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Allenhurst City Zoning Code

§ 26-11.5

Definitions.

[Ord. No. 2003-05, § 005; Ord. No. 2004-13 § I]
As used in the HPO, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
ACCESSORY BUILDING
shall mean a building, which is customarily associated with and is subordinate and incidental to the principal building, and exceeds a forty (40) foot footprint and/or five (5) feet at its peak.
ADDITION
shall mean any extension or increase in the size, floor area or height of a building.
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER
shall mean the person designated by the Board of Commissioners to handle the administration of applications in accordance herewith as well as the coordination of building applications as referenced herein.
ALTERATION, MAJOR
shall mean the addition, change or modification of major architectural elements to a building, which effects the design, shape, pitch or existence of the roof including, but not limited to, main roofs, dormers, roofs of bay or cantilevered windows, pediments, parapets, towers, porches, cupolas, porte cochere and balconies, as well as alterations, including demolition of nonlinear (e.g. oval, Palladian, etc.) window frame outlines. Major alterations would additionally include changes by additions or complete conversion or alteration of the traditional predominant substance, texture or finish of a building (e.g. changing from wood to stucco, stucco to brick), and changes by additions or complete conversion or alteration of columns and railings on any exterior elevation.
ALTERATION, MINOR
shall as distinct from alteration, major, shall mean the replacement or renewal of existing work, requiring a building permit, of a building, with the same or architecturally equivalent materials, equipment or parts, that are made in the ordinary course of maintenance and that do not cause a major alteration of the building, nor result in a request for any other relief from the Planning Board.
APPLICATION
shall mean the formal request by a property owner to the Planning Board for review of an activity, implicating this chapter.
[Amended 5-28-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06]
ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS
shall mean drawings prepared, signed and sealed by a New Jersey licensed architect, or drawings prepared so as to clearly and unambiguously indicate proposed new work and the existing building (in the case of an addition or modification). Drawings shall include a site plan, floor plans and elevations in sufficient scale and detail to convey the intended new work. The elevation drawings shall indicate all features (i.e. dormers, windows, roofs, trim, etc.) and surface finishes proposed for the project. Plans shall indicate the intended use of all rooms, terraces, porches, etc.
ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENT, MAJOR
is a distinguishing original feature, and shall mean an architectural component/design/style/object, which clearly expresses the time period in which a building was built. For the purpose of administration of this section the following are considered architectural elements, major: (a) roof shape/pitch and existence of roofed items, including main roof, dormer roof, roof of roofed windows, pediments/parapets, tower roof, porte-cochere roof, porch roof, balcony roof; (b) nonlinear (e.g. oval, Palladian, etc.) window frame outlines; (c) predominant surface/finish of the building; (d) columns and railings.
BACK YARD
shall mean and be equivalent to rear yard as defined in the Developmental Ordinance of the Borough.
BOARD
shall mean the Planning Board established pursuant to the provisions of the Municipal Land Use Law
[N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.]
BUILDING
shall have the same definitions as set forth in the Developmental Ordinance of the Borough.
CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS
shall mean that certificate issued by the Board, that is required prior to undertaking rehabilitation, restoration, renovation, alteration or demolition, undertaken of buildings, accessory buildings or garages in the District.
CORNER LOT
shall have the same definition as set forth in the Developmental Ordinance of the Borough.
COST ESTIMATE
shall mean a written estimate of the costs, prepared by an architect, engineer or contractor licensed in the State of New Jersey, broken down by category of work, for any proposed architectural alteration, or demolition.
[Amended 5-28-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-06]
DEMOLITION
shall mean the partial or total razing, dismantling or destruction of any building or of any improvement within the Borough of Allenhurst.
DISREPAIR
shall mean a condition that permanently and directly threatens the existence and successful preservation, restoration or rehabilitation of an architectural element, major as defined herein.
DWELLING
shall have the same definitions as set forth in the Developmental Regulations of the Borough.
EMERGENCY REPAIR
shall mean an immediate and temporary repair necessary only to allow the continued habitability of a building and/or to protect the health and safety of any occupants and/or the community at large.
GARAGE
shall have the same definitions as set forth in the Development Regulations of the Borough.
IMPROVEMENT
shall mean any building or any part thereof constructed or installed upon real property by human endeavor and intended to be kept at the location of such construction or installation.
NON-ORDINARY REPAIR
shall mean any repair that does not constitute an ordinary repair as that term is defined herein.
ORDINARY REPAIR
shall mean repairing any deterioration, wear or damage to a building, accessory building, garage or part thereof, to return the same as nearly as practicable to its condition prior to such deterioration, wear or damage.
PRINCIPAL BUILDING
shall mean any building, as defined in the Development Regulations of the Borough, which is not an accessory building or garage.
PORCH
shall mean the same definition as set forth in the Developmental Regulations of the Borough.