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Allentown City Zoning Code

§ 28-10.9.2

Residential Zones Permitted Uses.

[Added 4-20-2021 by Ord. No. 03-2021]
In residence districts no building or structure shall be used and no building or structure shall be erected or altered to be used for any purpose other than the following:
a. 
Detached single-family dwelling.
b. 
Any form of agriculture or horticulture except the keeping or handling of farm livestock.
c. 
Greenhouses.
d. 
The sale of farm products on properties where produced, provided that no structure may be erected or advertising displayed to facilitate such sale.
e. 
Millinery or dressmaking, except that no advertising signs or display of the product is permitted.
f. 
Essential public services.
g. 
Municipal buildings, parks, playgrounds, and other governmental uses, public libraries and museums.
h. 
Community residences for the developmentally disabled housing six persons or less, excluding resident staff, for housing developmentally disabled persons as defined by N.J.S.A. 40:55D-66 et seq. exclusive of alcoholism and drug or narcotic related disabilities; and mentally ill persons defined as mentally deficient, mentally retarded and mentally ill persons as defined by N.J.S.A. 30:4-23 exclusive of alcoholism, drug and narcotic related mental illnesses and persons committed after having been found guilty or not guilty of a criminal offense by reason of insanity or having been found unfit to be tried on a criminal charge. Such residences shall be deemed to be permitted uses in residence districts upon proof being submitted to the Zoning Officer that such proposed residences shall have been approved for a purchase of service contract or an affiliation agreement pursuant to such procedures as shall be established by regulations of The New Jersey Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Retardation, or like State agency, as encompassed in the "Manual of Standards for Licensed Community Residences for the Developmentally Disabled." Such community residences for the developmentally disabled shall remain permitted uses as long as the license issued to such facility by the New Jersey Department of Human Services has not been placed under probationary or provisional license restrictions, be revoked or suspended, and such condition exists in excess of 30 days. In the event of a revocation, suspension or probation of a license, the residence shall not be deemed to be a permitted use until the owner thereof shall file with the Zoning Officer written proof of reinstatement of the license by the Department of Human Services; and upon failure to obtain reinstatement of the license within 90 days of suspension, probation, or revocation of the license by the Department of Human Services the use of the premises as a residence for the developmentally disabled shall cease and terminate.