Shall mean an accessory building or use is one which:

Shall mean the Borough Planner of the Borough of Milltown, or such other person as designated by the Mayor.

Shall mean an establishment having as a substantial or significant portion of its stock in trade books, magazines, and other films, tapes, periodicals, or other media which are distinguished or characterized by their emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to specified sexual activities.

Shall mean to change the appearance of exterior elements of a structure, or to change the materials used. A change in the exterior color of a structure shall be considered an alteration within the terms of this definition only with respect to properties with historic preservation potential and only if the change in color entails the application of paint to a surface which has not been painted before. Ordinary maintenance shall not be considered an alteration within this definition.

Shall mean, as applied to a building or a structure, a change or rearrangement in the structural parts of existing facilities, or an enlargement whether by extension of any side or by increasing in height, or change in use from that of one use classification to another, any conversion of a building, or a part thereof, or removal of a building from one location or position to another.

Shall mean the application form and all accompanying documents required by Ordinance for submission for review of a subdivision plat, site plan, conditional use, zoning variance or direction of the issuance of a permit pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-34 or N.J.S.A. 40:55D-36.

Shall mean the Planning Board when acting pursuant to the authority of the Municipal Land Use Law.

Shall mean that part of a building which is immediately below and wholly or partly within the roof framing. See Story, Half.

Shall mean any area of land, including structures thereon, that is used or designed to be used for the retail sale of gasoline or oil or other fuel directly to motor vehicles from a pump located outside a building including the sale of motor vehicle accessories and facilities for polishing, greasing, washing, spraying, dry cleaning, repairing or otherwise cleaning or servicing such motor vehicles.

Shall mean establishments primarily engaged in furnishing automotive repair, rental, leasing and/or parking services to the general public.

Shall mean the use of land for the purpose of display and storage of automobiles for sale to the general public. Such use shall not include storage of vehicles for hire, demo, or for towed or damaged or abandoned vehicles or auction sales.

Shall mean that portion of the building which is partly below and partly above grade and having 1/2 or more of its height above grade, the floor of which is not more than three feet below ground level.

Shall mean any building, together with any related structure, accessory building, and land appurtenant thereto, and any part thereof, which contains two or more units of dwelling space arranged or intended for single room occupancy, exclusive of any such unit occupied by an owner or operator, and wherein personal or financial services are provided to the residents, including any residential hotel or congregate living arrangement, but excluding any hotel or motel or established guest house wherein a minimum of 85% of the units of dwelling space are offered for limited tenure only, any foster home as defined in N.J.S.A. 30:4C-26.1, any community residence for the developmentally disabled as defined in N.J.S.A. 30:11B any dormitory owned or operated on behalf of any nonprofit institution or primary, secondary or higher education for the use of its students.

Shall mean an area in which no building, parking area, driveway (except to provide access to property), street, sign (except traffic directional sign) or storage of materials shall be permitted and which shall consist of a dense and continuous landscaped screening area, planted and maintained containing fences, massed trees and shrubs of such species and size as will produce a sufficient density to obscure or confine throughout all seasons automobile headlight glare, site noise, windblown debris and other typical and frequent nuisance problems, as well as create an aesthetically pleasing and attractive view to mask or obscure the use, function, or structure located upon the site.

Shall mean any structure built or used for the support, shelter, or enclosure of persons, animals, chattels, or movable property of any kind which is permanently or temporarily affixed to the land and having a roof supported by columns, piers, or walls, or having other supports and any unroofed platform, terrace, or porch having a vertical face higher than three feet above the level of the ground from which the height of the building is measured.

Shall mean the total of areas of outside dimensions on a horizontal plane at ground level of the principal building and all accessory buildings, exclusive of unroofed porches, terraces, or steps having a vertical face of less than three feet above the level of the ground from which the height of the building is measured.

Shall mean the vertical distance measured from the average elevation of the proposed finished grade at the front of the building to the highest point of ceiling of the top story in the case of a flat roof; to the deck line of a mansard roof; and to the average height between the plat and ridge of a gable, hip, or gambrel roof, including chimneys and other similar features.

Shall mean a line formed by the intersection of a horizontal plane at average grade level and a vertical plane that coincides with the exterior surface of the building on any side. In case of a cantilevered or projected section of a building, the vertical plane shall coincide with the most projected surface. All yard requirements are measured to the building line.

Shall mean a building or use in which is conducted the main or principal use of the lot on which the building is situated.

Shall mean the term used to describe the size and mutual relationships of buildings and other structures and includes:

Shall mean a retaining wall created along a body of water behind which fill is placed.

Shall mean a room or group of rooms used primarily for conducting the affairs or purpose of profit or improvement of an occupation, nonprofessional, service or non-tradesman activity on a fee or contract basis.

Shall mean the diameter of a tree trunk measured in inches, and measured 24 inches above ground level for all trees.

Shall mean the section of a street, road or highway or right-of-way located between the curblines which is normally used by vehicular type traffic, commonly known as the paved areas of the street.

Shall mean that portion of a building which is partly or completely below grade and having at least 1/2 its height below grade.

Shall mean a certificate issued by the building and/or zoning inspector upon completion of the construction of a new building or upon a change in the use of the occupancy of a building which certifies that all requirements of this chapter or such adjustments thereof which have been granted, and all other applicable requirements have been complied with.

Shall mean an alteration in a building heretofore existing, to a new use group which is subject to other requirements of this chapter or other special provisions of law governing building construction, equipment or means of egress as established within the Uniform Construction Code of the Municipality.

Shall mean a private establishment enrolling six or more children and where tuition, fees, or other form of compensation for the care of children is charged, whether or not licensed or approved to operate as a child care center by the N.J. Division of Youth and Family Services (N.J.D.Y.F.S.).

Shall mean a structure, building or group of buildings, including customary accessory structures such as auditoriums used, designed, or intended for public worship. The word "Church" shall include any place where persons regularly assemble for worship, i.e. chapels, churches, congregations, cathedrals, synagogues, temples, and other places where regular religious services are conducted, as well as parish houses, convents, religious school facilities and structures, and other accessory uses, including uses and structures for religious and sectarian education.

Shall mean an open space area exclusive of required setback areas within or related to a site designated as a development, and designed and intended for the use or enjoyment of residents and owners of the development. Common open space my contain such complementary structures and improvements as are necessary and appropriate for the use and enjoyment of residents and owners of the development.

Shall mean an application form completed as specified by ordinance and the rules and regulations of the Planning Board, and all accompanying documents required by ordinance for approval of the application for development. An application shall be certified as complete upon meeting of all requirements specified in the ordinance and in the rules and regulations of the Planning Board, and shall he deemed complete as of the day it is so certified for purpose of the commencement of the time period for action by the Planning Board.

Shall mean a use permitted in a particular zoning district only upon a showing that such use in a specified location will comply with the conditions and standards for the location or operation of such use as contained in the zoning ordinance, and upon the issuance of an authorization therefore by the Planning Board, or where required by N.J.S.A. 40:55D-70, by the Planning Board acting as the Zoning Board of Adjustment.

Shall mean ownership of real property combining ownership in fee simple of a dwelling unit and undivided ownership in common with other purchasers of the common elements in the structure and including the land use and its appurtenances.

Shall mean that person designated by salary guide title in the municipality pursuant to the Uniform Construction Code of the State of New Jersey.

Shall mean that person designated by salary guide title to accept and agendize incoming applications and amendments and revisions thereto.

Shall mean a change in the use of land or structure.

Shall mean a lot at the junction of and fronting on two or more intersecting streets. Front yard setback requirements shall be provided for all street frontages of a corner lot.

Shall mean the permanently established grade of the curb top in front of a lot.

Shall mean calendar days.

Shall mean when applied to an action affecting a property with historic preservation potential, an action of such a minimum nature that a. the purposes of historic preservation, as defined in this chapter will not thereby be materially affected, and b. the action doest not increase the degree of noncompliance with respect to any bulk regulation set forth in this chapter.

Shall mean to partially or completely take down a structure.

Shall mean the number of dwelling units which may be developed or that portion of the tract exclusive of public street right-of-way, floodway, delineated wetlands, conservation/preservation areas, open space areas, stream or waterbodies, existing public utility easements, and such other areas which may not be developed.

Shall mean the number of dwelling units provided by the total land area of the lot or lots comprising the tract of land for which the development application is made.

Shall mean the legal or beneficial owner or owners of a lot or of any land proposed to be included in a proposed development including the holder of an option or contract to purchase or lease, or other person having an enforceable proprietary interest in such land.

Shall mean the division of a parcel of land into two or more parcels, or the construction, reconstruction, conversion, structural alteration, relocation or enlargement of any building or other structure, or any mining, excavation or landfill, and/or any use or change in the use of any building or other structure, or land or extension of use of land, for which permission may be required, pursuant to the New Jersey "Municipal Land Use Law."

Shall mean an establishment where patrons dance to recorded music and may also feature go-go dancers.

Shall mean the removal of surface water or groundwater from land by drains, grading or other means and includes control to minimize erosion and sedimentation during and after construction or development and shall mean necessary for water supply preservation or prevention or alleviation of flooding.

Shall mean a building or portion thereof which encourages or permits customers to conduct personal financial transactions while remaining in their motor vehicles.

Shall mean a building or portion thereof where food and/or beverages are sold in a form ready for consumption and where a portion of the consumption takes place or is designed to take place outside the confines of the building, often in a motor vehicle on the site, or is designed for the transferal of food and/or beverages without leaving the vehicle.

Shall mean a building designed or used exclusively as the living quarters for one or more families.

Shall mean a medium or midrise building with a common passageway which is three to five stories or 35 to 60 feet in height, in which building there are one or more suites of rooms on each floor.

Shall mean one dwelling unit in a line of two more structurally joined dwelling units, with each dwelling unit having individual access, with open space in front and rear.

Shall mean a detached dwelling is a building surrounded by open space on the same zoning lot and being the only principal building occupying that Zoning Lot.

Shall mean a dwelling unit consisting of not more than one habitable room together with kitchen or kitchenette and sanitary facilities.

Shall mean building with a common passageway, consisting of more than five stories or more than 60 feet in height in which building there are one or more suites of rooms on each floor.

Shall mean a building designed for or occupied exclusively by three or more families or households living independently of each other.

Shall mean a variation of the traditional one (1) story ranch house, designed to fit on a narrow lot, with an angled or altered architectural form, with the elimination of side and/or front yards, with private spaces fenced, usually on a square or reduced size lot, with parking usually occurring within the unit in a garage.

Shall mean a dwelling consisting of a building containing one (1) dwelling unit only and not occupied or designed for occupancy by more than one (1) family.

Shall mean one (1) of a series of contiguous single family dwelling units, designed for conveyance either as a condominium or as a planned development, in which each unit has its own front and rear access to the outside, no unit is located over another unit and each dwelling unit is separated from another by one (1) or more common fire resistant walls, and wherein each dwelling unit shall have separate individual utility systems, and with private rear yard areas.

Shall mean a building for or occupied exclusively by two (2) families or households living independently of each other.

Shall mean a right-of-way granted, but not dedicated, for limited use of private land for a public or quasi-public purpose and within which the owner of the property shall not erect any permanent structures.

Shall mean areas which include, but are not limited to, stream corridors and floodplains, stream, bodies of water, wetlands (as defined by NJDEP), slopes greater than ten (10%) percent, shallow depth to bedrock (less than two (2) feet), highly acidic or erodible soils (as defined by the SCS), mature stands of trees, aquifer recharge areas, aquifer discharge areas, unique natural features and wildlife habitats or such areas as may be so designated by Federal or State agencies of jurisdiction.

Shall mean to build, construct, attach, alter, relocate or affix and includes the painting of signs or displays on the exterior surface of a building.

Shall mean the detachment and movement of soil or rock fragments by water, wind, ice, gravity, whether naturally or humanly induced.

Shall mean a long-term care facility or a distinct part of a facility licensed or approved as a nursing home, infirmary unit of a home for the aged or a governmental medical institution.

Shall mean an exterior wall of a building exposed to public view.

Shall mean "Family Day Care Home" and shall mean any private residence approved by the Division of Youth and Family Services or an organization with which the division contracts for family day care in which child care services are regularly provided to no less than three (3) and no more than five (5) children for no less than fifteen (15) hours per week. A child being cared for under the following circumstances is not included in the total number of children receiving child care services:

Shall mean an artificially constructed barrier erected for the enclosure of yard areas.

Shall mean the official action of the Planning Board taken on a preliminary approved major subdivision or site plan after all conditions, engineering plans and other requirements have been completed or fulfilled and the required improvements have been installed or guarantees properly posted for their completion, or approval conditioned upon the posting of such guarantees.

Shall mean the final map of all or a portion of the subdivision which is presented to the Planning Board for final approval in accordance with these regulations, and which if approved shall be filed with the proper County recording office, in the case of subdivision.

Shall mean any assistance permitted or required by the State to be furnished by an owner or operator to a resident in the management of personal financial matters, including but not limited to, the cashing of checks, holding of personal funds for safekeeping in any manner or assistance in the purchase of goods or services with a resident's personal funds.

Shall mean a lot, the majority of whose width is not fronting on or abutting a public road and where access to the public road is by a narrow, private right-of-way.

Shall mean the sum of the gross horizontal areas of all floors of a building or buildings, measured from the exterior faces of exterior walls or from the center line of walls separating two (2) buildings. The floor area of a building or buildings shall include but not be limited to the following:

Shall mean the total of all floor areas of a building, excluding H.V.A.C. equipment rooms, interior vehicular parking or loading, and all floors below the first or ground floor, except when used or intended to be used for any human habitation or any service to the public.

Shall mean the total of all floor areas of the building or buildings of that zoning lot, divided by the area of that zoning lot, all in square feet.

Shall mean a group of people formally organized for a common interest, usually cultural, religious or entertainment, with regular meetings, rituals and formal written membership requirements.

Shall mean a building or space used as an accessory to the main building which provides for the storage of motor vehicles, in which no occupation, business or service is conducted.

Shall mean a building or part thereof, other than a private garage, used for the storage, care or repair of motor vehicles for profit, including but not limited to the sale of fuels, or accessories, or the hiring of same.

Shall mean a building or series of buildings, under single ownership, with common yards, open spaces, recreation area, garages and parking areas, not more than three stories in height, used for occupancy by three or more families living independently of each other and containing three or more dwelling units, but not including group, row or townhouses. The garden apartment development shall be on a landscaped site designed and erected as an integrated development with singleness of use and operation and which site contains such common facilities as pedestrian walks, open spaces and developed recreation areas in accord with minimum standards stated in this chapter, off-street parking and/or garage facilities consistent with ordinance requirements, complete utility system and free two-way access provided by two or more connections to peripheral public roads.

Shall mean the completed elevation of surfaces of lawns, walks and pavement as shown on official plans or designs.

Shall mean the area of all floors of a building measured at the exterior of the walls thereof, excluding cellars, closets, porches, patios, terraces, carports, breezeways, verandas, and garages and any other unheated area.

Shall mean a facility or institution, whether public or private, principally engaged in providing services for health maintenance, diagnosis or treatment of human disease, pain, injury, deformity, physical condition, or mental condition, including, but not limited to, a general hospital, public health center, diagnostic center, treatment center, rehabilitation center extended care facility, skilled nursing home, nursing home, intermediate care facility, tuberculosis hospital, chronic disease hospital, maternity hospital, outpatient clinic, dispensary, home health care agency, boarding home or other home for sheltered care, and bioanalytical laboratory or central services facility serving one or more such institutions but excluding institutions that provide healing solely by prayer.

Shall mean the process of identifying, evaluating, managing, conserving, maintaining and, when necessary, rehabilitating, stabilizing, restoring and reconstructing historic properties so that they are protected for the use of future generations.

Shall mean any activity carried out for gain by a resident conducted as an accessory use in the resident's dwelling.

Shall mean a home occupation consisting of the office of a practitioner of a recognized profession.

Shall mean a community association, other than a condominium association, which is organized in a development in which individual owners share common interests in open space or facilities.

Shall mean a place of business, regulated by the New Jersey Smoke Free Air Act, N.J.S.A. 26:3D-55 to N.J.S.A. 26:3D-64, where patrons smoke substances made of herbs and fruit, including tobacco, from hookahs.

Shall mean an establishment offering to the general public transient lodging accommodations, including one bathroom to each room, who have their permanent residence elsewhere, but not including cooking facilities, and which may provide additional services, such as restaurants, meeting rooms, and recreational facilities.

Shall mean and is one or more persons who live together in one dwelling unit on a non-seasonal basis and who share living, sleeping, cooking and sanitary facilities on a non-profit basis, and who intend to be considered and who in fact consider themselves as a bona fide family. Nothing herein shall permit any housekeeping unit to exceed or violate any lawful limits on the number of persons permitted to reside in a particular dwelling.

Shall mean a ratio between the area which is improved and overlain by structures and/or materials which results in the reduction and or prevention of absorption of water into the ground and the lot area expressed in terms of a percentage of the total area.

Shall be determined by the Zoning Code Officer with advice as necessary from other Borough officials as an increase in any or all of the following:

Shall mean, in the case of a civil proceeding in any court or in an administrative proceeding before a municipal agency, any person, whether residing within or without the municipality, whose right to use, acquire or enjoy property is or may be affected by any action taken under this chapter, or whose rights to use, acquire, or enjoy property under this chapter or under any other law of this State or of the United States have been denied, violated, or infringed by an action or a failure to act under this chapter.

Shall mean an area or structure used for the collecting, storage, buying, trading, or abandonment of any refuse and/or discarded material, or the auctioning, dismantling, demolition, salvaging, cannibalizing, abandonment or processing of structures, automobiles, or other vehicle equipment and machinery or parts thereof; with the deposit of domestic, commercial, industrial or sanitary waste or garbage excluded.

Shall mean a structure or rooms equipped for conducting scientific experiments, analysis, examinations, research, testing and/or other experimental technical work.

Shall mean a designated parcel, tract or area of land including the total area within the lot lines of a tract of land, excluding any street rights-of-way.

Shall mean the total horizontal area of a parcel of land which is determined by the limits of the lot lines bounding that area and expressed in terms of square feet or acres. Any portion of a lot included in a public right-of-way shall not be included in calculating lot area.

Shall mean a ratio between the building area and lot area expressed in terms of a percentage of the total lot area.

Shall mean the mean distance between its mean front line and its mean back lot line, measured at right angle to the front property line.

Shall mean the portion nearest the street or coexistent with a street right-of-way line and being the portion of the lot to be used as the front yard requirements on corner lots and through lots, all lot sides of a lot adjacent to streets shall be considered frontage, and yard setback requirements shall be provided as indicated under Yards in this section. In odd shaped or triangular shaped lots or lots fronting upon a cul-de-sac, the length of frontage my be considered to be 2/3 of the required lot width provided at the street right-of-way line.

Shall mean lot line sharing commonality and coexistent with a street right-of-way line. All lot lines coincident with street right-of-way lines shall be considered front lot lines.

Shall mean any lot line, other than a street line, which is parallel to the front line or within 45° of being parallel to the front lot line. A rear lot line shall also include any lot lines on an offset to a through lot which constitutes the rear lot line of an adjacent zoning lot.

Shall mean any lot which is not a front lot line or a rear lot line.

Shall mean the horizontal distance between straight lines connecting front and rear lot lines at each side of the lot, measured parallel or nearly so to the front and rear lines so determined and across the rear of the required front yard, provided, however, in the case of lots on the turning circle of cul-de-sac, or odd-shaped lots, that width between side lot lines at their foremost points (where they intersect with the street right-of-way line) shall not be less than 2/3 of the required lot width.

Shall mean any security, which may be accepted by a municipality for the maintenance of any improvements required by this chapter, including but not limited to surety bonds, letters of credit and cash.

Shall mean all site plans not defined as minor site plans.

Shall mean all subdivisions not classified as minor subdivisions.

Shall mean a composite of one or more written or graphic proposals for the development of the municipality as set forth in and adopted pursuant to Section 19 of the M.L.U.L.

Shall mean a building that contains establishments dispensing health services.

Shall mean a building or group of buildings having controlled access and security within a compound containing various sizes of structures which are compartmentalized, and/or controlled access stalls, and/or locker areas for lease to or rent to individuals for storage of goods within a building or buildings.

Shall mean a development plan of one or more lots which: proposes development of a new building or a building alteration and less than five parking spaces and less than 1,000 additional square feet of floor area or a total of not more than 10% lot coverage, whichever is less, and which does not involve planned development, any new street or extension of any off-tract improvement which is to be prorated pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-42.

Shall mean a subdivision classified as a minor subdivision shall meet the following requirements:

Shall mean a complete physiographic portrait of a municipality, including its geography, topography, hydrology, soil and vegetation, as well as manmade factors which influence the environment.

Shall mean a lot or parcel which does not conform to the minimum standard for the zone in which it is located, or the use to which it is being put.

Shall mean a structure the size, dimension or location of which was lawful prior to the adoption, revision or amendment of a zoning ordinance, but which fails to conform to the requirements of the zoning district in which it is located by reasons of such adoption, revision or amendment.

Shall mean a use or activity which was lawful prior to the adoption, revision or amendment of a zoning ordinance, but which exact same use fails, by reason of such adoption, revision or amendment, to conform to the present requirements of the zoning district.

Shall mean an extended or intermediate care facility licensed or approved to provide full-time convalescent or chronic care to individuals who, by reason of advanced age, chronic illness or infirmity, are unable to care for themselves.

Shall mean the specific purpose for which land or a building is used, designed, or maintained.

Shall mean located outside the lot lines of the lot in question but within the property (of which the lot is a part) which is the subject of a development application or contiguous portion of a street or right-of-way.

Shall mean an off-street parking area for vehicles including the nine-foot wide by eighteen-foot long storage area of each vehicle and necessary maneuvering area of each vehicle. Space for maneuvering incidental to parking or unloading shall not encroach upon any public way or required setback area. Every off-street parking facility shall be accessible from a public way.

Shall mean not located on the property which is the subject of a development application or on a contiguous portion of a street or right-of-way.

Shall mean located on the lot in question.

Shall mean located on the property which is the subject of a development application or on a contiguous portion of a street or right-of-way.

Shall mean any parcel or area of land or water, not containing any building, unimproved or improved, and set aside, dedicated, designated or reserved for public or private use or enjoyment, or for the use and enjoyment of owners and occupants of land adjoining or neighboring such open space.

Shall mean an area of land other than a public street owned by a public agency and maintained by it for the use and enjoyment of the general public.

Shall mean any public or private land area designed and used for parking motor vehicles including parking lots, garages, private driveways and legally designated areas of public streets.

Shall mean an off-street space for the parking of a motor vehicle, with minimum dimensions of nine feet by 18 feet.

Shall mean any security which may be accepted by a municipality including but not limited to: surety bonds, letters of credit, cash or certificates of deposit, provided that not more than 10% of the total performance guarantee may be in cash, and that the total performance guarantee amount shall not exceed 12% of the cost of installation of all improvements as estimated by the Borough Engineer.

Shall mean establishments primarily engaged in providing services involving the care of a person or his or her apparel, including but not limited to laundry, dry cleaning and garment services, coin-operated laundries, photographic studios, beauty shops, barber shops, shoe repair, and exercise clubs, provided that, except as permitted by any licensing act of the State of New Jersey, no service involves contact with any unclothed portion of a person other than his or her scalp, face, arms, hands, legs below the knee, feet or neck.

Shall mean those active services or functions exclusively devoted to the active effort to promote human welfare, maintained or supported by act or gift or organized distribution of funds.

See Church.

Shall mean the conferral of certain rights prior to final approval after specific elements of a development plan have been approved by the Planning Board.

Shall mean architectural drawings prepared during early and introductory stages of the design of a project illustrating in a schematic form its scope, scale and relationship to its site and immediate environs.

Shall mean the office or studio of a member of a recognized profession including the offices of physicians, dentists, ministers, lawyers, architects, professional engineers, and such similar professional nontrade occupations. The issuance of a State or local license for regulations of any gainful occupation is not to be deemed solely indicative of professional standing.

Shall mean a lot or parcel line that defines the limits of ownership.

Shall mean:

Shall mean facilities utilized by members of nonprofit organizations and which are open to the general public, such as but not limited to: religious organizations, veterans' organizations, fraternal organizations and other institutions or organizations of similar type but not necessarily belonging to the aforementioned categories.

Shall mean leisure time activities, usually of a more formal nature and performed with others, often requiring equipment and taking place at prescribed places, sites or fields.

Shall mean any leisure time activity not considered active.

Shall mean to partially or completely move a structure substantially intact.

Shall mean an area to be developed as a single entity according to a plan containing residential housing units which have a common or public open space area as an appointment.

Shall mean an establishment regularly and principally used for the purpose of providing meals to the public, having an adequate kitchen and dining room equipped for the preparing, cooking and serving of foods for its customers and in which no other business, except such as is incidental to such establishment, is conducted, wherein the food and drink are consumed within the principal building. Such uses shall not be interpreted to include and are hereby defined to exclude drive-in restaurants or other similar uses where customers and patrons are served food, soft drinks or ice cream for their immediate consumption outside the confines of the building or structure in which the business is conducted. Restaurant establishments shall provide for traditional table services for made-to-order food.

Shall mean an establishment which has one or more of the following characteristics:

Shall mean the further division or relocation of lot lines of any lot or lots within a subdivision previously made and approved or recorded according to law or the alteration of any streets or the establishment of any new streets within any subdivision previously made and approved or recorded according to law, but does not include conveyances so as to combine existing lots deed or other instrument.

Shall mean an establishment that sells goods, merchandise, or products, or performs services incidentally related to the sale of such goods, merchandise, or products, to general public customers for personal or household consumption.

Shall mean establishments providing services or facilities, as opposed to products, to the general public, including eating and drinking places, hotels and motels, finance, real estate and insurance, personal services, motion pictures, amusement and recreation services, health, educational and social services, museums and galleries.

Shall mean the horizontal and vertical area delimited by a line coexistent with the property line of other lands or right-of-way. Such lands may be of public holding for road or highway or public utility use, or private holding for the location of private, commercial, collective, or distributive provision of utilities.

Shall mean any residence, building, or any part thereof containing one or more rooming units in which space is let by the owner or operator to more than two persons who are not members of the family.

Shall mean any room or group of room forming a single habitable unit used or intended to be used for living and sleeping but not for cooking or eating purposes.

Shall mean a public, parochial or private nursery, daycare, elementary, secondary, college or university educational institution offering a diploma, degree or certificate subject to regulations prescribed by the State of New Jersey, Department of Education, supported in whole or part by public funds and/or nonprofit quasi-public agencies.

Shall mean the deposition of soil that has been transported from its site of origin by water, ice, wind, gravity or other natural means as a product of erosion.

Shall mean the minimum horizontal distance between the street, rear or side lines of the lot and the front, rear, or side setback line. When two or more lots under one ownership are used, the exterior property lines so grouped shall be used in determining setbacks. The setback distance shall be equal to the required yard depth.

Shall mean a line within any lot parallel to any street or property line between which line and the street or property line no building or portion thereof may be erected except as otherwise provided for in this chapter.

Shall mean a triangular shaped portion of land established at street intersections in which nothing is erected, placed, planted, or allowed to grow between a height of 30 inches and 15 inches above the ground elevation in such a manner as to limit or obstruct the sight distance of motorists entering or leaving the intersection.

Shall mean any structure or part thereof, or any device attached to a structure, which shall display or include any letter, work, model, banner, pennant, flag, insignia, device, or representation used as, or which is in the nature of an announcement, direction, or advertisement. A sign includes any billboard but does not include the flag, pennant, or insignia of any nation, group of nations, or of any State, City, or other political unit or any temporary political, educational, charitable, philanthropic, civic, religious or like campaign, drive, movement, or event sign.

Shall mean a temporary sign announcing or supporting political candidates or issues in connection with any national, State or local election.

Shall mean any sign which is owned and operated by any person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of outdoor advertising for direct profit gained from the rental of such signs, or any sign advertising a commodity not sold or produced on the premises. This shall include billboards and off-premises signs indicating the direction to a particular place, as well as any interior message or display with greater than twelve inch lettering/or logo which is visible from the exterior of the building structure.

Shall mean the area included within the frame or edge of the sign. Where the sign has no such frame or edge, the area shall be defined by an enclosed four-sided (straight sides) geometric shape, which most closely outlines the sign. In the case of lettering attached to building facades or awning signs, the sign area shall be the product of the maximum horizontal dimension of all lettering and symbols multiplied by the vertical dimension of all lettering and symbols which form the sign.

Shall mean a sign which directs attention to a business, commodity, service or entertainment conducted, sold or offered at a location other than the premises on which the sign is located.

Shall mean signs limited to directional messages, principally for pedestrian or vehicular traffic, such as but not limited to: "one-way," "entrance," and "exit," etc.

Shall mean a sign or plate listing the tenants or occupants of a building and their respective professions or business activities.

Shall mean any nonmovable sign not affixed to a building.

Shall mean any sign supported by uprights or braces and not attached to any building.

Shall mean a sign lighted by or exposed to artificial lighting either by lights on or in the sign or directed towards the sign.

Shall mean a sign, located on the premises, giving the name or address, or both, of the owner or occupant of a building or premises.

Shall mean a sign that is not permanent or affixed to a building, structure or the ground.

Shall mean a sign that is wholly or partly dependent upon a building for support and which projects more than 12 inches from such building.

Shall mean a sign pertaining to the sale or lease of the premises, or a portion of the premises, on which the sign is located.

Shall mean a sign that is mounted on the roof of a building or which is wholly dependent upon a building for support and which projects above the point of a building with a flat roof, the eave line of a building with a gambrel, gable or hip roof or the deck line of a building with a mansard roof or which extends more than six inches above the facade of a building.

Shall mean a sign of cloth, paper or other combustible material, with or without a frame, which is usually attached to the outside of a building, on a wall or store front or within the window area.

Shall mean any sign attached to or erected against or painted upon the exterior wall or facade of a building or structure so that the display surface of the sign is parallel to the plane of the wall.

Shall mean a sign that is applied or attached to the exterior or interior of a window or located in such a manner within a building that it can be seen from the exterior of the structure through a window.

Shall mean a development plan of one or more lots on which is shown details required pursuant to this chapter.

Shall mean a map of a subdivision of sufficient accuracy to be used for the purpose of discussion and classification of the application.

Shall mean any premises dedicated to the display, sale, distribution, delivery, offering, furnishing, or marketing of tobacco products, or tobacco paraphernalia, including providing an area for smoking tobacco products; and provided that any grocery store, supermarket, convenience store or similar retail use, as well as any hookah lounge shall be excluded from the definition of smoke shop. Any area for "smoking" shall mean the burning of, inhaling of, inhaling from, exhaling the smoke from, or the possession of a lighted cigar, cigarette, pipe or any other matter or substance which contains tobacco or any other matter that can be smoked, or the inhaling or exhaling of smoke or vapor from an electronic smoking device.

Shall mean that part of a building between the surface of any floor and the next floor above it, or in its absence then the finished ceiling or roof above it. A "split level" story shall be considered a second story if its floor level is six feet or more above the level of the line of the finished floor next below it except a cellar. Any floor under a sloping roof at the top of a building which is more than two feet below the top plate shall be counted as a story.

Shall mean that portion of a building under a gable, hip or gambrel roof, the wall plates of which at least two opposite exterior walls are not more than two feet above the floor of such half story. A cellar shall also be included as a "half-story."

Shall mean any road, avenue, street, lane, boulevard, alley or other way set aside or commonly used for access to abutting property, improved or unimproved. Such common ways shall have been duly inspected, approved, accepted and recorded and dedicated to the public use.

Shall mean that line determining the limit of the highway rights of the public, either existing or contemplated. Where a definite right-of-way width has not been established, the street lines shall be assumed to be at a point 25 feet from the centerline of the existing pavement.

Shall mean a combination of materials to form a construction that is safe and stable and includes among other affixed things, a stadium, platform, radio towers, buildings, billboards, sheds, storage bins, swimming pools.

Shall mean any body of water, tank or receptacle for water, whether artificially or semi-artificially constructed, or portable, having a depth at any point greater than 18 inches or having over 120 square feet of area or larger than 12 feet in diameter used or intended to be used for swimming or bathing solely by the owner, his family and guests of the household, and constructed, installed, established or maintained inside or outside any building in or above the ground upon any premises as an accessory use to the residence.

See Church.

Shall mean an establishment whose principal business activity, either in terms or operation or as held out to the public, is the practice of one or more of the following: (1) placing of designs, letters, figures, symbols or other marks upon or under the skin of any person, using ink or other substances that result in the permanent coloration of the skin by means of the use of needles or other instruments designed to contact or puncture the skin; and (2) creation of an opening in the body (piercing or otherwise) for the purpose of inserting jewelry or other decoration.

Shall mean a place where the principal use or function is the selling of alcoholic beverages and incident thereto may be retail sale or consumption of food as a permitted use, consistent with N.J.S.A. 33:1-12 et seq.

See Church.

Shall mean a structure without any foundation or footings and which is removed when the designated time period, activity, or use for which the temporary structure was erected has ceased.

Shall mean a use established for a fixed period of time with the intent to discontinue use upon the expiration of the time period.

Shall mean the specific purpose for which land or a building is designed, arranged, intended or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained.

Shall mean any premises dedicated to the display, sale, distribution, delivery, offering, furnishing, or marketing of electronic smoking devices, liquid nicotine, liquid nicotine containers or vapor product as defined by N.J.S.A. 26:3D-57; N.J.S.A. 2A170-51.9(a)(2); N.J.S.A. 2A170-51.9(a)(3); and N.J.S.A. 2A170-51.9(a)(4), including an area for vaping; and provided that any grocery store, supermarket, convenience store or similar retail use, as well as any hookah lounge shall be excluded from the definition of vape shop. An "area for vaping" shall mean the inhaling or exhaling of smoke or vapor from any electronic smoking device.

Shall mean permission to depart from the literal requirements of a zoning ordinance.

Shall mean any artificially constructed pool, not designed or used for swimming, with a maximum depth of 18 inches.

Shall mean a. The vertical exterior surface of a building; b. Vertical interior surfaces which divide a building's space into rooms.

Shall mean a building used primarily for the storage of goods and materials.

Shall mean an open, unoccupied space on the same lot with the principal building, extending the full width of the lot and situated between the street line and the front line of the building projected to the side lines of that lot. Front setback line shall be synonymous with the front yard line. Front setback requirements shall apply to all street frontage of a corner lot. The front yard area shall be measured at right angles to the street line.

Shall mean the open space extending across the full width of the lot and lying between the rear line of the lot and the nearest line of any building. The depth of a rear yard shall be measured at right angles to the lot line to the nearest point of the rear lot line.

Shall mean an open, unoccupied space between the side line of the lot and the nearest line of a building and extending from the front yard to the rear yard, or in the absence of either such yards, to the street or rear lot lines as the case may be. The width of a side yard will be measured at right angles to the side line of the lot.

Shall mean and include the duty of the Zoning Officer to enforce this chapter and pursuant to that duty to investigate any violation or alleged violation of this chapter coming to his/her attention, whether by complaint of third persons or from his/her own personal knowledge or observation. When any building or structure is erected, constructed, altered, repaired, converted or maintained, or any building, structure or land is used in violation of any provision of this chapter, it shall be the duty of the Zoning Officer to proceed with the enforcement of this chapter and the penalties provided for hereunder. He/she may also pursue such other statutory method or methods, heretofore or hereafter provided, as may be open to him/her.

Shall mean a document signed by the Zoning Officer: a. which is required by this chapter as a condition precedent to the commencement of a use or the erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, conversion or installation of a structure or building; and b. which acknowledges that such use, structure or building complies with the provisions of the zoning ordinance or variance therefrom duly authorized by the municipal approving agency.