Bordentown, NJ Zoning Ordinance

This zone is designed for commercial uses normally requiring a larger area and generating a greater intensity of traffic and usage serving the needs of the immediate community and the larger regions in accordance with the requirements hereinafter set forth:

All primary intended uses permitted in the Local Commercial Zone.

Banks and business, professional, executive and governmental offices.

Music, dancing, art and photographic studios.

Funeral homes and mortuaries.

Hotels and motels.

Retail stores and service establishments.

Restaurants and eating and drinking places, including drive-in restaurants.

Indoor theaters, bowling alleys and health and recreation facilities.

Commercial printing plants and publishing houses.

Service stations and public garages.

Lumber and building material yards.

The following uses are also permitted:

Designed shopping complex. A building or a group of abutting buildings designed to be utilized by more than one permitted use where such building or group of abutting buildings is constructed at one time. The area and yard requirements shall be applied to the one building or group of abutting buildings as one structure.

Signs as permitted by Article XVII, Signs.

The following uses shall be permitted as conditional uses subject to the conditions and procedures set forth in Article XVI, Conditional Uses:

Public utility uses.

Dog kennels.

Adult bookstores, adult motion-picture theaters and adult mini-motion-picture theaters.

Amusement arcade.

Accessory uses permitted in the HC Highway Commercial Zone shall be as follows:

Garages for the storage of vehicles used in the conduct of the principal use.

The following requirements shall be met in the HC Highway Commercial Zone:

Minimum lot area. There shall be a minimum lot area of at least 15,000 square feet.

Minimum lot width. There shall be a minimum lot width of 100 feet at the street line.

Front yard. There shall be a front yard of not less than 25 feet.

Side yard. There shall be two side yards, totaling 25 feet, provided that no side yard is less than 10 feet.

Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard of not less than 25 feet, except where a rear lot line abuts a residential district, whereupon the rear yard shall be 50 feet.

Height. The height of the principal structure shall not exceed 35 feet or 2 1/2 stories, whichever is lesser.

Minimum floor area. Every principal structure or separate permitted use shall have a minimum heated floor area of 800 square feet.

Minimum residential floor area. Motel and hotel units shall have a minimum gross floor area of 400 square feet.

Service stations and public garages dispensing gasoline may have gasoline pumps and/or service islands closer to the street line than the building setback line but in no event closer than 25 feet to the street line.

Floor area ratio. The maximum floor area ratio shall not exceed 50%.

Parking. Parking shall be as required by Article XV, Off-Street Parking and Loading.

Buffers. In side and rear yard areas adjoining residential zones, buffering shall be required pursuant to Chapter 244. Subdivision of Land and Site Plan Approval.