Manalapan Township City Zoning Code
§ 95-6.22
Billboards.
[Added 4-7-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-05]
A.
The purpose of this section is to limit the location, form and placement of billboards to only specified areas of the Township and to ensure that construction and placement is compatible with the need for a desirable visual environment, good civic design and arrangement, the well-being of residential areas, the safety of motorists, and to prevent the location of facilities which may result in blight along transportation routes within the Township.
B.
Billboards may be permitted as a conditional use but only on lots with frontage on N.J.S.H. 9 in those zones specified by the Township Schedule of Permitted Uses,[1] provided that the billboard and its location and installation shall adhere to the standards of the zone district and to the following conditions:
(1)
The billboard shall be located only on a lot with lot frontage on N.J.S.H. 9.
(2)
The billboard shall only be constructed as a ground sign.
(3)
No billboard shall be located on a lot that is developed with any use, building, business, or structure that is not permitted by the zone district.
(4)
No billboard shall be affixed to any building or mounted on any roof.
(5)
All parts of the billboard, including any support post or sign face, shall be set back not less than 20 feet from the right-of-way line of N.J.S.H. 9 and from any lot line.
(6)
Not more than one billboard shall be permitted on the lot.
(7)
Billboards shall not be permitted on any lot where any other ground sign with an area of 50 square feet or greater has been constructed or approved.
(8)
No portion of any billboard shall be located within 300 feet of any residential zone or residential use.
(9)
The distance allowed from any billboard to any other billboard, or to any ground sign with an area of 80 square feet or more shall not be less than 500 feet as measured along the nearest edge of N.J.S.H. 9 between points directly opposite the edge of the billboard nearest the right-of-way of N.J.S.H. 9. The point of measurement for back-to-back signs shall be the midpoint between the nearest edge of the back-to-back sign faces.
(10)
No light-emitting diode (LED) billboards, video billboards, or animated or moving billboards shall be permitted.
(11)
The sign face of the billboard shall not exceed 240 square feet.
(12)
No billboard shall exceed a height of 22 feet.
(13)
Any lighting illuminating the billboard shall be directed onto the advertising surface of the billboard and shall be adequately shielded to prevent visual impairment of motorists.
(14)
The billboard shall be in compliance with the Roadway Signs Control and Outdoor Advertising Act (N.J.S.A. 27:1A-5, 27-1A6, 27:5-5 et seq).
(15)
The billboard sign shall not be erected unless approved by the New Jersey Department of Transportation, and a license shall be secured for an off-premises billboard sign at the specific location being sought for approval as a conditional use.
(16)
No billboard shall have more than two sign faces. The sign faces shall be back-to-back and shall be parallel to each other. No angle shall be permitted between the sign faces.
(17)
Any billboard that was a lawful preexisting nonconforming use as of January 1, 2009, and that occupies a location on a lot that fronts on N.J.S.H. 9, shall be deemed to be a permitted location for the placement of a billboard under these conditional use provisions. The billboard may be replaced at the location so occupied, irrespective of the conditional use requirements regulating the spacing and setback requirements for billboard placement.
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Editor's Note: The schedule is included at the end of this chapter.