Mountainside City Zoning Code

1011 B

Business District

Primary Intended Use. This zoning district is limited to business uses of a strictly retail sales and service nature. The only other uses permitted in this zone are:
1. Conditional uses as permitted and regulated in Section 1004.
2. Business and professional offices, banks, savings and loan associations and other lending agencies.
3. Accessory uses customarily incident to the principal uses set forth in subsections (a)(l) and (a)(2).
4. Off-street parking facilities including public or private parking lots conforming to Section 914(b).
Prohibited Use. Any use other than those uses permitted in Section 1011(a) above is prohibited and more particularly, but not by way of limitation, none of the following uses shall be permitted.
1. Residential construction or conversion either as a separate structure or combined with a permitted business structure.
2. Any business, including sales or services, conducted outside the confines of a building.
3. Used car sales as a principal use. Used car sales are permitted as an accessory use to a business where new cars are sold within the confines of a building in conformity with this Section, provided the area devoted to the sale of used cars is no larger than the floor area of the building used for new car sales.
4. Junkyards or the dismantling of automobiles.
5. Outdoor amusements.
6. Eating establishments where food and drink are consumed outside the confines of a structure on the premises.
7. Warehouses unless an accessory use.
8. The bulk storage of crude oil or other inflammable liquids or explosives aboveground.
9. Any industry, manufacturing, processing, producing or fabricating of any materials as a principal use. For purposes of this Ordinance, laundries, bakeries, printing shops, dry cleaning establishments and other businesses in which a product is produced as part of the operation of the business shall be deemed to be industries when they employ more than ten (10) persons or use production machinery totaling more than ten (10) horsepower, but it is not intended that a retail store or service such as a hotel, department store or bank shall be considered an industry despite having more than ten employees.
Required Conditions. The following requirements must be complied with in the B Business District.
1. Height. No building shall exceed a maximum of two and one half (2 1/2) stories or thirty five (35) feet in height, whichever is the lesser.
2. Front Yard. There shall be a front yard of not less than five (5) feet. Corner lots shall have a setback of five (5) feet on the side street.
3. Side Yard. There shall be a side yard on each side of the business building of not less than ten (10) feet. Off-street parking as required in Section 914(b) is permitted in the side yards.
4. Rear Yard. There shall be a rear yard of not less than thirty (30) feet. Off-street parking as required in Section 914(b) is permitted in the side yards.
5. Minimum Lot Area. Each lot shall have a minimum lot area of three thousand (3,000) square feet, with a minimum lot width of thirty (30) feet.
6. Screening. There shall be required a six foot high woven cedar fence or other screening fence as approved by the Planning Board to prevent visibility along the business zone side of the common boundary line separating all business zones from abutting residence zones. The finished side of such fence shall face the abutting residential zone.
7. Performance Standards. Before issuance of any building or occupancy permit for any use, all of the regulations and requirements of Section 1013 must be complied with.

Mountainside City Zoning Code

1011 B

Business District

Primary Intended Use. This zoning district is limited to business uses of a strictly retail sales and service nature. The only other uses permitted in this zone are:
1. Conditional uses as permitted and regulated in Section 1004.
2. Business and professional offices, banks, savings and loan associations and other lending agencies.
3. Accessory uses customarily incident to the principal uses set forth in subsections (a)(l) and (a)(2).
4. Off-street parking facilities including public or private parking lots conforming to Section 914(b).
Prohibited Use. Any use other than those uses permitted in Section 1011(a) above is prohibited and more particularly, but not by way of limitation, none of the following uses shall be permitted.
1. Residential construction or conversion either as a separate structure or combined with a permitted business structure.
2. Any business, including sales or services, conducted outside the confines of a building.
3. Used car sales as a principal use. Used car sales are permitted as an accessory use to a business where new cars are sold within the confines of a building in conformity with this Section, provided the area devoted to the sale of used cars is no larger than the floor area of the building used for new car sales.
4. Junkyards or the dismantling of automobiles.
5. Outdoor amusements.
6. Eating establishments where food and drink are consumed outside the confines of a structure on the premises.
7. Warehouses unless an accessory use.
8. The bulk storage of crude oil or other inflammable liquids or explosives aboveground.
9. Any industry, manufacturing, processing, producing or fabricating of any materials as a principal use. For purposes of this Ordinance, laundries, bakeries, printing shops, dry cleaning establishments and other businesses in which a product is produced as part of the operation of the business shall be deemed to be industries when they employ more than ten (10) persons or use production machinery totaling more than ten (10) horsepower, but it is not intended that a retail store or service such as a hotel, department store or bank shall be considered an industry despite having more than ten employees.
Required Conditions. The following requirements must be complied with in the B Business District.
1. Height. No building shall exceed a maximum of two and one half (2 1/2) stories or thirty five (35) feet in height, whichever is the lesser.
2. Front Yard. There shall be a front yard of not less than five (5) feet. Corner lots shall have a setback of five (5) feet on the side street.
3. Side Yard. There shall be a side yard on each side of the business building of not less than ten (10) feet. Off-street parking as required in Section 914(b) is permitted in the side yards.
4. Rear Yard. There shall be a rear yard of not less than thirty (30) feet. Off-street parking as required in Section 914(b) is permitted in the side yards.
5. Minimum Lot Area. Each lot shall have a minimum lot area of three thousand (3,000) square feet, with a minimum lot width of thirty (30) feet.
6. Screening. There shall be required a six foot high woven cedar fence or other screening fence as approved by the Planning Board to prevent visibility along the business zone side of the common boundary line separating all business zones from abutting residence zones. The finished side of such fence shall face the abutting residential zone.
7. Performance Standards. Before issuance of any building or occupancy permit for any use, all of the regulations and requirements of Section 1013 must be complied with.

Mountainside City Zoning Code

1011 B

Business District

Primary Intended Use. This zoning district is limited to business uses of a strictly retail sales and service nature. The only other uses permitted in this zone are:
1. Conditional uses as permitted and regulated in Section 1004.
2. Business and professional offices, banks, savings and loan associations and other lending agencies.
3. Accessory uses customarily incident to the principal uses set forth in subsections (a)(l) and (a)(2).
4. Off-street parking facilities including public or private parking lots conforming to Section 914(b).
Prohibited Use. Any use other than those uses permitted in Section 1011(a) above is prohibited and more particularly, but not by way of limitation, none of the following uses shall be permitted.
1. Residential construction or conversion either as a separate structure or combined with a permitted business structure.
2. Any business, including sales or services, conducted outside the confines of a building.
3. Used car sales as a principal use. Used car sales are permitted as an accessory use to a business where new cars are sold within the confines of a building in conformity with this Section, provided the area devoted to the sale of used cars is no larger than the floor area of the building used for new car sales.
4. Junkyards or the dismantling of automobiles.
5. Outdoor amusements.
6. Eating establishments where food and drink are consumed outside the confines of a structure on the premises.
7. Warehouses unless an accessory use.
8. The bulk storage of crude oil or other inflammable liquids or explosives aboveground.
9. Any industry, manufacturing, processing, producing or fabricating of any materials as a principal use. For purposes of this Ordinance, laundries, bakeries, printing shops, dry cleaning establishments and other businesses in which a product is produced as part of the operation of the business shall be deemed to be industries when they employ more than ten (10) persons or use production machinery totaling more than ten (10) horsepower, but it is not intended that a retail store or service such as a hotel, department store or bank shall be considered an industry despite having more than ten employees.
Required Conditions. The following requirements must be complied with in the B Business District.
1. Height. No building shall exceed a maximum of two and one half (2 1/2) stories or thirty five (35) feet in height, whichever is the lesser.
2. Front Yard. There shall be a front yard of not less than five (5) feet. Corner lots shall have a setback of five (5) feet on the side street.
3. Side Yard. There shall be a side yard on each side of the business building of not less than ten (10) feet. Off-street parking as required in Section 914(b) is permitted in the side yards.
4. Rear Yard. There shall be a rear yard of not less than thirty (30) feet. Off-street parking as required in Section 914(b) is permitted in the side yards.
5. Minimum Lot Area. Each lot shall have a minimum lot area of three thousand (3,000) square feet, with a minimum lot width of thirty (30) feet.
6. Screening. There shall be required a six foot high woven cedar fence or other screening fence as approved by the Planning Board to prevent visibility along the business zone side of the common boundary line separating all business zones from abutting residence zones. The finished side of such fence shall face the abutting residential zone.
7. Performance Standards. Before issuance of any building or occupancy permit for any use, all of the regulations and requirements of Section 1013 must be complied with.