Milltown City Zoning Code

Midrise residential structures (four stories).

Single family residential dwellings.

Private garage space and parking area for the storage of motor vehicles.

Private recreational facilities such as, but not limited to swimming pools and tennis courts, provided these uses shall be noncommercial and that all lighting shall be directed away from all adjacent lots.

Greenhouses, toolsheds and other similar structures.

Fences, walls and hedges.

Public utility facilities required to provide the direct service of the utility to the consumers such as transformers and pumping stations but excluding warehouses, service or storage and treatment facilities, yards and offices.

Public parks and playgrounds.

Satellite dish antennas.

Home occupations. Customary home occupations, such as but not limited to dressmaking, millinery and home cooking, provided that such occupations shall be conducted solely by resident occupants of the building and that not more than the equivalent of 1/3 of the area of one floor shall be used for such purposes and that no display of products or advertising of any kind shall be visible from the street. No equipment shall be used in such an occupation which is not usually found in the home. Structural or architectural changes shall not be permitted to accommodate the occupation.

The requirements for this district of lot area and width, yard dimensions, building coverage, and height shall be listed in the Bulk Schedule attached and part of this chapter.

Minimum building setback from any property line adjoining an existing single family residential use or a single family residential zone shall be not less than 100 feet.

Prior to approval of any application for a multifamily development in this zone, the applicant, through licensed professional expertise, shall submit an Environmental Impact Statement, prepared in conformance with subsection 34-33.8, and shall additionally provide by mapping an outbound survey of all areas found to be environmentally or ecologically sensitive. Further, soil tests based upon laboratory analysis of both test pits and test borings, shall be provided.

A 100-foot wide buffer shall be provided for all areas determined to be an environmental or ecological sensitive area. No building, pavement or other development other than supplemental landscaped plantings shall occur within this 100-foot wide buffer area.

No development shall be permitted within any land area deemed to be environmentally sensitive, based upon the findings of fact by the Planing Board as a result of their analysis and review of the submitted Environmental Impact Statement.

A specific Affordable Housing set aside of 20% of all residential units created within this zone shall be made available for low and moderate income families in a methodology consistent with the rules of the New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing.

The following open space requirements shall be met:

A planted buffer area shall be provided along exterior lot lines. The buffer shall be a minimum width of 10 feet. Planting material shall be at least six feet in height at the time of planting.

All areas not devoted to structures, parking areas, and other required uses shall be landscaped in accordance with an approved landscape plan. Wherever possible, natural features shall be preserved.

Off-street parking spaces for units shall be provided in parking areas located within 150 feet of each main entrance. Parking areas, driveways and walkways shall be illuminated, screened and buffered with shade trees and evergreens.

All nonresidential uses such as but not limited to: professional offices, professional home offices, institutional, commercial and industrial uses, including signs.

All residential uses not specifically permitted in this zone.

Hookah lounges.

Tattoo/piercing parlors.

All classes of cannabis establishments or cannabis distributors or cannabis delivery services as said terms are defined in section 3 of P.L. 2021, c. 16, but not the delivery of cannabis items and related supplies by a delivery service.

Alternative Treatment Centers as defined in P.L. 2009, c. 307 (N.J.S.A. 24:6I-3) and the regulations implementing P.L. 2009, c. 307 (N.J.A.C. 8:64-2).

Smoke shops.

Vape shops.

Off-street parking space with appropriate access thereto shall be provided on the same lot or tract it is intended to serve, in accordance with the following minimum standards:

All elevators included in any project shall provide adequate width and length, and shall provide adequate door width for use by any stretchers or other devices used by the Milltown Emergency Service Agencies.

All signs as specified in the R-4 Zone.

One freestanding sign, nonilluminated, to identify the project/complex name, not exceeding a maximum 24 square feet on all surfaces, not more than eight feet long, with a maximum height of sign and sign base above finished grade level of seven feet. All such signs shall not be located within any required street or driveway sight triangle area. All such signs shall be provided with a monument type base with planter area.

Unless a specific sign is expressly prohibited in this zone, it shall be deemed prohibited.