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Lakehurst City Zoning Code

§ 25-30.9

B-2 Highway Commercial Zone.

[Ord. No. 11/78; Ord. No. 5/24/82 § 1409]
a. 
Permitted Uses.
1. 
Retail sales activities similar to, but not limited to the following: a) clothing stores; b) bakeries; c) hardware and paint stores; d) stationery, newspaper, and tobacco shops; e) groceries, vegetable, and meat markets; f) furniture and appliance stores; g) gift shops; h) drug store; i) package liquor store and bars; j) fast food stores; k) restaurants and diners; 1) electronics stores and; m) lumber and building supplies.
2. 
Service activities similar to, but not limited to, the following: a) banks and other fiduciary institutions; b) barber and beauty shops; c) professional offices; d) appliance repair shops; e) shoe repair shops; f) dry cleaning establishments; g) tailoring; h) theaters (but not drive-in theaters).
3. 
General office buildings; and
4. 
Retail shopping centers, consisting of integrated developments of such uses as permitted in paragraphs a.1 and 2 of this subsection housed in an enclosed building or buildings and utilizing such common facilities as customer parking area, pedestrian walks, truck loading and unloading space, and other necessary and appropriate accessory facilities.
b. 
Required Accessory Uses.
1. 
Off-street parking and loading pursuant to subsection 25-27.26.
c. 
Permitted Accessory Uses.
1. 
Outside storage uses provided that such storage is clearly accessory to the principal use of the site and further provided that areas devoted to the outside storage of materials shall not exceed 25% of any yard area and shall be fenced and screened from adjacent residential zones or uses in accordance with subsection 25-27.4 or in the case of adjacent businesses by a dense evergreen screen or masonry wall not less than four nor more than six feet in height. No bulk storage of materials shall exceed 10 feet in height.
2. 
Garages for the inside storage of vehicles and materials.
d. 
Permitted Signs.
1. 
Same as permitted in the B-1 Zone.
2. 
One sign shall be permitted for each permitted use, and may be an illuminated business sign, provided that the total area of any sign should not exceed 150 square feet. Such signs shall be displayed so as not to project more than 12 inches from the surface of the building or beyond the ends of the building.
3. 
Identification Signs. Free-standing signs may be erected to identify a shopping center and to list individual occupants, provided that not more than one such sign shall be erected for each 300 feet of frontage on a public street, and further provided that the aggregate area of all sides of any such signs shall not exceed 200 square feet. Such signs may be illuminated, but shall not be of the flashing type, shall not exceed the height of the principal building, shall not be located within 50 feet of a public street or parking area driveway or within 100 feet of the boundary of a residence zone, and shall in no way interfere with the safe functioning of any traffic control signal or directional device.
4. 
Directional Signs (ingress). One free-standing sign may be erected at each driveway which provides a means of ingress for off-street parking facilities on the premises, relate only the name of the use of facility and appropriate traffic instructions, shall not exceed 10 square feet in area for each of two faces, shall be mounted so as not to obstruct vision for a height of seven feet above ground level, and shall not exceed 10 feet in height.
5. 
Directional Signs (egress). Free-standing signs may be erected on the premises for the purpose of providing directions to traffic leaving the premises, shall not exceed 10 square feet in area on each of two sides, shall be mounted so as not to obstruct vision for a height of seven feet above ground level, and shall not exceed 10 feet in height.
6. 
Traffic Control Signs. Free-standing signs may be erected which are necessary to control and regulate the movement of traffic on the interior roadways on the premises, provided the number and location of such signs are approved by the Planning Board. Such signs shall not exceed four square feet in area, and shall not exceed a height of six feet.
e. 
Conditional Uses.
1. 
Automobile service stations pursuant to subsection 25-27.32.
2. 
Motels and hotels pursuant to subsection 25-27.20.
3. 
New and used car sales.
4. 
Public utilities subject to the provisions of subsection 25-27.30.
f. 
Area, Yard and Building Requirements.
1. 
Minimum lot area: 18,750 square feet.
2. 
Minimum lot width: 150 feet.
3. 
Minimum lot frontage: 150 feet.
4. 
Minimum lot depth: 125 feet.
5. 
Minimum front yard setback: 50 feet.
6. 
Minimum side yard setback: 20 feet.
7. 
Minimum rear yard setback: 30 feet.
8. 
Maximum height: 35 feet.