Borough of Paramus, NJ Uses Prohibited in All Zones

Any and all uses involving hazardous and/or toxic substances as classified or defined by state and/or federal environmental laws, rules and regulations are prohibited throughout the Borough unless expressly permitted elsewhere in this chapter. In addition, the following uses are prohibited throughout the Borough:

(1)

Manufacturing or refining;

(2)

Warehouse and distribution centers;

(3)

Truck terminals or depots;

(4)

Automobile junkyards, dump or other establishment for the storage, reduction or deposit of junk or waste materials of any kind;

(5)

Brick, pottery, tile or terra cotta manufacture;

(6)

Cement or cinder block manufacture;

(7)

Coke ovens;

(8)

Creosote treatment or manufacture;

(9)

Crematory;

(10)

Disinfectant, insecticide or poison manufacture;

(11)

Distillation of coal petroleum, refuse, grain, wood or bone;

(12)

Dye manufacture; laundry other than hand laundry; cleaning and dyeing establishment, provided that this shall not apply to a dry-cleaning store in which the work is done on premises for local service only and no work is received from pickup stations or other dry-cleaning plants and in which no wholesale or subcontract work is carried on;

(13)

Emery cloth and sandpaper manufacture;

(14)

Explosives manufacture or storage, except storage of small arms ammunition;

(15)

Fertilizer manufacture;

(16)

Dangerous fireworks, as defined in N.J.S.A. 21:2-3.

[Amended 9-14-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-37]

(17)

Forge plant;

(18)

Gas storage, except as an incident to a permitted use in a business or industrial zone;

(19)

Glue, size or gelatin manufacture, where the processes include the refining and recovering of products from fish, animal, refuse or offal;

(20)

Grease, lard, fat or tallow rendering or refining;

(21)

Grain drying or food manufacture from refuse, mash or grain;

(22)

Incineration, reduction, storage or dumping of slaughterhouse refuse, rancid fats, garbage, dead animals or offal, except by the municipality or its agents;

(23)

Iron, steel, brass or copper foundry;

(24)

Lime, cement, plaster of paris or potash manufacture;

(25)

Oilcloth, linoleum or cork insulation manufacture;

(26)

Paint, oil, varnish, turpentine, shellac, enamel or solvents manufacture;

(27)

Paper pulp manufacture;

(28)

Petroleum refining;

(29)

Petroleum storage as an accessory use of a permitted motor vehicle service station or motor vehicle repair garage;

[Amended 4-10-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-15]

(30)

Power gorging, riveting, hammering, punching, shipping, drawing, rolling or tumbling of metals except as a necessary incident of manufacture of which these processes form a minor part and which are carried on without objectionable noise audible beyond the limits of the lot;

(31)

Printing ink manufacture;

(32)

Proxylin plastic storage and manufacturer or the manufacture of articles therefrom;

(33)

Quarry, sand pit, gravel pit, topsoil stripping;

(34)

Raw hides or skins storage, cleaning, curing or tanning;

(35)

Rock and stone crusher;

(36)

Rubber latex or gutta-percha manufacture or treatment;

(37)

Shoe blackening or stove polish manufacture;

(38)

Slaughtering of animals;

(39)

Smelting;

(40)

Soap manufacture;

(41)

Starch, glucose or dextrose manufacture;

(42)

Steel furnace, blooming or rolling mill;

(43)

Stockyards;

(44)

Storage or display of any goods or materials other than living nursery products, except in a building enclosed on all sides;

(45)

Structural steel or pipe works;

(46)

Sugar refining;

(47)

Sulfurous, sulfuric, acetic, nitric, picric, carbolic or hydrochloric acid manufacturing;

(48)

Tar distillation or manufacturing;

(49)

Tar roofing manufacturing;

(50)

Tobacco manufacture or treatment;

(51)

Trailer camp, mobile home establishment, motel;

(52)

Used car or used vehicle establishment of any kind except accessory to a new car dealership in a zone that allows a new car dealer as a permitted use;

(53)

Wood pulling or scouring;

(54)

Yeast plant;

(55)

Any other use from which there is any emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas, toxic materials, noise or glare beyond the boundaries of the lot on which such use is located or which by reason of vibration or any other characteristic is noxious or offensive or would tend to impair or hinder the most appropriate use of land in the vicinity in accordance with the comprehensive plan of land use set forth in this Chapter or any other ordinance;

(56)

All classes of license for cannabis establishments pertaining to Adult-Use Cannabis are hereby prohibited from operating anywhere in the Borough, except for the delivery of cannabis items and related supplies by a licensed cannabis delivery service based and initiated from a cannabis delivery service licensed location outside of the Borough of Paramus;

[Added 1-19-2021 by Ord. No. 21-01; amended 6-15-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-22]

(57)

All cannabis establishments pertaining to Alternative Treatment Centers, with the exception of a Medicinal Cannabis Dispensary in the Highway Corridor Commercial (HCC) Zone District;

[Added 1-19-2021 by Ord. No. 21-01; amended 6-15-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-22]

(58)

Manufacture and/or storage of compressed natural gas at a motor vehicle service station located within 500 feet from a property developed, used or zoned for residential purposes.

[Added 4-10-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-15]