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Carlstadt City Zoning Code

21-8 Commercial

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21-8.1. 
Permitted Uses. Within any commercial zone, no building or lands shall be used in whole or in part for any industrial or manufacturing purpose, or for any other than the following specified uses:
a. 
Hotels, retail service, office, retail service store, food supermarket, professional office, discount store, variety store, tavern, restaurant, confectionery, shop of a plumber, electrician or similar trades person, automobile salesroom, cleaning, pressing and tailoring operations done exclusively for local and individual customers, but not including work done for the trade or for other establishments; all provided that, in the permitted stores or shops, no merchandise shall be carried other than that intended to be sold at retail on the premises, that only electric motor power shall be used for operating any machinery used incidentally to a permitted use, and that no supplies, materials or goods shall be stored outdoors.
b. 
Retail service store, as used in the preceding paragraph, is not intended and shall not be construed to include establishments handling storing coal, lumber, oil, sand, stone, gravel, brick, tile masonry material or other bulk structural building materials.
c. 
Awnings of opaque material and with opaque lettering are permitted. No back lighting or florescent lettering is permitted. The awnings shall not project or extend more than two feet from the building.
d. 
All other signs and awnings are prohibited.
e. 
Any use permitted within the residential zone shall be permitted within the commercial zone.
21-8.2. 
Prohibited Uses and Buildings. In a commercial zone, no structure or premises shall be erected which is arranged, intended or design to be used for any of the following specified trades, industries or uses:
a. 
Billiard or poolroom business where the public is permitted.
b. 
Bottling works.
c. 
Building material storage yard.
d. 
Carousel, roller coaster, whirligigs, merry-go-rounds, Ferris wheels or similar amusement devices.
e. 
Carpet, rag or bag cleaning establishment.
f. 
Carting, express, hauling or storage yard.
g. 
Contractor's plant or storage yard.
h. 
Coal, cement, lime, plaster, coke, lumber, wood or brick storage.
i. 
Ice plant or storage.
j. 
Livery or boarding stables.
k. 
Lunch wagons.
l. 
Metal or woodworking shop employing more than four persons.
m. 
Sand or gravel pit.
n. 
Milk distributing station.
o. 
Stone yard or monument works, except immediately opposite or adjacent to a cemetery.
p. 
Storage, sorting or baling of scrap paper, iron, bottles, rags or junk.
q. 
Any trade, industry or use prohibited in an industrial zone.
r. 
Any use that is noxious or offensive by reason of the emission of dust, smoke, gas or noise.
21-8.3. 
Signs. See section 21-20, Signs and Billboards.
21-8.4. 
Nightclubs. Nightclubs shall be a conditional use within the Commercial Zone, subject to and permitted only under the following conditions:
a. 
The site proposed for such nightclub use must front on Route 17 or be located east of the northbound lanes of Route 17;
b. 
There shall be a ten-foot open space between any structure (including any fence or wall) located on the property on which the nightclub is located which is adjacent to any property upon which there is a residential use;
c. 
A solid fence of at least eight feet in height shall be erected by the proposed nightclub on the inside boundary of the buffer described in Paragraph b above. The fence shall be solid so as to screen adjoining properties from visual effects and noise.
d. 
The proposed nightclub shall provide, on its site, no fewer than the number of parking spaces calculated according to the following formula: one parking space for each 25 square feet of gross floor area of the nightclub (including, but not limited to any kitchen, bathroom, closet, storage and other areas within the building housing the nightclub);
e. 
Exits and entrances shall not be located opposite an R Zoning District immediately adjoining the site. This provision does not apply to required emergency exits.
f. 
The proposed nightclub shall install soundproofing materials in and about the premises so as to eliminate the intrusion of music and noise on neighboring residences and businesses.