[Ord. 93-5 § 407, 1993; amended by Ord. 99-21 § 4, 1999; Ord. 2001-3 § 4, 2001; Ord. 2002-11 § 3, 2002]
A. 
Principal Permitted Uses on the Land and In Buildings.
1. 
Detached single-family dwelling units;
2. 
Retail sales of goods and services located within a detached single-family dwelling unit on an individual lot as a shared principal use with the residential use where the residential uses must occupy at least 50% of the gross floor area of the principal building. Restaurants, theaters, dry cleaning establishments, or any other use which utilizes either a condenser or compressor within its net habitable floor area shall not be permitted;
3. 
Professional offices and office buildings limited to doctors, dentists, architects, engineers, lawyers, insurance brokers, real estate agents or other similar licensed professional uses;
4. 
Child care centers;
5. 
Quasi-public uses;
6. 
Public playgrounds, public conservation areas, public parks, public open spaces and public purpose uses (see Section 16.20.010 for standards);
7. 
Public utilities as conditional uses under N.J.S.A. 40:55D-67 (see Section 16.56.010 for standards);
8. 
Community residences for the developmentally disabled, community shelters for victims of domestic violence, community residences for the terminally ill, community residences for persons with head injuries, and adult family care homes for elderly persons and physically disabled adults subject to the standards and requirements for single-family dwelling units located in the same district.
B. 
Accessory Uses Permitted.
1. 
Private residential swimming pools (see Section 16.52.160 for standards) and other usual recreational facilities, customarily associated with residential dwelling units;
2. 
Private residential sheds for the storage of objects owned by the residents of the property, each not exceeding 15 feet in height, and altogether not exceeding 150 square feet in gross floor area;
3. 
Boat trailers, boats on blocks and boats on trailers to be parked or stored within any yard area, provided that they are set back from any property line the distance specified for accessory buildings within Section 16.24.010(D) of this title, vehicular access to the property is not impeded, and no more than one boat (on or off a trailer) or boat trailer may be parked or stored in the front yard. Their dimensions shall not be counted in determining total building coverage and they shall not be used for temporary or permanent living quarters while situated on the lot. All boats and trailers parked or stored on any property within the Borough shall be currently registered with the appropriate agency;
4. 
Off-street parking and private garages, either attached or detached (see Subsection F of this section and Section 16.52.080);
5. 
Fences and walls not to exceed four feet in height in front yards and six feet in height in side and rear yards (see Section 16.52.030 for additional standards);
6. 
Home occupations (see Section 16.08.020 for definition and Subsection I of this section);
7. 
Signs (see Subsection G of this section and Section 16.52.130);
8. 
Satellite dish antennae as conditional uses under N.J.S.A. 40:55D-67 (see Section 16.56.010 for standards).
C. 
Maximum Building Height. No building shall exceed 32 feet in height and 2 1/2 stories except as allowed in Section 16.60.010. On any non-conforming lot of less than 40 feet in width no building shall be erected consisting of more than one habitable story or exceeding 24 feet in height.
D. 
Area and Yard Requirements.
Requirement
Single-Family Detached Dwelling Units
Detached Dwellings With Retail Uses, Professional Offices and Child Care Centers
Quasi-Public Uses
Principal Building Minimum
Lot area
4,800 square feet
6,000 square feet
8,000 square feet
Lot frontage
60 feet
60 feet
80 feet
Lot width
60 feet
60 feet
80 feet
Lot depth
80 feet
80 feet
100 feet
Side yard
10 feet 1; 15 feet both1
10 feet each1
10 feet each1
Front yard
15 feet2
15 feet2
15 feet
Rear yard
20 feet
10 feet
20 feet
Accessory Building Minimum
Distance to side line
5 feet
5 feet
5 feet
Distance to rear line
5 feet
5 feet
5 feet
Distance to other building
5 feet
5 feet
5 feet
Maximum
Building coverage
35%
35%
35%
Lot coverage
75%
80%
75%
NOTES:
1
(Reserved)
2
See Section 16.60.010 for exceptions in developed neighborhoods.
E. 
General Requirements.
1. 
At least the first five feet adjacent to any lot line for a nonresidential use shall not be used for parking and shall be planted and maintained in lawn area or ground cover and landscaped with evergreen shrubbery.
2. 
Unless otherwise specifically approved by the board as part of a site plan application, no merchandise, products, equipment or similar material or objects shall be displayed outside. All solid waste not stored within a nonresidential building shall be stored within a totally enclosed container located in a manner to be obscured from view from parking areas, streets and adjacent residential areas or zoning districts by a fence, wall, planting or combination of all three.
Where merchandise, products, equipment or similar material or objects are approved by the board to be displayed or stored outside, the materials shall be suitably screened to be obscured from view from adjacent residential uses and must be situated within the property lines of the principal use.
3. 
All areas not utilized for buildings, parking, loading, access aisles and driveways or pedestrian walkways shall be suitably landscaped with shrubs, ground cover, seeding or plantings and maintained in good condition.
4. 
All buildings shall be compatibly designed whether constructed all at one time or in stages over a period of time. All building walls facing any street or residential district line or residential lot shall be suitably finished for aesthetic purposes.
5. 
The minimum setback area for any nonresidential use shall include a planted buffer of five feet in width along any common property line with a residential district or use.
F. 
Minimum Off-Street Parking. Each individual use shall provide parking spaces according to the following minimum provisions. Where a permitted use of land includes different specific activities with different specific parking requirements, the total number of required parking spaces shall be obtained by computing individually the parking requirements for each different activity and adding the resulting numbers together.
1. 
Detached dwelling units shall provide two spaces per unit.
2. 
Retail activities and professional offices shall provide parking at a ratio of one parking space per 250 square feet of net habitable floor area or part thereof.
3. 
Child care centers shall provide parking at a ratio of one parking space per employee plus one additional parking space for every eight children. Adequate spaces shall be provided for the loading and unloading of children which shall take place on-site and not in the public right-of-way.
4. 
Quasi-public uses shall provide adequate parking spaces which shall be determined at the time of site plan review.
5. 
See Section 16.52.080 for additional standards.
G. 
Permitted Signs.
1. 
Dwelling units: information and direction signs as defined in Section 16.52.130(A)(5);
2. 
Nonresidential.
a. 
Nonresidential buildings and retail activities located within detached dwellings each may have one sign, attached or freestanding, not exceeding 5% of the front facade of the building or 20 square feet, whichever is smaller. Any freestanding sign shall not exceed 15 feet in height and shall be set back at least five feet from all street and property lines.
b. 
Additionally, where a principal use occupying at least 700 square feet of segregated area within a building has direct access from the outside, a sign not exceeding eight square feet in area identifying the name of the activity also shall be permitted. Such additional sign(s) shall be attached flat against the building at the entrance to the activity.
3. 
See Section 16.52.130 for additional standards.
H. 
Minimum Floor Area. Dwelling units: 720 square feet at the first floor level per dwelling unit, except that where the dwelling unit is located above a permitted retail use, 720 square feet at the second floor level per dwelling unit.
I. 
Home Occupations.
1. 
Such occupation may be pursued in the principal dwelling unit structure or in one or more secondary buildings which are accessory to such principal dwelling unit structure.
2. 
The use of the property for the home occupation shall be clearly incidental and subordinate to its use for residential purposes by its occupants, and not more than 20% of the gross floor area of all buildings shall be used in the conduct of the home occupation. Moreover, when such a use is conducted within the principal dwelling unit, the minimum net habitable floor area as required elsewhere by ordinance shall be met for the residential use.
3. 
No person other than members of the household residing on the premises plus one outside employee or other assistant shall be engaged in the occupation.
4. 
The residential character of the lot and building shall not be changed, no occupational sounds shall be audible outside the building, and no equipment shall be used which will cause interference with radio or television reception in neighboring residences. No display of products shall be visible from the street, nor shall any materials be stored outside the dwelling unit.
5. 
The home occupation shall not generate the business or care of more than two clients at any one time and shall be by appointment only. The home occupation shall not include the breeding, raising, care, boarding or maintenance of animals.
6. 
The home occupation shall not necessitate the need to park more than two vehicles at any time in addition to those ordinances used by the residents of the home. Such vehicles shall be limited to passenger automobiles and must be parked off-street. The home occupation shall not reduce the parking or yard requirements of the dwelling. There may be parked on the premises not more than one vehicle owned or operated in conjunction with the home occupation. No other vehicle(s) owned or operated in conjunction with the home occupation shall be parked overnight, stored or repaired, either on- or off-premises, within a residential zone, and no such vehicle(s) shall be parked overnight or stored on a street.
7. 
There shall be no exterior evidence of the home occupation other than one unlighted nameplate identifying the home occupation only by name, title or hours of operation, not exceeding three square feet in area, either attached or freestanding (maximum of three feet in height) and set back at least five feet from all street rights-of-way and property lines.