Middletown Township City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
ARTICLE III
Administrative Procedures
Sections
- § 540-301.- Planning Board.
- § 540-302. - Zoning Board of Adjustment.
- § 540-303. - Provisions applicable to municipal agencies.
- § 540-304. - Certificates and permits.
- § 540-305. - Records.
- § 540-306. - Enforcement.
- § 540-307. - Interpretation.
- § 540-308. - Conflict with other laws; repealer.
- § 540-309. - Violations and penalties.
- § 540-310. - Amendments.
- § 540-311. - Effect of pending and new applications.
- § 540-312. - Copy to be filed with County Planning Board.
- § 540-313. - Fees.
- § 540-314. - Landmarks Commission.
ARTICLE IV
Development Applications, Procedures and Plat Details
Sections
- § 540-401.- Approval required.
- § 540-402. - Application for development permit.
- § 540-403. - Informal review.
- § 540-404. - Applications for development requiring Planning Board or Board of Adjustment action.
- § 540-405. - Developer contribution disclosure.
- § 540-406. - Disclosure of political contributions with major planning and zoning applications.
- § 540-407. - Minor subdivisions.
- § 540-408. - Minor site plan.
- § 540-409. - Variances and exempt development.
- § 540-410. - Preliminary major subdivision.
- § 540-411. - Preliminary plat of major site plan.
- § 540-412. - Final plat of a major subdivision.
- § 540-413. - Final plat of major site plan.
- § 540-414. - Conditional uses.
- § 540-415. - Review in lieu of Board of Adjustment.
- § 540-416. - Failure to act.
- § 540-417. - Performance guarantee.
- § 540-418. - Approval of performance guarantees.
- § 540-419. - Off-tract improvements.
- § 540-420. - Assignment of interest.
- § 540-421. - Supervision.
- § 540-422. - Inspection requirements.
- § 540-423. - Site maintenance during construction.
- § 540-424. - Improvements required prior to issuance of certificate of occupancy.
- § 540-425. - Maintenance guarantee.
ARTICLE V
General Provisions
Sections
- § 540-501.- Provisions of other ordinances.
- § 540-502. - Application of regulations.
- § 540-503. - Lot depth within existing street patterns.
- § 540-504. - Frontage on improved street required.
- § 540-505. - Yard areas.
- § 540-506. - Corner lots.
- § 540-507. - Sight triangle at intersections.
- § 540-508. - Accessory buildings and structures.
- § 540-509. - Number of principal buildings permitted.
- § 540-510. - Nonapplicability to underground utilities and essential services.
- § 540-511. - Contiguous lot ownership.
- § 540-512. - Height limitations.
- § 540-513. - Preservation of natural features.
- § 540-514. - Riparian grants.
- § 540-515. - Easements.
- § 540-516. - Solid waste storage for single- and two-family homes.
- § 540-517. - Solid waste disposal.
- § 540-518. - Outdoor storage of materials.
- § 540-519. - Outdoor display of goods.
- § 540-520. - Appearance of dwellings with home professional office or home occupation.
- § 540-521. - Appearance of nonresidential buildings.
- § 540-522. - Boats and travel trailer storage.
- § 540-523. - Commercial vehicle storage.
- § 540-524. - Tidal wetlands permit.
- § 540-525. - Soil erosion and sediment control.
- § 540-526. - Noncommercial radio and television antennas.
- § 540-527. - Floodplain management.
- § 540-528. - Performance standards.
- § 540-529. - Property maintenance.
- § 540-530. - Standards of consideration for historic landmarks and historic districts.
- § 540-531. - Low- and moderate-income housing requirements.
- § 540-532. - Surface water runoff.
- § 540-533. - Storage or parking of unregistered vehicles; waiver permit.
- § 540-534. - Tree removal and clearing on property.
- § 540-535. - Refuse containers and dumpsters.
- § 540-536. - Private storm drain inlet retrofitting.
ARTICLE VI
Design Standards and Improvement Specifications
Sections
- § 540-601.- General improvement standards.
- § 540-602. - General design standards.
- § 540-603. - Guidelines for general improvements.
- § 540-604. - Architectural and building design standards.
- § 540-605. - Blocks.
- § 540-606. - Buffer areas and screening.
- § 540-607. - Bulkheading.
- § 540-608. - Bulk storage.
- § 540-609. - Clearing and grading.
- § 540-610. - Concrete requirements.
- § 540-611. - Curbs and gutters.
- § 540-612. - Driveways and access aisles.
- § 540-613. - Driveway aprons.
- § 540-614. - Easements.
- § 540-615. - Environmental impact report.
- § 540-616. - Fences, walls and hedges.
- § 540-617. - Fire hydrants.
- § 540-618. - Floodplains.
- § 540-619. - Garages.
- § 540-620. - Gasoline station canopies.
- § 540-621. - Guardrails.
- § 540-622. - Landscaping and shade trees.
- § 540-623. - Lighting.
- § 540-624. - Lot design and critical area requirements.
- § 540-625. - Monuments and iron stakes.
- § 540-626. - Off-street loading.
- § 540-627. - Off-street parking.
- § 540-628. - Public open space and common open space.
- § 540-629. - Recreation areas.
- § 540-630. - Residential units.
- § 540-631. - Roadway construction.
- § 540-632. - Screening of equipment or machinery.
- § 540-633. - Sewage disposal.
- § 540-634. - Sidewalks and aprons.
- § 540-635. - Signs.
- § 540-636. - Slope regulations.
- § 540-637. - Soil erosion and sedimentation control.
- § 540-638. - Solid waste storage for other than single- and two-family homes.
- § 540-639. - Storm drainage facilities.
- § 540-640. - Storm drainage calculation criteria.
- § 540-641. - Street design and construction.
- § 540-642. - Street excavation permit.
- § 540-643. - Streetlighting.
- § 540-644. - Street signs.
- § 540-645. - Street trees.
- § 540-646. - Swimming pools.
- § 540-647. - Topsoil protection.
- § 540-648. - Traffic control devices.
- § 540-649. - Utility installation.
- § 540-650. - Water supply.
- § 540-651. - Wooded areas.
ARTICLE VII
Nonconforming Uses, Lots and Buildings
Sections
- § 540-701.- Continuance of nonconforming uses.
- § 540-702. - Abandonment.
- § 540-703. - Restoration.
- § 540-704. - Reversion.
- § 540-705. - Alterations.
- § 540-706. - Prior approved construction.
- § 540-707. - District changes.
- § 540-708. - Permitted modifications and exceptions.
- § 540-709. - Maintenance, repair, expansion and reconstruction of uses within a flood hazard area.
ARTICLE VIII
Conditional Uses
Sections
- § 540-801.- Guiding principles and general provisions.
- § 540-802. - Adult entertainment establishments.
- § 540-803. - Ancillary adult community commercial and professional facilities.
- § 540-804. - Automobile painting, body work and repair.
- § 540-805. - Bed-and-breakfast.
- § 540-806. - Car wash.
- § 540-807. - Cemeteries.
- § 540-808. - Community residences for developmentally disabled and shelters for victims of domestic violence.
- § 540-809. - Fast-food restaurant.
- § 540-810. - Golf courses.
- § 540-811. - Golf driving range.
- § 540-812. - Hospitals.
- § 540-813. - Massage parlors.
- § 540-814. - Mixed waterfront development uses.
- § 540-815. - Performance commercial development.
- § 540-816. - Performance residential development.
- § 540-817. - Places of worship.
- § 540-818. - Private and/or parochial schools.
- § 540-819. - Public utilities.
- § 540-820. - School bus, limousine and taxi operations.
- § 540-821. - Amusement arcades.
- § 540-822. - Residential golf course zone.
- § 540-823. - Nonresidential development in Residence and Office (R-O) Zone.
- § 540-824. - Mini storage.
- § 540-825. - Billboards.
- § 540-826. - Electronic message center signs.
- § 540-827. - Privately owned athletic fields.
ARTICLE IX
Zoning District Regulations
Sections
- § 540-901.- Official Zoning Map.
- § 540-902. - Description of districts; Schedule of Permitted Uses; Schedule of Area, Yard and Building Requirements.
- § 540-903. - Standards and regulations affecting R-220 Zone.
- § 540-904. - Standards and regulations affecting R-130 Zone.
- § 540-905. - Standards and regulations affecting R-110 Zone.
- § 540-906. - Standards and regulations affecting R-90 Zone.
- § 540-907. - RR Rural Residential Single-Family Zone.
- § 540-908. - Standards and regulations affecting R-45 Zone.
- § 540-909. - Standards and regulations affecting R-45A Zone.
- § 540-910. - Standards and regulations affecting R-30 Zone.
- § 540-911. - Standards and regulations affecting R-22 Zone.
- § 540-912. - Standards and regulations affecting R-22A Zone.
- § 540-913. - Standards and regulations affecting R-15 Zone.
- § 540-914. - Standards and regulations affecting R-10 Zone.
- § 540-915. - Standards and regulations affecting RTF Zone.
- § 540-916. - Standards and regulations affecting R-7 Zone.
- § 540-917. - Standards and regulations affecting R-5 Zone.
- § 540-918. - Standards and regulations affecting R-O Zone.
- § 540-919. - Standards and regulations affecting B-1 Zone.
- § 540-920. - Standards and regulations affecting B-1A Zone.
- § 540-921. - Standards and regulations affecting B-2 Zone.
- § 540-922. - Standards and regulations affecting B-3 Zone.
- § 540-923. - Standards and regulations affecting the B/P Zone.
- § 540-924. - Standards and regulations affecting M-1 zone.
- § 540-925. - Standards and regulations affecting MC Zone.
- § 540-926. - Standards and regulations affecting PRH Zone.
- § 540-927. - Standards and regulations affecting R-1 Zone.
- § 540-928. - Standards and regulations affecting R-2 Zone.
- § 540-929. - Standards and regulations affecting RTH Zone.
- § 540-930. - Standards and regulations affecting RTH-1 Zone.
- § 540-931. - Standards and regulations affecting RTH-2 and RTH-3 Zones.
- § 540-932. - Standards and regulations affecting RGA Zone.
- § 540-933. - Standards and regulations affecting RGA-1 and RGA-2 Zones.
- § 540-934. - Standards and regulations affecting RGA-3 Zone.
- § 540-935. - Standards and regulations affecting RHA Zone.
- § 540-936. - Standards and regulations affecting RHA-1 Zone.
- § 540-937. - Standards and regulations affecting OR Zone.
- § 540-938. - Standards and regulations affecting OR-1 Zone.
- § 540-939. - Standards and regulations affecting OR-2 Zone.
- § 540-940. - Standards and regulations affecting OR-3 Zone.
- § 540-941. - Standards and regulations affecting PD Zone.
- § 540-942. - Federal Land Zone (FL).
- § 540-943. - Areas of special flood hazard.
- § 540-944. - Historic landmarks and historic districts.
- § 540-945. - Accessory apartments.
- § 540-946. - Residential over commercial development standards.
- § 540-947. - Standards and regulations affecting RTH-4 Zone.
- § 540-948. - Standards and regulations affecting RGA-4 Zone.
- § 540-949. - Standards and regulations affecting RTH-5 Zone.
- § 540-950. - Standards and regulations affecting RTH-6 Zone.
- § 540-951. - Standards and regulations affecting RTH-7 Zone.
- § 540-952. - Standards and regulations affecting RTH-8 Zone.
- § 540-953. - Standards and regulations affecting RTH-9 Zone.
- § 540-954. - Standards and regulations affecting R-3 Age-Restricted Active Adult Zone.
- § 540-955. - Growth share regulations.
- § 540-956. - Standards and regulations affecting RMF-1 Zone.
- § 540-957. - Standards and regulations affecting RMF-2 Zone.
- § 540-958. - Standards and regulations affecting RMF-3 Zone.
- § 540-959. - Standards and regulations affecting RMF-4 Zone.
- § 540-960. - Standards and regulations affecting RMF-5 Zone.
ARTICLE X
Stormwater Management and Control2
Sections
- § 540-1001.- Scope and purpose.
- § 540-1002. - Definitions.
- § 540-1003. - General standards.
- § 540-1004. - Stormwater management requirements for major development, redevelopment, and adaptive reuse.
- § 540-1005. - Calculation of stormwater runoff and groundwater recharge.
- § 540-1006. - Sources for technical guidance.
- § 540-1007. - Solids and floatable materials control standards.
- § 540-1008. - Safety standards for stormwater management basins.
- § 540-1009. - Requirements for a site development stormwater plan.
- § 540-1010. - Maintenance and repair.
- § 540-1011. - Violations and penalties.
ARTICLE XI
Affordable Housing3
Sections
- § 540-1101.- Preamble.
- § 540-1102. - Affordable housing obligation.
- § 540-1103. - Definitions.
- § 540-1104. - Affordable housing programs.
- § 540-1105. - Inclusionary zoning.
- § 540-1106. - New construction.
- § 540-1107. - Affirmative marketing requirements.
- § 540-1108. - Occupancy standards.
- § 540-1109. - Control periods for restricted-ownership units and enforcement mechanisms.
- § 540-1110. - Price restrictions for restricted ownership units; homeowner association fees and resale prices.
- § 540-1111. - Buyer income eligibility.
- § 540-1112. - Limitations on indebtedness secured by ownership unit; subordination.
- § 540-1113. - Control periods for restricted rental units.
- § 540-1114. - Price restrictions for rental units; leases.
- § 540-1115. - Tenant income eligibility.
- § 540-1116. - Administration.
- § 540-1117. - Enforcement of affordable housing regulations.
- § 540-1118. - Appeals.
- § 540-1119. - Mixed use development standards for affordable housing.