Haddon Heights City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XIV
NC Neighborhood Commercial Zone
§ 450-61 Purpose; permitted uses.
The purpose of this district is to permit personal service and retail uses within a unified planned development that would primarily be oriented to pedestrian traffic. Within this district, no lot or building shall be used and no building shall be erected or altered to be used, in whole or in part, unless it complies with the regulations set forth in this article. The following principal uses shall be permitted in this district:
Antique shops, provided that there is no display of merchandise outside the building |
Bakery or confectionery shops for retail sales |
Bookstores, stationery stores, jewelry stores and watch repairing |
Buildings and structures owned and operated by the Borough of Haddon Heights for municipal purposes |
Clothing stores, gift shops and sporting goods stores |
Interior decorating establishments |
Musical instrument stores or studios, including retail sale of recordings and tapes |
Personal service shops, such as beauty, barber-, tailor and dressmaking shops, retail dry-cleaning, laundry and shoe repair shops |
Photographers' and artists' studios |
Picture-framing shops |
Repair, sale and servicing of radio, television and other home appliances |
Stamp or coin stores |
Supermarkets, grocery stores, meat markets, delicatessens, fish markets, drugstores and hardware stores |
Travel bureaus |
§ 450-62 Prohibited uses.
[Amended 5-21-1991 by Ord. No. 884]
The following uses are specifically prohibited in the Neighborhood Commercial District:
A.
Billiard parlors, poolrooms, bowling alleys or commercial amusement establishments.
B.
Welding shops.
C.
Pet shops, kennels or other commercial establishments for breeding or sale of animals.
D.
Display, outside the building, of articles for sale.
E.
Any kind of manufacturing, fabricating, altering, finishing or assembling, except as necessarily incidental to retail trade or service.
F.
Any machinery used incidental to any permitted use that is powered by other than electric motive power. In no one store or separate establishment shall there be permitted more than 10 horsepower, exclusive of refrigeration and air conditioning. If steam is required, no more than 15 pounds of steam pressure shall be permitted.
G.
Any internal-combustion engine or gas generator, unless operated for a particular temporary use or where essential for the emergency use of a public utility.
H.
Heavy-trucking transport.
I.
The storage of furniture, building materials or solid, liquid or gaseous fuels or chemicals, unless incidental and subordinate to a permitted use.
J.
Uses conducive to potentially high hazard in the form of fire, explosion, radiation, contamination or other elements dangerous to human beings.
K.
Undertaking establishments.
L.
Warehouses.
§ 450-63 Accessory uses.
§ 450-64 Conditional uses.
The following conditional uses shall be permitted in the Neighborhood Commercial District:
A.
Restaurants, excluding fast-food, drive-in and take-out service establishments.
§ 450-65 Area and bulk regulations.
A.
Lot area. A minimum lot area of 15,000 square feet shall be provided for every use hereafter erected.
B.
Lot width. Each lot on which neighborhood commercial uses shall be erected shall have a width of not less than 75 feet.
C.
Building coverage. The maximum building coverage shall not be greater than 20% of the gross lot area.
D.
Lot coverage. The maximum lot coverage, including all structures, shall not be greater than 60% of the gross lot area.
E.
Front yard. A front yard setback shall be provided to be not less than 30 feet.
F.
Side yard. There shall be side yard setbacks of at least 15 feet on each side.
G.
Yards. Where the lot in question adjoins a residential district, there shall be a yard adjacent to the common boundary line to provide at least 40 feet between the building and said boundary line.
H.
Rear yard. There shall be a rear yard to be not less than 40 feet.
I.
Height. A structure shall not have a greater height than two stories or 30 feet measured from the average grade line perimetering the building to the top of the main roof cornice line, excluding necessary utility-type roof structures.