[Amended 5-21-1991 by Ord. No. 884]
A.
The purpose of this district is to permit retail and
personal service uses on the ground floor of existing buildings and
to promote use of upper floors for office and residential uses in
order to enhance and promote the orientation toward pedestrian shopping
and circulation. Within this district, no lot or building shall be
used and no building shall be erected or altered to be used, in whole
or in part, unless it complies with the regulations set forth in this
article. The following retail and service uses and those uses which
are similar to the enumerated permitted uses shall be permitted in
this district:
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Antique shops, provided that there is no display
of merchandise outside the building
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Artists' studios
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Bakery or confectionery shops for retail sales
only[1]
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Book and stationery stores, jewelry stores and
watch repairing
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Buildings, structures and uses owned and operated
by the Borough of Haddon Heights for municipal purposes
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Drugstores, supermarkets, grocery stores, meat
markets, delicatessens and fish markets
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Hardware stores
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Interior decorating establishments, clothing
stores and gift shops
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Musical instrument stores or studios, including
retail sale of recordings and tapes
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Personal service shops, such as beauty, barber-,
tailor and dressmaking shops, and shoe repair shops
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Photographers' studios
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Picture-framing shops
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Realtors
[Added 9-5-2006 by Ord. No. 1219] | |
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Restaurants, excluding fast-food, drive-in and
curb service establishments. Such prohibitions shall not, however,
prevent service at tables on a covered or uncovered terrace or porch
incidental to a permitted restaurant.
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Sale of radio, television and other home appliances
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Sporting goods stores
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Stamp or coin stores
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Travel bureaus
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[1]
Editor's Note: Banks and savings and loan
associations and other fiduciary institutions, including those with
drive-in facilities, which immediately followed this listing, was
repealed 9-5-2006 by Ord. No. 1219.
B.
The following uses may be permitted as conditional
uses, provided that there are adequate parking facilities within a
three-hundred-foot radius of the premises, the use of the premises
will generate sufficient customer or patient traffic to the premises
and the use of the premises is not substantially detrimental to the
public good or to the property owners within 500 feet:
(1)
Residential uses, above the first floor only.
(2)
Offices for physicians or dentists and small commercial
or professional offices, above the first floor only.
[Amended 9-5-2006 by Ord. No. 1219]
(3)
Sales offices, including the office of a manufacturer's
representative, above the first floor only.
(4)
Banks and savings and loan associations and other fiduciary institutions, provided that they comply with the parking requirements of § 450-116. Drive-in facilities may be permitted, provided that in addition to the parking requirements set forth in this subsection, such facilities do not adversely impede or conflict with the safe traffiic flow required by the principal use on or of the site
[Added 9-5-2006 by Ord. No. 1219]
[Amended 5-21-1991 by Ord. No. 884]
The following uses are specifically prohibited
in the CB Central Business District:
A.
Welding shops.
B.
Pet shops, kennels or other commercial establishments
for breeding or sale of animals.
C.
Display, outside the building, of articles for sale.
D.
Any kind of manufacturing, fabricating, altering,
finishing or assembling, except as necessarily incidental to retail
trade or service.
E.
Any machinery used incidental to any permitted use
that is powered by other than electric motive power. In no one store
or separate establishment shall there be permitted more than 10 horsepower,
exclusive of refrigeration and air conditioning. If steam is required,
no more than 15 pounds of steam pressure shall be permitted.
F.
Any internal-combustion engine or gas generator, unless
operated for a particular temporary use or where essential for the
emergency use of a public utility.
G.
Heavy-trucking transport.
H.
The storage of furniture, building materials or solid,
liquid or gaseous fuels or chemicals, unless incidental and subordinate
to a permitted use.
I.
Uses conducive to potentially high hazard in the form
of fire, explosion, radiation, contamination or other elements dangerous
to human beings.
J.
Warehouses.
The following accessory uses are permitted in
the Central Business District:
Design considerations for permitted uses shall
be as follows:
A.
Parking and service areas.
(1)
Parking shall be screened from adjacent residential
properties with grass, shrubs, trees, fences and/or earthen berms
to protect residential properties from parking lot illumination and
headlight glare, automobile fumes and noise.
(2)
Curbing or curb stops shall be provided in all off-street
parking areas and along all accessways.
(3)
Off-street parking areas and accessways thereto shall
be properly drained, and all such areas shall have a paved hard surface.
(4)
All off-street parking areas and accessways shall
be so arranged that cars and trucks may be turned on the lot so that
it is not necessary to back into any roadway. Parking shall only be
located in the rear of the property.
(5)
Common or joint driveway access and parking to the
rear of sites is encouraged.
(6)
Access driveways onto major thoroughfares shall be
permitted only if alternatives, including side or rear access and
common or shared single access driveways, have been considered by
the Planning Board or Zoning Board.
(7)
Where appropriate, impervious parking coverage shall
be limited to the maximum extent possible by the use of parking in
or under buildings, the elimination of excess paving, grassed landbank
parking and the use of permeable surfaces for paving.
(8)
Parking areas shall be designed to minimize pedestrian
and moving vehicle conflicts. Pedestrian walkways, parking lot islands,
signage and pavement texture differentiation shall be required by
the Planning Board or Zoning Board, where appropriate, to ensure the
safe movement of pedestrians.
(9)
No access shall be permitted to the parking area from
within the residential zone.
(10)
Every structure erected, designed or altered
for occupancy by any use as permitted in this section shall provide
an entrance and access at the rear of its building for the loading
and unloading of delivery trucks.
B.
Building design and use.
(1)
The treatment of side and rear walls of any building
in terms of building materials shall be similar to the treatment of
the front facade.
(2)
The display of merchandise or nonpermanent uses and/or
activities, e.g., vending machines, placed on the exterior premises
of any building is prohibited.
(3)
All buildings shall have a unified architectural treatment,
whether constructed as new or as an additional structure physically
and aesthetically integrated with the existing structure. The Planning
Board or Zoning Board shall consider in its architectural review items
such as materials, colors, building setbacks, facade treatments and
building height and shall encourage the revitalization of existing
structures to ensure compatibility with proposed building additions.
C.
Site design and building layout.
(1)
The site design layout of buildings and parking areas
shall be reviewed so as to provide an aesthetically pleasing design
and efficient arrangement. Particular attention shall be given to
safety and fire protection, impact on surrounding development and
contiguous and adjacent buildings and lands.
(2)
To promote a desirable visual environment and to ensure
a good civic design, the Planning Board or Zoning Board in its review
shall consider, but not be limited in its consideration of, visual
impacts of the proposed development, including views and view interference,
shadow effects, noise impacts and design compatibility with surrounding
land uses.
D.
General design requirements.
(1)
Any development in this district which will be used
wholly or in part for office purposes shall be designed so as to provide
a comprehensive development plan for the entire zone for which it
is a part, the goals being to control means of access and to coordinate
internal pedestrian and vehicular traffic flow relating to existing
development and architectural compatibility.
(2)
Any new facade or change in the facade of an existing
building shall be reviewed by the Planning Board or Zoning Board for
evaluation of architectural design.
(3)
Development shall maximize the use of uniform and/or
integrated architectural design and styles, unique building materials,
including but not limited to ornamental lighting, architectural planters,
brick and other special paving materials, water features, landscaped
internal pedestrian courtyards, sitting areas and other site amenities.
(4)
Development shall provide weather protection for customers
either by enclosed shopping areas, canopies or other means.
(5)
The location of store entrances and orientation of
buildings shall minimize distances to walk from one store to another.
A.
Lot area. A minimum lot area of 2,500 square feet
shall be provided for every use hereafter erected.
B.
Lot width. Each lot shall have a width of not less
than 25 feet.
C.
Lot depth. Each lot shall have a depth of not less
than 100 feet.
D.
Minimum yards. (NOTE: Where the lot in question joins
a residential district, a forty-foot yard is required.)
(1)
Front yard. A front yard setback shall be provided
to be not less than 10 feet from the property line. (NOTE: Where there
is an existing building on each of two lots adjacent to a lot on which
a proposed building is to be erected and both buildings have an alignment
nearer to the property line than the required front yard and where
both buildings are within 100 feet of the proposed building, the average
of the existing front yard depths of each adjacent lot shall be the
minimum required front yard depth of the lot on which the proposed
building is to be erected.)
(2)
Side yards. Side yards shall be maintained as exists
at the time of zoning ordinance adoption.
(3)
Rear yards. There shall be rear yard setbacks to be
not less than 20 feet.
E.
Building coverage. The maximum building coverage shall
not be greater than 70% of the gross lot area.
F.
Lot coverage. The maximum lot coverage, including
all structures, shall not be greater than 80% of the gross lot area.
G.
Height. A structure shall not have a greater height
than three stories or 36 feet, measured from the average grade line
perimetering the building to the top of the main roof cornice line,
excluding necessary utility-type roof structures.
