Hanover Township City Zoning Code

Industrial uses, as defined in § 166-4, that comply with the performance standards in § 166-197 of this chapter.

Administrative, business and professional offices.

Research laboratories devoted exclusively to research design and experimentation.

State-licensed hospitals and nursing homes.

Indoor physical fitness facilities.

Child-care centers.

Conditional uses permitted in the I-P District as regulated and set forth in Article XXI.

Uses and structures accessory to and customarily incidental to permitted principal uses and permitted conditional uses.

Veterinary services, pet care services and pet boarding services, including as an accessory use outdoor training or exercising areas, and subject to compliance with the requirements of Chapter 117.

Small and medium warehouse/logistics uses as defined by § 166-4.

Residential construction or conversion.

Public or commercial incineration.

Junkyards.

Dumps, lagoons or pits for the disposal or storage of garbage, trash or any other liquid or solid waste material, except by the municipality or its agent.

Retail sales and service, except as specifically permitted by this article and except conditional uses as regulated in Article XXI; provided, however, that amusement devices are only permitted as an accessory use to those uses as permitted and regulated in § 166-181.

Public warehouses.

Trucking terminals.

Bowling alleys and similar amusement buildings.

Gasoline stations and motor vehicle repair or maintenance establishments.

The storage and repair of heavy construction equipment either within or outside the confines of a building, such as but not necessarily limited to dump trucks, backhoes, bulldozers, road graders, cranes, front-end loaders, flatbed trailers, portable or stationary cement mixers, compactors, rollers or blacktop paving machines.

Warehouse/logistics uses having characteristics that exceed any of the criteria for medium warehouse/logistics uses in the definition of "warehouse/logistics use" in § 166-4.

Refuse separation and recycling stations.

Refuse transfer stations.

Resource recovery plants.

In addition to the above uses, none of the following additional uses shall be permitted in any part of an I-P2 Zone that falls within an area defined as an airport hazard area in the Air Safety and Hazardous Zoning Act.

No land or building shall be used or occupied for a use which will in any manner create any dangerous, injurious, noxious or otherwise objectionable fire, explosive, radioactive or other hazard; noise or vibration; smoke, dust, odor or other form of air pollution, heat, cold, dampness or movement of air; electrical or other disturbance; glare, or liquid or solid waste in any manner or amount unless it conforms with the performance standards of § 166-197 or any use which shall be detrimental to the health, safety, morals or general welfare of the Township of Hanover.

Minimum lot width: 350 feet, measured at the minimum front yard setback line.

Maximum floor area ratio: 25% of the lot area.

Maximum improvement coverage: 65% of the lot area.

Maximum building height: 45 feet, exclusive of roof structures and equipment, including but not limited to roof tanks and supports, chimneys, head houses or similar enclosures for elevators or air-conditioning machinery or other apparatus, which shall not exceed 10 feet in height, and the area of which, including enclosures for the same but excluding parapets of the same material as the building facade, shall not exceed 5% of the area of the roof.

Minimum yard setbacks. The following minimum yard setbacks shall apply to principal buildings except when the buffer requirements impose more stringent setbacks:

Parking and loading. The requirements for parking and loading shall be the same as for development in the I-P District.

Minimum buffer requirements. The requirements for buffers shall be the same as for development in the I-P District.

Every building shall be faced on all exterior walls with a veneer material as approved by the Planning Board or Board of Adjustment, as applicable.

The performance standards of § 166-197 shall be complied with.

No storage of any kind shall be permitted other than within a building.

Any portion of the I-P2 District located within an airport hazard area shall comply with the provisions and limitations of the Air Safety and Hazardous Zoning Act of 1983, N.J.A.C. 16:62 et seq., as amended May 15, 1989, and as may be further amended.

In addition to the requirements of this section, all of the provisions applicable to development in the I-P District shall also apply in the I-P2 District. In case of conflict between the I-P District requirements and the requirements set forth in this article, the requirements in this article shall supersede the I-P District requirements.

Intensity of development bonus for affordable housing. For any property in the I-P2 Zone that is subdivided for affordable housing development located within and permitted by the AH-2 Overlay Zone District regulations, the following requirements shall apply to the remaining portion of the property that is not developed for affordable housing; provided that such provisions shall apply only at such time that the Township acquires the portion to be subdivided through eminent domain: