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Mahwah City Zoning Code

§ 24-7.4

Places of Assembly.

[Amended 10-15-2020 by Ord. No. 1916; 3-10-2022 by Ord. No. 1958]
a. 
Area, Bulk and Yard Requirements.
1. 
Minimum lot area: five (5) acres.
2. 
Minimum lot width: two hundred (200') feet.
3. 
Minimum lot depth: four hundred (400') feet.
4. 
Minimum front yard:
(a) 
Principal building: thirty-five (35') feet.
(b) 
Accessory building: thirty-five (35') feet.
5. 
Minimum side yard:
(a) 
Principal building: twenty (20') feet.
(b) 
Accessory building: twenty (20') feet.
6. 
(Minimum rear yard:
(a) 
Principal building: fifty (50') feet.
(b) 
Accessory building: twenty (20') feet.
7. 
Maximum lot coverage: thirty (30%) percent.
8. 
Maximum improved lot coverage: seventy-five (75%) percent.
b. 
The minimum lot area of a place of assembly that includes facilities for education and instruction including but not limited to after-school learning, day care, or any other type of education or instruction within the same building or structure as the place of assembly, or in a separate building or structure, but do not include facilities that meet the definition of an Elementary or High School, shall be increased by an additional one (1) acre.
c. 
The minimum lot area of a place of assembly that includes facilities for social functions, such as, but not limited to, weddings, funerals, bar/bat mitzvahs, dances, banquets, dinners and other similar events within the same building or structure as the place of assembly or in a separate building or structure shall be increased by two (2) acres.
d. 
Where a cemetery is provided as a part of the property, the following provisions shall also apply.
1. 
Cemetery uses shall be provided with an entrance on a street or road which shall have a pavement width of not less than twenty (20') feet, with ingress and egress so designed as to minimize traffic congestion, and a minimum six (6') foot high fence or evergreen or evergreen-type hedge or shrubs at intervals of not more than six (6') feet, or a minimum of ten (10') feet of permanently maintained planting strip on all property lines abutting any R District or residential street.
2. 
No interment shall take place closer than fifteen (15') feet to any street right-of-way line. In the event of a wider street right-of-way line as designated on the Official Map or Master Plan of the Township, the requirements shall be deemed to be measured from the proposed realignment or widened alignment as indicated.
e. 
A place of assembly may include one (1) residential structure or unit on the same grounds.
f. 
A Place of Assembly shall be located on a Major Arterial, Minor Arterial, or Collector Street as identified in the Township's Circulation Element.