Garfield City Zoning Code
ARTICLE I
Purpose
§ 341-1 Enumeration of purposes.
There is hereby established a comprehensive zoning plan for the City of Garfield, which plan is set forth in the text, maps and schedule that constitute this chapter. Said plan is adopted for the purpose set forth in Sections 40:55-30, 40:55-31 and 40:55-32 of the Revised Statutes of the State of New Jersey[1] and more particularly for the protection and promotion of the public health, safety and welfare in the following manner:
A.
Protecting and conserving the total of land values throughout the City and the value of buildings appropriate to the various districts established by this chapter, except as the maintenance of such values for any particular piece of property is properly subordinated to the general welfare, especially to the future development of the City as set forth in its Master Plan; which plan establishes long-range objectives for the most beneficial, economically productive and socially satisfactory relationships among the residential, commercial and industrial areas within the City, which land use objectives are to be incorporated within this chapter by amendment from time to time as speedily as compatible with the need for orderly transition from predominant existing land uses to those set forth in the Master Plan.
B.
Assuring a harmonious relationship among the various districts established by this chapter, minimizing such conflicts among uses as may arise in connection with the orderly expansion of various use districts in accordance with the purposes and the intent of this chapter and in furtherance of the objective of the Master Plan of the City, and bringing about the gradual conformity of the uses of land and buildings throughout the City to the comprehensive zoning plan set forth in this chapter.
C.
Aiding in bringing about the most beneficial relation between the uses of land and buildings and the movement of traffic through and the circulation of traffic within the City, having particular regard to the avoidance of congestion in the highways and streets in the City and the provision of safe and convenient traffic access appropriate to the various uses of land and buildings throughout the City, with due regard to the City's relationship to adjoining municipalities and its location and economic integration within the Passaic Valley area and the New York-North Jersey metropolitan region.
D.
Facilitating the orderly transition of retail trade from obsolete business strips strung out along main thoroughfares to modern, compact, designed shopping centers in order to reduce the harmful effects upon the general welfare caused by vacant and blighted business structures, to increase the efficiency and safety of traffic movement on main thoroughfares, to assure for the residents of Garfield the convenience of nearby modern shopping facilities and to gain for the municipality the ratables represented by modern retail centers.
E.
Encouraging the renewal and redevelopment of blighted and obsolete neighborhoods by providing the maximum flexibility in zoning regulations commensurate with reasonable protection of established values.
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Editor's Note: See now N.J.S.A. 40:55D-62 et seq. Certain provisions of the Zoning Ordinance as adopted 12-20-1960, and subsequently amended, were deleted from this chapter by Ord. No. 1732, adopted 5-20-1980, because they were not in agreement with the provisions of the Municipal Land Use Law (N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.) or were covered by Ch. 188, Land Use, of this Code, or were not desired by the governing body. These provisions are as follows (numbered is that used in original Ord. No. 1266): Art. IV, Paragraphs B and E(4); Art. IX, Paragraphs A (as amended), B, D, E(2), (3), (4), (5), (6) and F; Article X, Paragraphs B and C.