Wantage Township City Zoning Code
§ 13-7.5
Minimum Standards for Retail Stores, Service Establishments, and Professional Uses.
a.
Permitted uses, accessory to and subordinate to primary uses:
1.
Retail stores and service establishments such as groceries, delicatessen, and meat market, drug stores, liquor stores, variety stores, shoe repair, luncheonettes, newspaper stores, banks, stationery stores, barber and beauty shops, laundromats and clothes cleaners.
2.
Professional buildings for the offices of physicians, dentists, lawyers, engineers, architects or other related professional uses, real estate and insurance brokers.
3.
Garages for storage of commercial vehicles used in conjunction with permitted principal uses.
4.
More than one commercial or professional use may be located in one building.
5.
Any other use that is determined by the board of adjustment to be of the same general character as the above permitted uses.
b.
Height, area and front yard.
1.
No building shall exceed two stories or 35 feet in height. Height shall be measured from ground level or finished grade to the highest point on the roof line.
2.
Minimum lot area - one acre.
3.
Minimum front yard - 50 feet from the street line.
c.
Signs.
1.
All office and retail outlets shall be permitted one sign attached to the building; provided, the area of the sign does not exceed 10% of the gross area of the first floor building front or a maximum of 15 square feet, whichever is smaller.
2.
Signs may be either externally or internally illuminated, provided that any illumination is shielded in such a manner that it does not shine on any adjacent property, adjacent residential uses, or on any road or highway right-of-way.
3.
Signs may extend out from the building in a perpendicular fashion provided they do not extend more than four feet from the building and the lowest section of any sign so erected shall be raised a minimum of nine feet above the sidewalk level.
4.
Each planned commercial center may be allowed one free standing sign advertising said center, provided that it does not exceed 100 square feet in area, be no higher than 35 feet, and is set back a minimum of 10 feet from any street line.
d.
Minimum building area - 1,000 square feet of usable heated floor area.
e.
Minimum area for individual retail store or personal service establishment - 450 square feet of usable heated floor area.
f.
Any commercial vehicle used in connection with a business, or any vehicle containing advertising matter intended to promote the interest of any business shall not be parked or stored in a parking area serving said business, unless the vehicle is parked in a side or rear yard of the lot not fronting on the street.
