Sandyston City Zoning Code
ARTICLE V
Residential Zones A, B, C and D
§ 150-27 Purpose; compliance required.
A.
All land in the A, B, C and D Zones is intended primarily for the erection and occupancy of single-family detached dwellings regulated in land usage according to the provisions of the schedule displayed in § 150-8.
B.
Within these zones, no lot or structure shall be used and no structure shall be erected or altered to be used in part or whole unless it complies with the yard and building requirements displayed in § 150-8 and all applicable provisions and regulations provided in Article IV and the regulations hereinafter provided.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection C, Flag lots, added 12-1-1977, which immediately followed this subsection, was repealed 4-5-1990 by Ord. No. 2-1990. For current provisions, see § 150-28C(4).
C.
Bed-and-breakfast inns. Bed-and-breakfast inns shall be permitted subject to the conditions as hereafter set forth:
[Added 12-11-2007 by Ord. No. 12-07]
(1)
Bulk standards. The lot and structure shall comply with minimum requirements for the zone as provided in § 150-8.
(2)
Accessory use. All bed-and-breakfast inns must be an accessory use to a single-family dwelling. Every operator must be a permanent resident of the property.
(3)
Parking. Two parking spaces must be provided for the residents, one space for each nonresident employee during the peak employee shift and one space per guest room.
(4)
Limitations on guests/rooms. No more than five guestrooms may be available for lodging, and not more than 12 guests may be accommodated at one time.
(5)
Nonresident employees. No more than two nonresident employees may work on any single shift.
(6)
Food service. No cooking facilities shall be permitted within any guest rooms. Food may be served by the innkeeper only to registered guests, employees and residents of the building. The only food services available to guests shall be breakfast and afternoon tea.
(7)
Maximum length of stay. The maximum length on an uninterrupted stay shall be 30 days or not more than 30 days in any period of 60 consecutive days.
(8)
Septic and water. Proof must be provided to the Township Health Officer that sufficient septic and water facilities are available to the site.
(9)
Permit. A permit must be obtained from the Township in order to operate a bed-and-breakfast. This permit shall be issued for any appropriate site meeting all zoning, health, safety, fire and building codes. It shall be renewed annually upon inspection and approval by the Township's inspectors. This permit process does not require an annual Land Use Board approval for a conditional use following the initial approval, unless the use is expanded beyond that level permitted by code or Land Use Board resolution.
(10)
Signs. Only one freestanding or facade sign may be erected, which may be wood and illuminated by exterior lighting. The sign area shall not exceed six square feet. Freestanding signs shall be set back 20 feet from the property line and not exceed a height of four feet.
(11)
Fees. Every initial application (either for a new bed-and-breakfast inn or an application made by a new owner of an existing inn) shall be accompanied by payment of an application fee of $75 to cover the cost of processing said application. A renewal license fee of $75 shall be paid during the month of January each year.
(12)
Revocation of licenses. The Township Committee may revoke any license on its own motion or on the objection of any taxpayer or inhabitant of the Township for good cause shown, at any time during the period for which the license was issued, after a hearing is provided to the licensee following the complaint, in writing, and after at least seven days' notice to the licensee setting forth the ground of complaint.
§ 150-28 Permitted uses.
A.
The following principal uses are permitted:
(1)
Single-family detached houses with a minimum floor area of 1,000 square feet.
(2)
Agriculture, including the sale of seasonal farm produce grown on said farm, or truck gardens. The keeping of goats or hogs is prohibited on lots of less than five acres, provided that no farm shall contain more than five brood sows.
B.
The following accessory uses are permitted:
(1)
Private garages, toolsheds and pools.
(3)
Permitted uses in A, B, C and D Zones; permitted uses; accessory uses. Temporary produce stands on residential lots of up to 100 square feet for the sale of produce grown on such lot, and provided that no such structure will have more than three sides enclosed, and shall have a minimum setback of 10 feet from any road, shall remain in the front yard of such lot for not more than a total of six months of any calendar year, and after that period the structure will be removed and/or dismantled and removed, and provided that such structure shall have no utility service or connections of any kind.
[Added 3-7-1995 by Ord. No. 2-95; amended 4-12-2011 by Ord. No. 2011-05]
C.
The following conditional uses are permitted after review and approval by the Planning Board, pursuant to the provisions of § 150-14 of this chapter:
[Amended 9-1-1977]
(1)
Public schools, libraries, museums, parks, playgrounds, golf courses or municipal or recreational facilities.
(2)
Clubs, organized and operated by a membership organization exclusively for pleasure, recreation or other nonprofit purposes, with no parts of the proceeds to benefit any member, stockholder, officer or owner. The minimum lot size shall be five acres, which shall be owned by the club, and such club shall not be open to the general public or paying guests or any commercial recreation of any kind and shall not constitute a nuisance. Plans, plats and site plans for facilities to be operated by such an organization shall be subject to review and approval by the Planning Board prior to any construction.
(3)
Institutions, hospitals, clinics and convalescent and nursing homes.
(4)
Flag lots. In accordance with the following specifications and standards:
[Added 4-5-1990 by Ord. No. 2-1990]
(a)
The flag lot created shall contain at least four acres, or 130% of the required acreage in the zone (whichever is greater) and exclusive of the access strip.
(b)
Each flag lot shall have access to an existing public road by way of an access strip which shall be conveyed as a part of the flag lot. The access strip shall have a width of no less than 50 feet fronting on such existing public road and shall be at least 50 feet in width from its point of intersection with that road to its point of intersection with the rear line of the flag lot created. The access strip shall remain open and unbuilt upon at all times and shall be located immediately adjacent to a side property line. The pole shall be improved in accordance with the Driveway Ordinance of the Township.[1]
(c)
No access strip shall be located within 330 feet of any other access strip.
(d)
The lot shall be deemed to front on such access strip and the required lot width at the street line shall be measured along the access strip and all other requirements of the appropriate zone district shall relate to the access strip.
(e)
The entire portion of the required lot area shall be on one side of the access strip.
(f)
Any flag lots created shall not be further subdivided, nor may the access strip be used as access to any other lot or tract of land, unless all improvements required by the Land Subdivision Chapter[2] have been installed, including the construction of a street or road leading from the public road to all lots proposed to be served, which meets all of the design and construction standards as set forth in the Road Ordinance.[3]
(g)
The Planning Board may, at its discretion, allow the access strip to bisect the newly created flag lot.
§ 150-29 Prohibited uses.
None of the uses prohibited in § 150-20 shall be permitted in any of the residential zones.
§ 150-30 Off-street parking.
Off-street parking in all residential zones shall be according to the spaces specified in § 150-17A, with the additional requirement that no parking area for more than five vehicles shall have an entrance or exit for vehicles within 200 feet of a school, church, hospital, public building or institution on the same side of the street.
§ 150-31 Incongruous buildings.
No building or use which is so markedly incongruous with the character of the neighborhood as to materially affect the value of the adjacent or nearby property shall be constructed, erected or used.