Englishtown City Zoning Code

Planned residential development, including townhouses and flats in structures intended for residential occupancy by more that one family and divided into dwelling units developed in accordance with the standards set forth in this section.

Any other uses permitted by ordinance for the C-2 or CON Zone.

One accessory maintenance building per development.

A playground.

Storage sheds or closets as provided in Subsection D(3) below.

Minimum contiguous lot area: 10 acres.

Maximum gross density: five dwelling units per acre.

Minimum lot frontage: 200 feet.

Minimum lot depth: 700 feet.

Minimum building setback from tract boundary: 20 feet; this distance may be reduced to 18 feet where screening is provided to the satisfaction of the approving board.

Minimum setback from tract boundary to a first floor residential deck:

Minimum setback from tract boundary to common parking area: five feet.

Minimum required open space: 50%.

Maximum building coverage: 15%.

Maximum impervious surface coverage: 35%.

Maximum principal building height:

Maximum accessory building height:

Maximum number of dwelling units permitted in a development: 40 units.

Seventeen and one-half percent of the total number of dwelling units in the planned development shall be affordable to low- and moderate-income households. In calculating the required number of units, fractions less than 0.5 shall be rounded down to the nearest whole number and fractions greater than or equal to 0.5 shall be rounded up to the nearest whole number. At least half of the affordable units shall be designated for low-income as opposed to moderate-income households. Designated affordable units shall be limited to occupancy only by low- and moderate-income households and shall be subject to the pricing, occupancy, and affordability controls established by the rules and regulations of the New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing and Chapter 200, Affordable Housing, of the Code of the Borough of Englishtown.

Low- and moderate-income dwelling units shall be constructed in the same structures as market-priced units and shall be distributed among the market units.

Construction of the low- and moderate-income housing units shall be phased as follows:

The development shall provide an affordable housing plan for the low- and moderate-income units, which plan shall be subject to the approval of the Borough Council. The plan shall be drawn in compliance with the rules and regulations of the New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing and Chapter 200, Affordable Housing, of the Code of the Borough of Englishtown.

The spacing of residential buildings in the R-APD Zone shall adhere to the following minimums:

There shall be no more than 14 dwelling units in a building. No principal building when viewed from any elevation shall be greater than 180 feet in length.

A minimum of 120 cubic feet of enclosed, ground-floor-accessible, private, lockable storage space shall be provided for each unit; such storage space may be included within a garage or may be located in a storage shed or closet within, or affixed to and extending not more than four feet from, any rear building wall that does not face a front lot line.

A landscaping plan shall be submitted which shall be satisfactory to the approving board and designed to provide a visual buffer of the development from adjacent properties and from the public road. In areas too narrow for a vegetated buffer, fencing as approved by the board may be substituted for landscaping.

Architectural elevation drawings and/or renderings of the proposed development shall be submitted, specifying the materials and colors to be used. It is recommended that the development use traditional residential architectural forms found in the Borough of Englishtown, including gabled or hipped roofs, and that the structures utilize siding having the appearance of traditional materials, such as clapboard, shingle, brick or stone. Vinyl or other synthetic siding that achieves this objective is acceptable. Neutral colors should be selected for siding and roofing materials.

Streets within the development shall be constructed in accordance with the residential site improvement standards.

Parking shall be provided in accordance with the residential site improvements standards.

Where a garage and driveway combination is proposed to satisfy the off-street parking requirement for a dwelling, the conversion of the garage to other uses shall be prohibited, and such prohibition shall run with the land as a restrictive covenant to be approved by the Borough and recorded with the deed.

Private swimming pools shall be prohibited.

Fences shall not be permitted in front of a dwelling unit.

Fences shall be permitted as privacy screens in the rear yards of dwelling units or for decks, provided that a standard detail for such fencing has been approved as part of the site plan.

Decks are permitted on individual dwelling units, provided that a standard detail of the deck design has been submitted and approved as part of the site plan.