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Bound Brook City Zoning Code

21-10.19 RB-1

Regional Business District One.

[Ord. No. 04-12 § 21-10.17B]
a. 
Primary intended use. This zone is intended for regional office and corporate centers, hotel, motel, data processing, communication and administrative offices and those uses as customarily considered accessory thereto, including but not limited to swimming pools, plazas and tennis courts.
b. 
Prohibited uses. Any use other than those listed is prohibited within the RB-1 District.
c. 
Required conditions. The following requirements shall be complied with in the RB-1 Regional Business District One:
1. 
Front yard. The minimum requirement for the front yard within the district shall be established at 75 feet.
2. 
Side yard. The minimum requirement for the side yard within the district shall be established at 50 feet.
3. 
Rear yard. The minimum requirement for the side yard within the district shall be established at 50 feet.
4. 
All buildings shall be set at least 30 feet from any internal roadway.
5. 
Lot width. There shall be a minimum of 100 feet lot width.
6. 
Minimum lot area. Each lot shall contain a minimum of 120,000 square feet.
7. 
Maximum percent of impervious coverage. The maximum percent of the ratio of total impervious coverage to total lot area shall be 60%.
8. 
Maximum Floor Area Ratio (F.A.R.). The maximum ratio of gross floor area of all floors of the building to the area of the lot shall be 0.40.
9. 
Regional Business Zone (RB-1). Parking shall be screened from public and private roadways by means of landscaping and no parking shall be permitted closer than 20 feet to any property line. For the purpose of administering this subsection, any basement area that is open to the public or used for display purposes shall be computed in the gross floor area. All fractional spaces required under the terms of this subsection shall be construed as whole spaces.
10. 
Signs in the RB-1 Zone. This zone shall permit signs as regulated in Subsection 21-10.5.
11. 
The maximum building height shall be 40 feet.
12. 
Buffer areas. There shall be a landscaped buffer area of at least 50 feet wide which shall be required on all property lines abutting a residential district, around loading and trash collection points visible from abutting residential districts or residential zoning districts or public streets, around parking lots and abutting streets and along street lines where residences or residential zoning is across the street. Such landscaped area shall be designed to mitigate the effects of headlights and vehicular activity.