It is the purpose of the O-MR Office Mid-Rise
Zone District to provide for the development and redevelopment needs
of an area currently occupied by miscellaneous commercial and industrial
buildings in an accessible and fairly central location.
In the O-MR Office Mid-Rise 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, savings 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 seven stories or 70 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 I and B-1 Zones.
G. Public utilities and public services, including but
not limited to railway 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: 55%.
C. Maximum lot coverage by building, pavement and parking
structure: 75%.
D. Floor area ratio (FAR): 3.85.
F. Yard requirements. (Note: In the O-MR Office Mid-Rise
Zone, the yard requirements for front, side and rear yard offsets
may be reduced to one foot for utilities or off-street parking structures
that are constructed entirely below grade.)
(3)
Both side yards: 60 feet.
G. Off-street parking: §
206-37, Schedule III.
H. Minimum landscaped area: 20%.
I. Height of principal structure:
(1)
Stories: seven. (Note: Parking levels used exclusively
for the temporary 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 floor area ratio, provided that the number of floors
thus qualifying does not exceed four floors.)
J. Accessory buildings: four stories or 40 feet.
In the O-MR Office Mid-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 proposed by the Planning Board.
In order to provide for much needed pervious
areas for drainage purposes in the O-MR Office Mid-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-MR Office Mid-Rise Zone
District abuts a lot in any residential district, there shall be provided
along such lot lines on the business lot a planted buffer strip at
least 20 wide abutting the residential district. Said buffer 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-MR Office Mid-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 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 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.