Sussex City Zoning Code

Minimum lot area: Three acres.

Minimum street frontage: 50 feet if on a public street. If not, there shall be a satisfactory access to public streets, as determined by the planning board, at two separate points.

Maximum height: Two stories, not including garages; no apartments below ground level.

Maximum density: 12 units per acre of site area excluding public streets.

Setbacks from public streets: 50 feet; no parking permitted in this setback area.

Setbacks from lot lines: 50 feet.

Setbacks from driveways and parking areas: 20 feet, except for garages under buildings.

Maximum coverage of land by buildings: 20 percent.

Minimum distance between buildings: 50 feet between front and rear elevations of buildings; 50 feet between ends of buildings; front facade of a building not to overlap the sidewalk of an opposite building by more than eight feet.

Maximum length of buildings: 180 feet; length of an unbroken building facade not over 60 feet, with a setback of not less than five feet considered a satisfactory break in the building line.

Minimum floor space: one bedroom apartment, 750 square feet; two bedroom apartments, 950 square feet.

Minimum off-street parking: two spaces per dwelling unit.

Access drives: minimum 20 feet where no parking is permitted on either side. Parallel curb parking on access drives is not to be counted toward required off-street parking.

Minimum area of common recreation space: 20 percent of site area excluding public streets, developed for active or passive recreation for the residents of the apartment development.

Electric and telephone utility lines: shall all be installed underground.

Buffer strip adjoining a one-family residential zone: minimum ten feet.

Minimum distance from parking area to garden apartment building: 25 feet.