Bound Brook City Zoning Code
21-10.18 RB/SR
Regional Business/Senior Residential.
[Ord. No. 04-12 § 21-10.17A]
The purpose of the Regional Business Zone is to provide for the regional commercial and transient needs and uses appropriately situated at or adjacent to the intersections of major regional highways and such uses that support the limited needs of the senior citizens. Rooming houses and boarding houses are specifically prohibited.
a.
Principal permitted uses.
1.
Regionally — oriented retail shopping centers and neighborhood retail uses, consisting of an integrated development plan of such uses as:
2.
Hotels and Motels.
3.
Medical and Dental Offices.
4.
Senior Citizen Housing.
5.
Warehouse/Distribution on west side of Middlebrook.
6.
Child Care Centers.
7.
One existing or relocated Telecommunication Facility.
8.
Assisted Care Facility and Nursing Homes.
b.
Permitted accessory uses.
1.
Uses customarily incidental to the principal permitted uses, including but not limited to auditoriums, swimming pools, tennis courts, health clubs and retail and service stores. All accessory uses are to be located conveniently accessible to the principal use in accordance with the site plan. Tennis courts and swimming pools may be located indoors and outdoors.
2.
Other uses and structures customarily incidental to a principal permitted use.
3.
Private and public parking, including parking garages.
4.
Signs.
5.
Assembly.
c.
Supplemental regulations for principal permitted uses.
1.
Minimum tract size: three acres.
2.
Coverage for all uses in the development plan shall be limited to 70%.
3.
Maximum building height (excluding mechanical penthouse which shall be limited to 20 feet above the roofline):
4.
Minimum tract front yard: 25 feet.
5.
Minimum tract side yard each: 10 feet from the tract line to the building.
6.
Minimum tract rear yard to the building: 10 feet.
7.
There shall be an additional ten foot for all yard requirements for each story proposed above four stories. This requirement shall apply to the perimeter of the tract and shall not apply to the distance requirement from internal roadways.
d.
Supplemental regulation for senior citizen housing.
1.
Principal permitted uses. This zone is limited to senior citizen housing which shall mean housing where at least one occupant of each unit is 62 years of age or older and no permanent occupant shall be less than 18 years of age. The following dwelling unit types for senior citizens are permitted:
3.
Common open space if there is multiple ownership. Maintenance of common open space shall be regulated by a management association.
4.
Maximum gross density: 60 dwelling units per acre.
5.
Site and Building Design.
(a)
Off-street parking requirements shall be established by the Planning Board or reviewing authority but shall not be less than 0.3 spaces for congregate, continuing and assisted care per unit, nor more than 0.5 space per senior citizen unit.
(b)
The development may include a separate, free-standing senior citizen center: minimum of one parking space per 1,000 square feet of floor area. Such facility is accessory to the senior citizen housing.
(c)
Space and facilities shall be provided for passive and active outdoor recreation areas consistent with the needs of senior citizen occupants, as deemed reasonably necessary by the Board.
e.
Nonresidential parking and access.
g.
Lighting. Adequate lighting shall be provided to ensure safe movement of persons and vehicles and for security purposes. Lighting standards shall be a type approved by the Planning Board. Directional lights shall be arranged so as to minimize glare and reflection on adjacent properties. Lighting intensity shall not exceed 1.0 footcandle within the property and 0.25 footcandles along lot lines abutting a residential zone.
h.
Buffering and landscaping.
1.
Buffering. The Planning Board may require buffering within the setback lines. Buffering may consist of fencing, evergreens, shrubs, berms, rocks, boulders, mounds, bushes, deciduous trees or combinations thereof.
2.
Landscaping. Landscaping shall be provided as part of the overall site plan design and integrated into building arrangements, topography, parking and buffering requirements. Landscaping shall include trees, bushes, shrubs, ground cover, perennials, annuals, plants, sculpture, art, are and the use of building and paving materials in an imaginative manner.