Non-age-restricted multifamily rental dwellings.

Non-age-restricted townhouse rental dwellings.

Irrespective of § 101-12 of the Borough Code, more than one of the principal uses set forth in Subsections A(1) and (2) above shall be permitted on a lot in the AH-4 Zone.

Recreational facilities, fitness facilities, outdoor barbecues, fire pits, gazebos, leasing and management offices, club rooms, lounges, libraries, business centers, game rooms, pool rooms, community gardens, rec rooms, children's play rooms, private theater rooms, community kitchens for tenant use, bath house, locker rooms, mail rooms, package storage areas, valet spaces, and similar interior tenant amenities.

Buildings for storage of mechanical equipment.

Balconies (provided such balconies shall not be used for outdoor storage), decks and patios attached to a principal building.

Outdoor recreation facilities, including but not limited to fields, courts, putting greens, swimming pools, and playgrounds.

Dog park or dog run.

Dog spa or grooming facility, not including boarding or veterinarian services.

Storage spaces for tenants of a multifamily residential building. Such storage spaces may be unattached to individual units, but must be included within a principal building.

Refuse and recycling receptacles.

Off-street parking and loading facilities, including surface parking lots, parking that is provided on the ground level of a building with occupied floors built above, and one-car garage and driveway combinations. Structured parking (i.e., a structure in which vehicle parking is accommodated on multiple stories or floors) shall not be permitted in the AH-4 Zone.

Electric vehicle charging stations.

Bicycle racks and bicycle storage rooms.

Signs.

Fences and walls.

Bus/shuttle depots.

Any other use customarily incidental to a permitted principal use.

Low-/moderate-income split: A maximum of 50% of the affordable units shall be moderate-income units and a minimum of 50% of the affordable units shall be low-income units. At least 13% of all affordable units shall be very-low-income units, which shall be counted as part of the required number of low-income units within the development. The very-low-income units shall be proportionately distributed across each bedroom size.

Bedroom mix: Irrespective of any bedroom distribution requirements to the contrary, the bedroom distribution of the affordable units shall be no more than 15% one-bedroom units, no less than 35% three-bedroom units, with the remaining 50% being two-bedroom units.

Deed restriction period. Each affordable rental unit shall remain subject to these affordability controls, covenants, conditions, deed restrictions, and the applicable affordable housing regulations for a minimum period of at least 30 years. At the conclusion of the thirty-year term, the affordability controls, covenants, conditions, and deed restrictions shall not automatically expire. At the conclusion of the thirty-year term, the Borough reserves the right to exercise the option to extend the affordability controls, covenants, conditions and deed restrictions for an additional period of time by formal adoption of a resolution; or exercise any other option(s) available to the Borough to preserve the affordability controls as set forth in UHAC or any other applicable statute, regulation or law that may be in effect at that time. At the conclusion of the thirty-year term, the Borough shall be afforded a reasonable amount of time not to exceed 120 days to exercise this option to preserve and extend the affordability controls, covenants, conditions and deed restrictions; or to release the affordable unit from such requirements by formal adoption of an ordinance taken in compliance with N.J.A.C. 5:80-26.11(e) or any other applicable statute, regulation or law that may be in effect at that time.

Administrative agent: All affordable units shall be administered by a qualified administrative agent paid for by the developer.

Other affordable housing unit requirements: Developers shall also comply with all of the other requirements of the Borough's Affordable Housing Ordinance,[1] including, but not limited to: 1) affirmative marketing requirements; 2) candidate qualification and screening requirements; and 3) unit phasing requirements, unless specifically modified by order of the Court.

Any structures, apparatus, utilities, equipment and amenities such as mezzanines and/or roof decks/terraces/porches (as provided for under the IBC) on the roof shall not constitute a story, provided that no roof covers any portion of the area.

Multiple principal buildings on a lot. Irrespective of § 101-11 of the Borough Code, multiple principal buildings shall be permitted on a lot in the AH-4 Zone.

Supplemental height requirements. In addition to the height requirements set forth at Subsection A above, the supplemental height requirements set forth at § 101-17 shall also be applicable in the AH-4 Zone, except as follows:

Supplemental yard requirements. In addition to the yard requirements set forth at Subsection A above, the supplemental yard requirements set forth at § 101-16 shall also be applicable in the AH-4 Zone, except as follows:

Accessory buildings and structures. Section 101-21A relating to accessory structures and uses in residential districts shall not apply in the AH-4 Zone. Instead, the following requirements shall apply to accessory buildings and structures in the AH-4 Zone:

Open space. At least 40% of the lot area shall be devoted to common open space. Said open space shall be any area that is not impervious. It may consist of active and passive recreational facilities or undeveloped land. Where open space is to be provided as active or passive recreation, said areas shall be appropriately designed and landscaped to provide shade coverage, seating and trash receptacles. Where open space is to remain undeveloped, vegetation shall be kept in its natural state.

Monument signs. One monument sign shall be permitted in the AH-4 Zone in accordance with the following:

Building-mounted signs. Two building-mounted signs displaying the name of the development shall be permitted in the AH-4 Zone in accordance with the following:

Wayfinding and directional signs. Wayfinding and directional signs for the convenience of the general public shall not exceed nine square feet in area.

The minimum number of off-street parking spaces required within the AH-4 Zone shall be 1.8 spaces per dwelling unit. Because this parking requirement deviates from the Residential Site Improvement Standards (RSIS), development in the AH-4 Zone which meets or exceeds 1.8 parking spaces per dwelling unit, but does not comply with RSIS, will require a de minimis exception, but not variance relief.

Parking spaces shall measure nine feet in width by 18 feet in length, except that up to 15% of all parking spaces may measure 8.5 feet in width by 16 feet in length. Because these parking dimensions deviate from the Residential Site Improvement Standards (RSIS), parking spaces which measure 8.5 feet in width by 16 feet in length will require a de minimis exception, but not variance relief.

Off-street parking shall be designed in accordance with § 87-43, Off-street parking requirements. However, in the event of a conflict between § 87-43 and this article, this article shall govern.

Development in the AH-4 Zone shall be exempt from § 87-44, Off-street loading requirements. However, where 50 or more units are provided in a single building in the AH-4 Zone, the design shall include one loading space for that building. Said loading space shall be no less than 12 feet in width and 35 feet in length, and the overall floor-to-ceiling height or clear height distance shall not be less than 12 feet. Off-street loading spaces shall meet the minimum yard setbacks for principal buildings.

The off-street parking, loading and driveway requirements set forth at §§ 101-23 and 101-62B shall not apply in the AH-4 Zone.

All off-street parking spaces, loading spaces, and internal roadways/drive aisles shall be located a minimum of 10 feet from buildings, except for parking, loading, or drive aisles within or under a building or which extend continuously into or under a building from outside the building. One-car tandem garage/driveway combinations shall also be exempt from this setback requirement.

All off-street parking spaces and internal roadways/drive aisles shall be set back a minimum of 30 feet from property lines, except that no setback shall be required from the Borough of Montvale Municipal Boundary Line or from Block 304, Lot 1.

Irrespective of any prohibitions to the contrary, internal roadways/drive aisles within the AH-4 Zone shall provide for permitted access (both primary and emergency) to the development on Block 3302, Lot 1, within the Borough of Montvale.

Electric vehicle charging stations shall be provided in accordance with § 101-62C of the Borough Code.

Bicycle parking shall be provided at a minimum ratio of one bike space per 15 dwelling units.

Irrespective of § 101-21E(1), tiering of retaining walls shall be required, unless commercially impracticable as reasonably determined by the Planning Board Engineer and without any reduction to permitted density, with each tier to be no greater than 10 feet in height, provided that a six-foot-wide planted plateau is provided in between walls. Plantings in front of the walls and on tiers shall have a planted height of no less than eight feet. If the Planning Board Engineer determines that tiering of retaining walls up to 10 feet in height is commercially impracticable, retaining walls shall be permitted up to a maximum height of 30 feet.

Where provided, retaining walls shall be screened with a variety of landscaping materials, in groupings, rather than utilizing hedges or uniform plant species and spacing.

Retaining walls shall be set back off the property line a sufficient distance to allow installation of a twenty-five-foot-wide planted buffer area or a twenty-foot-wide planted buffer area provided such buffer area includes eight-foot-tall evergreen trees, and shall be set back a minimum of six feet from a principal building, except where the retaining wall extends perpendicular to that principal building.

Safety fencing shall be installed along the tops of all retaining walls which exceed a height of three feet. Safety fencing on top of a retaining wall shall be limited to a height of four feet. Vinyl-coated chain-link, PVC, and metal fencing are permitted.

Ornamental walls and privacy fences shall comply with § 101-21E(1). Same shall be permitted along a property line.

Irrespective of § 101-21E(1), privacy fencing along the Woodcliff Lake Municipal Boundary Line shall be permitted up to a maximum height of eight feet, provided that a minimum five-foot setback is provided between the privacy fencing and the Woodcliff Lake Municipal Boundary Line, and further provided that evergreen trees are planted at a height of eight feet between such privacy fencing and the Woodcliff Lake Municipal Boundary Line.

Except where prohibited by the IBC, development in the AH-4 Zone shall consist entirely of buildings of wood-frame construction with the exception of at grade parking decks/garages, which shall not be required to be wood-frame construction.

Buildings shall avoid long, monotonous, uninterrupted walls or roof planes. Building wall offsets, including projections such as canopies and recesses, shall be used in order to add architectural interest and variety and to relieve the visual effect of a simple, long wall.

The maximum spacing between building wall offsets shall be 70 feet.

The minimum projection or depth of any individual vertical offset shall be one foot.

Roofline offsets, dormers or gables shall be provided in order to provide architectural interest and variety to the massing of a building and to relieve the effect of a single, long roof. Pitched roofs shall be provided; however, a flat roof shall be permitted in the AH-4 Zone, provided that a detail providing the appearance of a pitched roof or mansard is utilized.

The maximum spacing between roof offsets shall be 70 feet.

Architectural treatments and visual interest shall be applied to all visibly exposed facades of a building. All facades of a building shall be architecturally designed to be consistent with regard to style, materials, colors and details.

Fenestration shall be architecturally compatible with the style, materials, colors and details of the building. Windows shall be vertically proportioned.

All entrances to a building shall be defined and articulated by architectural elements such as lintels, pediments, pilasters, columns, porticoes, porches, overhangs, railings, etc.

Heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems, utility meters and regulators, exhaust pipes and stacks, satellite dishes and other telecommunications receiving devices shall be screened or otherwise specially treated to be, as much as possible, inconspicuous as viewed from the public right-of-way and adjacent properties.

Placement of any packaged terminal air conditioner units within the facade is expressly prohibited in the AH-4 Zone.

The collection and storage of refuse and recycling shall comply with § 87-49 of the Borough Code.

All trash/recycling storage areas stored outside the confines of a building shall be enclosed with masonry block walls with PVC fence gates. Said enclosures shall adhere to the same property line setbacks as are required for off-street parking spaces, and shall be screened from view from any adjacent properties.

Refuse and recycling collection shall be handled by a private hauler, the costs of which shall be reimbursed by the Borough pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:66-1.3. All private hauling operations within the AH-4 Zone shall, however, be subject to Borough review and approval.

Notwithstanding § 64-13, recyclable materials may be separated off site by a private hauler.

All exterior lighting in the AH-4 Zone shall comply with § 87-45A of the Borough Code.

All exterior lights shall be designed so as to reduce glare, lower energy usage and direct lights only to where they are needed.

All exterior lights shall be light-emitting diode (LED) light of the soft white category, and shall be Dark Sky compliant.

All exterior lights shall be focused downward so that the direct source of light is not visible from adjoining streets or properties.

A landscaping plan shall be provided in accordance with § 101-63A and B of the Borough Code.

Landscaping of parking and loading areas shall comply with § 101-61A of the Borough Code. The remaining sections of § 101-61 shall not apply.

A minimally twenty-foot-wide planted buffer area shall be required along the property line abutting the Borough of Woodcliff Lake municipal border. An eight-foot-high privacy fence shall be provided five feet from the Borough of Woodcliff Lake municipal border, with eight-foot-high evergreen trees to be planted between the privacy fence and the Borough of Woodcliff Lake municipal border. The required buffer area shall be comprised of native evergreen species that provide a year-round visual screen and shall be augmented with native flowering trees and shrubs. The buffer area shall also comply in all respects with § 101-63C.