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South Bound Brook City Zoning Code

§ 34-28.4

Required Conditions.

[Ord. 3/12/74, § 1603; Ord. 1/13/87, § 1603]
a. 
Height. No building shall exceed a maximum of thirty-five (35') feet.
b. 
Front Yard. There shall be a front yard of not less than twenty-five (25') feet. Parking areas as required shall not be permitted in the front yard. No parking area shall be nearer than five (5') feet to any other property line nor ten (10') feet to any building. Corner lots in this Zone shall meet 1/2 the front yard setback requirements on the side street.
c. 
Side Yard. There shall be two side yards and no side yard shall be less than twenty-five (25') feet. Parking as required may be permitted in the side yard provided no parking area is closer than ten (10') feet to any building nor ten (10') feet to any side property line.
d. 
Rear Yard. There shall be a rear yard of at least fifty (50') feet. The rear yard may be used for off-street parking provided no parking area shall be nearer than ten (10') feet to any building nor ten (10') feet to any property line.
e. 
Landscaping. Those portions of all front, rear, and side yards that are not used for off-street parking shall be attractively planted with trees, shrubs, plants and grass lawns, as required by the Planning Board to insure that proper conditions will exist for drainage and absorption of surface waters and in order to preclude and prevent traffic hazards.
f. 
Zone District Boundary Line Restrictions. No structure shall be constructed within this Zone District which shall be nearer than fifty (50') feet from any residential zone district boundary. Within the fifty (50') foot wide buffer area hereby created, a solid and continuous landscape screen shall be planted and maintained consisting of massed evergreen and deciduous trees and shrubs of such species and size as will produce, within two growing seasons, a screen at least six (6') feet in height, and such density as will obscure, throughout the full course of the year, 75% of the glare of automobile headlights emitted from the premises.
The landscape screen described above shall be located adjacent to the Residential Zone District boundary line.
In the event that any of the plantings in accordance with the above requirements do not live, they shall be replaced within one year.
g. 
Minimum Lot Size. Each lot shall have a minimum lot area of 12,500 square feet with a minimum lot width of one hundred (100') feet.