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Union Beach City Zoning Code

§ 13-10.16

Waterfront Commercial District.

[Ord. No. 2016-244 § 12]
a. 
Permitted Uses.
1. 
Retail and wholesale stores, shops and markets.
2. 
Personal service establishments, such as, but not limited to barbershops, and beauty shops and tailoring and dressmaking shops.
3. 
Business and professional offices and banks and fiduciary institutions.
4. 
Restaurants, lunchrooms, bars and other eating and drinking establishments.
5. 
Art, dancing, music, gymnastics and other similar instructional schools.
6. 
Federal, state, county and municipal buildings and grounds, but excluding schools.
7. 
Commercial recreation activities.
8. 
Essential services.
b. 
Required Accessory Uses.
1. 
Off-street parking subject to the provisions of subsection 13-8.20.
2. 
Off-street loading subject to the provisions of subsection 13-8.19. 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 subsection 13-8.13.
2. 
Signs subject to the provisions of subsection 13-8.26.
3. 
Other customary accessory uses and building which are clearly incidental to the principal use and building.
d. 
Conditional Uses.
1. 
Single-family, two-family and multi-family dwellings provided that they are located entirely above the first floor in a building which contains a use otherwise permitted in this zone on the first floor; with the exception of the area north of Front Street.
e. 
Area, Yard and Building Requirements.
1. 
Minimum lot area: 5,000 square feet.
2. 
Minimum lot width: 50 feet.
3. 
Minimum lot frontage: 50 feet.
4. 
Minimum lot depth: 100 feet.
5. 
Minimum front setback: five feet.
6. 
Minimum rear yard setback for principal and accessory buildings: 20 feet.
7. 
Minimum side yard setback:
(a) 
Principal building - Five feet.
(b) 
Accessory building - Five feet.
8. 
Maximum building height: 35 feet above base flood elevation.
9. 
Maximum lot coverage: 50%.
10. 
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.
11. 
Floor area ratio of any commercial building shall not exceed 0.8.