A building, structure or use which is customarily associated with and is subordinate and incidental to the principal building, structure or use, and which is located on the same lot therewith.

Any change or rearrangement in the supporting members of a building such as walls, foundation, columns, or beams; or additions to an existing structure requiring walls, foundations, columns, or beams; or the moving of a structure from one location to another.

Any exterior transmitting or receiving device mounted on a tower, building or structure and used in communications that radiate or capture electromagnetic waves, digital signals, analog signals, radio frequencies (excluding radar signals) wireless telecommunication signals or other communication signals.

Any structure, part of a structure, extension thereof, or addition thereto, having a roof supported by such things as columns or walls and intended for the shelter, business, housing or enclosing of persons, animals, or property.

The area of a lot covered by buildings measured on a horizontal plane around the periphery of the foundation(s) and including the area under the roof of any structure supported by columns, but not having walls, as measured around the extremities of the roof above the columns.

The vertical distance measured to the highest point of a structure or building and measured from a mean elevation of the finished grade five feet away from the foundation in the front yard. On a corner lot, the height shall be measured on the street having the greatest slope.

See "Principal Use".

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 transports cannabis in bulk intrastate from one licensed cannabis cultivator to another licensed cannabis cultivator, or transports cannabis items in bulk intrastate 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.

Any licensed person or entity that processes cannabis items in this state 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.

Any licensed person or entity that purchases or otherwise obtains usable cannabis from cannabis cultivators and cannabis items from cannabis manufacturers or cannabis wholesalers, and sells these to consumers from a retail store, and may use a cannabis delivery service or a certified cannabis handler for the off-premises delivery of cannabis items and related supplies to consumers.

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.

A portion of a building having at least half its clear height below average contact grade around the periphery of the foundation.

The increase in soil bulk density.

A use permitted in a particular zoning district only upon showing that such use in a specified location will comply with the conditions and standards for the location or operation of such use as contained in the zoning ordinance, and upon the issuance of an authorization therefore by the Planning Board.

The officer appointed pursuant to law to administer and enforce the State Uniform Construction Code, which person may be an employee of the state or any political subdivision thereof.

The agency designated by the Monmouth County Board of Chosen Freeholders to review municipal stormwater management plans and implementing ordinance(s). The County Review Agency for Monmouth County is the Monmouth County Planning Board.

A number expressing dwelling units per acre.

A person professionally qualified and duly licensed in New Jersey to perform engineering services that may include, but not necessarily be limited to, development of project requirements, creation and development of project design and preparation of drawings and specifications.

A State Development and Redevelopment Plan Center as designated by the State Planning Commission such as urban, regional, town, village, or hamlet.

A division of a parcel of land into two or more parcels, the construction, reconstruction, conversion, structural alteration, relocation or enlargement of any building or structure, 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, by any person, for which permission is required under the Municipal Land Use Law, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq. In the case of development of agricultural lands, development means: any activity that requires a State permit; any activity reviewed by the County Agricultural Board (CAB) and the State Agricultural Development Committee (SADC), and municipal review of any activity not exempted by the Right to Farm Act, N.J.S.A. 4:1C-1 et seq.

A housing unit containing sleeping rooms which shall contain complete sanitary facilities, although not necessarily within individual rooms, and contain facilities and equipment related to a dormitory function such as kitchen, dining, recreation, libraries and instructional facilities, occupied primarily by students or employees of a private school located within the Borough of Roosevelt, excluding spouses and children of such students and supervisory staff.

A geographic area within which stormwater, sediments, or dissolved materials drain to a particular receiving water body or to a particular point along a receiving water body.

The land required for the installation and maintenance of stormwater facilities and areas required along a stream for the purposes of access and maintenance to preserve any channel and facilities providing for the flow of water in accordance with Chapter One of Title 58 of the revised statutes, as amended.

An area used for parking of vehicles, or for ingress and egress of vehicles from a parking area, which provides direct access from a public street to a building or other structure or facility; provided that no area in which parking for a nonresidential principal use is permitted shall be considered a driveway.

A building which is designed or used exclusively as the living quarters for one or more housekeeping units. Dwelling, Detached: A building detached from another building and occupied or intended to be occupied for residence purposes by one housekeeping unit and which has its own cooking, sleeping, sanitary and general living facilities.

A room or series of connected rooms containing living, cooking, sleeping and sanitary facilities for one housekeeping unit. The dwelling unit shall be self-contained and shall not require the use of outside stairs, passing through another dwelling unit, or other indirect route(s) to get to any portion of the dwelling unit, nor shall one dwelling unit require shared facilities with another dwelling unit.

An area or feature which is of significant environmental value, including but not limited to: stream corridors; natural heritage priority sites; habitat of endangered or threatened species; large areas of contiguous open space or upland forest; steep slopes; and well head protection and groundwater recharge areas. Habitats of endangered or threatened species are identified using the N.J.D.E.P. Landscape Project as approved by the N.J.D.E.P. Endangered and Nongame Species Program.

Means the detachment and movement of soil or rock fragments by water, wind, ice or gravity.

A group of persons who live together in a dwelling unit as a single nonprofit and noncommercial housekeeping unit of indefinite duration, sharing cooking, dining, and general living facilities.

One or more lots with a total of 10 or more acres used for farming purposes, as defined herein, and containing one single-family dwelling.

Farming shall mean the production for sale of plants, including but not limited to forage and sod crops; grains and feed crops; and trees and forest products, or the devotion of land to the production for sale of any such plants. Farming shall not include the production for sale of produce from home gardens located on lots of less than 10 acres.

The Federal Communications Commission.

The relatively flat area adjoining a stream, which has been or may be hereafter covered by flood waters of the stream. The floodplain encompasses the flood way and the flood hazard area.

The sum of the area of each story measured around the outside dimension of the building. The gross floor area of units sharing a common wall shall be measured from the center of interior walls and the outside of exterior walls. In residential uses, the gross floor area shall exclude the area of the garage, attic, open porch or patio, cellar, utility areas, heating and cooling rooms, and all portions of floor areas which have a ceiling height above them of less than 7.5 feet. In nonresidential structures, the gross floor area shall exclude areas used for utility and heating and cooling and other mechanical equipment, but shall include all other areas including cellar and warehousing and storage areas.

Any profession, trade or other endeavor carried on for profit in a dwelling unit which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the principal structure as a dwelling, gives no external evidence of nonresidential use, involves no more than one employee, generates no nuisance factors and does not require more parking at any given time than for two vehicles.

A surface that has been covered with a layer of material so that it is highly resistant to infiltration by water.

The process by which water seeps into the soil from precipitation.

The use of 100 square feet of any area of land, with or without buildings, regardless of size, devoted to the storage, keeping, scrapping or abandonment of junk, scrap, waste, reclaimable material or debris, whether or not it is in connection with the dismantling, processing, salvage, baling, sale or other use or disposition thereof, including by way of illustration but not of limitation: unregistered vehicles, tires, vehicle parts, equipment, paper, rags, metal, glass, or plastic, old household appliances or furniture, brush, and any stumps or other debris.

A parcel of land abutting a street, but not including any portion of a street, which is legally separate from any other parcel. Contiguous undersized parcels under one ownership are considered one lot.

The area of a lot covered by buildings and paved surfaces.

The shortest horizontal distance between the front lot line and a line drawn parallel to the front line through the midpoint of the rear lot line.

The horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured along the street line. The minimum lot frontage shall not be less than 75% of the required minimum lot width.

Any line forming a portion of the exterior boundary of a lot and is the same line as the street line for that portion of a lot abutting a street. Lot lines extend vertically in both directions from ground level.

The straight and horizontal distance between side lot lines measured at setback points on each side lot line. The minimum lot width shall be measured at the minimum building setback line.

A lot on the junction of two or more intersecting streets where the interior angle of the intersection does not exceed 135°.

Any "development" that provides for ultimately disturbing one or more acres of land. Disturbance for the purpose of this rule is the placement of impervious surface or exposure and/or movement of soil or bedrock or clearing, cutting, or removing of vegetation.

An organization issued a permit, including a conditional permit, by the state to operate as a medical cannabis cultivator, medical cannabis manufacturer, medical cannabis dispensary, or clinical registrant.

An organization holding a permit issued by the state that authorizes the organization to: possess and cultivate cannabis and deliver, transfer, transport, distribute, supply, and sell medical cannabis and related supplies to other medical cannabis cultivators and to medical cannabis manufacturers, clinical registrants, and medical cannabis dispensaries, as well as to plant, cultivate, grow, and harvest medical cannabis for research purposes.

An organization issued a permit by the state that authorizes the organization to: purchase or obtain medical cannabis and related supplies from medical cannabis cultivators; purchase or obtain medical cannabis products and related supplies from medical cannabis manufacturers; purchase or obtain medical cannabis, medical cannabis products, and related supplies and paraphernalia from other medical cannabis dispensaries and from clinical registrants; deliver, transfer, transport, distribute, supply, and sell medical cannabis and medical cannabis products to other medical cannabis dispensaries; furnish medical cannabis, including medical cannabis products, to a medical cannabis handler for delivery to a registered qualifying patient, designated caregiver, or institutional caregiver; and possess, display, deliver, transfer, transport, distribute, supply, sell, and dispense medical cannabis, medical cannabis products, paraphernalia, and related supplies to qualifying patients, designated caregivers, and institutional caregivers.

An organization issued a permit by the state that authorizes the organization to: purchase or obtain medical cannabis and related supplies from a medical cannabis cultivator or a clinical registrant; purchase or obtain medical cannabis products from another medical cannabis manufacturer or a clinical registrant; produce, manufacture, or otherwise create medical cannabis products; and possess, deliver, transfer, transport, distribute, supply, and sell medical cannabis products and related supplies to medical cannabis manufacturers and to medical cannabis dispensaries and clinical registrants.

The Borough of Roosevelt.

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

A building or structure which in its location upon a lot or in its size, does not conform to the regulations of this ordinance for the zone in which it is located.

A lot of record which does not have the minimum width, frontage, depth or contain the minimum area for the zone in which it is located.

A use occupying a structure or lot which does not conform to the use regulations of this ordinance for the zone in which it is located.

An offensive, annoying, unpleasant or obnoxious occurrence or practice resulting in a continued or repeated invasion of the rights of neighboring residents by virtue of being discernible beyond the property line in excess of commonly accepted standards or usages; such occurrences, practices or factors include the following:

A chemical element or compound, such as nitrogen or phosphorus, which is essential to and promotes the development of organisms.

One or more areas provided on the lot of the principal use for parking and loading. Each space shall have access from an interior driveway and shall be located so that no other vehicle must be moved in order to gain access to the space. No off-street parking or loading space shall have direct access from a public street. All off-street parking and loading spaces shall be located so that no vehicle waiting to be loaded or unloaded, maneuvering, or parked shall interfere with any parking or loading space, sidewalk, street or fire lane.

Improvements that are necessary beyond the tract being developed in order to accommodate the impact of the development.

Buildings in which customary administrative, managerial and technical activities, including research and development, take place, but where no manufacturing, assembly or fabrication takes place, and where storage is limited to that amount of space directly required by the principal uses of the building.

An area used for parking of vehicles and linked to a public street by a driveway, or with respect to any nonresidential principal use, any area in which parking for that use is permitted.

An area either within a structure or in the open, for the parking of motor vehicles. The area of a parking space shall accommodate the exterior extremities of the vehicle, whether in addition thereto wheel blocks are installed within the space.

Any security which may be accepted by the governing body to guarantee the completion of the required improvements before plan approval, including performance bonds with responsible surety authorized to do business in the State of New Jersey, or escrow agreements secured by cash or certified check.

Any use of land or buildings permitted by this ordinance.

Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, Borough of Roosevelt, or political subdivision of this State subject to municipal jurisdiction pursuant to the Municipal Land Use Law, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.

Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, filter backwash, sewage, garbage, refuse, oil, grease, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, medical wastes, radioactive substance (except those regulated under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.), thermal waste, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, industrial, municipal, agricultural, and construction waste or runoff, or other residue discharged directly or indirectly to the land, ground waters or surface waters of the State, or to a domestic treatment works. "Pollutant" includes both hazardous and non-hazardous pollutants.

The main purpose for which any lot and/or building is used in accordance with this ordinance.

Any non-public educational institution, including day-care centers, nurseries, kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, higher education facilities, and facilities for specialized professional, artistic and technical training.

The amount of water from precipitation that infiltrates into the ground and is not evapotranspired.

The total width of property along a street, watercourse, utility alignment, or other way and within which all improvements and rights of access are confined.

An on-site or off-site facility that sells beverages produced by a winery direct to consumers either for consumption on the premises, or off-premises, and licensed in accordance with the State Alcoholic Beverage Law. Also known as a "tasting room." A sales room shall not include outdoor seating areas.

The selling at a nominal charge or the gratuitous offering of an open container not exceeding one and one and one half ounces of any wine.

Material, mineral or organic, that is in suspension, is being transported, or has been moved from its site of origin by air, water or gravity as a product of erosion.

Land and buildings where motor fuel, lubricants, and miscellaneous accessories for motor vehicles are sold and dispensed and where services are rendered for engine and mechanical repairs, but where no vehicular painting and/or body work is done.

A line drawn parallel to a street line or lot line and drawn through the point of the building nearest to the street line. The minimum yard requirements for principal and accessory buildings shall be the minimum required setback measured horizontally from the street line or lot line and beyond which any part of a building is not permitted to extend.

The prevention, elimination, reduction or blocking of all nuisance factors by whatever means necessary, including, but not limited to buildings, structures, enclosures, mufflers, scrubbers, precipitators, landscaping, fencing, walls, barriers, earthworks, relocation of equipment, etc.

Grant(s) to the Borough of Roosevelt sufficient to permit the Borough to fulfill the intent and purpose of the easement as provided for in the site plan review section of this ordinance.

Any announcement, declaration, display or illustration used to advertise any person or product when located to be seen by the general public from any street or public way.

A facility through which stormwater is directed and which is designed to collect silt and eroded soil from a designated area.

A dwelling unit containing living accommodations for a single family not attached to any other principal structure, and located on a tax lot containing no other principal structure.

A dwelling unit containing accommodations for a single family attached to another single family residential structure by a single common party wall located, on the boundary line of the tax lot on which the structure is located.

The lot or lots upon which a major development is to occur or has occurred.

The examination of specific development plans for a lot. Wherever the term "site plan approval" is used in this ordinance, it shall be understood to mean site plan review and approval by the Planning Board.

All unconsolidated mineral and organic material of any origin.

An area delineated on the State Plan Policy Map and adopted by the State Planning Commission that is intended to be the focus for much of the state's future redevelopment and revitalization efforts.

The geographic application of the State Development and Redevelopment Plan goals and statewide policies, and the Official Map of these goals and policies.

Water resulting from precipitation (including rain and snow) that runs off the land's surface, is transmitted to the subsurface, or is captured by separate storm sewers or other sewage or drainage facilities, or conveyed by snow removal equipment. Stormwater runoff means water flow on the surface of the ground or in storm sewers, resulting from precipitation.

An excavation or embankment and related areas designed to retain stormwater runoff. A stormwater management basin may either be normally dry (that is, a detention basin or infiltration basin), retain water in a permanent pool (a retention basin), or be planted mainly with wetland vegetation (most constructed stormwater wetlands).

Any structural or nonstructural strategy, practice, technology, process, program, or other method intended to control or reduce stormwater runoff and associated pollutants, or to induce or control the infiltration or groundwater recharge of stormwater or to eliminate illicit or illegal non-stormwater discharges into stormwater conveyances.

That portion of a building comprised between a floor and the floor or roof next above it. A half story is a story at the top of a building, the area of which is less than the area of the story below it, and the height of which shall not be less than 7.5 feet above at least one-third of the area of the floor when the room is used for sleeping, study or similar activity.

Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, lane, parkway, viaduct, alley or other way which is an existing state, county, or Borough roadway, or a street or way shown upon a plat heretofore approved pursuant to law or approved by official action pursuant to the Municipal Land Use Law (N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1.1 et. seq., as amended) or a street or way on a plat duly filed and recorded in the office of the Clerk of the County of Monmouth 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 gutters, sidewalks, parking areas and other areas within the street lines. Street classifications shall be those set forth in the adopted Borough and county master plans for streets under their respective jurisdictions.

The edge of the street right-of-way forming the dividing line between the street and a lot.

Anything constructed, assembled, or erected on the ground, or attached to something having location on the ground, which is for the habitation, storage or other use (whether temporary or permanent) of materials, animals, plants or persons.

A facility constructed above or below ground having a depth of more than two feet and/or a water surface of 100 square feet or more and designed and maintained for swimming purposes. Swimming pools shall include all buildings, structures, equipment and appurtenances thereto.

Swimming pools that are not permanently installed and do not require water filtration, circulation and purification; do not exceed two feet in depth; do not exceed a water surface area of 100 square feet; and do not require braces or supports.

See "Wireless Telecommunications Tower."

When referring to a wireless telecommunications tower or other structure, tower height is the distance measured from the finished grade to the highest point of the tower or other structure, including the base pad and any antenna. (See also the definition of "Building Height").

A dwelling unit containing living accommodations for a single family which is part of a row of three or more connected single family units, where each unit is separated from the others by vertical party walls with no unit above or below another unit, contains an individual front door leading outside, and can be subdivided from the other units in the row in order to provide for separate ownership.

An area of land comprised of one or more lots having sufficient dimensions and area to meet the requirements of this ordinance for the uses(s) intended.

Services provided to a use by either a municipality, a municipal authority, or by a utility company operating under the jurisdiction of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, including services such as, but not limited to, sewage treatment, water supply, gas, electric, and telephone.

The ocean and its estuaries, all springs, streams, wetlands, and bodies of surface or ground water, whether natural or artificial, within the boundaries of the State of New Jersey or subject to its jurisdiction.

An area that is inundated or saturated by surface water or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances does support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions, commonly known as hydrophytic vegetation.

Any facility where nonlicensed persons may engage in and be instructed in and assist in the act of making wine or any similar fermented alcoholic beverage, where instruction is provided by a person licensed in accordance with the State Alcoholic Beverage Law.

Any establishment engaged in the act of fermenting fruit juice or other natural substances in order to produce alcoholic beverages such as wine, mead, or brandy, and licensed in accordance with the State Alcoholic Beverage Law, that produces less than 250,000 gallons of alcoholic beverages annually. A winery must have a plenary or farm winery license issued by the State of New Jersey and shall also comply with all applicable state and county regulations.

Any structure that is designed and constructed primarily for the purpose of supporting one or more antennas for telephone, radio and similar communication purposes, including self-supporting lattice towers, guyed towers, or monopole towers. The term includes radio and television transmission towers, microwave towers, common-carrier towers, cellular telephone towers, alternative tower structures, and the like. The term includes the structure and any support thereto.

A yard is the required open space on a zoning lot along the lot lines. A yard shall be unobstructed from the lowest level to the sky except for certain permitted obstructions.

A front yard is a yard extending along a front lot line between side yard lines or, in the case of attached houses, between a side lot line and a side yard line.

A rear yard is a yard extending along a rear lot line between side yard lines or, in the case of attached houses, between a side lot line and a side yard line.

A side yard is a yard extending along a side lot line from the front lot line to the rear lot line. In the case of a corner lot, the yard which is not a front yard shall be considered a side yard.

The individual appointed pursuant to Article XI Section 11.100 of this Ordinance.