Verona City Zoning Code
ARTICLE IV
Zoning District Regulations
§ 150-4.1 Schedules of regulations.
The restrictions and controls intended to regulate development in each zone district are set forth in the attached schedules, which are supplemented by other sections of this chapter.
§ 150-4.2 Application of regulations.
Except as hereinafter otherwise provided:
A.
No building or structure shall be erected and no existing building or structure shall be moved, altered, added to or enlarged, nor shall any land or building be designed, used or intended to be used for any purpose or in any manner other than as specified among the uses hereinafter listed as permitted in the district in which such building or land is located.
B.
No building or structure shall be erected, reconstructed or structurally altered to exceed in height the limit hereinafter designated for the district in which such building is located.
C.
No building or structure shall be erected, no existing building or structure shall be altered, enlarged or rebuilt, nor shall any open space surrounding any building be encroached upon or reduced in any manner, except in conformity to the yard, lot area and building location regulations hereinafter designated for the district in which such building or open space is located.
D.
No yard or other open space provided about any building for the purpose of complying with the provisions of this chapter shall be considered as providing a yard or open space for any other building, and no yard or other open space on one lot shall be considered as providing a yard or open space for a building on any other lot.
E.
No minimum off-street parking area or loading or unloading area shall be considered as providing off-street parking, loading or unloading for a use or structure on any other lot or parcel than the principal use to which it is ancillary, except as provided herein.
F.
No commercial trailers, or vehicles used or intended for conveyance upon public highways either under their own power or by attachment to a motor vehicle or through other means of transportation, shall be used for the storage of any type of goods or materials on any premises in any zoning district within the Township of Verona. Any commercial trailers or vehicles described in the preceding sentence shall be deemed to be used for storage purposes if the trailer or vehicle remains on the premises in excess of seven days.
G.
Number of principal residential structures per lot restricted. Every residential building or residential structure hereafter erected or structurally altered shall be located on a lot, and in no event, except in the case of garden apartments, apartment buildings and planned developments, shall more than one principal building or structure and its accessory buildings be located on one lot.
H.
General use restriction. Any use not specifically designated as a principal permitted use, an accessory use or a conditional use is specifically prohibited from any zone district in the Township of Verona.
§ 150-4.3 Prohibited uses in all zone districts in the Township of Verona.
A.
The following uses are not permitted, accessory or conditional uses and are prohibited in all zone districts in the Township of Verona. This list is not exhaustive of all uses that are prohibited.
[Amended 6-21-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-15]
Uses Specifically Prohibited |
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Acetylene gas manufacture or storage |
Alcohol manufacture |
Ammonia, chlorine or bleaching powder manufacture |
Arsenals, storage or manufacture of gun powder, ammunition and blasting material |
Asphalt manufacture or refining |
Auction rooms; flea markets |
Auto laundries (car washes), except when operated in conjunction with a duly authorized new car agency and when located on the same property |
Automobile junkyards or wrecking yards |
Boardinghouses or rooming housing |
Bingo halls or bingo parlors or similar types of amusement establishments, except in halls owned and operated by churches and similar charitable organizations |
Blast furnace, forge plants, rolling mills, foundry |
Body modification establishments |
Boiler works |
Brick, pottery, tile or terra cotta manufacture |
All classes of cannabis establishments or cannabis distributors or cannabis delivery services as said terms are defined in Section 3 of P.L. 2021, c. 16,[1] but not the delivery of cannabis items and related supplies by a delivery service |
Carrousels (permanent), ferris wheels, merry-go-rounds, roller coasters, miniature and practice golf courses, shooting galleries |
Cellular communication towers, cells and antennas |
Celluloid or film manufacture or extraction of products therefrom |
Cement, cinder block, lime, gypsum or plaster of paris manufacture |
Chemical manufacture or storage of chemicals having a flammable, explosive or toxic base or which have an odor |
Coke ovens |
Community drop-in centers or rehabilitation centers for those afflicted with drug abuse alcoholism, diseased, or mental illness |
Cotton oil manufacture |
Disinfectant, insecticide or poison manufacture |
Distillation of coal, petroleum, refuse, grain, wood or bone |
Dog pounds or animal shelters |
Dormitories, fraternity or sorority houses |
Dye manufacture |
Emery cloth and sandpaper manufacture |
Establishments for the distribution of free food, toiletries, clothes, household goods, etc., including soup kitchens |
Explosives or fireworks manufacture and storage |
Fat-rendering plant |
Fertilizer manufacture |
Fish and meat: wholesale smoking or curing |
Freak shows or wax museums |
Glue, size, adhesive or gelatin manufacture |
Grain drying or food manufacture from refuse, marsh or grain |
Harboring or keeping of exotic pets |
House-wreckers yard or secondhand lumberyard |
Incineration, except publicly owned incinerators or accessory to an apartment building or hospital, reduction, storage or dumping of slaughterhouse refuse, rancid fats, garbage, dead animals or offal |
Junkyards or the storage, sorting or bailing of junk, scrap iron, paper, bottles, metal or rags |
Keeping of livestock |
Match manufacture |
Motels, tourist camps or cabins; trailer camps or courts |
Oilcloth and linoleum manufacture |
Paint, oil, varnish, turpentine, shellac, enamel, japanning, lacquer or solvents manufacture |
Paper pulp manufacture |
Petroleum refining |
Plastics manufacture or the manufacture of articles from plastic having an inflammable base |
Pool hall |
Potash works |
Power forging, riveting, hammering, punching, chipping, drawing, rolling or tumbling of metals except as necessary incident of manufacture of which these processes form a minor part and which are carried on without objectionable noise audible beyond the limits of the lot |
Printing ink manufacture |
Psychic reader |
Quarry, sand pits, gravel pits, topsoil stripping |
Raw hides or skins storage, cleaning, curing, pickling or tanning or retanning |
Rock or stone crusher |
Rubber, latex or gutta-percha manufacture or treatment |
Sexually oriented business as defined by N.J.S.A. 2C |
Shoddy manufacture or wool scouring |
Slaughtering or wholesaling of animals or fowl |
Smelting, smelters, and foundries |
Soap manufacture |
Solar or photovoltaic panels, ground-mounted |
Starch, glucose or dextrin manufacture |
Steel furnace or rolling mill |
Stockyards |
Sugar refining |
Sulphurous, sulphuric, acetic, nitric, picric, carbolic or hycrochloric acid manufacture |
Tar distillation or manufacture |
Tallow, grease or lard manufacture or refining |
Tattoo parlors |
Tobacco manufacture or treatment |
Used automobile sales, except when operated by an authorized new car agency and located on the same or adjoining lot |
Use Group H-High hazard use as defined in the Building Code |
Video and pinball game arcade |
Yeast plant |
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Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 24:6I-33.