Regular zoning districts.

Transit Village Districts (TVD).

Applicability. In redevelopment areas designated by the City of East Orange for which redevelopment plans are adopted pursuant to the Local Redevelopment and Housing Law, N.J.S.A. 40A:12A-1 et seq., and where there exists variations in land use or design controls between the redevelopment plan and other provisions of this chapter, the provisions of the adopted redevelopment plan supersede the applicable provisions of this chapter of the City of East Orange.

Urban redevelopment districts. The following redevelopment areas are designated on the Zoning Map as urban redevelopment districts:

Compliance with district regulations. No building or structure shall be erected, converted, enlarged, reconstructed or structurally altered, nor shall any building or structure or land be used, which does not comply with all the district regulations established by this chapter for the district in which the building, structure or land is located.

Yard and area regulations, minimum requirements. The yard regulations and the lot area per family provisions required by this chapter shall be considered minimum regulations for each and every building or structure at the time of the effective date of this chapter and for any building or structure thereafter erected or structurally altered. No land required for yards or for lot area per family in connection with an existing building or structure or in connection with any building or structure hereafter erected or structurally altered shall be decreased by sale or otherwise or be made a portion of any required yard or lot area for any other building or structure.

Principal buildings to be on lots. Every principal building or structure thereafter erected or structurally altered shall be located on a lot, as herein defined.

District boundary lines dividing lots. Where a district boundary line divides a lot of record at the time such line is adopted, the regulations as are applicable to accessory uses and accessory structures for the less-restricted portion of such lot shall apply to the more-restricted portion, but for a distance of not more than 51 feet, measured at right angles to such district boundary line. In such instance, the lot must have frontage on a street in the less-restricted district, and where such accessory uses and buildings extend into a residential district, they shall be set back and screened with a minimum height of six feet of either an evergreen landscape buffer installed in accord with § 51-193 or an opaque wall or fence which shall have no painted or attached signage.

The site plan standards as enumerated under Articles XIII (§ 51-75), XIV (§§ 51-76 through 51-79) and XV (§§ 51-80 through 51-82) shall be deemed the minimum requirements for all site plan and subdivision applications unless otherwise indicated.

Front yard setback standards. Front yard setback standards shall be measured to the structural front walls of applicable buildings and shall not be based on the locations of open or enclosed porches, balconies or bay windows. Small sections of a new facade may also be recessed deeper than the required setback to allow for architectural interest in the new building.

Glazing regulations.

Special side yard and rear yard setback regulations. No new construction may encroach within three feet of the windows or doors of another existing building on another property nor block emergency access to those windows or doors.

Minimum dwelling unit or apartment sizes for newly constructed buildings, new additions or for the subdividing of dwelling units in existing buildings.

Chimneys, cooling towers, elevator bulkheads, fire towers, gas tanks, solariums, steeples, penthouses, stacks, stage towers or scenery lofts, tanks, water towers, ornamental towers and spires, wireless radio or television towers or necessary mechanical appurtenances may be erected, provided that no tower other than a church steeple or tower of a public building shall exceed the applicable height limitations by more than 10%. No tower shall be used as a place of habitation or for tenant purposes. No sign, nameplate, display or advertising device of any kind whatsoever shall be inscribed upon or be attached to any chimney, tower, tank or other structure which extends above the applicable height limitations. Cooling towers, elevator bulkheads, fire towers, gas tanks, penthouses, stacks, stage towers or scenery lofts, tanks, water towers, wireless radio or television towers or necessary mechanical appurtenances are only permitted to be mounted on flat roofs and shall be set back from any street-facing edge of the roof on which they are mounted for a distance of one foot from the roof edge for every one foot of height above the roofline of the item.

On through lots 120 feet or less in depth, the height of a building may be measured from the grade on either street. On through lots more than 120 feet in depth, the height regulations and basis of height measurements for the street permitting the greater height shall apply to a depth of not more than 120 feet from the street.

In computing the depth of a rear yard where the rear yard opens to an alley, 1/2 of the width of the alley shall be considered to be a portion of the rear yard.

No accessory building shall occupy more than 400 square feet for lots smaller than 10,000 square feet and no more than 15% of the rear yard for lots larger than 10,000 square feet, and shall only be permitted in the rear yard.

Every part of a required rear yard shall be open to the sky unobstructed, except for accessory buildings in a rear yard.

Open or lattice-enclosed fire escapes, required by law, projecting into a yard not more than five feet and the ordinary projection of chimneys and pilasters shall be permitted by the Construction Official when placed so as not to obstruct light and ventilation.

Along a narrower street near its intersection with a wider street or on an interior lot running through to a narrower street, any building or part of a building shall be governed by the volume regulations provided for the wider street or to within 100 feet of such narrower street where the restriction on the latter may be less severe.

An offset to a court or yard may be considered as a part of such court or yard, provided that it shall not be deeper in any part than it is wide on the open side and that such open side shall in no case be less than six feet wide.

The space above any underground structure shall be considered a yard. No underground structure is subject to the setback requirements of this chapter, nor shall its area be used in the calculation of the floor area ratio and the building area.

Where a nonresidential zone adjoins a residential zone within a block, any principal or accessory building constructed in the nonresidential district within 100 feet of the residential district along the same street front shall be set back at least 1/2 the distance that would be required if the premises were deemed to be located in the adjoining residential zone, but in no event less than 20 feet.