Ventnor City City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XIIB
R11 Special Development District
§ 102-83.14 Purpose; applicable regulations.
A.
It is the intent of this article to permit a residential development of unique character within one of the last remaining vacant sites in the City of Ventnor.
§ 102-83.15 Permitted uses.
[Amended 7-19-2001 by Ord. No. 2001-2]
A building or land shall be used only for the following purposes:
A.
Principal uses.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
(1)
Detached single-family dwellings.
(2)
Townhouses. A townhouse is a dwelling unit forming one of a group of not less than three nor more than eight attached dwellings, separated from one another by an approved vertical masonry party wall or walls without doors, windows or other provisions or passage or visibility through such walls from foundation to roof or as otherwise required by the New Jersey Uniform Construction Code and having roofs which may extend from one such dwelling unit to another. Each unit shall have front and rear access, and no unit shall be located over another unit.
(3)
Condominium apartments. A condominium apartment is an efficiency or one-bedroom dwelling unit forming one of a group of attached dwellings in which one dwelling unit may be located over another unit, separated from one another by an approved vertical and horizontal masonry party wall or walls without doors, windows or other provisions or passage or visibility through such walls from foundation to roof or as otherwise required by the New Jersey Uniform Construction Code and having roofs which may extend from one dwelling unit to another.
B.
Townhouses and residential condominiums existing as of the date of adoption of this chapter.
§ 102-83.16 Area and bulk requirements.
A.
The following bulk and area requirements for existing townhouses and residential condominiums shall apply:
[Amended 7-19-2001 by Ord. No. 2001-2]
(1)
The minimum lot size shall be five acres.
(2)
The minimum perimeter setbacks for the entire site shall be an average of 20 feet and not less than 10 feet, of which a minimum of 10 feet shall be maintained as a landscaped perimeter buffer. Said buffer may include pedestrian walkways, bicycle paths and privacy walls or fences permitted pursuant to Article XVIII.
(3)
Building setbacks shall be a minimum of 10 feet for front and rear yards. Front yards shall vary a minimum of two feet and not more than 10 feet for each dwelling unit so as to avoid an unbroken facade in a row of dwelling units.
(4)
The maximum building coverage shall not exceed 35%.
(5)
The maximum lot coverage shall not exceed 60%.
(6)
The maximum principal building height shall be as determined in § 102-118. The maximum accessory building height shall be 12 feet.
[Amended 6-7-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-5]
(7)
The building length for a group of attached dwelling units (townhouses and condominiums) shall be a maximum of 160 feet. This may be varied, subject to Planning Board review and approval, for varied widths of dwelling units, provided that the variation in building length does not exceed 10% of this requirement.
(8)
Distance between buildings. No more than 10 dwelling units may be contained in a building without a break. Breaks between buildings shall be an average of 20 feet at their closest point, except that said distance may be reduced, subject to approval of the Planning Board, to a minimum of 15 feet, provided that no window on any dwelling unit may be located closer than 20 feet to a window on any other dwelling unit.
(9)
The maximum density shall be 10 dwelling units per gross acre.
(10)
Common open space. A minimum of 200 square feet of common open space per dwelling unit shall be provided. Said space may include playgrounds, recreation areas and landscaped areas, but shall not include parking areas, balconies and porches.
§ 102-83.17 Residential driveways.
[Added 1-20-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-01]
A.
The maximum width for a driveway access to a single-family dwelling unit shall not exceed 24 feet along the existing curbline. No curb radii will be permitted, and all driveway accesses shall be created through the construction of depressed concrete curbing in accordance with City standards. Only one twenty-four-foot-wide driveway access per residential lot will be permitted.
B.
However, due to the uniqueness of this Zoning District and in order to create creative building styles while maintaining on-street parking, two driveway accesses per lot may be permitted, providing all of the following requirements can be met. For single-family lots having at least 58 feet of frontage along the road right-of-way, two driveway accesses (curb cuts), not exceeding nine feet each in depressed width, may be permitted. In such case, the two driveways must be positioned so that there is at least 20 feet of vertical curbing between the two driveway depressions and there must be at least 10 feet from the edge of each driveway depression to the property line. No driveway depression shall be permitted within 25 feet of the established curbline of an intersecting street. For corner properties, the two driveway accesses must be along the same street.
§ 102-83.22 Additional regulations.
[Amended 7-19-2001 by Ord. No. 2001-2]
The following additional regulations shall apply for existing townhouses and residential condominiums:
A.
Appropriate facilities for the placing of trash and garbage and collection and removal thereof shall be constructed separate and apart from structures. Such facilities shall:
(1)
Be completely enclosed and so constructed that the trash and garbage shall not be visible to the general public.
(2)
Be compatible with building materials and landscaping treatment for the overall project.
(3)
Be buffered from principal structures, parking facilities and pedestrian and vehicular roadways.
(4)
Be designed so as to be readily accessible to users.
(5)
Meet the approval of the City Construction Official and the County Board of Health.
§ 102-83.23 (Reserved) [1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 102-83.23, Design standards, was repealed 7-19-2001 by Ord. No. 2001-2.