[Amended 3-13-2024 by Ord. No. 2024-01]
Words and phrases shall be presumed to have
their ordinary meaning, unless specifically defined or interpreted
differently within this section or are defined in N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1
et seq. Disputes concerning the definition or interpretation of a
word shall be resolved by the Land Development Board.
For the purpose of this chapter, certain grammatical phrases and words shall assume a different interpretation than is assumed in common usage, or as set forth in Chapter 1 of this Code, as follows:
A.
The word “building” includes “structure”
and any part thereof, and vice versa.
B.
The phrases “used for,” “arranged
for,” “designed for,” “intended for,”
“maintained for” or “occupied for” include
all of the others.
C.
The word “includes,” or “including,”
shall not limit the example, but is intended to extend.
[Amended by Ord. No. 96-20]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
An accessory apartment is a self-contained residential dwelling
unit with a kitchen, sanitary facilities, sleeping quarters and a
private entrance which is created to be occupied by a low- or moderate-income
household. The accessory apartment may be created within an existing
dwelling unit, may be created within an existing structure on the
lot or be an addition to an existing home or accessory building as
permitted within a residential zoning district.
[Added 2-21-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-4;
amended 11-10-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-21]
A nonagricultural building or structure which is customarily
associated with and is subordinate and incidental to the principal
building which is located on the same lot, including, but not limited
to, garages, carports, decks, pet shelters, sheds, retaining walls,
swimming pools and gazebos.
[Added 11-13-2001 by Ord. No. 2001-7]
An agricultural building or structure which is customarily
associated with and is subordinate and incidental to the principal
building which is located on the same lot, including but not limited
to barns, greenhouses, chicken coops, temporary and seasonal farm
stands, sheds, silos and the like.
[Added 11-10-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-08]
A use customarily carried on within a dwelling by the inhabitants
thereof, which use is incidental and subordinate to the residential
use. Accessory residential uses shall not be interpreted to include
the following: barber and beauty shops, barber and beauty schools,
tea rooms, convalescent homes, stables, kennels or repair of internal
combustion engines. Accessory residential uses shall be limited as
follows:
Professional office of one physician, dentist,
lawyer, architect, engineer, musician, artist, teacher, accountant,
registered nurse or other similar professional person in a residential
building, subject to the following special requirements in addition
to all other applicable requirements of this chapter for the residential
district in which such uses are located.
Customary home occupations such as millinery
and dressmaking subject to the following special requirements.
A workshop other than a public garage or automobile
repair shop.
Professional, customary home occupations and
workshops shall be subject to the following standards:
Three off-street parking spaces in addition
to those otherwise required in this chapter.
No more than two persons shall be employed to
provide secretarial, clerical, technical or similar assistance.
The area used for the above uses shall occupy
no more than 25% of the total floor area.
No storage of materials or products outside
the dwelling unit shall be permitted unless completely housed.
The use shall be clearly incidental to the residential
use of the dwelling unit and shall not change the essential residential
character of the dwelling.
No external alterations inconsistent with the
residential use of the dwelling unit shall be permitted.
No display of products shall be visible from
outside the building.
Business signs consistent with the sign regulations.
Such business shall be operated by the residential
owner or a member of the family provided they are occupants of the
dwelling.
A use conducted on the same lot as a principal use to which
it is related and located either within the same structure or in an
accessory structure or as an accessory use of land, except that off-street
parking need not be located on the same lot. It is a use which is
clearly incidental to and customarily found in connection with a principal
use.
Any business function in which there is not regular contact
with the general public and no materials, products, goods or prepared
foods are stored except for office consumption.
See “sign” and “billboard.”
A structure located on land that has satisfied the eligibility
criteria for differential property taxation pursuant to the Farmland
Assessment Act, N.J.S.A. 54:4-23.1 et seq., which is designed, constructed
and used to house farm implements and/or livestock or to grow, store
and/or market the agricultural output of the farm, including but not
limited to barns, greenhouses, chicken coops, farm stands, sheds and
silos.
[Added 11-10-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-08]
Agricultural products and value-added items from those agricultural
products.
[Added 11-10-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-08]
Horticultural, viticultural, floricultural, forestry, dairy,
livestock, fur-bearing-animal, poultry, bee and farm products.
[Added 11-10-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-08]
A minor way, which may or may not be legally dedicated, and
is used primarily for vehicular service access to the rear or side
of properties abutting on a street.
Alterations include, but are not limited to, the following:
All incidental changes or replacement in the
nonstructural parts of a building or other structure.
Minor changes or replacement in the structural
parts of a building or other structure, limited to the following examples
and others of similar character or extent:
Alteration of interior partitions to improve
livability in nonconforming residential buildings, provided no additional
dwelling units are created thereby.
Alteration of interior partitions in all other
types of building or other structures.
Making windows or doors in exterior walls.
Strengthening the load-bearing capacity in not
more than 10% of the total floor area to permit the accommodation
of a specialized unit of machinery or equipment.
Antennas which are used for the transmission and reception
of wave frequencies for the purposes of telephone, radio, paging and/or
television communication and which are permitted as conditional uses
in accordance with the specific zoning conditions and standards for
their location and operation included within this chapter.
See “dwelling, multiple.”
A detached building containing three or more separate attached
dwelling units with common or separate entranceways, yard areas and
common facilities, where one or more units is physically on top of
other units or adjoined side by side. Each apartment house or group
of apartment houses shall be erected and maintained in single and
separate ownership or by a condominium as provided for from time to
time by state law.
See "lot coverage."
[1]A structure used for the purpose of cleaning or reconditioning
the exterior and interior surfaces of automotive vehicles, but not
including an incidental one-bay washing facility in a gasoline service
station where washing facilities are purely incidental to the operation
of such service station. A self-operated vehicular laundering facility
not requiring attendants or employees, regardless of capacity, is
also considered to be an automobile laundry.
A building used for the sale of, hire of or remuneration
from automotive and other vehicles and equipment. This shall be interpreted
to include auto accessory sales rooms but not the sale of junked vehicles
and equipment.
An open area, other than a public or private street or way,
used for the display of sale of new and used vehicles, trailers, trucks
or farm equipment and where no repair work is done except that which
is minor and incidental, not including body and fender work.
Any premises used for the repair or servicing of vehicles,
but not including automotive wrecking.
The number of dwelling units per acre computed by dividing
the number of dwelling units which the applicant proposes to construct
by the number of acres in the development excluding acreage devoted
to commercial use.
A sign other than one indicating a business conducted on
the premises, and a sign upon which advertising matter of any character
is printed, posted or lettered by any means and is designed for such
purposes. A billboard may be either freestanding or attached to a
surface of a building or other structure.
A tract of land that may be bounded by:
The area of a horizontal section of building.
See “height of building.”
The horizontal measurement of any continuous building wall.
An established line within a property defining the minimum
required distance between the face of any structure to be erected
and the adjacent right-of-way street line. This face, as measured
to the major portion of the structure, includes sun parlors, foyers,
bay windows, porches, projections, eaves, dormers, gutters, steps
and any other solid projection and solid entrances. When landscape
or other buffers are required by this chapter or any other Township
ordinance or regulation, the building setback line is to be measured
from the buffer line and not the street right-of-way line.
The term used to describe the size of buildings or other
structures and their relationship to each other, to open areas such
as yards and to lot lines, and includes the size, height and floor
area of building or other structure; and all open areas in yard space
relating to buildings and other structures.
See “basement.”
See “antennas, cellular.”
Land used or intended to be used for the burial of the deceased,
including columbariums, crematories, mausoleums and mortuaries when
operated in conjunction with the cemetery and within the boundaries.
See “street center line.”
A statement signed by the construction official, setting
forth that a building or structure or swimming pool does comply with
this chapter or that a building, structure or parcel of land may lawfully
be used for specified uses, or both.
The bed and banks of streams and waterways in the Township
which convey the normal flow of the stream that occurs most of the
time.
A building used for public worship by a congregation, excluding
buildings used exclusively for residential, education, burial, recreational
or other uses not normally associated with worship.
Buildings designed or intended for public worship or religious
education.
[Added 11-13-2001 by Ord. No. 2001-7]
An organization operated for social or fraternal purposes.
[2][Added 11-10-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-08]
A farm management unit of no fewer than five acres, producing
agricultural or horticultural products worth $2,500 or more annually,
and satisfying the eligibility criteria for differential property
taxation pursuant to the Farmland Assessment Act, N.J.S.A. 54:4-23.1
et seq.; or
A farm management unit of fewer than five acres, producing agricultural
or horticultural products worth $50,000 or more annually, and otherwise
satisfying the eligibility criteria for differential property taxation
pursuant to the Farmland Assessment Act, N.J.S.A. 54:4-23.1 et seq.
See “lot, corner.”
A club which may include a golf course containing not less
than 60 acres for each nine holes of golf and/or associated recreational
facilities.
See “lot coverage.”
Lands with slopes having a gradient of greater than 15%,
seasonal high water table of zero to twofeet as delineated by the
Burlington County Soil Survey, wetlands and their associated transition
areas as determined and/or verified by the New Jersey Department of
Environmental Protection, floodplains and streams, including C-1 Category
Streams, with their associated buffers as mapped by the NJ Department
of Environmental Protection.
[Added 3-8-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-5]
A street with access closed at one end and with a vehicular
turnaround at the closed end.
The elevation of the top of the curb or the established curb
grade opposite the center of the building or portion thereof under
consideration. Where the building does not adjoin the street the average
elevation of the proposed grade line of the ground immediately adjacent
to the buildings as shown on the building plans shall be considered
as the curb level.
The line of the curb as presently existing or as may hereafter
be established by the Township Council.
The number of dwelling units permitted in a development expressed
as units per acre.[3]
One which has yard areas on all sides and does not share
a common wall with an adjacent residence.
Zoning district established by this chapter.
The vehicular entrance and exit for a land use.
A dwelling unit consists of one or more rooms for living
purposes, together with separate cooking and sanitary facilities,
and is accessible from the outdoors either directly or through an
entrance hall shared with other dwelling units, and is used or intended
to be used by one or more persons living together and maintaining
a common household.
SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED DWELLING- A building designed for and occupied exclusively as residence for only one family and having no party wall in common with an adjacent building.
A building designed for and occupied exclusively
as a residence for two families, with one family living wholly or
partly over the other, and having no party wall in common with an
adjacent dwelling. The above will be known as a duplex.
A building designed for and occupied exclusively
as a residence for only one family; applied to one of two houses which
are detached from other buildings and joined together by a single
party wall. The above will be known as a twin or two-family detached
dwelling.
SEMIDETACHED TWO-FAMILY HOUSE- A structure containing separate residences for two independent households connected only by a single party wall and where each house shall sit on a separate subdividable lot.
MULTIPLE DWELLING- A building designed for three or more dwelling units.
TOWNHOUSE- A building that has not less than three or more than eight one-family dwelling units erected in a row as a single building on adjoining lots, each being separate from the adjoining unit or units by an approved masonry, party or partition wall or walls, thus creating distinct and noncommunicating dwelling units, such units intended for separate ownership or rental. This definition shall also include such terms as “rowhouse,” “patio house,” “court dwelling,” “maisonette,” etc.
A right-of-way granted, but not dedicated, for limited use
of private land for a public or quasi-public purpose, and within which
the owner of the property shall not erect any permanent structures.
The greatest number of persons to be employed in the building
in question during any season of the year, and any time of the day
or night.
An addition to the floor area of an existing building, an
increase in size or addition to another structure or an increase in
that portion of a tract of land occupied by an existing use.
One or more persons occupying a dwelling unit as a single
nonprofit housekeeping unit, who are living together as a bona fide,
stable and committed living unit, being a traditional family unit
or the functional equivalent thereof, exhibiting the generic character
of a traditional family.
[Amended 7-14-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-13]
A plot or parcel of land having an area of not less than
six acres annually used for agricultural purposes.
Any building needed for storing agricultural equipment or
farm produce, housing livestock or poultry or processing agricultural
products. The term “farm building” shall not include a
dwelling.
[4]A parcel or parcels of land, whether contiguous or noncontiguous,
together with agricultural or horticultural buildings, structures
and facilities, producing agricultural or horticultural products,
and operated as a single enterprise.
[Added 11-10-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-08]
A freestanding permanent structure, no larger than 3,000
square feet not including outdoor marketing or display areas, for
the wholesale or retail marketing of the agricultural output of a
commercial farm. In addition, to qualify as a farm market, at least
51% of annual gross receipts must be generated from the sale of the
agricultural output of the commercial farm operating the farm market.
[Added 11-10-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-08]
A freestanding temporary structure, no larger than 600 square
feet not including outdoor marketing or display areas, operated on
a seasonal basis on a commercial farm for the retail sale of the agricultural
output of that commercial farm. In addition, to qualify as a farm
stand, at least 51% of annual gross receipts must be generated from
the sale of the agricultural output of the commercial farm operating
the farm stand.
[Added 11-10-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-08]
A lot with significantly reduced frontage on a public street,
a relatively long access strip and an enlarged, buildable area, generally
located at the rear of the lot at the end of the access strip. Lots
fitting this description with access easements in lieu of road frontage
also qualify as flag lots.
[Added 6-11-2003 by Ord. No. 2003-10]
The sum of the area of all floors of buildings or structures
compared to the total area of the site. The gross floor area as defined
in this section shall be used in the calculation of the floor area
ratio.
[Added 3-8-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-5]
See “yard, front.”
See “yard line, front.”
Any structure having four sides and a roof and in at least
one of the sides of which is an aperture or opening through which
a vehicle may enter and leave and that may be closed by means of a
door or doors, overhead or otherwise, and being intended for the storing
or sheltering of vehicles.
A garage in which no business, service or industry is carried
on and which is designed to contain not more than four motor vehicles
nor house trucks consistent with pound weight class provisions established
in the A-10 and Hamlet Zoning Districts.
[Amended 11-8-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-07]
Any garage not included within the definition of a private
garage.
A group of multifamily dwellings, architecturally designed
with some of the units placed on top of other units, up to three stories
in height, designed for rental or sale of the individual units, having
common open spaces, and designed in accordance with the special requirements
for such dwellings as set forth in this chapter.
An area of land, together with any structure thereon used
for the retail of motor fuel and lubricants and incidental services,
such as lubrication and hand washing of motor vehicles, or the sale,
installation or minor repair of tires, batteries or other automobile
accessories.
A comprehensive plan for the development of a planned development
pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-45.2.
[Added 3-5-2003 by Ord. No. 2003-3]
An open area and its necessary buildings, used for the playing
of golf, not including a driving range, miniature course, or eating
facilities in a separate building operated for additional profit.
A finished product.
The mean elevation of the finished grade where such grade
abuts a building.
A septic system devoted to treating effluent from residential
clothes washers only and designed in accord with N.J.A.C. 7:9A-7.5.
[Added 3-8-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-5]
The total floor area designed for tenant occupancy and exclusive
use, including basements, mezzanines and upper floors, if any, expressed
in square feet measured from center lines of joint partitions and
exteriors of outside walls.
A story under a gabled, hipped or gambrel roof, the wall
plates of which on at least two opposite exterior walls are not more
than two feet nor less than one foot above the finished floor of such
story.
The vertical distance measured from the average elevation
of the proposed finished grades at the front of the building to the
highest point of the roof for flat roofs; to the deck line of mansard
roofs, and to the main height between eaves and ridge for gable, hip
and gambrel roofs; provided that chimneys, spires, towers, mechanical
penthouses, tanks and similar projections of the buildings not intended
for the human occupancy shall not be included in calculating the height.
If there are two or more separate roofs on a single building, the
height of such building shall be calculated from the highest roof.
The vertical distance measured from ground level to the highest
point on the sign, or its supporting structure.
The distance between any vehicular entrance or exit to a
street and the next adjoining vehicular entrance or exit on the same
street.
A business conducted in or from a single-family, nonfarm,
detached dwelling and/or a permitted accessory building or structure,
which is clearly subordinate and ancillary to the principal single-family
residential use of the property and which business meets the requirements
for home occupations as set forth for each district in which they
are permitted.
[Added 11-13-2001 by Ord. No. 2001-7; amended 7-14-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-13]
The use of a portion of a single-family detached dwelling
as an office area for use only by a member or members of the household
residing on the premises and subject to the requirements for home
offices as set forth for each district in which they are permitted.
[Added 11-13-2001 by Ord. No. 2001-7; amended 7-14-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-13]
A public institution providing public health services primarily
for inpatient medical or surgical care of the sick or injured and
including related facilities such as laboratories, outpatient departments,
training facilities, central service facilities and staff offices
which are an integral part of the facility.
A structure designed or converted for the care and treatment
of sick or wounded domestic animals, provided each hospital is on
one acre or more of land.
A building having six or more rental rooms, without individual
cooking facilities, for transient guests.
That portion of a lot excluding areas set aside or used for
building, parking, loading and street. Such area to be devoted to
recreational uses, and/or play areas with appropriate recreational
equipment, park furniture and landscape plantings.
Any man-made, immovable item which becomes part of, placed
upon or is affixed to real estate.
A building and land use partially for the human habitation
of more than two unrelated persons who occupy the facility for a common
purpose other than housekeeping.
A duly organized school giving instruction in business or
vocational trade subjects.
Any worn-out, cast-off or discarded article, part of an article
or material which is ready for destruction or has been collected or
stored for salvage or conversion to some use.
The use of any area, whether inside or outside a building,
for the storage, keeping or abandonment of junk, including but not
limited to, for the purpose of this chapter, the storage, keeping
or abandonment of automobiles and motor vehicles and all related activities,
and including, but not limited to, activities commonly known as “junkyards,”
“salvage yards,” “automobile graveyards,”
“automobile junkyards,” “automobile assembly yards,”
“automobile wrecking yards” and “material waste
handling”; and including, but not limited to, the conducting
and operating of the business of selling, buying, storing or trading
in used or discarded materials, lumber, glass, paper, cordage or any
used or disabled fixtures, vehicles or equipment of any kind.
The keeping of more than three small animals that are more
than six months old for breeding, sale or boarding. Such commercial
kennels shall be permitted only in the CC Community Commercial District
on lots of not less than one acre.[5]
The keeping of small animals for breeding and show purposes.
Such uses shall be allowed only in the AR-3 Zone and in areas used
for farming. However, hobby kennels shall not be included as part
of normal farm operations. The minimum lot size for hobby kennels
shall be one acre. If any home contains more than five cats and dogs
in any combination, it shall be classified as a commercial kennel
and shall be located only in the permitted district.[6]
The legal or beneficial owner or owners of land, including
the holder of an option or contract to purchase (whether or not such
option or contract is subject to any condition), a lessee if (s)he
is authorized under the lease to exercise the rights of the landowner
or other persons having a proprietary interest in land shall be deemed
to be a landowner for the purpose of this chapter.
A completely planted visual barrier that complies with all of the standards and requirements set forth in Chapter 164, Site Plan Review.
Paved accommodation off the street for loading of trucks,
in the form of one or more truck berths located either within a building
or on the same lot. The area of each berth shall be not less than
600 square feet, and it shall have a minimum clear height, including
access to it from the street, of 14 feet.
A lot abutting upon two or more streets at their intersection.
The owner, when first applying for a building permit, shall designate
which of the two streets is to be the principal frontage for the purpose
of establishing the front, rear and side yard requirements of the
lot.
The aggregate of the maximum horizontal cross-section areas
of all buildings on a lot, including sun parlors, foyers, porches,
breezeways, projecting eaves, gutters, awnings steps, patios, decks,
driveways, parking lots, sidewalks, and any other type of man-made
impervious ground cover.
The mean horizontal distance between the front or street
lot line and the rear lot line.
A lot, the side lines of which do not abut a street.
The line separating the lot from the street line.
Any lot line, except a front lot line, which is parallel
to, or within 45° of being parallel to, and does not intersect
any street line. In the case of a corner lot, the owner or developer
may show a different designation. See also “corner lot.”
Any lot line which is not a front lot line or a rear lot
line. In the case of a corner lot, the owner or developer may make
a different designation. See also “corner lot.”
An interior lot having frontage on two streets or one street
and an alley, but not satisfying the criteria of a corner lot.
The straight line horizontal distance between side lot lines
at setback points on each side lot line measured from the street line
at the minimum required building setback line.
[Added 3-5-2003 by Ord. No. 2003-3]
Any repair or maintenance activity other than fluid changes
or tire changes or any repair with a commercial value of greater than
$150.
[Added 11-8-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-07]
See “mobile home.”
A combination sign board and protective covering from the
elements supported solely by the building to which it is attached.
A building constructed as a professional building for the
offices of three or more medical practitioners.
Occupancy of a building or land for more than one use.
A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which
is eight body feet or more in width and is 32 or more body feet in
length and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be
used with or without a permanent foundation when connected to required
utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and
electrical systems contained therein. Such units are prohibited in
all districts in the Township.
A factory-fabricated transportable building designed to be
used by itself or to be incorporated with similar units at a building
site into a modular structure. The term is intended to apply to major
assemblies and does not include prefabricated panels, trusses, plumbing
trees, and other prefabricated subelements which are to be incorporated
into a structure at the site. The unit shall be fixed to a permanent
foundation wherein such foundation and unit meets the requirements
of the Uniform Construction Code.
A building, or a group of buildings, having units containing
sleeping accommodations which are available for a temporary, rental
occupancy by transients and providing sufficient off-street parking
facilities adjacent or convenient thereto. A tourist home containing
provisions or facilities for accommodation of more than two transient
occupants not normally quartered on the premises shall be considered
as a motel-hotel facility under the provisions of this chapter.
See “dwelling, multiple.”
A lot, the area, dimension or location of which was lawful
prior to the adoption, revision or amendment of a zoning ordinance,
but fails to conform to the requirements of the zoning district in
which it is located by reason of such adoption, revision or amendment.
[Added 7-14-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-13]
A structure, the size, dimension or location of which was
lawful prior to the adoption, revision or amendment of a zoning ordinance,
but which fails to conform to the requirements of the zoning district
in which it is located by reasons of such adoption, revision or amendment.
[Added 7-14-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-13]
A use or activity which was lawful prior to the adoption,
revision or amendment of a zoning ordinance, but which fails to conform
to the requirements of the zoning district in which it is located
by reasons of such adoption, revision or amendment.
[Added 7-14-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-13]
A facility providing nursing services on a continuing basis
and which admits the majority of the occupants upon advice of physicians
as ill or infirm persons requiring nursing services and provides for
physician’s services or supervision and maintains medical records,
including also provisions for other similar medical or nursing services.
Care for the acutely ill, or surgical or obstetrical services, shall
not be considered similar services under this definition, nor shall
hospitals be construed to be included in this definition.
A parking area for the parking of passenger vehicles of the
occupants, employees, visitors and patrons of specified types of building.
A site where space inside or outside a building is rented
to vendors on a short-term basis for the sale of merchandise. The
principal sales shall include new or used household goods, personal
effects, tools, artwork, small household appliances and similar merchandise,
objects or equipment in small quantities. The term shall include personal
service, food and auction establishments.
[Added 10-2-2002 by Ord. No. 2002-5]
An open, off-street land area, including parking spaces and
access and egress drives or aisles, used or required by this chapter
for parking of automobiles or other vehicles exclusively, and in which
no gasoline or automobile accessories are sold and no other business
is conducted.
Accommodation for the parking of a motor vehicle on a lot
provided for restricted use in connection with a particular business
or private enterprise, or as an adjunct to a housing development or
private residence, whether operated for gain or not, whether cooperatively
established and operated or not. Such parking spaces may consist of
parking lots, private garages or other structures and accessories.
The net area of such parking berth, exclusive of access or maneuvering
area, shall be not less than 171 square feet measuring nine feet by
19 feet and must be a paved surface.
A portion of land paved with a weatherproof surface for parking
space, driveways or streets. In the computation of such, that area
covered by buildings shall be excluded.
A light-duty truck having an enclosed cab and an open cargo
area with low sides and tailgate. It shall have no more than two axles.
[Added 11-8-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-07]
A roofed, open structure projecting from the front, side
or rear wall of a building having no enclosed features of glass, wood
or other material more than 30 inches above the floor thereof, except
the necessary columns to support the roof.
A school which provides daytime care and instruction of two
or more children from two to six years of age inclusive, and operates
on a regular or seasonal basis.
A lot or plot with or without buildings or other improvements
located thereon.
See “yard, rear.”
See “yard line, rear.”
A private or public space including essential buildings and
structures used for play and recreational space for individuals.
A facility and all associated equipment that engages in the
production of electric energy from solar technologies, photovoltaic
technologies, or wind energy. Biomass or other such facilities are
not renewable energy facilities as defined by this section and not
considered permitted principal, conditional or accessory uses.
[Added 11-10-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-07]
A residential flat is a self-contained residential dwelling
unit with a kitchen, sanitary facilities, sleeping quarters and a
private entrance which is created to be occupied by a low- or moderate-income
household. The residential flat may be created within the 1.5 stories
above permitted commercial or office uses located on the first floor.
[Added 2-21-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-4;
amended 11-10-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-21]
A public eating facility where patrons are first seated at
tables, booths or counters, then order food from waiters or waitresses,
which is then served to them at their tables booths or counters by
such waiters or waitresses. The term “restaurant” does
not include drive-in, drive-through or fast-food restaurants as defined
herein. Except that a restaurant may have a take-out window as an
auxiliary service of the overall operation.
[Amended 11-13-2001 by Ord. No. 2001-7]
An establishment where patrons are served soft drinks, ice
cream and other food products for consumption outside the confines
of the principal building or in automobiles parked on the premises,
regardless of whether or not, in addition thereto, seats or other
accommodations are provided for the patrons.
[Added 11-13-2001 by Ord. No. 2001-7]
A restaurant, including drive-in and drive-through restaurants,
which may or may not have tables, which is essentially designed to
dispense quick, ready-made food of limited variety and at which the
patron obtains food directly from the dispensing counter or take-out
window for consumption on or off the premises.
[Added 11-13-2001 by Ord. No. 2001-7]
Any sales of goods and services to the general public as
distinguished from wholesale sales.
The amendment or other alteration to any development regulation
in existence within the Township through the legislative act of the
Township Council by ordinance, resolution or motion, as those terms
are defined by N.J.S.A. 40:49-1, and which are proposed by the Township
Council, other agencies or boards of the Township, residents of the
Township or other persons or entities having an interest in the development
of land within the Township, and which is proposed or initiated for
consideration during the time periods between the date reports are
issued by the Land Development Board in its periodic reexamination
of the Master Plan, as required by N.J.S.A. 40:55D-89. This term shall
not include any amendment or other alteration to any development regulation
which is recommended in the periodic report required by N.J.S.A. 40:55D-89,
the Council finding that those amendments or alteration would be developed
from a comprehensive review of the Master Plan and therefore should
be free from the procedures set forth for rezoning set forth in this
chapter.
[Amended 3-13-2024 by Ord. No. 2024-01]
The application for rezoning.
See “street line.”
The cross-sectional dimension of the circle swept by the
rotating blades of a wind-powered energy generator.
[Added 11-10-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-07]
Lands designated on the Zoning Map for establishing development
potential to transfer to Planned Development Overlay Districts.
[Added 3-8-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-5]
A duly organized school, other than a public school, giving
regular instruction in subjects ordinarily taught in the public schools,
and not under the jurisdiction of the school district.
A geographical area or tract which is part of a proposed
development, which will be developed according to a timetable for
development over a period of years, included by the applicant in the
development plan.
See “dwelling, semidetached two-family house.”
See “building setback line.”
An accessory structure no larger than 200 square feet and
15 feet in height designed and used for the storage of the property
owner’s lawn and garden tools, equipment, furnishings and the
like.
[Added 11-13-2001 by Ord. No. 2001-7]
See “yard, side.”
See “yard line, side.”
Any conspicuous notice designed to identify, inform, guide
or advertise, and shall include every sign, billboard, ground sign,
roof sign, illuminated sign, wall sign, projecting sign, temporary
sign, pylon or pole sign, marquee and every awning, canopy or street
clock which includes any announcement, declaration, demonstration,
display illustration or insignia used to identify or promote the interests
of any person, whether the same is placed indoors or out of doors,
in such a manner that it is in view of the general public.
A sign which offers services or goods produced or available
somewhere other than on the lot on which the sign is located. The
words “advertising sign” include the word “billboard.”
Neither directional, warning nor other signs posted by officials in
the course of their public duties shall be construed as advertising
signs.
A sign which offers services or goods available on the lot
on which the sign is located.
A sign which offers premises for sale, rent or development,
or advertises the services of professionals or building trades during
construction or alteration of the premises upon which the sign is
located.
A wind energy system, as defined in this section, that is
used to generate electricity, has a nameplate capacity of 100 kilowatts
or less, and is as high as necessary to capture the wind energy resource
at a maximum of 150 feet in height.
[Added 11-10-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-07]
A facility and all associated equipment that engages in the
production of electric energy from solar or photovoltaic technologies.
[Added 11-10-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-07]
Includes a street, avenue, boulevard, road, highway, freeway,
parkway, lane, alley, viaduct and any other ways used or intended
to be used by vehicular traffic or pedestrians, whether public or
private.
A line, usually at an equal distance from both street lines,
curblines or right-of-way lines.
The lines upon which the width of the abutting street is
established; i.e., the property line and not the curbline.
Any change in the supporting members of a building, such
as bearing walls or partitions, columns, beams, or girders, or any
substantial change in the roof or in the exterior walls.
Any man-made object having an ascertainable stationary location
on or in land or water, whether or not affixed to the land.
A club, maintaining and operating a swimming pool and apparatus
and equipment pertaining to the swimming pool, with or without specified
limitations upon the number of members, for the exclusive use of members
and their guests.
A swimming pool and the apparatus and equipment pertaining
to the swimming pool maintained by an individual for the sole use
of his/her household and guests without charge for admission and not
for the purpose of profit or in connection with any business operated
for profit, located on a lot as an accessory use to a residence.
A function involved in the examination of the qualities,
performances or capabilities of a product, goods or material.
Any unit used or intended to be used for living, sleeping
or business purposes by one or more persons, which was originally
equipped with wheels or similar devices used for the purpose of transporting
such unit from place to place, whether it was self-propelled or otherwise,
whether or not the wheels or similar devices have been removed, and
whether or not it is placed upon a masonry or other substantial foundation.
Trailers, as defined herein, do not include self-propelled motor vehicles
registered with the State of New Jersey Division of Motor Vehicles
and commonly known as “recreational vehicles,” nor does
this term include recreational vehicles registered with the Division
of Motor Vehicles which are drawn by another motor vehicle and joined
by means of a coupling device.
A licensed mortician concerned with the arrangement of cremation
or burial of the dead and the overseeing of burials.
Any purpose for which a building or other structure or a
tract of land may be designed, arranged, intended, maintained or occupied,
or any activity, occupation, business or operation carried on in a
building or other structure on a tract of land.
An area used for the storage and display of used automobiles
advertised for sale, including motorcycles, trucks and any other motorized
vehicle.
The main or primary purpose or purposes for which land, a
structure, building and/or a sign, or use therefor, is designed, arranged
or intended or for which they may be occupied or maintained under
the provisions of this chapter. All other structures, buildings, signs
or uses on the same lot and incidental or supplementary thereto and
permitted under the provisions of this chapter shall be considered
accessory uses.
Permission to depart from the literal requirement(s) of this
chapter.
[Added 9-12-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-06]
A variance that is conditioned upon the receipt of one or
more outside agency approvals and/or the receipt of subdivision or
site plan approval.
[Added 9-12-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-06]
A variance granted in connection with and/or conditioned
upon the enrollment of the property or a related farm property into
the farmland preservation program.
[Added 9-12-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-06]
A Subsection c variance granted in connection with subdivision
or site plan approval.
[Added 9-12-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-06]
A variance granted by the Land Development Board that is
not conditioned upon subdivision or site plan approval or the receipt
of one or more outside agency approvals.
[Added 9-12-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-06; 3-13-2024 by Ord. No. 2024-01]
A wind generator and all associated equipment, including
any base, blade, foundation, nacelle, rotor, tower, transformer, vane,
wire, inverter, batteries or other component necessary to fully utilize
the wind generator.
[Added 11-10-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-07]
Equipment that converts energy from the wind into electricity.
This term includes the rotor, blades and associated mechanism.
[Added 11-10-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-07]
A facility or structure for the purpose of supplying electrical
energy produced from wind, solar, or photovoltaic electrical energy
produced from wind, solar or photovoltaic technologies, whether such
a facility or structure is a principal use, a part of the principal
use, or an accessory use or structure. This shall not include solar
water heating systems.
[Added 11-10-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-07]
An open space extending between the closest point of any
building and a lot line or street line. All yard dimensions shall
be measured horizontally and at right angles to either a straight
street line, lot line or building facade or perpendicular to the point
of tangent of curved lines and facades.
The open space extending across the full width of a lot between
the street line and the building.
The open space extending across the full width of the lot
between the rear lot line and the building.
Where the above definition for rear yards cannot be used
because the lot is irregularly shaped, the following method shall
apply. The required rear yard shall be measured by extending the line
of the side exterior walls and/or offsets in exterior walls of the
structure until such wall lines meet the minimum rear yard requirement.
The section of open space thus created shall be designated as the
rear yard.
On corner lots, both yards bordering the streets shall be
considered as street setbacks. Such street setbacks shall be measured
from the ultimate right-of-way line set forth on the official tax
map of the Township, or from the public right-of-way, whichever is
in effect.
The open space extending the full length of the side lot
lines.
A detached single-family house situated so that a side wall
of the house is located along the side property line of the lot, so
that such a lot contains only one side yard. No window openings shall
be permitted within the side wall located on the property line.
Zoning district established by this chapter.
[1]
Editor's Note: The former definition of “attached
dwellings in clusters,” which immediately followed this definition,
was deleted 7-14-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-13.
[2]
Editor's Note: The former definition of “community,”
which immediately followed this definition, was deleted 7-14-2004
by Ord. No. 2004-13.
[3]
Editor's Note: The former definitions of “design
flood (floodway or flood hazard area)” and “design flood
profile (floodway or flood hazard area),” which immediately
followed this definition, were deleted 7-14-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-13).
[4]
Editor's Note: The former definitions of “flood
hazard area,” “flood maps,” “floodplain”
and “floodway,” which immediately followed this definition,
were deleted 7-14-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-13.
A.
General rules. Measurements from rights-of-way or
watercourses shall be taken from the edge of the right-of-way rather
than center.
B.
Specific area and bulk measurements. The following
regulations shall prescribe the manner in which distances are measured:
(1)
Land area. A two-dimensional computation using the
linear measurement of the boundary lines of the lot.
(2)
Building area. A two-dimensional computation using
the linear measurements of the exterior surface boundary lines taken
at the building’s largest horizontal cross-section.
(3)
Building length. The measurement shall be extended
in only one general direction.
(4)
Distance between buildings. The measurement shall
be at the narrowest point.
(5)
Highway access points. The measurement shall be taken
along the street line.
(6)
Parking perimeter radius. The measurement shall extend
form a public entranceway.
(7)
Setback line. The measurement shall extend perpendicular
to the street line.
(8)
Lot frontage on radius. For all lots fronting on a
street radius the lot width will be measured at the right-of-way line.
(9)
Lot sizes. In all districts the minimum lot square
footage shall be adhered to and one side line and the frontage must
conform to the minimum requirements.
