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Toms River City Zoning Code

§ 348-10.25

RC Regional Commercial Zone.

A. 
Permitted uses. It is the intent of this chapter to encourage within this zone large-scale commercial uses of a type that will complement the existing shopping center on the northeasterly corner of Hooper and Bay Avenues.
[Amended 4-11-1990 by Ord. No. 2729-90; 8-14-1991 by Ord. No. 2848-91; 8-14-2018 by Ord. No. 4597-18]
(1) 
The retail sale of goods which may include the following:
(a) 
Grocery stores and food markets.
(b) 
Drugstores.
(c) 
Dry goods stores.
(d) 
Meat and poultry stores.
(e) 
Baked goods stores.
(f) 
Packaged liquor stores.
(g) 
Flower shops.
(h) 
Confectionary stores.
(i) 
Household supplies stores.
(j) 
Stationery supplies, tobacco and periodical stores.
(k) 
Haberdashery, dress goods and notions.
(l) 
Hardware, plumbing supplies and electrical supplies.
(m) 
Boat supplies.
(n) 
Shops of artisans and craftsmen.
(o) 
Furniture and appliance stores.
(p) 
Gift shops.
(q) 
Automobile sales agency, but excluding agencies for the sale of used cars only.
(2) 
Personal service establishments which may include the following:
(a) 
Barbershops and beauty shops.
(b) 
Tailoring and dressmaking shops.
(c) 
Dry-cleaning and laundry collection shops, but not including self-service laundries.
(d) 
Shoe repair shops.
(e) 
Appliance repair shops.
(f) 
Radio and television repair shops.
(3) 
Business, professional, governmental and educational offices. Office buildings containing over 5,000 square feet of gross floor area shall be considered a single use and may contain individual office uses with less than 5,000 square feet of gross floor area.
(4) 
Banks and financial institutions.
(5) 
Restaurants, bars and other eating and drinking establishments, but not including drive-in restaurants.
(6) 
Publication of newspapers and periodicals.
(7) 
Federal, state, county and municipal buildings and grounds, but excluding schools.
(8) 
Essential services.
(9) 
Funeral homes, including one dwelling unit.
(10) 
Shopping centers.
(11) 
Hotels and motels.
(12) 
Child-care centers.
(13) 
Adult-care centers.
[Added 9-24-1996 by Ord. No. 3196-96]
(14) 
Veterinary clinics or hospitals.
[Added 10-14-2014 by Ord. No. 4459-14]
B. 
Required accessory uses.
(1) 
Off-street parking subject to the provisions of § 348-8.20.
(2) 
Off-street loading subject to the provisions of § 348-8.19. Loading areas shall be separated and screened from circulation drives and parking areas by landscaped islands, substantial fencing, walls or buffer plantings or shall be enclosed.
C. 
Permitted accessory uses.
(1) 
Fences subject to the provisions of § 348-8.13.
(2) 
Signs subject to the provisions of § 348-8.26.
(3) 
Other customary accessory uses and buildings which are clearly incidental to the principal use and building.
(4) 
Tents subject to the provisions of § 348-8.37.
[Added 4-11-1990 by Ord. No. 2729-90]
(5) 
Heliport facilities in conjunction with nonresidential building(s) having a minimum gross floor area of 10,000 square feet.
[Added 8-12-1997 by Ord. No. 3277-97]
D. 
Conditional uses subject to the provisions of Article IX of this chapter.
(1) 
Public utilities (§ 348-9.6).
(2) 
Planned commercial development.
[Added 12-14-2021 by Ord. No. 4720-21[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection D(2), concerning hotels and motels as a conditional use, was repealed 8-14-1991 by Ord. No. 2848-91. See now Subsection A(11).
(3) 
(Reserved)[2]
[2]
Editor's Note: Former Subsection D(3), concerning shopping centers as a conditional use, was repealed 8-14-1991 by Ord. No. 2848-91. See now Subsection A(10).
(4) 
Research laboratories (§ 348-9.22).
E. 
Area, yard and building requirements.
(1) 
Minimum lot area: one acre.
(2) 
Minimum lot width: 150 feet.
(3) 
Minimum lot frontage: 150 feet.
(4) 
Minimum lot depth: 200 feet.
(5) 
Minimum front setback:
(a) 
Principal and accessory buildings: 100 feet.
(b) 
Parking areas and vehicular circulation aisles: 35 feet. If located within a shopping center, every store, unit or proprietorship shall, in addition to any frontage on or access to and from any aisle or parking area, have frontage on and access to and from a central, landscaped pedestrian walk or passageway having a minimum width of 25 feet, either open or fully or partially enveloped.
[Amended 8-14-2018 by Ord. No. 4597-18]
(6) 
Minimum rear yard setback for principal and accessory buildings: 30 feet.
(7) 
Minimum side yard setback:
(a) 
Principal buildings: 20 feet with two combined side yards not less than 50 feet.
(b) 
Accessory buildings: 20 feet.
(8) 
Maximum building height: 45 feet subject to the provisions of § 348-5.12.
[Amended 4-25-2001 by Ord. No. 3597-01; 2-26-2019 by Ord. No. 4622-19]
(9) 
Maximum lot coverage by buildings: 15%, except that structures having 80% or more of their gross floor area on a single level shall be permitted a lot coverage of 20%.
[Amended 12-9-2003 by Ord. No. 3843-03]
(10) 
Minimum unoccupied open space: 25%.
(11) 
All sides of any structure shall be architecturally finished with materials approved by the Planning Board. Specifically prohibited is construction which utilizes flat roofs with parapets or mansards on only a portion of the perimeter of the structure, unfinished (or painted) concrete block walls or substantial architectural finish deviations between the front, side and rear elevations.
(12) 
Minimum building area: Every unit, store or proprietorship located within the Regional Commercial Zone shall either have a minimum gross floor area of 5,000 square feet or be located within a shopping center, as defined by this chapter. If located within a shopping center, a building on a pad site integrated into the parking and circulation layout of a shopping center may be less than 5,000 square feet, whether or not the pad site is on a separate lot from the rest of the shopping center.
[Added 8-14-2018 by Ord. No. 4597-18]
(13) 
Drive-through windows: Except for buildings that are located within a shopping center, including pad sites integrated into the parking and circulation layout of a shopping center, no building used for retail sales or restaurants in the Regional Commercial Zone shall include a drive-through window.
[Added 8-14-2018 by Ord. No. 4597-18]