a. Permanent in-ground and above ground swimming pools accessory to a residential use shall be erected on the same zone lot as the principal structure, building or use.

b. A permanent swimming pool shall be any device which is capable of maintaining a water depth of twenty-four (24) inches or greater:

c. Said pool may be erected in the side or rear year of the zoning lot. The wall of the swimming pool shall be no closer than ten (10) feet to a side or rear property line. No portion of the walkway or deck surrounding the pool shall be located within six (6) feet of the side or rear yard.

d. No swimming pool shall be permitted within the front yard area.

e. All such pools shall be completely and suitably screened with a locked fence no less than four (4) feet in height and no greater than six (6) feet in height.

f. Said regulations shall not apply to portable swimming pools which are less than twenty-four inches in height.

g. Pools which are accessory to apartments, townhouses and motel complexes, shall be located within an area of no less than three thousand (3,000) square feet , of which no more than forty (40) percent shall represent a water surface area.

(1) No edge of any pool shall be closer to any building or property line than fifteen (15) feet.

(2) The area devoted to the use of the pool shall be enclosed with a fence no less than five (5) or greater than eight (8) feet in height.

(3) The pool may be internally or externally lit, but in no case shall any light be directed in a direct or indirect fashion upon any adjacent property. All lighting shall be in compliance with the applicable National Electrical Code.

(4) If any portion of the pool, or land devoted to the use of the pool, light stanchion or loudspeaker is located closer to any residential building or property line than fifty (50) feet, dense buffers of evergreen trees and shrubs shall be provided.

A. Churches and Other Houses of Worship shall be conditional uses in t h e following zones:

1. The R-1 zone

2. The R-2 zone

3. The R-3 zone

4. The R-4 zone

5. The CI(H) zone

6. The C-2 zone

7. The C-3 zone

The following conditional use standards shall be applicable to churches and other houses of worship as noted in Schedule 1 herein.

a. All public services shall be connected to approved public utilities systems where they exist. The distribution supply lines and service connections shall be installed underground, except that lots which abut streets with existing overhead electric or telephone lines may be supplied from those overhead lines but the service connections shall be installed underground. Should a road widening or extension of service occur as a result of the development, any replacement, relocation or extension of existing overhead lines shall be underground.

a. Public utility services.

Such uses shall include electric substations, transformers, switches and auxiliary apparatus serving a distribution area, and water pumping station in R Districts and shall be subject to the following regulations:

(1) Such facilities shall not be located on a residential street, unless no other site is available, and shall be so coated to draw a minimum of vehicular traffic to and through such streets.

(2) The location, design and operation of such facility may not adversely affect the character of the surrounding residential area.

(3) Adequate fences, barriers and other safety devices shall be provided, and shall be landscaped in accordance with subsection 96-6.11.

(a) Such uses shall be limited to the erection, construction, alteration or maintenance, by public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies, of underground or overhead electrical, gas, television, cable systems, water transmission or distribution systems or collection, communication, supply or disposal systems, including poles, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants and other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate services by such public utility or municipal or other governmental agencies or for the public health and safety or general welfare, but not including buildings. Open essential services shall not include any human or animal fecal matter or material.

(b) Landscaping requirements and performance standards established in subsection 96-6.11 and Section 96-8 shall be adhered to.

a. The purposes of this section are to implement the land use regulations of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection for floodways and flood fringe areas; to discourage construction and regrading in flood hazard areas; to prevent encroachments into flood hazard areas which would obstruct or constrict the area through which water must pass, and to prevent pollution of watercourses during low- or high- water periods by preventing the placing or storing of unsanitary or dangerous substances in flood hazard areas.

b. The flood hazard design elevation shall be shown on the plat based upon stream encroachment line data from the Division of Water Resources or the flood elevation based on a one hundred year storm frequency. At the expense of the landowner, the precise location of the floodway and flood fringe area may be determined by field survey and shall be marked on the ground and on the plat. Where state or federal agencies delineate by contours the flood hazard design elevation, said report shall be the delineated flood hazard area as if published in this chapter.

c. No improvement in a floodway shall be permitted unless it is a permitted use, plat approval has been granted and a floodway permit has been issued by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Water Resources.

d. No improvement in a flood fringe portion of the flood hazard area shall be permitted unless it is a permitted use and plat approval has been granted.

e. Permitted uses in a flood fringe area shall be as follows, provided that they are permitted uses in the district in which they are located.

(1) Industrial j commercial lawns: loading areas and parking areas.

(2) Golf courses, improved courts and playing fields, swimming areas, boat launching ramps, picnic and camping facilities, and open space uses such as hiking trails.

(3) Residential lawns, gardens, parking areas and play areas.

(4) Public lawns, parking areas, play and recreation areas.

f. The applicant shall submit maps, reports and other appropriate documents permitting the approving authority to evaluate whether the proposal has an inherent low flood damage potential, does not obstruct flood flows or increase flood heights and / or velocities, has no floor level less than one (1) foot above the flood hazard design elevation, does not adversely affect the water- carrying capacity of any floodway and / or channel, does not increase local runoff and erosion, does not require channel modification or relocation, does not require fill or the erection of structures, and does not include the storage of equipment and materials.

a. No gas station shall have an entrance or exit for vehicles within two hundred (200) feet along the same side of a street of any school, park, playground, church or other house of worship, library or other public building or institution.

b. There shall be a minimum of one thousand five hundred (1,500) feet between the gas station along the same side of any street or highway. The distance shall be measured along the shortest street or highway between the nearest portions of the property lines of the two lots in question.

c. No gas station shall be permitted where any oil draining pit or visible appliance for any purpose, other than gas pumps and air pumps, is located within thirty (30) feet of any front lot line or within thirty (30) feet of any front lot line or within seventy-five (75) feet of any residential district. All such appliances or pits, other than gas and air pumps, shall be within a building. Gasoline and air pumps shall be permitted within the required front yard space for gas stations, both shall be no closer than twenty (20) feet to the front lot line.

d. No junkyards or premises used for storage of junked motor vehicles or vehicles incapable of normal operation shall be permitted at gas station or repair garages within the Village of Ridgefield Park. It shall be deemed prima facie evidence of violation of this chapter if more than three (3) motor vehicles incapable of operation are located at any one time upon any premises not within a closed and roofed building and if any scrap metal or other junk is stored upon any premises and if any scrap metal or other junk is stored upon the premises. Nothing within a closed and roofed building, excepting, however, that a number not exceeding six (6) motor vehicles may be located upon any gas station or repair garage premise outside of a closed or roofed building for a period of time to exceed forty-eight (48) hours and provided said vehicles are awaiting repair by the owners thereof.

All motor vehicle body shops shall comply with the following requirements:

a. Only one (1) such principal use shall be permitted on a lot, which lot shall have a minimum lot area of at least 200 percent greater than the minimum required lot area of the zone district in which it is located.

b. All property boundaries shall have a densely landscaped buffer at least ten (10') feet wide. Buffers adjacent to any feet wide. Buffers adjacent to any Residence District shall have a minimum width of twenty-five (25) feet and shall suitably fenced.

c. All garage door or interior bay access shall face and he oriented toward the propertys side lot line, except where such side yard faces and is adjacent to a residential use.

d. Motor vehicles under repair shall be kept either within the principal building or outside within a fenced and screened compound. No vehicle shall remain on-site for more than thirty (30) days.

e. Improved lot coverage, including paved areas, used parts and scrap storage shall not exceed fifty (50%) percent of the total lot area.

f. Building coverage shall not occupy more than twenty (20%) percent of the total lot area.

g. Additional parking spaces shall be provided on site as follows:

One (1) space for each employee and two (2) spaces for customer estimates and ten (10) spaces for vehicles that are being repaired.

(a) All commercial, industrial, office, townhouse and apartment uses and other non-residential uses adjoining or abutting a residential zone or institutional or public use shall provide a buffer zone on the side or sides facing said use or zone in accordance with Section 96-9.2 et. seq.

Within any zone where a nonresidential development abuts a residential zone or where off- street parking and loading for six (6) or more vehicles abuts a street, the following buffer area and landscaping requirements shall apply.

a. A strip of land twenty percent (20%) of the average width or depth of the property, but not less than ten (10) feet, when a nonresidential use abuts a residential zone on the side or rear, shall be designated as a buffer area and so indicated on the plat. Buffer areas will be contiguous with residential property lines and shall be of uniform width. In no case should the width of the buffer exceed fifty (50) feet. If the buffer is less than twenty (20) feet wide, the applicant may be required to erect and landscape a six- foot- high stockade fence within the buffer area parallel to the lot line of the abutting residential lot and set back a distance appropriate for the landscaping treatment in the buffer area. Buffer areas between parking and loading areas and streets shall be at least ten (10) feet wide.

b. Buffer areas shall be maintained and kept clean of all debris, rubbish, weeds and tall grass. Any screen planting shall be maintained permanently and any plant material which does not live shall be replaced within one (1) year or one (1) growing season.

c. No structure, activity, storage of materials or parking of vehicles shall be permitted in the buffer area, except access drives from public streets, one (1) unlighted directional sign per each direction of traffic per access drive and permitted signs as specified in the district regulations.

a. A solid and continuous landscaped screen shall be planted and maintained to conceal parking and loading areas, eliminate the glare of vehicle lights throughout the year and camouflage the building from the abutting residential areas. The landscape screen shall consist of evergreen trees, such as hemlock, Douglas fir, Norway spruce, and other types of appropriate evergreen trees. Trees shall be planted in an area five (5) to twenty (20) feet from the residential line in a zigzag pattern and not more than six (6) feet apart, except where otherwise authorized by the approving authority Evergreen trees shall not be less than six (6) feet high when planted, and the lowest branches shall be not more than one (1) foot above the ground In the event existing evergreens do not provide an adequate buffer, supplemental plantings may be required.

b. In addition to the landscaped screen, shade trees, such as sugar maples, scarlet oaks, pin oaks, willow oaks, Norway maples, sweet gum, ash, etc., shall be planted by the applicant at a distance of not more than thirty (30) feet from each other.

c. The height of the landscaped screen shall be measured in relation to the elevation of the edge of the parking and loading area. Where the landscaped screen is lower than the elevation of the parking or loading area, either the required height of the screen shall be increased equal to the difference in elevation or the parking or loading area shall be moved to allow the plantings to be located in an area with a similar elevation as the parking or loading area.

d. If the buffer area includes existing growth of evergreen and deciduous trees and shrubbery but not enough to provide a suitable screen as required above, existing trees and shrubbery may remain and shall be supplemented by additional evergreen plantings to provide the required landscape screen. In the event the approving authority finds that further planting of evergreens will not grow satisfactorily in said buffer areas, stockade fence(s) six (6) feet high shall be erected in the buffer area. No applicant shall be required to erect more than one (1) six- foot- high stockade fence in any one (1) buffer area.

e. The approving authority shall have the power to waive some of the buffer requirements if it determines an adequate. buffer can be provided in less than ten (10) feet while maintaining the purposes of this section. The approving authority shall review the proposed plat and the standards and purposes for buffers, considering the location of buildings, parking areas, outdoor illumination and topographic features of the area and existing features such as trees, streams, the efficiency, adequacy and safety of the proposed layout of driveways, streets, sidewalks and paths, the adequacy and location of existing green areas and buffer areas, the adequacy and location of screening and parking areas, structures and uses, and similar features.

f. The area encompassed in the buffer zone may be utilized for the purpose of computing lot coverage, improved lot coverage and required yard setbacks.

a. All fences erected in the Village must be erected so as to have the finished side facing the neighboring lot. No fence shall be erected higher than six (6') feet in height when located behind the required front lot line of the principal structure. No fence shall be erected higher than four (4') feet in height when located in the required front yard as defined in subsection 96-2.2. Notwithstanding anything contained in this subsection, the fencing of private tennis courts shall comply with the provisions of subsection 96-7.6.

b. Fencing on corner lots shall meet the requirements set forth herein.

c. No fence can be erected within the sight triangle of an intersection as provided herein.

d. Any enclosed use required by this Chapter to be landscaped shall be provided with a fence or a visual screen designed to produce a dense cover consisting of evergreen or evergreen-type hedges or shrubs, spaced at intervals of not more than six (6) feet, located and maintained in good condition within ten (10) feet of the property line or as shall be determined by the Planning Board. The Planning Board, in the alternative, may require a landscaped earthen berm not less than five (5) feet in height.

e. Unenclosed Uses.

Any use which is not conducted within a completely enclosed building, such as required off-street parking, shall be entirely enclosed by a solid or closely woven fence or by evergreen hedges or shrubs spaced at intervals of not more than six (6) feet, located and maintained in good condition, within ten (10) feet of the property line or the zone district boundary line or as shall be determined by the Planning Board.

f. Maintenance.

(1) Any fence or landscaping installed in accordance with this section shall be maintained in good order to achieve the objectives of this chapter. Failure to maintain fencing or to replace dead or diseased landscaping or any refuse which may collect therein shall be considered a violation of this chapter.

(2) Whenever a buffer or landscaping requirement is imposed, and to 'the extent that same is in fulfillment of the requirements of this Chapter or any other Village ordinance, a guaranty in the form of a surety bond, cash or security deposit shall be required.

(3) Temporary fences (including but not limited to snow fences, construction fences, safety fences and filter fences) are not permitted in the Village of Ridgefield Park for periods in excess of thirty (30) days except when such fences are being actually used in connection with immediate or current construction activity or safety protection on the site.