The purpose of this article is to provide for the retail sales of goods, services and food to meet the needs of the surrounding neighborhood in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan for the Borough of Middletown. A related objective is to permit a wide range of business types that normally require highway frontage while also protecting the safe usage of streets and roads as thoroughfares.
All residential uses permitted in any residential district with the exception of conversion apartments, provided that the residential use shall be permitted only when accessory and is located above one or more of the following permitted uses:
Stores for the retailing of food, drugs, confectionery, hardware, bakery products, clothing, household appliances, flowers or houseplants, including convenience stores, garden centers, shopping centers.
Two side yards, 10 feet in width, each side of a principal building, provided that any lot adjoining a residential district shall have a side yard of a width not less than the minimum width required in the adjoining residential district. In the case of a series of abutting structures abutting and paralleling a public right-of-way, an open and unobstructed passage for vehicles and pedestrians of at least 20 feet in width shall be provided at grade level at intervals of not more than 400 feet.
All areas of the lot not covered by buildings or other impervious surfaces shall be prepared and maintained as green space, containing grass or other ground cover and appropriate shrubbery or similar plantings. This requirement shall be met for all new development and at the time of any substantial improvement or redevelopment.
Parking shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of Article XVI.
Middletown City Zoning Code
ARTICLE IX
C-1 Commercial District, Shopping
§ 260-73 Purpose.
The purpose of this article is to provide for the retail sales of goods, services and food to meet the needs of the surrounding neighborhood in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan for the Borough of Middletown. A related objective is to permit a wide range of business types that normally require highway frontage while also protecting the safe usage of streets and roads as thoroughfares.
All residential uses permitted in any residential district with the exception of conversion apartments, provided that the residential use shall be permitted only when accessory and is located above one or more of the following permitted uses:
Stores for the retailing of food, drugs, confectionery, hardware, bakery products, clothing, household appliances, flowers or houseplants, including convenience stores, garden centers, shopping centers.
Two side yards, 10 feet in width, each side of a principal building, provided that any lot adjoining a residential district shall have a side yard of a width not less than the minimum width required in the adjoining residential district. In the case of a series of abutting structures abutting and paralleling a public right-of-way, an open and unobstructed passage for vehicles and pedestrians of at least 20 feet in width shall be provided at grade level at intervals of not more than 400 feet.
All areas of the lot not covered by buildings or other impervious surfaces shall be prepared and maintained as green space, containing grass or other ground cover and appropriate shrubbery or similar plantings. This requirement shall be met for all new development and at the time of any substantial improvement or redevelopment.