This title shall be known and may be cited as the "Township of Glen Ridge Borough Zoning Ordinance." (Ord. 1080 § 1, 1984: Ord. 820 § 1.100, 1963)
A. The purpose of this title is to encourage the most appropriate use of land throughout the municipality; to conserve and stabilize the value of property; to prevent the overcrowding of land and buildings; to avoid undue concentration of population; to lessen congestion in the streets; to secure safety from fire, panic and other dangers; to facilitate adequate provisions for water, sewerage, schools, parks and other public requirements; to provide adequate open spaces for light and air, and to accomplish such other projects and purposes of zoning as are now and may be hereinafter set forth in the enabling legislation.
B. Fort this purpose, this title designates, regulates and restricts the location and use of buildings, structures and land for residence, nonresidence and other purposes and the height, number of stories and size of buildings and other structures hereafter erected or altered; regulates and determines the size of yards and other open spaces; and regulates and limits the density of population.
C. In order to effect its purpose, this title divides the borough into zoning districts of such number, shape and area as may be deemed best to carry out this title. (Ord. 820 § 1.200, 1963)
Words used in the present tense include the future; the singular number includes the plural and the plural the singular, the word "lot" includes the word "plot"; the word "structure" includes the word "building."
ACCESSORY USE OR ACCESSORY STRUCTURE means a use, structure, or building subordinate to the permitted use of the principal building on the same lot and serving a purpose customarily incidental to the permitted use of the principal building.
BUILDING means a structure which has a roof supported by columns or walls and is used or intended to be used for the shelter or enclosure of persons or property, but not including vehicles, trailers, mobilehomes or the like whether standing on wheels or on foundation walls or other rigid supports. A covered porch, patio, carport or the like, whether enclosed or unenclosed, which is attached or contiguous to a structure shall be considered part of a building.
BUILDING AREA means the total of the maximum horizontal projected areas of the principal building and all its accessory buildings, including covered porches, Porte-cocheres and all other projections.
BUILDING HEIGHT means the vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the finished grade at the front of the building to the highest point of the roof for flat roofs, to the deck line for mansard roofs, and to the mean height between eaves and ridge for gable, hip and gambrel roofs, Where there are both flat and pitched roofs, the greater vertical distance shall control.
BUILDING, PRINCIPAL means a building in which is conducted the principal use permitted for the site on which it is situated.
CHURCH means. any building wherein the members of a group of individuals who are joined together by a common religious belief, which has an enrolled membership in the church of at least two hundred fifty members of which at least fifty percent shall be residents of the borough, meet for the purpose of religious expression and matters relating thereto.
COURTS:
1. "Inner court" means an open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a principal building which is enclosed on all sides by exterior walls of the building.
2. "Outer court" means an open, unoccupied space on the same lot with a principal building enclosed on not more than three sides by exterior walls with at least one side or end open to a street lot line or any front, side or rear yard.
DWELLING means any building or portion thereof designed or occupied exclusively as the residence of one or more persons.
1. "Dwelling, single-family" means a detached building, designed or occupied exclusively as the residence of a single family.
2. "Dwelling, two-family" means a detached building, designed or occupied exclusively as the residence of two single families living independently of each other.
FLOOR AREA means the area of all floors computed by measuring the dimensions of the outside walls of a building, excluding attic and basement floors, porches, patios, terraces, breezeways, verandas and residential garages.
FLOOR AREA RATIO means the gross floor area of all buildings on a lot divided by the lot area.
GARAGE, PRIVATE means an enclosed space for the storage of one or more motor vehicles, provided that no business, occupation or service is conducted therein and further provided that no space therein for more than two motor vehicles is leased to nonresidents of the premises.
HOSPITAL means a charitable and nonprofit institution providing health services (extended or otherwise) primarily for inpatient medical and surgical care and treatment of the sick or injured of the human race and includes related facilities, such as, but not limited to, laboratory, outpatient departments, training facilities, central service facilities and staff offices, but only so long as: (1) the foregoing facilities are directly related to and necessary for the provision of the aforementioned health services; and (2) the services related to such foregoing facilities are directly performed by the institution. A hospital shall not be construed to include a nursing home, home for the aged, convalescent home or sanitarium.
LOT means a parcel of land occupied or intended to be occupied by one principal building, and the accessory buildings or uses customarily incidental to the principal building, including such open spaces as required by this title and having frontage on a public street.
1. Lot, corner" means a lot at the junction of and fronting on two or more streets.
3. "Lot, depth" means the mean distance between the street lot line and the rear lot line measured in the general direction of the side lot lines.
a. "Lot line, street" means a line separating the lot from a street.
b. "Lot line, rear."
ii. Corner Lot. A lot line to the rear of the front face of the principal building except where same is a street lot line, in which event there will be no rear lot line.
c. "Lot line, side." Any lot line other than a street or rear lot line.
5. "Lot width" means the horizontal distance measured along a straight line between the points in the two side lot lines where said lot lines are intersected by a line parallel to or concentric with the street lot line and at the required depth of the front yard at the time the lot is established.
NONCONFORMING LOT means any lot which does not conform to the minimum area or dimensions required in the zone in which such lot is situated.
NONCONFORMING BUILDING means a building which in its design or location upon a lot does not conform to the regulations for the zone in which it is situated.
NONCONFORMING USE means the use of a building or land that does not conform to the regulations as to use for the zone in which it is situated.
PROFESSIONAL OFFICE means the office of a member of a recognized profession maintained for the conduct of that profession.
SINGLE FAMILY shall have the meaning given that term in Section 1.04.010.
SINGLE-FAMILY USE shall have the meaning given that term in Section 1.04.010.
STRUCTURE means anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires permanent location on the ground, or attachment to something having permanent location on the ground.
TOWNHOUSE means a one-family dwelling in a row of at least three such units in which each unit has its own front and rear access to the outside, no unit is located over another unit, and each unit is separated from any other unit by one or more common fire-resistant walls.
YARD means an unoccupied space on the same lot with a principal building, open to the sky except for the ordinary projections of window sills, belt courses, cornices and other ornamental features to the extent of not more than four inches.
1. "Yard, front" means a yard situated between a street lot line and the line of the principal building nearest to said street projected to its intersection with other lot lines.
2. "Yard, rear" means a yard situated between the rear lot line and the rear wall of the principal building nearest thereto projected to other lot lines. For interior lots, a rear yard shall extend from side lot line to side lot line. For corner lots, a rear yard, if any, shall extend from front yard to side lot line or to another front yard.
3. "Yard, side" means a yard situated between the principal building and the side lot line extending from the front yard to the rear yard. (Ord. 1318 §§ 2-5, 1999; Ord. 1266 § 1, 1995; Ord. 1173 (part), 1990; Ord. 1080 § 3, 1984; Ord. 987 § 1, 1976; Ord. 919 § 1, 1970; Ord. 906 § 1, 1969; Ord. 893 § 1, 1969; Ord. 820 §§ 2.100-2.280, 1963)
