR Office Low-Rise Zone District, nothing shall be erected, placed, planted or allowed to grow in such a manner as to materially impede vision between a height of two and one-half (2 1/2) feet and 10 feet above the center-line grades of the intersecting streets in the area bounded by the street lines of such corner lots and a line joining points along said line 30 feet from the point of intersection, nor shall a principal structure be located less than 20 feet from the side street line. All sight rights, where applicable, shall be subject to County of Bergen and New Jersey Department of Transportation approvals.

§ 206-9.20 Site plan approval.

Site development plan approval, in accordance with Chapter 163, Site Plan Review, Article III, §  163-12 et seq., shall be required prior to the issuance of building permits for the erection of all permitted and conditionally permitted uses and structures. Such approval shall also be required prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy for a change of use of a permitted or conditionally permitted use.