Lyndhurst City Zoning Code
§ 21-4.6
Uses Permitted in M-1 District Light Industrial.
[Ord. No. 2067; Ord. No. 2331; Ord. No. 2338, § I; Ord. No. 2361]
a.
Uses Permitted by Right.
1.
Research laboratory, business office and offices accessory to an industrial use.
2.
Animal hospital and veterinary office.
3.
Warehousing, except the storage of combustible matter, explosive matter, dismantled vehicles, baled paper, rags, used building materials or fuel.
4.
Manufacture by processing, distillation, fabrication assembly or other handling of products, provided that in its design and continued operation, compliance is had with the performance standards enumerated in subsection 21-4.6c.
5.
Living quarters for caretaker or watchman.
6.
Dry cleaning plants and laundries.
7.
Wholesale and/or storage conducted in enclosed building.
8.
The entire M-1 Zone and M-2 Zone property fronting on Schuyler Avenue current permitted uses shall be expanded to permit the following uses:
(a)
All uses currently permitted in the township's B (Business) Zone.
(b)
Indoor public storage facilities.
(c)
Food establishments which are defined as delicatessens, bakeries, butchers, grocery stores and supermarkets. The food establishment(s) building operation footprint can be no more than 60,000 square feet of usable area.
(d)
Senior living center which includes nursing home and intermediate convalescent care.
(e)
Post Office or governmental professional office facilities.
(f)
Garden center retail sale of fruits, vegetables, plants, and/or related products. In addition, the outside usage must be approved by the Lyndhurst Health Department.
(g)
This zone shall not permit any residential housing.
b.
Prohibited Uses. Uses specifically prohibited in the M-1 District (Light Industrial).
1.
The storage of crude oil or any of its volatile by-products in tanks, except as incidental to a permitted manufacturing process.
2.
Junk yards, automobile graveyards or dismantling plants or the storage of secondhand materials derived therefrom.
3.
The baling or treatment of junk, iron, rags, bottles, glass or scrap paper; or storage in connection therewith.
4.
Entertainment and amusement establishments and amusement arcades.
5.
Building materials storage yard, including such materials as sand, plaster, brick, cement, lumber, roofing materials, boilers, tanks, radiators, pipes and fittings.
6.
Outdoor storage of any material or product.
7.
Dog pounds or kennels.
c.
Performance Standards for M-1 Districts. Before any building permit shall be issued for a use in any M-1 District satisfactory evidence shall be presented to the construction official with the application that the proposed use shall conform to the following performance standards.
1.
Vibration - no vibration shall be discernible at the lot lines or beyond.
2.
Smoke - no emission of visible grey smoke of a shade equal to or darker than No. 1 Ringelmann Chart.
3.
Odors - no odor shall be noticeable at the lot line or beyond.
4.
Fly-ash, dust - no emission which can cause any damage to health, to animals or vegetation or other forms of property or any excessive soiling at the lot line or beyond.
5.
Glare - no direct or sky reflected glare shall be visible at the lot line or beyond.
6.
Liquid or solid wastes - no discharge into any disposal system, public or private, or streams, or into the ground of any materials of such nature or temperature that can contaminate any water supply, including ground water supply.
7.
Noise - no emission or noise shall exceed the minimum standards set by the most current regulation of the New Jersey State Department of Environmental Protection.
8.
Fire and explosion hazard - no process or storage of material in such manner as to create undue hazard by reason of fire or explosion.
9.
Any use or structure to be constructed in the M-1 District shall meet the standards adopted by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection for the control of air and water pollution.
d.
Where a light industrial area abuts a residential district there shall be provided along any rear and/or side lot line coincidental with any light industrial-residential district boundary an open buffer strip not less than 15 feet in width measured at right angles to the line, the exterior ten feet of which abutting the residential district shall not be used for the parking of automotive vehicles or the storage of any materials and shall be landscaped. The interior five feet of the buffer strip may be devoted to parking, but not to the storage of any materials.