All commercial, industrial, business, apartment or townhouse used which abut a residential zone shall be required to maintain a buffer zone within the property that contains one of the aforementioned uses. A commercial, industrial or business use shall also be required to maintain a buffer zone within its property when the use abuts a townhouse or apartment use.

The buffer zone shall be measured horizontally and perpendicularly to lot and street lines and shall exist on the side or sides facing a residential use or in the situation where a commercial, industrial or business use abuts an apartment or townhouse use, on the side or sides facing the townhouse or apartment use.

The buffer zone shall be kept in its natural state where wooded, and where vegetation is sparse shall be flexible in design in accordance with the degree of intensity of use of the properties, the distance between the uses, the existing vegetation, elevation and other man-made and natural features.

The buffer zone may consist of fencing, evergreens, shrubs, ferns, rocks, boulders, bushes, trees or combinations thereof as required by the Borough of Ramsey Shade Tree Commission and such other items as necessary to accomplish the purposes stated herein.

No principal and accessory structures, driveways, access ways, parking lots, storage areas, paving, or parking of vehicles or equipment shall be permitted in the buffer zone.