A.
ACCESSORY BUILDING
ACCESSORY USE
AGRICULTURE
ALTERATION OF BUILDING
BED-AND-BREAKFAST INN
BILLBOARDS
BUILDING
CAMP
COMMON OWNERSHIP
CONTIGUOUS UNCONSTRAINED DEVELOPABLE LAND
CORNER LOT
DWELLING OR APARTMENT
ELDER COTTAGE
ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREAS
FAMILY
FLOOR AREA
GARAGE, PRIVATE
GARAGE, PUBLIC
HEAVY INDUSTRY
HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS
HOME PROFESSIONAL OFFICE
HOSPITAL
HOTEL OR MOTEL
HOME OCCUPATION
IMPERVIOUS SURFACE
INSTITUTIONAL USES
KENNEL
LOT
LOT AREA
NONCONFORMING USE, LAND OR STRUCTURE
NONPROFIT CLUBS
OUTDOOR SALES
PARKING AREA
PARKING SPACE
PRINCIPAL OR MAIN USE
SERVICE ZONE
SINGLE OWNERSHIP
TRAILERS
YARDS
(1)
(2)
(3)
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall
have the meanings indicated:
A subordinate building or structure, on the same lot with
a main building, devoted exclusively to an accessory use.
A use naturally and normally incident and subordinate to
the main use of the premises or lot.
The use of land for farming or horticultural use or for raising
poultry or domestic livestock.
A change in the supporting members of a building; an addition,
diminution, change in use or conversion of a building or part thereof;
or removal of a building from one location to another.
An inn for temporary overnight guests providing limited food
service and meeting the standards of the Uniform Construction Code
and the Uniform Fire Code.
[Added 12-11-2007 by Ord. No. 12-07]
An outdoor advertising sign which relates in its subject
matter to products, accommodations or activities other than those
found on the premises.
Anything constructed, erected or placed which requires location
on or support from the ground or attachment to something requiring
such support, except a licensed motor vehicle. The term "structure,"
as used herein, is the same.
Land or water, or both, on which are located two or more
cabins, tents, shelters or other accommodations of design or character
suitable primarily for seasonal or temporary living, including a summer
colony or day camp but not a trailer camp, rooming house, tourist
home, hotel or motel.
The ownership of two or more contiguous parcels of real property
by one or more persons, either jointly, as tenants by the entirety
or as tenants in common.
An area consisting of contiguous unconstrained developable
area within the minimum yards of a lot consisting of land suitable
for construction of a principal structure, excluding environmentally
sensitive areas as defined in this chapter.
[Added 5-8-2007 by Ord. No. 5-07; amended 8-7-2007 by Ord. No. 9-07; 2-12-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-02]
A lot at the junction of and having frontage on two or more
intersecting streets, or a lot bounded on two or more sides by one
or more streets.
A building or portion thereof designed or used exclusively
as the residence or sleeping place of one or more persons, including
one-family, two-family and multiple dwellings, apartment-hotels, inns
and boarding- and lodging houses, but not including motels, tourist
cabins, trailers or trailer courts.
A dwelling unit, owned and/or subsidized by the County of
Sussex or other governmental agency and having a floor area of up
to 750 square feet, that is subordinate to a principal dwelling and
is occupied by not more than two people, one of whom shall be at least
60 years of age and related by blood, marriage or adoption to one
or more of the residents of the principal dwelling on the lot upon
which the unit is located.
[Added 1-6-1997 by Ord. No. 12-96]
Areas are deemed to be environmentally sensitive if they
are constrained by one or more of the following:
[Added 5-8-2007 by Ord. No. 5-07; amended 8-7-2007 by Ord. No. 9-07; 2-12-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-02]
One or more persons customarily living together as a single
housekeeping unit, as distinguished from a group occupying a boardinghouse,
lodging house, hotel or motel.
The area of all floors in a building, excluding basement
floors, open porches, breezeways, garages and attics in which the
ceiling height is less than seven feet or the knee wall less than
four feet in height.
A detached accessory building or portion of a main building
used for the storage of a passenger vehicle or vehicles or a permitted
commercial vehicle.
Any building, premises or land in which or upon which a business,
service or industry involving the storage, maintenance, washing, or
servicing of motor vehicles is conducted or rendered.
Without limiting the generality of the term "heavy industry,"
it shall be deemed to include any occupation that involves the mechanical
or chemical transformation of metals, glass or earths, including the
collection of, buying, storing, selling or trading in discarded metal,
glass, lumber, cordage or any disabled fixtures of vehicles or equipment
of any kind. Examples include machine shops, forges, foundries, chemical
plants, mining, junkyards or the storage of and trading in bodies
or parts of disabled or discarded motor vehicles.
The vertical distance from the average ground level next
to the foundation to the highest point of the roof, in the case of
flat roofs, or, in the case of sloping roofs, to a point midway between
the peak of the roof and the uppermost plate.
An office accessory to a residential use in a residential
zoning district, as regulated in this chapter, for professional persons
such as but not limited to accountants, architects, artists, attorneys,
authors, clergymen, consultants, engineers, insurance agents, land
surveyors, musicians, physicians and other doctors, planners, real
estate agents and tradesmen.
[Added 3-5-1996 by Ord. No. 2-96]
Any building or other facility, including a sanitarium, clinic,
nursing home or convalescent home, containing beds for four or more
patients and used for the diagnosis, treatment or other care of human
ailments.
Any structure or group of structures offering living facilities
to the public.
An occupation for gain or support customarily carried on
in the home, which is conducted solely within the dwelling or accessory
building, such as dressmaking, millinery, home baking, operation of
a barbershop or beauty shop, the operation of an office and the like,
and which is conducted by members of the family residing in the dwelling
unit and which complies with all requirements of this chapter.
Any structure or material, including but not limited to buildings,
paved driveways and walkways, swimming pools and patios but excluding
wooden decks, that significantly prevents absorption of stormwater
into the ground.
[Added 11-15-1997 by Ord. No. 4-97]
Churches, public or private schools for general education,
hospitals and public or quasipublic nonprofit uses.
Any structure for dogs or cats. This includes any building,
structure, fenced area, or lean-to of any materials where dogs or
cats can be housed, fed, bred, or cared for, whether free of charge
or for money. For the purpose of this definition, anyone having five
or more dogs or cats on their property will be considered having a
kennel.
[Added 4-12-2016 by Ord.
No. 2016-02]
A legally established and existing parcel or plot of land,
having boundaries determinable from official records.
The total square feet or acreage contents of a lot lying
within the lot lines or boundaries, excluding any portion within a
public right-of-way.
The term "nonconforming" shall apply to a use lawfully exercised
within a structure or on land or to legally existing land or structures
at the time of the adoption of this chapter, or any amendments thereto,
and which do not conform to the regulations of this chapter and its
amendments.
Chartered nonprofit membership organizations which own and
operate facilities solely for the enjoyment and recreation of the
members.
The sale, display or storage of merchandise, products, equipment
or similar material or objects outside the confines of a building.
The term ”outdoor sales” includes, without limitation,
grand opening sales, tent sales, sidewalk sales, truckload sales,
special event sales, sales promotions, going-out-of-business sales,
fire sales, damaged-goods sales or any other sales held outdoors.
[Added 12-11-2007 by Ord. No. 12-07]
An open space, court or yard, other than a street or public
right-of-way, designed with parking spaces and adequate drives or
aisles for ingress and egress, maintained for the parking of motor
vehicles for a fee or as a service for clients, customers or the general
public.
Accommodations for off-street motor vehicle parking which
shall have an area of not less than 200 square feet per vehicle, exclusive
of access drives or aisles, and shall be a minimum of 10 feet in width,
measured perpendicular to the axis of the length, with adequate provisions
for ingress and egress.
The primary or predominant use of the premises.
Any area of land zoned and restricted for the erection of
stores, markets and agencies in approved permanent structures and
restricted primarily to occupations that provide goods and services
for the benefit of residents of the Township and the transient public.
The ownership by one person or by two or more persons jointly,
as tenants by the entirety or as tenants in common of a separate parcel
of real property not adjacent to land in the same ownership.
Any unit employed for temporary or permanent living or sleeping
purposes, mounted or mountable on wheels or some other device for
the purpose of transporting said unit from place to place, whether
by its own power or other motive power, or any such unit, whether
it is mounted on blocks, posts or any type of foundation.
FRONT YARDAn open space, unoccupied, extending across the full width of a lot and lying between the public street right-of-way and the nearest point of the principal building. Covered porches, enclosed or not, shall be considered as part of the principal building.
REAR YARDAn open space, unoccupied, except by an accessory building or a use, as hereinafter permitted, extending across the full width of the lot between the nearest point of the principal building and the rear lot line.
SIDE YARDAn open space, unoccupied, except by a use, as hereinafter specifically permitted, between the nearest point of the principal building and the side lot line, extending from the front yard to the rear yard.
B.
Word usage. The present tense shall include the future;
the singular number shall include the plural and the plural the singular.
The word "shall" denotes a mandatory requirement. The words "zone"
and "district" are the same.
