While a "floating home" may technically be classified as a vessel, they are designed and intended to be used primarily for on-site living, rather than for navigation and recreational boat uses, and are designed or occupied or intended as a permanent dwelling unit, business office or source of any occupation whatsoever, including uses which are the functional equivalent of dry land uses and which should be restricted to dry land areas, rather than being allowed in coastal waters, including but not limited to a structure on a barge primarily immobile and out of navigation or which functions substantially as a land structure while the same is moored, docked, anchored or dry-stored within the territorial limits of the Borough of Little Ferry, whether such vessel is self-propelled or not.

Floating homes have the outward physical appearance of conventional residential structures, and their location in the Borough's coastal waters would produce visual obstructions and be aesthetically displeasing.