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Ramsey City Zoning Code

34-40.1 Prohibited

uses.

[Ord. No. 443; Ord. No. 458; Ord. No. 465; Ord. No. 526; Ord. No. 574; 1972 Code § 130.1901; Ord. No. 762 § 1; Ord. No. 923 § 1; Ord. No. 923A § 1; Ord. No. 924; Ord. No. 1018; Ord. No. 1054; Ord. No. 1166; Ord. No. 1254 § 1; Ord. No. 46-2004 § 2; 5-10-2017 by Ord. No. 04-2017; 7-28-2021 by Ord. No. 12-2021; 9-13-2021 by Ord. No. 14-2021]
The following specified uses and purposes shall be prohibited in all districts:
a. 
Automobile wrecking yards and dismantling plants.
b. 
Carousels, roller coasters, merry-go-rounds, Ferris wheels, similar amusements, pony riding tracks, exhibitions of animals, similar activities, fairs and bazaars; except where such uses or activities have been granted a special permit by the Borough Council in accordance with the provisions of Subsection 34-40.1.
c. 
Commercial incineration.
d. 
Drive-in theatres and auction markets.
e. 
Rubbish, garbage or trash dumps except by the municipality or its agent.
f. 
Trailer camps or other storage or parking of trailers except as provided for in Chapter 13, Section 13-8, Parking and Storage of Recreational Vehicles in the R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4 and R-5 Zones.
g. 
Used car lots unless incidental to sales rooms for new cars.
h. 
Any business conducted outside the confines of a building.
i. 
Junkyards.
j. 
Asphalt batching, transit mix or plant mix, concrete plants or sand and gravel processing.
k. 
Storage of all liquefied petroleum gas in excess of 500 U.S. water gallons.
l. 
Sales displays, similar activities and all other commercial activities unless they are contained in a fully enclosed building except that street vendors shall be permitted in all districts except the B-1, B-1A, B-2, and B-3 Commercial Districts, and except that mobile vending vehicles used by nonprofit organizations shall be allowed on athletic, recreation, and park fields and facilities in all zone districts, except as same may be limited by the provisions of Subsection 11-1.4 of the Municipal Code. Such prohibited uses do not include nursery products, farm or the raising of agricultural products which shall be permitted in the B-1, B-1A, B-2, and B-3 Commercial Districts.
m. 
Fuel distributing plants.
n. 
Storage of unregistered motor vehicles and disabled registered motor vehicles as follows:
Unregistered motor vehicles and disabled registered motor vehicles shall not be stored more than 30 days except in an enclosed garage unless the same are awaiting repair at a licensed public garage or unless the same are new or used motor vehicles being stored or displayed at a licensed motor vehicle dealership.
For the purpose of this paragraph, the term disabled shall mean a motor vehicle which is partially dismantled, nonoperating, wrecked, junked or in such state of disrepair that it cannot readily be made operable and conforming to all requirements of the New Jersey Division of Motor Vehicles.
o. 
Boarding houses.
p. 
Commercial rental of more than four self-storage spaces to the general public in a building larger than 1,000 square feet.
q. 
No sexually oriented uses shall be permitted within the Borough of Ramsey within one mile of any public elementary school, private elementary school, public secondary school, private secondary school, public library, church, synagogue and/or other place of worship, child care center, day care center, public park, playground, business school, technical school, professional school, or college; nor shall any cabaret, juice bar or other sexually oriented uses be permitted within one mile of any other cabaret, juice bar or other sexually oriented business.
r. 
Cabarets or juice bars wherein specified anatomical area are displayed, presented to the patrons or in any manner shown or displayed in the premises within one mile of any public elementary school, private elementary school, public secondary school, private secondary school, public library, church, synagogue and/or other place of worship, child care center, day care center, public park, playground, business school, technical school, professional school, or college; nor shall any cabaret, juice bar or other sexually oriented uses be permitted within one mile of any other cabaret, juice bar or other sexually oriented business.
s. 
The aforesaid one mile as set forth above shall be measured in a straight line without regard to intervening structures or objects, from the nearest portion of the building or structure used as a part of the premises where a cabaret, juice bar or sexually oriented business is conducted to the nearest property line of the premises or place of any public elementary school, private elementary school, public secondary school, private secondary school, public library, church, synagogue and/or other place of worship, child care center, day care center, public park, playground, business school, technical school, professional school, college, cabaret, juice bar or other sexually oriented use.
t. 
Dormitory. This prohibition shall not apply to dormitories established prior to April 15, 2017.
u. 
All classes of cannabis establishments or cannabis distributors or cannabis delivery services as said terms are defined in Section 3 of P.L. 2021, c. 16, but not the delivery of cannabis items and related supplies by a delivery service.
v. 
No cannabis cultivation, cannabis manufacture, cannabis wholesalers, cannabis distributors, cannabis retailers or cannabis delivery uses shall be permitted within the Borough of Ramsey nor shall a license (Class 1, Class 2, Class 3, Class 4, Class 5 or Class 6) be granted by the Borough of Ramsey for operation of same.
w. 
No medical cannabis dispensary use permitted except in the L.O. Laboratory and Office Building District. In the L.O. Laboratory and Office Building District no medical cannabis dispensary use shall be permitted within 500 of any public elementary school, elementary school, public secondary school, private secondary school, public library, church, synagogue and/or other place of worship, child-care center, day-care center, public park, playground, business school, technical school, professional school, or college. A total of two medical cannabis dispensaries use shall be permitted in the L.O. District.
x. 
The aforesaid distance as set forth above shall be measured in a straight line without regard to intervening structures or objects, from the nearest portion of the building or structure used as a part of the premises where a cannabis dispensary is conducted to the nearest property line of the premises or place of any public elementary school, private school, public secondary school, private secondary school, public library, church, synagogue and/or other place of worship, child-care center, day-care center, public park, playground, business school, technical school, professional school, college, medical cannabis dispensary or recreational cannabis use.