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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
(3)
Both side yards: 40 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.