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Oakland City Zoning Code

§ 59-52.7

Senior Affordable Housing District SAHD Zone.

[Added 6-23-2021 by Ord. No. 21-Code-841]
A. 
The purpose for adopting this District is to create a zone to accommodate and encourage the construction of sound, decent, attractive and safe apartments restricted to low-income senior citizen households, as defined by the Council on Affordable Housing substantive rules.
B. 
Permitted principal use in this Zone is restricted to senior citizen apartments to be organized in a multifamily building.
C. 
Any accessory use or structure customarily incidental to and customary for senior housing development is permitted.
D. 
All other uses are prohibited.
E. 
Required conditions.
(1) 
Lot area and other dimensions. Minimum required lot area in this zone is 25,000 square feet. Minimum lot width shall be 75 feet, minimum lot depth shall be no less than 225 feet.
(2) 
Yards. No principal building shall be located closer than 20 feet to the front property line. Required side yard setbacks are 10 feet. Each development shall be provided a rear yard of not less than 25 feet. Accessory structures, recreation facilities and on-site parking are all permitted in any side or rear yard, provided that no accessory structure shall project closer than five feet to any property line. These zoning provisions shall be inserted in Schedule A: Limiting Lot and Yard Sizes and Bulk Principal Building and Use.
(3) 
Maximum permitted density is 20 dwelling units per acre.
(4) 
The affordable housing units generated by this zone shall comply in all respects with the requirements and conditions contained within the Settlement Agreement between Oakland and Fair Share Housing Center I.T.M. No. BER-L-6359-15, all relevant orders of the Honorable Christine A. Farrington, J.S.C., and all applicable New Jersey requirements pertaining to the operation of privately developed affordable housing.
(5) 
All residential development shall comply with the New Jersey Residential Site Improvement Standards pertaining to on-site parking. If an applicant can demonstrate there is sufficient overnight nearby parking in proximity to their site, or that compliance with the Residential Site Improvement Standards are not desirable or necessary, applicants can seek a reduction in the supply of on-site parking as provided for under the Residential Site Improvement Standards.
(6) 
No construction permit shall be issued for a building in this District until and unless a site plan application has been submitted and approved pursuant to this chapter.
(7) 
At least three senior apartments shall be reserved for very-low-income households.
[Added 8-16-2023 by Ord. No. 23-Code-923[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also renumbered former Subsection E(7) as Subsection E(9).
(8) 
All developments increasing total impervious surface coverage in this zone shall be treated as if classified as a major development under current NJ DEP stormwater regulations and shall enhance stormwater quality by reducing the average annual total suspended solids loading in the site's post-construction runoff by 80% and shall manage stormwater flows such that the peak rate of runoff exiting the site post-construction is no greater than the pre-construction peak runoff rate.
[Added 8-16-2023 by Ord. No. 23-Code-923]
(9) 
No building construction shall commence and no certificate of occupancy shall be issued until and unless the building owner has been issued a valid New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection treatment works approval permit and the building is physically connected to, through approved plumbing connections, a sanitary sewer treatment facility and the building owner has been issued all necessary permits for the sewer connection.