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Camden City Zoning Code

ARTICLE XXI

MS Medical and Support Zone

§ 870-131 Permitted uses.

In the MS Medical and Support Zone, no building, structure or premises shall be used and no building or structure shall be erected or structurally altered, except for the following uses:
A. 
Single-family detached dwellings.
B. 
Semidetached dwellings.
C. 
Duplex (two-family) dwellings.
D. 
Townhouses (attached/row) dwellings.
E. 
Multifamily dwellings.
F. 
Hospitals, medical clinics, and health care facilities.
G. 
Nursing and convalescent homes.
H. 
Outpatient care facilities, including surgical centers.
I. 
Establishments for physical therapy treatments.
J. 
Health care and allied services, including family planning clinics, group health associations, and visiting nurses associations.
K. 
Medical and dental education and vocations centers.
L. 
Medical and dental laboratories and testing centers.
M. 
Medical offices and facilities, including but not limited to doctor, dentist and veterinary offices, chiropractors, and psychiatrists.
N. 
Financial institutions, including but not limited to bank, savings and loan associations, credit unions, and other financial institutions.
O. 
Professional and private offices, including but not limited to real estate, accounting, insurance, architects, psychologists and lawyers.
P. 
Retail stores, including but not limited to the sale of antiques, art, dry goods, variety and general merchandise, clothing, fabrics, floor covering, food, books, hobby and art supplies, flowers, drugs, handicraft art, household supplies or furnishings, pets, sale or repair of jewelry, sporting goods, watches and clocks, optical goods, musical, professional and office supplies and packed goods when sold only on the premises.
Q. 
Personal services, including but not limited to barbershops, hairdressers, photographers, shoe repairs, tailors, newspaper, frame shops, and travel agencies.
R. 
Restaurants, not including carry-out and drive-through.
S. 
Commercial recreational facility.
T. 
Parks, playgrounds or recreational areas, community center buildings, and libraries.
U. 
Public, private, or parochial educational institutions.
V. 
Buildings, structures, and other uses owned and operated by the City of Camden.

§ 870-132 Accessory uses.

The following accessory uses shall be permitted in this zone:
A. 
Off-street parking, subject to the requirements of §§ 870-214 and 870-230 through 870-241.
B. 
Multilevel parking structures, subject to the requirements of § 870-232.
C. 
Fences and walls, subject to the requirements of § 870-197.
D. 
Signs, subject to the requirements of § 870-253.
E. 
Sidewalk cafes, subject to the requirements of § 870-217.

§ 870-133 Prohibited uses.

Any use not listed above shall be prohibited in the MS Medical and Support Zone, and specifically the following:
A. 
Signs in any form, except as permitted.
B. 
Lodging houses, boardinghouses, rooming houses, group homes, or any combination thereof.
C. 
Lumber and building supply sales and storage.
D. 
Junkyards and automobile graveyards.
E. 
Auto body shop.
F. 
Automobile sales lot or building.
G. 
Automobile service station, gasoline station, or motor vehicle service station.
H. 
Car wash.
I. 
Farm market.
J. 
Garden center.
K. 
Home center.
L. 
Wholesale, storage, and warehouse.

§ 870-134 Conditional uses.

The following conditional uses shall be permitted in this zone:
A. 
Parabolic dish antennas, subject to the requirements of § 870-210.
B. 
Public utility facilities, subject to the requirements of § 870-191.
C. 
Child-care centers, subject to the requirements of § 870-203.
D. 
Wireless telecommunications facilities, subject to the requirements of §§ 870-210 and 870-211.
E. 
Helistops, subject to the requirements of § 870-40.

§ 870-135 Area regulations.

Table 18
Area Regulations for the MS Medical and Support Zone
Bulk Standards
Type of Development
Requirements
Single-Family
Semi-Detached1
Duplex3
Townhouse4
Multi-family
Non-residential
Minimum lot area per dwelling unit or site area (square feet)
2,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
20,000
2,500
Maximum lot area per dwelling unit or site area (square feet)
4,000
3,000
4,000
3,000
N/A
N/A
Minimum lot width (feet)
20
20
20
20
100
10
Minimum lot depth (feet)
100
100
100
100
N/A
N/A
Maximum height7
3 stories or 35 feet
3 stories or 35 feet
3 stories or 35 feet
3 stories or 35 feet
10 stories or 145 feet
10 stories or 145 feet
Minimum depth of front yard8 (feet)
10
10
10
10
20
N/A
Minimum aggregate width of side yards (feet)
25
25
25
N/A5
50
N/A
Minimum width of each side yard (feet)
10
102
10
See Note 6
20
N/A
Minimum depth of rear yard (feet)
10
10
10
10
30
10
Maximum lot building coverage
60%
60%
60%
60%
60%
80%
Maximum lot impervious coverage
80%
80%
80%
80%
80%
90%
Table 18 Notes:
1.
Single-family semidetached dwelling unit with the units side-by-side as opposed to one on top of another.
2.
Zero feet for common wall.
3.
Two-family detached dwelling unit; a building on a single lot containing two dwelling units, each of which is totally separated from the other by unpierced ceiling and floor extending from exterior wall to exterior wall.
4.
One of a series of three or more dwellings attached side-by-side in a row.
5.
N/A — not applicable.
6.
Interior lots at zero feet; end of corner lots at 10 feet.
7.
A structure shall not have a height less than two stories or 30 feet measured from the average grade line perimetering the building to the top of the main roof cornice line, excluding necessary utility-type roof structure.
8.
A front yard setback shall be provided to be not less than 10 feet. Where there is an existing building on each of two lots adjacent to a lot on which a proposed building is to be erected and both buildings have an alignment nearer to the street than the required front yard and where both buildings are within 100 feet of the proposed building, the average of the existing front yard depths of each adjacent lot shall be the minimum required front yard depth of the lot on which the proposed building is to be erected.
9.
Maximum residential gross density is 150 dwelling units per acre.