Saddle Brook City Zoning Code
ARTICLE VC
O-MR Office Mid-Rise Zone District
§ 206-9.21 Objectives.
It is the purpose of the O-MR Office Mid-Rise Zone District to provide for the development and redevelopment needs of an area currently occupied by miscellaneous commercial and industrial buildings in an accessible and fairly central location.
§ 206-9.22 Permitted uses.
In the O-MR Office Mid-Rise District, no building or premises shall be used and no building or part of a building shall be erected, constructed or altered which shall be arranged, intended or designed to be used for any purpose other than the following uses:
§ 206-9.23 Conditionally permitted uses.
Conditionally permitted uses shall be as follows:
§ 206-9.24 Permitted accessory uses.
§ 206-9.25 Prohibited uses.
All uses listed in Article VI, §§ 206-10 through 206-24, and uses prohibited under Chapter 147, Article I, shall be prohibited. In addition, the following uses shall be specifically prohibited:
A.
Structures exceeding seven stories or 70 feet in height.
B.
Residential uses.
C.
Fabrication, assembly or manufacturing operations.
D.
Retail, wholesaling, warehousing and/or other industrial uses.
E.
Garbage transfer stations.
F.
All uses prohibited in I and B-1 Zones.
G.
Public utilities and public services, including but not limited to railway or bus terminals, telecommunication centers and delivery/cargo transfer stations.
§ 206-9.26 Area and yard requirements for permitted uses.
Area and yard requirements for permitted uses shall be as follows:
A.
Minimum area: 20,000 square feet.
B.
Maximum lot coverage by building: 55%.
C.
Maximum lot coverage by building, pavement and parking structure: 75%.
D.
Floor area ratio (FAR): 3.85.
E.
Width: 100 feet.
F.
Yard requirements. (Note: In the O-MR Office Mid-Rise Zone, the yard requirements for front, side and rear yard offsets may be reduced to one foot for utilities or off-street parking structures that are constructed entirely below grade.)
H.
Minimum landscaped area: 20%.
I.
Height of principal structure:
(1)
Stories: seven. (Note: Parking levels used exclusively for the temporary parking of motor vehicles shall not be counted as part of the number of stories permitted, nor shall such levels or part of levels which are used solely for off-street parking be counted as part of the floor area ratio, provided that the number of floors thus qualifying does not exceed four floors.)
(2)
Feet: 70.
J.
Accessory buildings: four stories or 40 feet.
§ 206-9.27 Area and yard requirements for conditionally permitted uses.
§ 206-9.28 Off-street loading requirements.
A.
For any building erected hereafter in the O-MR Office Mid-Rise District, off-street loading space shall be provided in such amount and manner that all loading and unloading operations will be conducted entirely within the boundaries of the lot concerned and no vehicle or conveyance shall in any manner use public streets, sidewalks or rights-of-way for loading or unloading operations, other than for ingress and egress of the lot.
B.
Every structure shall provide at the side or rear of the structure at least the number of off-street loading spaces as required in §§ 206-36 through 206-38. There shall be no loading or unloading from the street an the O-MR Office Mid-Rise Zone District, and loading and unloading from Route 46 shall be prohibited.
§ 206-9.29 Screening of parking and loading areas.
In the O-MR Office Mid-Rise Zone, all parking areas and loading and unloading areas in conjunction with an office or business use shall be screened from adjacent residential districts and parks by a hedge, fence or wall at least six feet in height or other protective device as proposed by the Planning Board.
§ 206-9.30 Signs.
A.
All signs in the O-MR Office Mid-Rise Zone District shall be in full compliance with the requirements of §§ 206-59 through 206-73. This section and all other sign ordinances of the Township of Saddle Brook shall be read together, and these requirements shall be construed in the most restrictive manner.
B.
Billboards or off-site advertising signs shall be prohibited in the O-MR Office Mid-Rise Zone. For purposes of this Article, a "billboard" shall be defined as a commercial advertising sign or structure which advertises a business, product or service not on or offered upon the premises on which subject sign is located.
C.
No site plan shall be approved where a preexistent billboard is to remain after redevelopment.
§ 206-9.31 Landscaped open space area.
In order to provide for much needed pervious areas for drainage purposes in the O-MR Office Mid-Rise Zone District, a minimum of 20% of total lot areas shall be maintained in lawns, gardens or buffer strips, subject to site plan approval.
§ 206-9.32 Planted buffer strips.
Where a lot in an O-MR Office Mid-Rise Zone District abuts a lot in any residential district, there shall be provided along such lot lines on the business lot a planted buffer strip at least 20 wide abutting the residential district. Said buffer shall not be utilized for roadway or parking and shall be landscaped and planted so as to create an effective evergreen visual screen.
§ 206-9.33 Sight rights; visibility at intersections.
On a corner lot in any O-MR Office Mid-Rise Zone District, nothing shall be erected, placed, planted or allowed to grow in such a manner as to materially impede vision between a height of two and one-half (2 1/2) feet and 10 feet above the center-line grades of the intersecting streets in the area bounded by the street lines of such corner lots and a line joining points along said line 30 feet from the point of intersection, nor shall a principal structure be located less than 20 feet from the side street line. All sight rights, where applicable, shall be subject to County of Bergen and Department of Transportation approvals.
§ 206-9.34 Site plan approval.
Site development plan approval, in accordance with Chapter 163, Site Plan Review, Article III, § 163-12 et seq., shall be required prior to the issuance of building permits for the erection of all permitted uses and structures. Such approval shall also be required prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy for a change of use of a permitted or conditionally permitted use.