[Added 6-21-2016 by Ord.
No. O-16-018[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed former Art. XVI,
UR Urban Renewal Zone.
The purpose of the C-3 Central Business Zone is to preserve
and reinforce the character of the historic business district along
Glenridge Avenue and Church Street, which was originally called Old
Bloomfield Avenue. This district will reinforce the pedestrian-oriented
streetscape environmental along the corridor, while also supporting
the burgeoning cultural and entertainment-related uses that characterize
the area.
A.
The following principal uses shall be permitted:
(1)
Restaurants and eating and drinking establishments, but not
drive-in or drive-through restaurants.
(2)
Retail sales.
(3)
Retail food establishments.
(4)
Retail store, convenience.
(5)
Art galleries.
(6)
Art studios.
(7)
Movie studios.
(8)
Recording studios.
(9)
Banks.
(10)
Commercial recreation facilities.
(11)
Educational play centers.
(12)
Public parking decks.
(13)
Mixed-use buildings that meet the following requirements:
[Added 7-26-2022 by Ord. No. O-22-17]
(a)
Permitted nonresidential uses, other than office uses, are provided
along the first floor of all street-facing facades with a depth of
at least 30 feet measured from the building wall. A residential lobby
may also occupy the first floor frontage.
(b)
Any curb cut for access lanes to parking shall not interrupt the
street frontage of the building.
B.
The following principal uses shall be permitted on all upper floors and on the first floor only if located behind a use permitted in Subsection A and provided that the area dedicated to the use includes no more than 50% of the depth of the building:
(1)
Educational or quasi-educational establishments.
(2)
Arts studio, commercial.
(3)
Gyms and health clubs.
(4)
General, business and professional offices, including medical
offices, finance, insurance and real estate offices.
(5)
Municipal, county, state and federal government offices.
(6)
Nonprofit institutional uses.
The following principal uses shall be permitted as conditional
uses:
A.
Private parking decks, subject to the following conditions:
(1)
The facade of the parking deck facing a public street shall
have an architectural finish in keeping with the commercial character
of the surrounding area.
(2)
In order to maintain the commercial streetscape, commercial
uses shall be maintained at the ground level of the parking deck on
a public street for a minimum depth of 30 feet.
[Amended 7-26-2022 by Ord. No. O-22-17]
B.
Commercial parking lots, subject to the following conditions:
(1)
All commercial parking lots shall prepare a site plan that shall
be approved by either the Planning Board or the Board of Adjustment.
(2)
The approved site plan will indicate the number of cars that
may be parked in the lot, and no more than the approved number of
cars shall be parked on the site at all times.
(4)
The parking lot shall be surrounded by a fence or landscaping
designed to screen the cars from public view and must be designed
to maintain sight triangles for pedestrian and vehicular traffic at
all points of egress.
The following principal uses shall be permitted as accessory
uses:
Any use not permitted is strictly prohibited, including the
following uses:
A.
Drive-in and drive-through establishments, including banks.
B.
Adult entertainment uses.
C.
Tattoo parlors, including body-piercing establishments.
D.
New and used automobile sales, automobile rentals, automobile service
stations, automobile repair establishments and automobile washing
establishments.
E.
Manufacturing, research and development, wholesale trade or warehouse
establishments and bus and truck depots.
F.
Storage establishments, including mini-storage warehouses.
G.
Pawn shops.
H.
Check-cashing shops.
I.
The retail or wholesale sale of weapons or firearms, as the same
are defined in N.J.S.A. 2C39-1.
J.
Head shops.
C.
Principal structures:
(1)
Maximum building height: thirty-seven feet.
(2)
Maximum number of stories: three stories.
(3)
Front yard setback: zero feet, and no building shall be set
back further than the greater setback of buildings on the adjoining
lots.
(4)
Side yard setback: zero feet, except that where a side yard
is provided, such side yard shall be a minimum of six feet.
(5)
Minimum rear yard setback: 10 feet.
(6)
Maximum density: 40 units per acre.
(8)
Where off-street loading presently exists, subsequent development
shall continue to require off-street loading.