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Township of Rochelle Park, NJ
Bergen County
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New Laws (5) Index Notes (1)
A. 
Community residences. Community residences for the developmentally disabled and community shelters for victims of domestic violence shall be a permitted use in all residential districts, subject to the following:
(1) 
A community residence or shelter shall comply fully with all zoning and health regulations applicable to single-family residences in the zone district in which it is located.
(2) 
A community residence or shelter may not be occupied by more than 15 residents, excluding resident staff.
B. 
Child-care facilities. Applications for freestanding child-care centers as a permitted principal use shall comply with the following:
(1) 
Area and bulk regulations:
Regulation
All Nonresidential Districts
Minimum lot area (square feet)
7,500
Minimum lot width (feet)
75
Minimum lot depth (feet)
100
Minimum front yard (feet)
15
Minimum side yards (feet)
10
Minimum rear yards (feet)
10
Maximum building coverage (percent)
50%
Maximum impervious coverage (percent)
70%
Maximum building height (stories/feet)
2/30
(2) 
A minimum of 150 square feet of outdoor play area per child per play shift shall be provided. Play areas shall be permitted in the rear and side yards only and shall be enclosed by a fence at least four feet in height and landscaped and screened from adjoining properties.
(3) 
One off-street parking space shall be provided for every 10 children which the center is designed to accommodate.
(4) 
Such facility shall comply with all applicable governmental requirements and shall be licensed by the New Jersey Department of Human Services.
(5) 
A child-care facility may be permitted to occupy an entire building or a portion of an existing building which is partially occupied by other uses, irrespective of any other ordinance limitations on the number of principal permitted uses allowed on a lot.
(6) 
The floor area occupied by a child-care center in any building for which the child-care center is an accessory use shall be excluded in calculating any parking requirement otherwise applicable to that amount of floor space and shall be excluded from the permitted floor area ratio allowable for that building.
C. 
Garden apartments.
(1) 
Garden apartments shall not exceed 2 1/2 stories in height with gabled or hipped roof and exterior walls faced with brick or stone.
(2) 
The units shall not contain any apartment with more than two bedrooms or at least 80% of the apartments shall contain not more than one bedroom.
(3) 
In the construction of any building or in the utilization of any land for any purpose allowed in this district, the applicant shall preserve, wherever possible, all natural vegetation, including but not limited to trees and shrubbery.
(4) 
No dwelling units shall be permitted in cellars or basements.
D. 
Fast-food restaurants.
(1) 
The following area and bulk requirements shall apply:
(a) 
Minimum lot area: one acre.
(b) 
Minimum lot frontage: 250 feet.
(c) 
Minimum lot depth: 300 feet.
(d) 
Minimum front yard: 40 feet.
(e) 
Minimum side yard: 60 feet.
(f) 
Minimum buffer width along front lot line: 20 feet.
(g) 
Minimum buffer along side and rear when adjoining residential use or district: 15 feet.
(h) 
Maximum lot coverage: 5%.
(2) 
In addition to landscaped buffering, the restaurant shall be screened by a decorative masonry wooden fence of acceptable design six feet in height. No such wall or fence shall be located so as to obstruct safe traffic vision.
(3) 
There shall be at least one major means of access and egress, divided by a median strip. Entrances and exits shall be located at least 80 feet from a street intersection.
(4) 
Minimum off street parking requirements shall be one space per 1.25 seats plus one space for each full-time employee.
(5) 
Direct access from the roadway right-of-way to the nearest turn or parking space on the lot on which the fast-food establishment is located shall be n unobstructed distance of at least 20 feet.
(6) 
The sign regulations set forth in Article XX shall apply.
(7) 
All service, storage and trash areas shall be completely screened from public view. All outside trash receptacles shall be located within an enclosure constructed of decorative masonry material a minimum of four feet and a maximum of six feet in height and shall be provided with opaque gates of the same height.
(8) 
No fast-food restaurant shall be located within 500 feet of a school, church, synagogue or other place of worship or another fast-food restaurant. The distance shall be measured between the two closest property lines.
(9) 
The minimum distance between driveways on-site shall be 65 feet.
(10) 
Drive-in window lanes shall be physically separated from the traffic circulation system on-site by means of concrete curbed and landscaped islands which allow for a minimum width of two feet for landscaping. The drive-in window aisle shall have a minimum width of 10 feet. The length of the drive-in lane shall permit stacking for 10 vehicles. There must be adequate space for customers who have picked up orders to bypass vehicles waiting for a special order.
(11) 
Utilities shall be underground.