Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY
A licensed multiunit facility containing individual dwelling
units varying in area from 200 to 900 square feet which provides a
residential living environment assisted by congregate meals, housekeeping
and personal care services for persons 55 years of age or older who
have temporary or permanent difficulties with one or more essential
physical activities of daily living, such as feeding, bathing, dressing
or mobility or memory disorders. In addition to the residential units,
the facility may include customarily incidental accessory uses for
the residents, including, but not limited to, common dining rooms,
bathing areas, common areas, recreation and/or rehabilitation facilities
and equipment offices and other space necessary to provide the above
services.
BUFFER
An area within a property or site, generally adjacent to
and parallel with the property line, either consisting of trees, shrubs
or other landscaping and/or berms, designed to continuously limit
the view and control other impacts of the site from adjacent sites,
properties or roadways.
COMMUNITY RESIDENTIAL FACILITY
Any residential arrangement, public or private, other than
an institution, in which one or more developmentally disabled person
resides under the sponsorship of the New Jersey Department of Human
Services pursuant to N.J.S.A. 30:6D-13, et seq., as amended. A family
home in which all of the developmentally disabled persons residing
within are related to the head of the household by blood, marriage
or adoption is not a community residential facility.
COMPREHENSIVE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY (CRC)
A facility which has a primary purpose of providing housing
and continuing care for people 55 years of age or older or where either
the husband or wife is 55 years of age or older, and consists of independent
apartment units, assisted living units, skilled care nursing units
and single-family detached and attached residential dwelling units
and which must include comprehensive retirement community accessory
uses.
COMPREHENSIVE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY ACCESSORY USES
Within a comprehensive retirement community, any use reasonably
necessary for, or incidental to, the operation of the facility or
for the benefit or convenience of the residents and their guests,
including, but not limited to, kitchen and dining facilities, exercise
and vocational rooms, places of worship, indoor and outdoor recreational
buildings and uses, including swimming pools, retail and banking facilities,
beauty salons and barber shops, gift shops, classrooms, security facilities,
conference rooms, common areas, guest rooms, administration, general,
medical and other offices associated with the CRC, postal center,
pharmacy, maintenance facilities, hobby, craft and music rooms, library,
computer and television rooms, and heating and cooling equipment structures,
off-street parking signs as permitted and garages, provided that the
comprehensive retirement community accessory use is for the use and
benefit of the comprehensive retirement community.
CONTINUING CARE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY (CCRC)
A facility which has a primary purpose of providing housing
and continuing care for people 55 years of age or older or where either
the husband or wife is 55 years of age or older, and consists of independent
apartment units, assisted living units, skilled care nursing units
and/or continuing care retirement community accessory uses all as
defined herein and as regulated by N.J.S.A. 52:27D-330 through 357,
known as the "Continuing Care Retirement Community Regulation and
Financial Disclosure Act." For purposes of this section, continuing
care means the provision of lodging, nursing, medical or other health-related
services at the same or another location to an individual pursuant
to an agreement effective for the life of the individual or for a
period greater than one year, including mutually terminable contracts,
and in consideration of the payment of an entrance fee with or without
other periodic charges to an individual who is 55 years of age or
older, or where either the husband or the wife is 55 years of age
or older.
CONTINUING CARE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY ACCESSORY USES
Within a continuing care retirement community, any use reasonably
necessary for, or incidental to, the operation of the facility or
for the benefit or convenience of the residents and their guests,
including, but not limited to, kitchen and dining facilities, exercise
and vocational rooms, places of worship, indoor and outdoor recreational
buildings and uses, including swimming pools, retail and banking facilities,
beauty salons and barber shops, gift shops, classrooms, security facilities,
conference rooms, common areas, guest rooms, administration, general,
medical and other offices associated with the CCRC, postal center,
pharmacy, maintenance facilities, hobby, craft and music rooms, library,
computer and television rooms, and heating and cooling equipment structures,
off-street parking and loading areas as required for the use of occupants
of the CCRC and signs as permitted and garages, provided that the
continuing care retirement community accessory use is for the use
and benefit of the continuing care retirement community.
HOSPICE CARE FACILITY
A licensed facility providing at-home or in-facility, or
both, care services focused upon care and comfort of the patient rather
than cure, including medical care, pain management and emotional and
spiritual support to persons facing life-limiting or terminal illness
or injury.
NURSING HOME; LONG-TERM CARE FACILITY
A licensed facility providing extended, intermediate or temporary
skilled nursing and related full-time convalescent or chronic care
to persons who, by reason of advanced age, chronic illness or infirmity,
are unable to care for themselves in addition to lodging and board
or other health-related services, or any combination of the foregoing.
PASSIVE OPEN SPACE or PASSIVE RECREATION AREAS
An unimproved area of land which may include water set aside,
dedicated, designated, or reserved for public or private use and enjoyment
which utilizes and depends on the natural environment and requires
no significant modifications of that environment other than to provide
access. It permits such low-density uses as hiking, fishing, canoeing,
nature study, horseback riding, and bicycling. Passive open space
typically includes wooded areas, streams, lakes, and other varieties
of natural vegetative areas. For the purpose of this definition, detention
and retention basins represent a developed use of the land and are
not considered passive open space.
SKILLED CARE NURSING UNIT
A nursing bed or individual room which provides board, shelter
and twenty-four-hour skilled nursing and medical care to chronic or
convalescent patients. Subject to applicable professional licensing
requirements, skilled care nursing units may be located in a nursing
home, long-term care facility or continuing care retirement community
(CCRC).