Shall mean a use or structure, other than a residential storage shed as hereinafter defined, subordinate to the principal use or structure on the same lot that serves a purpose customarily incidental to the principal use or to the principal structure.

Shall mean any changes in the supporting members of a building, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders, or interior partitions, as well as any changes in doors, windows, or means of ingress or egress; or any enlargement to or diminution of a building or structure, whether horizontally or vertically; or the moving of a building or structure from one location to another.

Shall mean a place where animals or pets are given medical or surgical treatment.

Shall mean any building, structure or premises in which animals are kept, sold, boarded or trained for commercial purposes.

Shall mean a person, firm, partnership, corporation, or public agency submitting an application for development.

Shall mean the application form and all accompanying documents required by ordinance for approval of a subdivision, site plan, conditional use, zoning variance or direction of the issuance of a permit pursuant to law, as required by Chapter 38, Site Plan Review, and Chapter 36, Land Subdivision and the rules and regulations of the Approving Authority.

Shall mean a building or place of business where gasoline, fuel, oil and grease and/or batteries, tires and automobile accessories are supplied and dispensed directly to the motor vehicle trade and/or where mechanical repair is rendered.

Shall mean a story partly below grade level, having more than 1/2 of its floor-to-ceiling height above the average level of the adjoining ground. A "basement" shall be counted as a story if used for business or dwelling purposes.

Shall mean a dwelling containing not more than six rooms in which overnight accommodations and a morning meal and/or afternoon tea-snack are provided for transient guests for compensation and in which the guests' accommodations are an accessory to the principal use of the dwelling, which is a residence for the owner. The definition should also include the following additional requirements: Each bed and breakfast shall maintain a guest register which shall be readily available for inspection. No guest may stay in a bed and breakfast for more than 14 consecutive days.

Shall mean the Planning Board of the Borough of Ringwood.

Shall mean the Borough of Ringwood in the County of Passaic in the State of New Jersey.

Shall mean a contiguous area of specified width adjacent to a lot either in its natural state or planted with evergreens or other suitable vegetation so as to form an effective year-round noise and visual screen. Such areas may contain fences, underground utilities, walls and earth berms but shall not include any other principal or accessory building or use, parking areas and aisles, or storage areas except that access drives and signs approved by the Approving Authority may be included.

Shall mean a combination of materials to form a construction adapted to permanent, temporary or continuous occupancy, having a roof supported by columns or walls and intended for the shelter, housing, or enclosure of any individual, animal, process, equipment goods, or materials of any kind and intended for use in one place. When such a structure is divided into separate parts by one or more unpierced walls extending from the ground up to an through the roof, each part is deemed a separate building except as regards minimum side yard requirements.

Shall mean the vertical distance from the lowest elevation at grade of an exposed wall to the elevation of the highest point of the roof.

Shall mean a structure in which is conducted the principal use of the site on which it is situated.

All parts of the plant Cannabis sativa L., whether growing or not, the seeds thereof, and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant or its seeds, except those containing resin extracted from the plant, which are cultivated and, when applicable, manufactured in accordance with the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization Act, P.L. 2021, c. 16 (N.J.S.A. 24:6I-31 et seq.), for use in cannabis products, and medical cannabis intended for consumption by registered qualifying patients pursuant to the Jake Honig Compassionate Use Medical Cannabis Act, P.L. 2009, c. 307 (N.J.S.A. 24:6I-1 et seq.), and P.L. 2015, c. 158 (N.J.S.A. 18A:40-12.22 et seq.); but shall under no circumstance include marijuana as defined in N.J.S.A. 2C:35-2 and applied to any offense set forth in Chapters 35, 35A, and 36 of Title 2C of the New Jersey Statutes, or P.L. 2021, c. 114 (N.J.S.A. 2C:35B-1 et seq.), or marihuana as defined in Section 2 of P.L. 1970, c. 226 (N.J.S.A. 24:21-2), and applied to any offense set forth in the New Jersey Controlled Dangerous Substances Act, P.L. 1970, c. 226 (N.J.S.A. 24:21-1 et seq.); or hemp or a hemp product cultivated, handled, processed, transported, or sold pursuant to the New Jersey Hemp Farming Act, P.L. 2019, c. 238 (N.J.S.A. 4:28-6 et seq.).

Any licensed person or entity that grows, cultivates, or produces cannabis in this state, and sells, and may transport, this cannabis to other cannabis cultivators, or usable cannabis to cannabis manufacturers, cannabis wholesalers, or cannabis retailers, but not to consumers.

Any licensed person or entity that provides courier services for consumer purchases of cannabis items and related supplies fulfilled by a cannabis retailer in order to make deliveries of the cannabis items and related supplies to that consumer, and which services include the ability of a consumer to purchase the cannabis items directly through the cannabis delivery service, which, after presenting the purchase order to the cannabis retailer for fulfillment, is delivered to that consumer.

Any licensed person or entity that transports cannabis in bulk intrastate from one licensed cannabis cultivator to another licensed cannabis cultivator, or transports cannabis items in bulk transport from any one class of licensed cannabis establishment to another class of licensed cannabis establishment and may engage in the temporary storage of cannabis or cannabis items as necessary to carry out transportation activities.

A cannabis cultivator, a cannabis manufacturer, a cannabis wholesaler or a cannabis distributor.

Any licensed person or entity that processes cannabis items by purchasing or otherwise obtaining usable cannabis, manufacturing, preparing, and packaging cannabis items, and selling, and optionally transporting, these items to other cannabis manufacturers, cannabis wholesalers, or cannabis retailers, but not to consumers.

A product containing usable cannabis, cannabis extract, or any other cannabis resin, and other ingredients intended for human consumption or use, including a product intended to be applied to the skin or hair, edible cannabis products, ointments, and tinctures.

Any licensed person or entity that purchases or otherwise obtains, stores, sells or otherwise transfers, and may transport, cannabis items for the purpose of resale or other transfer to either another cannabis wholesaler or to a cannabis retailer, but not to consumers.

Shall mean a roofed structure providing space for the parking of motor vehicles and enclosed on not more than two sides.

Shall mean a story partly or totally below grade level, having more than 1/2 of its floor-to-ceiling height below the average level of the adjoining ground. A "cellar" shall be counted as a story if used for business or dwelling purposes.

Shall mean an establishment licensed and approved by the Division of Youth and Family Services maintained for the care, development and supervision of six or more children under six years of age who attend for less than 24 hours a day.

Shall mean a place or facility designed and equipped for indoor or outdoor recreation facilities such as swimming pools, tennis courts, volleyball courts and other court games; and facilities such as baseball and other field sports, playfields and playgrounds, golf course and other similar recreation facilities all of which are maintained as an integral part of a planned recreation development for the exclusive use of persons using the facility. Commercial recreation does not include amusement parks, electronic game arcades, campgrounds or similar uses.

Shall mean any power-driven vehicle used or designed to be used for commercial purposes on the highways or roadways or in construction, whether or not the vehicle is registered as, and bears, commercial-type license plates.

Shall mean any shelter approved for a purchase of service contract and certified pursuant to N.J.S.A. 30:40-1 through N.J.S.A. 30:40-14 providing food, shelter, medical care, legal assistance, personal guidance, and other services to more than six persons and not more than 15 persons who have been victims of domestic violence, including any children of such victims, who require shelter and assistance in order to protect their physical or psychological welfare.

As set forth in Chapter 35 Land Use Procedures, Section 35-3.11 Completeness.

Shall mean a use permitted in a particular zoning district only upon showing that such use in a specified location shall comply with the conditions and standards for the location or operation of such use as contained in this chapter and the issuance of an authorization thereof by the Approving Authority.

Shall mean a structure containing not more than 25 guest rooms, full-service restaurant, snack bar and/or gift shop. The owner or operator may reside on the premises. The restaurant, snack bar and gift shop may be opened to the public. The structure shall be at least 2.5 stories high and may contain not more than 12,500 square feet of gross floor area. All guest rooms shall be accessed from internal corridors and the overall visual impact shall be of a "large residence" when viewed in terms of scale and building materials.

Shall mean any area which is bounded by three or more sides by buildings or walls which effectively enclose the area.

Shall mean an unroofed platform structure having vertical height of more than eight inches above the ground.

Shall mean those areas which exist or are created for the temporary storage of stormwater and for the controlled discharge of this water to a receiving drainage system.

Shall mean the legal or beneficial owner or owners of a lot or of any land proposed to be included in a proposed development, including the holder of an option or contract to purchase or other person having an enforceable proprietary interest in such land.

Shall mean the division of a parcel of land into two or more parcels, the construction, reconstruction, conversion, structural alteration, relocation or enlargement of any building or other structure or of any mining excavation or landfill, and any use or change in the use of any building or other structure or land or extension of use of land for which permission may be required.

Shall mean any portion of the territory of the Borough within which certain uniform regulations and requirements or various combinations thereof apply under the provisions of this chapter.

Shall mean a private way providing vehicular access to one or more parcels of property.

Shall mean any permanent building or portion thereof designed or used exclusively as the residence or sleeping places of one or more persons.

Shall mean one or more rooms, occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters by one family or household provided that access is directly from the outside or through a common hall and that separate cooking, sleeping and sanitary facilities are provided within the dwelling for the exclusive use of the occupants thereof.

Shall mean the erection, construction, alteration or maintenance by public utilities or municipal or other government agencies of electrical, gas, water transmission or distribution systems or collection, communication, water supply or sewage treatment and collection systems, including poles, electric wires, water mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, light stanchions, telephone lines, hydrants and other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith, reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate services by such public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies or for the public health, safety or general welfare, but not including buildings.

Shall mean any number of persons related by blood, marriage or adoption or living together as a single housekeeping unit and using certain rooms and housekeeping facilities in common. A "family" shall also include foster children placed with a family in such dwelling by the Division of Youth and Family Services in the Department of Institutions and Agencies or a duly incorporated child care agency and children placed pursuant to law in single-family dwellings known as "group homes."

Shall mean any private residence approved by the Division of Youth and Family Services or an organization with which the Division contracts for family day care in which child care services are regularly provided to no less than three and no more than five children for no less than 15 hours a week. A child who is cared for under the following circumstances is not included in the total number of children receiving child care services:

Shall mean an area of land which is actively devoted to agricultural or horticultural use which occupies no less than five acres exclusive of the land upon which the farm house is located and such additional land, in conformance with the minimum lot size of the zone in which the farm is located, as may actually be used in connection with the farm house as provided in N.J.S.A. 54:4-23.3, 54:4-23.4, 54:4-23.5, and 54:4-23.11.

A combination of warehouse, storage, light manufacturing and/or office space developed for sale or lease to individual tenants where each tenant occupies a space for a combination of permitted uses, typically an office/warehouse space. Flex spaces are typically developed with several tenant spaces in one structure and are often used by trade industries such as plumbers, electrician, contractors and similar uses that require truck and equipment storage with an associated office space. The warehouse portion of the use could also include some light manufacturing such as cabinet making, assembly of products and similar production uses.

Shall mean the rivers or other watercourses and adjacent land areas subject to inundation as defined by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection in the event of the design flood. These areas include, but are not necessarily limited to, the floodway and flood fringe areas as delineated on the Flood Insurance Study for the Borough of Ringwood dated August, 1981 with accompanying Flood Insurance Rate Maps and Flood Boundary Maps prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Shall mean the rivers or other watercourses and the adjacent land areas to be reserved in order to discharge the design flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than 0.2 foot or as defined by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

Shall mean the sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of a building measured from the exterior walls of the building. "Floor area" shall not include areas devoted to mechanical equipment serving the building, stairways and elevators, areas devoted exclusively to off-street parking and loading space for motor vehicles or to any space where the floor-to-ceiling height is less than seven feet.

Shall mean the ratio of floor area to lot area, both expressed in square feet.

The production of food or beverage products from raw goods and/or farm products, such as salsa from vegetables, cheese from milk, jams and pies from fruit, juice from fruits or vegetables, etc.

Shall mean a building used for the inside storage of one or more vehicles. If it is maintained primarily for the convenience of the resident-occupant of the premises and no service is rendered to the public or business conducting therein, it is a private garage. Any garage other than a private garage is a public garage.

Shall mean the Council of the Borough of Ringwood.

Shall mean the total number of dwelling units existing or permitted on a housing site divided by the total area of the tract. The result is expressed as dwelling units per acre.

Shall mean the sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of a building measured from the exterior walls of the building.

Shall mean any building, structure, area or property that is significant in the history, architecture, archeology or culture of this State, its communities or the Nation and has been so designated pursuant to law.

Shall mean an occupation for gain or support conducted only by members of a family residing in a dwelling unit. Licensed professional occupations shall not be permitted as home occupations.

Shall mean any animal which is a solid-hoofed or cleft-hoofed quadruped including, but not limited to, horses, ponies, sheep, goats, cows, donkeys and mules whether mature animals or their young.

Shall mean a group of not more than four persons who are not related by blood, marriage or adoption, who live together as a bona fide single housekeeping unit.

Shall mean the percentage of lot area which is improved with principal and accessory buildings, structures and uses including, but not limited to, driveways, tennis courts, parking areas, garages, walkways, patios, loading areas, hard surfaces or other man-made improvements. Detention or retention basins shall be excluded from such calculations provided same is constructed of natural materials.

Shall mean and include any automobile, motor vehicles, parts thereof and/or machinery no longer in actual or current use as such, or which is dismounted or disassembled, being overhauled or wholly unfit for use without rebuilding or reconditioning, or which has been discarded from the original use for which it was intended or is not licensed for the current year.

Shall mean an off-street space or berth on the same lot with a building or a group of buildings used for temporary parking of a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise, materials, or equipment.

Shall mean a designated parcel, tract or area of land established by a plat or otherwise as permitted by law and to be used, developed or built upon as a unit.

Shall mean the computed area contained within the lot line.

Shall mean the percentage of a lot area which is occupied by buildings and accessory structures including swimming pools, porches, decks, chimneys and other related building appurtenances but not including walkways, driveways, patios, tennis courts, open parking areas and loading areas.

Shall mean a horizontal distance between the front lot line and rear lot line, measured perpendicular or radial to the front lot line at the midpoint of the lot frontage to the furthest distance thereof or taken as the average of three measurements, one taken at each corner and one taken at the midpoint for irregularly shaped parcels.

Shall mean the length of the front lot line.

Shall mean a line of record bounding the lot.

Shall mean the horizontal distance between the side lot lines, measured parallel to the front lot line at the required front yard setback line.

Shall mean housing affordable according to Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development or the standards included in this chapter for home ownership and rental costs, occupied or reserved for occupancy by households with a gross household income equal to 50% or less of the median gross household income for households of the same size within the housing region in which the housing is located, and which is subject to eligibility and affordability controls promulgated by the Council on Affordable Housing.

Shall mean low and moderate income housing as defined in this chapter.

Shall mean the mechanical, electrical or chemical transformation of materials or substances into new products, excluding the assembly of components which are prepared from previously prepared materials.

A facility that brews on the premises in small batches and is licensed as a microbrewery by the State of New Jersey. Sales of the product and accessory items may be located on site and distributed from the site. A tasting room may be stand-alone or as an accessory to a microbrewery.

A facility that distills spirits and is licensed by the State of New Jersey as a microdistillery. Sales of the product and accessory items may be located on site and distributed from the site. A tasting room may be stand alone or as an accessory to a microdistillery.

Shall mean housing affordable according to Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development or the standards in this chapter for home ownership and rental costs, occupied or reserved for occupancy by households with a gross household income in excess of 50% but less than 80% of the median gross household income for households of the same size within the housing region in which the housing is located, and which is subject to the eligibility and affordability controls promulgated by the Council On Affordable Housing in this chapter.

Shall mean a lot, the area, dimension or location of which fails to conform to the requirements of the zoning district in which it is located.

Shall mean a structure the size, dimension or location of which fails to conform to the requirements of the zoning district in which it is located.

Shall mean a use or activity which was lawful prior to the adoption, revision or amendment of this chapter.

Shall mean not located on the property which is the subject of a development application nor on a contiguous portion of a street or right-of-way.

Shall mean located outside the lot lines of the lot in question but within the property (of which the lot is a part) which is the subject of a development application or contiguous portion of a street or right-of-way.

Shall mean located on the lot in question.

Shall mean located on the property which is the subject of a development application or on a contiguous portion of a street or right-of-way.

Shall mean any area exclusively designated for the temporary storage of automobiles and other vehicles for the private use primarily by the occupants thereof to which such use is accessory.

Shall mean any area other than a street or other public way exclusively designated for the temporary storage of automobiles and other vehicles and available to the public, whether for a fee or without compensation, or as an accommodation for clients, customers or employees.

Shall mean a place that is arranged and intended, exclusively, for the parking of one motor vehicle in a parking area or a garage in accordance with the requirements of this Chapter and Chapter 38 Site Plan Review and Chapter 36 Land Subdivision. A parking space shall also mean a parking stall.

Shall mean a platform structure having a vertical height of not more than eight inches above the ground and more than 42 inches wide.

Shall mean any individual, firm, association, partnership, corporation, syndicate, copartnership, trust or other legal entity.

Shall mean the Planning Board of the Borough of Ringwood.

The storage or processing of materials or products, and where such materials may be prepared for sale, combined, broken down, or aggregated for shipment or storage and where the original material is not chemically or physically changed.

Shall mean public parks, playgrounds, trails, paths and other recreational areas; other public open spaces; scenic and historic sites; and sites for schools and other public buildings and structures.

Shall mean an open space area conveyed or otherwise dedicated to a municipality, municipal agency, Board of Education, State or County agency or other public body for recreational or conservational uses.

Shall mean a structure, place or community in which weddings, ceremonies, rituals, education and living according to a particular system of belief are held.

Shall mean a residential facility, licensed under N.J.A.C. 5:27A, that provides food, shelter, clinical assessment, medical detox, residential rehabilitation, behavioral health services, aftercare, employee care and lifestyle wellness to persons, 18 years of age or older, suffering from substance abuse addiction.

Shall mean a building or structures designed, used or intended for use in which either food or beverages or both are sold and consumed primarily within the confines of an enclosed structure or a designated area on the site, as approved by the Approving Authority. A "restaurant" shall also include pickup or delivery services wherein food is prepared on all the premises for off-premises consumption.

Shall mean those areas which exist or are created for the storage of stormwater and absorption of this water into the ground.

A building or group of buildings containing separate, individual and private storage spaces of varying sizes available for lease or rent for varying periods of time.

Shall mean a structure with a footprint of 10 feet by 12 feet or smaller with a height of 10 feet or less located on a residential lot used only for homeowner/household storage purposes. Any structure with a larger footprint or with a height in excess of 10 feet shall not be considered a residential storage shed regardless of use.

Shall mean a group of commercial establishments planned, constructed and managed as a total entity with customer and employee parking provided onsite, provision for goods and delivery separated from customer access, aesthetic considerations and protection from the elements.

Shall mean an area of land established at the intersection of two or more streets and/or driveways, defined by three points; the first being the intersection of the centerline of the intersecting street or driveway and the right-of-way of the intersected street; and the second and third points being those points where the "sight distance," as provided in Chapter 38 Site Plan Review and Chapter 36 Land Subdivision, intersects with the nearest edge of the pavement or traveled cartway.

Shall mean a name, identification, structure, object, illumination, description or any other visual display which is affixed to, painted on, or represented directly or indirectly upon a building, structure, object or land and which directs attention to an organization, object, person, place, activity, institution, service, business or industry. A sign shall not include the following:

Shall mean the area enclosed by the outer edge of the outermost frame or border of the sign if it is enclosed in a frame or border or, if the sign is not enclosed in a frame or border, the area of the smallest rectangle which encompasses all of the background and features of the sign except for temporary banners.

Shall mean the height of a free-standing sign which shall be measured from the lowest point of the sign to the highest point of the sign.

Shall mean a sign which directs attention to an individual, business, product or service conducted, sold, leased or offered elsewhere than on the premises where the sign is located. For the purpose of this chapter, a billboard shall be considered an advertising sign.

Shall mean a sign which directs attention to an individual, business, product or service conducted, sold, leased, or offered on the premises where the sign is located.

Shall mean a non-advertising sign which directs attention to vehicular or pedestrian entrances or exits, parking areas, reserved parking spaces or similar site elements and is intended only for the safety and convenience of employees, patrons, or visitors.

Shall mean a sign with illumination which is not maintained at a constant intensity, color or position at all times.

Shall mean a sign having not more than two display sides supported by uprights or braces placed upon the ground and not attached to any building.

Shall mean a sign which rotates or shifts or appears to rotate or shift position.

Shall mean a sign which directs attention to the sale or rental of the premises or a portion of the premises upon which it is located provided the sign has been authorized by the owner of the premises and is removed within 30 days after the consummation of the sale or rental.

Shall mean a sign which directs attention to special or periodic functions of civic, religious, community, veterans, volunteer fire, first aid or other similar organizations. It shall also include a sign which directs attention to the grand opening of a new business that has been issued the appropriate approvals from the Building Department.

Shall mean a sign placed against or painted on an exterior street-facing wall of a building or wall at right angles to a street-facing wall of a building so that the display surface is parallel with the surface of the wall and does not extend beyond the limits of the wall or the portion of the building occupied or intended to be occupied by the subject use. A sign placed against or painted on an awning or marquee attached to an exterior street-facing wall shall be considered a wall sign.

Shall mean the ratio of rise of land to horizontal separation of this rise. For the purpose of this chapter, a slope shall be determined by dividing vertical elevation difference on adjacent contour lines by the scaled horizontal distances perpendicular to these adjacent contour lines.

Standards provided in this chapter and Chapter 38 Site Plan Review and Chapter 36 Land Subdivision regulating vibration, glare, odors, air pollution, fire and explosion hazards, water pollution, noise, radioactive and electrical disturbances and such other similar matters as may be reasonably required by the Borough or standards required by applicable Federal, State or Interstate Law.

Shall mean land surface gradients of 15% or greater. Steep slopes shall also mean steep topography.

Shall mean that portion of a building between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor above it or, if there is no floor above it, then the space between the surface of the floor and the ceiling above it.

Shall mean any natural body of water flowing continuously or intermittently whether designated as a stream, brook, river or otherwise and consisting of a bed, bank and water but not including lakes.

Shall mean any street, avenue, boulevard, road, parkway, viaduct, drive or other way which is an existing State, County or municipal roadway or which is shown upon a plat heretofore approved pursuant to law or which is shown on a plat duly filed and recorded in the Office of the County Recording Officer prior to the appointment of a Planning Board and the grant to such Board of the power to review plats, and includes the land between the street lines, whether improved or unimproved, and may comprise pavement, shoulders, gutters, curbs, sidewalks, parking areas and other areas within the street lines.

Shall mean the line which separates the publicly owned or controlled street right-of-way from the private property which abuts upon the street, as distinct from a sidewalk line, curbline or edge-of-pavement line. On a street or highway shown on the adopted Master Plan of the Borough, the street line shall be considered to be the proposed right-of-way line for the street.

Shall mean a combination of materials to form a construction for occupancy, use or ornamentation, whether installed on, above or below the surface of a parcel of land.

Shall mean any structure having a depth greater than two feet or a water surface area in excess of 250 square feet which is used for swimming, bathing or wading purposes.

Shall mean any woody perennial plant with one main trunk, such trunk having a diameter of at least four inches when measured 4 1/2 feet above the level of the existing grade.

Shall mean the removal of trees for the production or sale of pulpwood, lumber, poles, firewood or other wood or wood composition products for commercial purposes. Tree harvesting shall not include tree removal from nurseries and garden centers.

Shall mean the specific purpose for which land or a building, structure or facility is designed, arranged or intended, or for which it is or may be occupied or maintained.

Shall mean permission to depart from the literal requirements of this Zoning chapter pursuant to law.

Shall mean a platform structure having vertical height of up to eight inches above the ground and not more than 42 inches wide.

Shall mean a building used primarily for the storage of goods and materials.

A building used primarily for the storage of goods and materials by the owner of the goods or operated for a specific commercial establishment or group of establishments in a particular industrial or economic field.

Shall mean rivers, streams, brooks, waterways, lakes and all other bodies of water, whether public or private, excluding piped drainage systems, which are contained within, flow through or border on the Borough of Ringwood and which receives or conducts surface water runoff.

Shall mean those areas that are inundated by surface or ground water with a frequency sufficient to support and under normal circumstances does or would support a prevalence of vegetative or aquatic life that requires saturated or seasonally saturated soil condition for growth and reproduction. Wetlands include, but are not limited to, swamps, marshes, bogs and similar areas such as sloughs, potholes, wet meadows, river overflows, mud flats and natural ponds. Wetlands shall include, but not be limited to, those shown on the U.S. Department of the Interior Wetlands maps, or similar maps published by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

Shall mean an open space which lies between the principal or accessory building or buildings and the nearest lot line and is unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as provided by this chapter.

Shall mean the Zoning Board of Adjustment of the Borough of Ringwood.