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Mahwah City Zoning Code

§ 24-7.7

Mechanical Automobile Washing Establishments.

[Amended 10-15-2020 by Ord. No. 1916; 3-10-2022 by Ord. No. 1958]
a. 
Minimum Area Requirements.
1. 
Minimum lot area: forty-five thousand (45,000) square feet.
2. 
Minimum lot width: one hundred fifty (150') feet.
3. 
Minimum lot depth: three hundred (300') feet.
b. 
Minimum Yard Requirements.
1. 
Front yard: eighty (80') feet.
2. 
Side yard:
(a) 
One: fifty (50') feet.
(b) 
Both: eighty (80') feet.
3. 
Rear yard: seventy (70') feet.
c. 
Location. Such establishments shall not be located closer than four hundred (400') feet to any residential zone boundary line, school, hospital, nursing home or other similar institutional or public use.
d. 
Off-Street Parking. Such establishments shall provide a reservoir parking area equal in number to seven (7) times the maximum capacity of the laundry for automobiles awaiting entrance to the premises and one and one-half (1 1/2) times the maximum capacity of the laundry for automobiles beyond the exit end of the equipment so situated as to be usable for the hand-finishing of the washing process and which shall be no closer than fifty (50') feet to any street right-of-way line. "Maximum capacity" in this instance shall mean the greatest possible number of automobiles undergoing some phase of laundering at the same time, which shall be determined by dividing the equipment line by twenty (20') feet.
e. 
Performance and Design Standards. Such establishments shall comply in all respects with the performance standards in § 24-5.
f. 
Landscaping. Such establishments shall comply in all respects with the landscaping and buffer zone requirements for side and rear yards as established in § 24-5.6.
g. 
Maximum Improved Lot Coverage. The maximum improved lot coverage shall not exceed seventy-five (75%) percent.