In the CC Center City Zone, no building, structure or premises shall be used and no building or structure shall be erected or structurally altered, except for the following permitted uses:
A. 
Single-family detached dwellings.
B. 
Semidetached dwellings.
C. 
Duplex (two-family) dwellings.
D. 
Townhouses (attached/row) dwellings.
E. 
Multifamily dwellings.
F. 
Retail stores, including but not limited to the sale of antiques, art, dry goods, variety and general merchandise, clothing, fabrics, floor covering, food, books, hardware, hobby and art supplies, garden supplies, flowers, drugs, handicraft art, household supplies or furnishings, pets, sale or repair of jewelry, sporting goods, watches and clocks, optical goods, musical, professional and office supplies and packed goods when sold only on the premises.
G. 
Personal services, including but not limited to barbershops, hairdressers, cleaning and pressing establishments, photographers, funeral homes, shoe repairs, tailors, newspaper, printers, frame shops, laundromats and travel agencies.
H. 
Medical offices and facilities, including but not limited to doctor, dentist, and veterinary offices, chiropractors and psychiatrists.
I. 
Professional and private offices, including but not limited to real estate, accounting, insurance, architects, psychologists, and lawyers.
J. 
Financial institutions, including but not limited to bank, savings and loan associations, credit unions, and other financial institutions.
K. 
Restaurants, not including carry-out and drive-through.
L. 
Shopping centers.
M. 
Commercial recreation facility.
N. 
Railroad passenger stations and railroad facilities and uses.
O. 
Hotels or motels, or extended family stay facility.
P. 
Theaters, museums, art galleries and concert halls.
Q. 
Visitor information center.
R. 
Buildings, structures, and other uses owned and operated by the City of Camden.
S. 
Parks, playgrounds or recreation areas, community center buildings, and libraries.
T. 
Public, private or parochial education institution.
The following accessory uses shall be permitted in this zone:
A. 
In-ground and aboveground swimming pools and/or other structures customarily incidental to a swimming pool on a property subject to the requirements of § 870-193.
B. 
Accessory buildings and structures, subject to the requirements of § 870-189.
C. 
Off-street parking and private garages, subject to the requirements of §§ 870-214 and 870-230 through 870-241.
D. 
Porches, decks and patios, subject to the requirements of § 870-190.
E. 
Multilevel parking structures, subject to the requirements of § 870-232.
F. 
Fences and walls, subject to the requirements of § 870-197.
G. 
Signs, subject to the requirements of § 870-253.
H. 
Railroad accessory uses.
I. 
Sidewalk cafes, subject to the requirements of § 870-217.
Any use not listed above shall be prohibited in the CC Center City Zone, and specifically the following:
A. 
Signs in any form, except as permitted.
B. 
Lodging houses, boardinghouses, rooming houses, group homes or any combination thereof.
C. 
Truck stops.
D. 
New and/or used automobile and truck sales.
E. 
Auto body shop.
F. 
Junkyards and automobile graveyards.
G. 
Lumber and building supply sales and storage.
H. 
Wholesale, storage, and warehouse facilities.
I. 
Car wash.
J. 
Automobile service station, gasoline station, or motor vehicle service station.
The following conditional uses shall be permitted in this zone:
A. 
Place of worship, subject to the requirements of § 870-209.
B. 
Child-care centers, subject to the requirements of § 870-203.
C. 
Public utility facilities, subject to the requirements of § 870-191.
D. 
Wireless telecommunications facilities, subject to the requirements of §§ 870-210 and 870-211.
E. 
Family day-care homes, subject to the requirements of § 870-202.
F. 
Community residences for persons with head injuries and for the developmentally disabled and/or community shelters for victims of domestic violence, as required by N.J.S.A. 40:55D-66.1, subject to the standards and requirements for single-family detached dwellings located within this zone and to the requirements of § 870-204.
G. 
Parabolic dish antennas, subject to the requirements of § 870-210.
H. 
Home occupation and home professional offices, subject to the requirements of § 870-201.
Table 19
Area Regulations for the CC Center City Zone
Bulk Standards
Type of Development
Requirements
Single-Family
Semi-Detached1
Duplex3
Townhouse4
Multi-family
Non-residential
Minimum lot area per dwelling unit or site area (sq. ft.)
2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
20,000
N/A
Maximum lot area per dwelling unit or site area (sq. ft.)
4,000
3,000
4,000
3,000
N/A
N/A
Minimum lot width (feet)
20
20
20
20
100
50
Minimum lot depth (feet)
100
100
100
100
N/A
N/A
Maximum height7
3 stories or 35 feet
3 stories or 35 feet
3 stories or 35 feet
3 stories or 35 feet
10 stories or 145 feet
30 stories or 420 feet
Minimum depth of front yard8 (feet)
10
10
10
10
20
N/A
Minimum aggregate width of side yards (feet)
25
25
25
N/A5
50
N/A
Minimum width of each side yard (feet)
10
102
10
See Note 6
20
N/A
Minimum depth of rear yard (feet)
10
10
10
10
30
N/A
Maximum lot building coverage
60%
60%
60%
60%
60%
N/A
Maximum lot impervious coverage
80%
80%
80%
80%
80%
100%
Table 19 Notes:
1.
Single-family semidetached dwelling unit with the units side-by-side as opposed to one on top of another.
2.
Zero feet for common wall.
3.
Two-family detached dwelling unit; a building on a single lot containing two dwelling units, each of which is totally separated from the other by unpierced ceiling and floor extending from exterior wall to exterior wall.
4.
One of a series of three or more dwellings attached side-by-side in a row.
5.
N/A — not applicable.
6.
Interior lots at zero feet; end of corner lots at 10 feet.
7.
A structure shall not have a height less than two stories or 30 feet measured from the average grade line perimetering the building to the top of the main roof cornice line, excluding necessary utility-type roof structure.
8.
A front yard setback shall be provided to be not less than 10 feet. 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 street 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.
9.
Maximum residential gross density is 200 dwelling units per acre.