A structure or use which:

A single vehicular entrance-exit combination between a public street and a lot.

A change or rearrangement of the structural parts or existing facilities of a building, or any enlargement or relocation of a building.

A place where animals or pets are given medical or surgical treatment. Use as a kennel shall only be for short-term boarding and shall be accessory to such hospital use.

Any building, structure or premises in which animals are kept, boarded or trained.

A building where objects of art, furniture and other goods are offered for sale to persons who bid on each item in competition with each other. Open air auctions, such as vehicle auctions, are not included in this definition.

A structure and surrounding land used for the storage and sale of petroleum fuel primarily to motor vehicles and for accessory uses such as the sale of lubricants, accessories or supplies and the performing of non-body repairs.

A portion of a building having one-half or more, but less than all, of its floor-to-ceiling height above the average level of the adjoining ground. A basement shall be a story if used for business or dwelling purposes.

An enclosed structure having a roof supported by arches, column, piers or walls. This term shall include all structures, whether they may have wheels or other supports, which are used primarily in a stationary manner within the Township.

The vertical distance measured from the average finished grade at all foundation corners of the building or structure, or at not less than ten equidistant points in the case of a circular structure, to the highest point of the building excluding the chimney or any superstructure above the roof such as stair or elevator bulkheads, water towers, etc.

The person or persons duly appointed to discharge the duties and functions of the office of the building subcode official of the Township.

A line formed by the intersection of the finished grade and a vertical plane that coincides with the exterior surface of the building on any side. In case of a cantilevered or projected section of a building, the vertical plane will coincide with the most projected surface.

A roofed structure providing space for the parking of motor vehicles and enclosed on not more than three sides.

A portion of a building having more than one-half of its floor-to-ceiling height below the average level of the adjoining ground. No cellar or portion thereof shall be used as a dwelling unit or for business purposes other than for storage. If a cellar is used for storage, it shall be a story.

Antennas which are used for the transmission and reception of wave frequencies for the purposes of any wireless telecommunication (e.g., telephone, radio, paging and/or television communication) and which are permitted as "conditional uses" in accordance with the specific zoning conditions and standards for their location and operation included within this chapter. For the purposes of this chapter, "cellular antennas" shall not be considered to be a "public utility."

See the definition of "permit, occupancy."

A parcel of land or an area of water or a combination of land or water within a development, designed and intended for the use or enjoyment of such development. Common open space shall not include parking areas or accessways thereto but may include such complementary structures including required landscaping buffers and improvements as are necessary and appropriate for the enjoyment of residents, users, and owners of the development.

Any land used or to be used by the East Windsor Regional School District or any municipal utilities authority or any agency providing municipal utilities shall not be considered part of common open space.

A digital data repository facility of data servers for an enterprise or different entities.

Means a use permitted in a particular zoning district only upon a showing that such use in a specified location will comply with the conditions and standards for the location or operation of such use as contained in the zoning ordinance, and upon the issuance of an authorization therefor by the Planning Board.

Lots or groups of lots which are under common ownership or control, having a common boundary and not separated by any other lots or any street other than a local or collector street.

Any area bounded on three sides by one or more structures.

The end of a street which has been improved in conformance with the technical standards ordinance. The end of any street which has not been so improved shall not be a cul-de-sac for purposes of measuring lot requirements pursuant to this ordinance.

An area of land owned or controlled by one landowner or a group of landowners to be developed as a whole by a single entity.

Any permanent building or portion thereof designed or used exclusively as the residence or sleeping place of one or more persons.

One or more rooms, occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by one family or household with access directly from the outside or from a common hall with separate cooking, sleeping and sanitary facilities provided within the unit for the exclusive use of the occupants thereof.

Any number of persons related by blood, marriage or living together as a single housekeeping unit and using certain rooms and housekeeping facilities in common.

An area of land actively devoted to agricultural or horticultural uses or the ownership, care, breeding or raising of animals. Farm activity shall be deemed to include on-site residence for farm owners and employees.

The floor area ratio of the building or other structure on any lot or development is determined by dividing the gross floor area of such a building or structure by the area of the lot or development on which such building or structure is located. When more than one building or structure is located on the lot or development then the floor area ratio is determined by dividing the total gross floor area of all buildings or structures by the area of all buildings or structures by the area of the lot or development. The floor area ratio requirements, as set forth under each district, shall determine the maximum gross floor area allowable for buildings and other structures in direct ratio to the gross area of the lot of development.

A building or structure used for the storage of one or more vehicles. If maintained primarily for the convenience of the resident occupant of the premises and no service is rendered to the public or business conducted therein, it is a private garage. Any garage other than a private garage is a public garage.

The completed surfaces of lawns, landscaped areas, driveways, walks and roads.

A building or group of buildings whether detached or in connected units used as individual sleeping accommodations for transients and having access through a common lobby or corridors.

Any person may utilize his home for any lawful activity providing that:

A group of persons related by blood, marriage or otherwise living together as a single housekeeping unit and using certain rooms and housekeeping facilities in common.

An area, lot or parcel used for the storage, sale or abandonment of junk, including scrap metal and other materials, or for the dismantling, demolition or abandonment of any nonoperable mechanical equipment, machinery, or unregistered vehicles, or parts thereof. A junk yard shall not include the storage, for processing or use, of discarded or salvaged materials as part of a permitted manufacturing operation on the same premises.

The legal or beneficial owner of land including the holder of an option or contract to purchase or other person having an enforceable proprietary interest in such land.

An area of land restricted to landscape elements which may include lawns, plantings, natural features, sculpture, lighting and pedestrian parks, but not including motor vehicles or driveways, extending along the side and rear lot lines. The width of a landscape buffer shall be measured at right angles to the lot line.

A strip of land restricted to landscape elements which may include lawns, plantings, natural features, sculpture, signs, lighting, and pedestrian and bicycle pathways, but not including vehicle parking, extending along the entire frontage of the lot. The width of a landscape strip shall be measured at right angles to and beginning from the front lot line.

The total area within the lot lines of the lots, excluding street right-of-ways. On individual building lots, the minimum lot area requirements of this chapter shall be met on land which lies outside identified wetlands and flood hazard areas.

A piece or parcel of land occupied or intended to be occupied by one building and the accessory buildings or uses customarily incidental to it or by more than one building when permitted by this chapter, together with the open spaces required by this ordinance, and having frontage on an improved street. The aggregate of all lots or parts of lots shown on a map filed with the Mercer County clerk or shown on the tax map of the Township and used for a single building or development shall be deemed to be one lot for purposes of this chapter.

The general average of the distance from the front lot line to its opposite rear line, measured in the general direction of the side lines of the lot.

The distance between the side lot lines measured along the street line. The minimum lot frontage shall be the same as the lot width, except that on curved alignments with an outside radius of less than 500 feet, the minimum lot frontage shall not be less than 50% of the required minimum lot width.

A line forming the boundary of a lot.

The distance between the side lines measured parallel to the front lot line at the minimum front yard setback line.

Process involving the mechanical or chemical transformation of materials or substances into new products, including the assembling of component parts, the creation of products, and the blending of materials.

A building or group of buildings, not including mobile homes or recreational vehicles, whether detached or in connected units, used as individual sleeping accommodations for transients and having access directly to the outside and not through a common lobby or corridor.

A facility serving truck and delivery vehicles as a fulfillment center, cross-dock terminal or shipping depot.

Any structure or use lawfully in existence before the effective date of this chapter which does not conform to regulations of this chapter for the district in which it is located.

An institution for the care of children or the aged or infirm, or a place of rest for those suffering bodily disorders, but not including facilities for surgical care or institutions for the care and treatment of mental illness, alcoholism, or narcotics addiction.

An open area used for the temporary storage of automobiles and other vehicles for the private use solely by the occupants of the use to which the parking is accessory. Parking in nonresidential zones need not be on the same lot as the principal building if permitted in a site plan approval pursuant to Subsection 20-5.3.4 of this ordinance.[1]

Any open area other than a street or other public way used for the temporary storage of automobiles and other vehicles and available to the public whether for a fee, or without compensation, or as an accommodation for clients, customers, or employees. Parking in nonresidential zones need not be in the same lot as the principal building if permitted in a site plan approval pursuant to Subsection 20-5.3.4 of this ordinance.

An off-street space available for the parking of a motor vehicle.

A detached dwelling on one lot or within a lot held in common ownership having as a major design feature a visually private outdoor living space called a patio, contiguous to and structurally contained by that dwelling unit.

An area of land designed and used as a permanent passageway for pedestrians and nonmotorized bicycles and other nonmotorized vehicles.

A permit issued by the building subcode official acting pursuant to the construction code.

No permit shall be issued unless and until the applicant has complied with all requirements of the Township Zoning, Subdivision and Technical Standards Ordinances.

Certificate of occupancy: A certificate issued by the building subcode official which permits use of the building in accordance with approved plans and specifications and which certifies compliance with provisions of law for the use and occupancy of the building together with any special stipulations or conditions as attached thereto, including the requirements of escrow deposits to insure full compliance with Township regulations and specifications.

No permit shall be issued unless and until the applicant has complied with all requirements of the Township Zoning and Subdivision Ordinances.

A permit issued by the zoning officer, prior to issuance of a building permit certifying that the proposed building or alteration or use of land meets all requirements of this ordinance.

Any association, partnership, corporation, cooperative group, trust or other entity as well as an individual.

The main use of land or building as distinguished from an accessory use.

A building that is used or designed to be used for the principal use on the lot.

The following uses operated by any public utility authorized to do business in New Jersey; bus garages; gas utility service substations; railroad right-of-way and industrial spur tracks; microwave relay towners; sewerage treatment plants; water filtration plants; water reservoirs.

The following uses operated by any public utility authorized to do business in New Jersey: electric and telephone substations and distributional centers; gas regulator and meter stations; pumping stations.

Boats and boat trailers, travel trailers, pick-up campers or coaches (designed to be mounted on automotive vehicles), motorized dwellings, tent trailers, and the like, and cases or boxes used for transporting recreational equipment, whether occupied by such equipment or not.

Any establishment, however designed, at which food is sold for consumption within the principal structure. The term restaurant shall not include the term drive-in restaurant.

An accessory activity wherein a restaurant establishment provides for pickup of food prepared by the establishment, to the curbside or parking area on-site at the establishment.

An establishment where patrons are served food, soft drinks, ice cream and similar confections primarily for consumption other than in the principal structure.

A restaurant which:

A structure designed for the separation of varying ground levels.

A structure having three or more enclosed sides intended for the sale of farm product or nursery material, a majority of which is grown or raised on the premises.

Any public or private institution offering instruction for students up to and/or through the secondary level.

A training institution operated on a profit or nonprofit basis offering instruction in stenographic, secretarial, accounting, data processing, and related skills associated with the conduct of a commercial, business or administrative office.

A training institution operated on a profit or nonprofit basis offering instruction and/or experience training to students, journeymen, apprentices or comparable categories of persons in the operation of industrial, construction, or electronics machinery or equipment, construction, trades or similar skills.

A building in single ownership containing separate spaces or compartments for dead storage of goods, wares, and equipment and leased or rented on an individual basis.

Any device (whether or not permanent, mobile or portable), structure, or object that provides visual communication to others, including billboards. The word sign shall not include:

That portion of a building, included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, and if there be no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it.

A partial story under a gable, hip or gambrel roof, the wall plates of which on at least two opposite exterior walls are not more than four feet above the floor of such story.

Any approved and improved travelled way which is an existing State, county or local municipal roadway, or a street or way shown upon a plat heretofore or hereafter approved pursuant to law or approval by official action, or a street or way on a plat filed and recorded in the office of the county recording officer prior to the appointment of a Planning Board and the grant to such board of the power to review plats, and includes the lands between the street lines whether improved or unimproved, and may comprise pavement, shoulders, gutters, sidewalks, parking areas and other areas within the street lines. For purposes of this chapter, streets shall be classified as expressways, arterial streets or roads, collector streets or roads, or local streets or roads, such classification to be determined by the Planning Board.

The dividing line between a lot and the street right-of-way, at the end of any street, except a cul-de-sac approved in accordance with the Technical Standards Ordinance, frontage shall be measured parallel to the street line or any extension thereof.

Anything built, constructed or erected with a fixed location on or below ground or attached to something having a fixed location on the ground including, but not limited to, buildings, radio and television towers and antennae, utility poles and towers, fences, signs, swimming pools and shelters, but excluding walks, walkways, parking areas, driveways, streets and roads.

Any structure designed for swimming or wading having a depth greater than two feet and a length or diameter greater than ten feet.

The first residentially zoned lot (or lots in common ownership) having a side yard adjoining the side line of a lot in a Highway Commercial or Neighborhood Commercial zone fronting on the same street, and extending into the residential zone no more than two times the minimum lot frontage of the residential zone in which the lot is located.

Any purpose for which land or a building is designed, arranged, intended or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained.

A commercial enterprise located in a building or group of buildings primarily used for the storage, transfer and/or distribution of goods, products and/or materials and where such articles are not otherwise used on the premises, such as in storage areas when part of a scientific, research or manufacturing facility. Such facilities shall not include buildings primarily used as computer digital data centers.

An open space which lies between a principal or accessory building or buildings and the nearest landscape buffer, where a landscape buffer is required, or the nearest lot line where no landscape buffer is required and which is unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upwards.

A detached dwelling on one lot or within a lot held in common ownership. One wall of the dwelling can be located on a side property line. Side, rear or front yards may be enclosed by walls or form visually private outdoor spaces or yards. An easement for maintenance of the adjoining lot is one of the requirements of this type of construction. Windows on the lot line side of the dwelling are prohibited.