Netcong City Zoning Code
§ 194-58
B Commercial Business District.
A.
Primary intended uses. The following uses are permitted in the B Commercial Business District: retail sales and service facilities designed to serve the needs of the residential community, such as stores, shops, financial institutions, hotels, motels, social halls, lodges, fraternal organizations, eating and drinking places with or without entertainment, business and professional offices, theaters, churches and parish houses, and passenger automobile or truck salesrooms having enclosed walls and a roof and used for motor vehicle sales in conjunction therewith, gasoline filling stations, car-washing establishments and public garages subject to the limitations and standards as set forth in § 194-64C hereof.
B.
Prohibited uses.
(1)
Within any commercial zone, no building or premises shall be used in whole or in part for any other than the purposes specified above under Subsection A. In addition to the restrictions set forth in Subsection A, the following uses are expressly prohibited:
(a)
Any process of manufacture, fabrication, assembly, disassembly, treatment, conversion or alteration of any material.
(b)
Fuel distributing plants.
(c)
Trailer camps or storage or parking of trailers.
(d)
The commercial care, boarding, treatment or breeding of domestic animals.
(e)
Storage of crude oil or any of its volatile products or other flammable products.
(f)
Junkyards, dumps, refuse depots, secondhand material yards, automobile graveyards or disassembly plants and places for storing, baling or treating of junk, old iron, rags, bottles or scrap paper.
(g)
Slaughtering poultry and animals; rendering lards or fats and smoking meats, whether or not the same is incidental to a retail business.
(2)
No carousels, roller coasters, merry-go-rounds, Ferris wheels, pony ride tracks, exhibitions of animals and similar commercial amusements shall be permitted, except in connection with a carnival or circus having a special permit from the governing body.
C.
Performance standards. Before the issuance of any building or occupancy permit for any use in the commercial district, all of the following regulations must be complied with:
(1)
Fire and explosion hazards. All activities or operations involving fire or explosion hazards shall be carried on in conformity with the provisions of the Fire Prevention Code of the Borough of Netcong.
(2)
Smoke, fumes, gases, dust, odors. There shall be no emission of any smoke, fumes, gas, dust, odors or any other atmospheric pollutant which will disseminate beyond the boundaries of the lot occupied by such use.
(3)
Liquid or solid waste. No business operations shall discharge waste of any kind into any reservoir, pond, pool or other body of open water. The discharge of untreated waste into a stream shall be prohibited.
(4)
Vibration. There shall be no vibration which is discernible to the human sense of feeling beyond the immediate site on which such use is conducted.
(5)
Noise. There shall be no noise emanating from the operation which will be audible beyond the boundaries of the immediate site.
(6)
Nuisances. No store, shop or office within any district shall use any noise-making instruments such as phonographs, loudspeakers, amplifiers, radios, television sets or similar devices which are so situated as to be heard outside any building in the district. No smoke, fumes or objectionable odors shall be emitted from any building. The display of merchandise placed on the premises outside the exterior walls of any building is prohibited.
D.
Off-street parking.
(1)
The number of off-street parking spaces required shall be as set forth in § 194-55E(8).
[Amended 10-13-2016 by Ord. No. 2016-14]
(2)
No part of any off-street parking area shall occupy more than 1/2 of the front yard setback requirement.
(3)
Any owner or group of owners of a business building or buildings may jointly sponsor off-street parking facilities, provided that the area of the parking facilities equals the total parking area requirements of each owner participating therein, and further provided that such jointly sponsored facilities comply with all the other requirements of this chapter.
(4)
All parking areas shall be designed with service aisles adequate in width to maintain a safe flow of traffic.
E.
Conditional uses.
[Added 10-12-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-16]
(1)
Cannabis retailers.
(2)
Billboards.
[Added 12-14-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-24]
