REGULATIONS GOVERNING CERTAIN PERMITTED USES
Animal hospitals and kennels shall be located no closer than two hundred (200) feet to any residential zone line. Such facilities shall be maintained in an enclosed structure and shall be of soundproof construction and so operated as to produce no objectionable odors at the property line. Open kennels, exercise pens or runways shall not be located closer than four hundred (400) feet to any property line and shall be subject to noise and odor controls established for an enclosed building. Open kennels, pens or runways shall not be located within a wetland area, wetland buffer or flood hazard area.
All buildings shall be setback a minimum of twenty (20) feet from any property line, except where greater distances are otherwise required herein.
Community residences for the developmentally disabled, community shelters for victims of domestic violence, community residences for the terminally ill and community residences for persons with head injuries shall be a permitted use in all residential districts of Hackensack and the requirements therefore shall be the same as for single family dwelling units located within such district.
A. Density Requirements
The maximum number of dwelling units per acre for garden apartments shall be determined by the following schedule.
DENSITY REQUIREMENTS FOR GARDEN APARTMENTS
In determining the maximum number of dwelling units permitted, where the number of rooms in dwelling units varies, a weighted proportion of each type to the total distribution shall be utilized.
B. Maximum number of dwelling units per grouping.
Each building shall contain no more than eight 8) dwelling units, and in attached buildings not more than twenty-four (24) dwelling units, with no portion of the building below the first story used for dwelling purposes, except that a basement where the floor is not more than three (3) feet below grade may contain living quarters for the building superintendent and his family.
The maximum length of any garden apartment building shall not exceed one hundred sixty (160) feet.
The building design shall be accessible to emergency vehicles.
C. Courts.
Where a court is provided, it shall have dimensions the minimum of which shall be forty (40) feet.
D. Recreation space.
There shall be provided on the site of such development an area or areas of not less than one hundred (100) square feet of recreation space for each dwelling unit but in no case shall there be less than two thousand (2,000) square feet devoted to joint recreational use by the residents thereof. Such recreation space shall be appropriately located in other than a front yard and shall be required to be developed with passive and/or active recreational facilities.
E. General landscaping requirements.
Unenclosed use or area may be required by the Planning Board to be landscaped and provision, when deemed necessary, shall also be made for landscaping in accordance with Section 175-9.2 herein.
F. Other Required Conditions.
All performance and design standards established herein shall be complied with where applicable.
A. Maximum front yard depth for all types of apartment construction shall be three hundred (300) feet, with an approved Fire Department standpipe system if the building front setback exceeds two hundred (200) feet.
B. Each separate garden apartment or apartment building shall have frontage upon a public street.
C. The percentage of bedrooms permitted in any type of apartment three (3) stories or less in height shall be determined at the rate of not more than one (1) bedroom for the first seventy percent (70%) of the total number of dwelling units ( including efficiency units ). The remaining thirty percent (30%) of dwelling units are not limited as to the number of bedrooms permitted.
D. The minimum distance between any two (2) or more apartment buildings on the same property shall be twenty-five (25) feet or one (1) foot of open space for every four (4) feet of building height, whichever is the greater.
E. No driveway servicing either an entrance or porch for an apartment building which has a setback of less than forty (40) feet shall be permitted in any front, side or rear yard abutting a public street.
F. Garbage, trash or other types of refuse-burning incinerators shall be prohibited as a secondary use in any apartment structure in any zone in the City of Hackensack.
G. Professional offices shall be permitted in multiple-family dwellings in multiple-family districts, provided that they meet the following requirements:
(1) Not more than five percent (5%) of the original dwelling units can be used for this purpose.
(2) No dwelling unit above the second floor level measured from grade shall be used for this purpose. This provision does not apply to model apartments or on-premises management offices.
(3) Parking shall be provided at the rate of four (4) parking stalls for each one thousand (1,000) square feet of G.L.A. No office facility shall have less than four (4) designated parking stalls. Said parking stalls shall be designated with the name of the professional occupying the office space.
H. An accessory building above grade, when servicing a multiple-family dwelling, shall have a side yard and rear yard of five (5) feet if the accessory building is not more than twelve (12) feet high. If more than twelve (12) feet high, side and rear yards shall be provided at a height ratio of four to one (4:1) but in no case less than five (5) feet. Side or rear yards abutting a street shall be not less than the minimum required setback from such street as required for the principal building.
A. Minimum Habitable Room Area.
Such uses shall have a minimum area for each unit of occupancy of three-hundred (300) square feet and shall include a minimum of one (1) bedroom and a shower or bath, sink and a water closet.
B. Off-Street Parking and Loading Requirements.
Off-street parking and loading facilities shall be in accordance with the requirements established herein. Off-street parking shall not be permitted within thirty (30) feet of any street right-of-way line.
C. Accessory uses permitted and associated with hotels only shall include automobile rental establishments, banks, barber and beauty shops, book and stationery stores, confectionery and tobacco sales, florists, gift shops, newspaper stands, restaurants and travel agencies.
D. Minimum lot size.
Such uses shall have a minimum lot area of one and one half (1.5) acres.
A. Area, bulk and yard regulations.
(1) Minimum Lot Area: One and One Half (1.5) acres
(2) Minimum Lot Area Per Patient Bed: One Thousand (1,000) square feet
(3) Minimum Lot Width: One Hundred (100) feet
(4) Minimum Lot Depth: One Hundred Fifty (150) feet
(5) Maximum Lot Coverage: Twenty-Five Percent (25%)
(6) Maximum Improved Lot Coverage: Seventy Percent (70%)
(a) Thirty-Five (35) feet
(b) Three (3) stories
(8) Minimum Yard Requirements:
B. Courts.
Where a court is provided, it shall have dimensions the minimum of which shall be forty (40) feet.
C. Recreational Space.
There shall be provided on the site of such development an area or areas of not less than two thousand (2,000) square feet plus twenty (20) square feet per patient bed which shall be utilized for the recreational use of the patients therein.
Townhouses shall be a permitted principal use in the R-2B zone. In the event the property is subdivided into individual parcels for each townhouse unit, the development site shall still be permitted subject to the following area, yard and bulk regulations:
A. The following uses listed in Table 1 are not permitted, accessory or conditional uses and are prohibited in all zone districts in the City of Hackensack. This list is not exhaustive of all uses that are prohibited.
Table I Uses Specifically Prohibited
Acetylene gas manufacture or storage
Adult day care centers
Alcohol manufacture
Ammonia, chlorine or bleaching powder manufacture
Boarding Houses, Rooming Housing, and half way houses
Bingo halls or bingo parlors or similar types of amusement establishments, except in halls owned and operated by churches and similar charitable organizations.
Carrousels, ferris wheels, merry-go-rounds, roller coasters, miniature and practice golf courses, shooting galleries.
Arsenals, storage or manufacture of gun powder, ammunition and blasting material
Asphalt manufacture or refining
Auction rooms; flea markets
Auto laundries, except when operated in conjunction with a duly authorized new car agency and when located on the same property
Automobile junkyards or wrecking yards
Blast furnace, forge plants, rolling mills, foundry
Boiler works
Brick, pottery, tile or terra-cotta manufacture
Celluloid or film manufacture or extraction of products therefrom
Chemical manufacture or storage of chemicals having a flammable, explosive or toxic base or which have an odor.
Cement, cinder block, lime, gypsum or plaster of paris manufacture
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, tolletries, 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
Open-front stores, restaurants or sidewalk cafes
Glue, size, adhesive or gelatin manufacture
Grain drying or food manufacture from refuse, marsh or grain
House-wreckers yard or secondhand lumberyard
Incineration, except publicly owned incinerators or accessory to an apartment building or hospital, reduction, storage or dumping of slaughter house refuse, rancid fats, garbage, dead animals or offal.
Junkyards or the storage, sorting or bailing of junk, scrap iron, paper, bottles, metal or rags.
Massage parlors and health clubs
Match manufacture
Motels, tourist camps or cabins; trailer camps or courts
Oilcloth and linoleum manufacture
Outdoor markets commonly known as "auctions" or "farmers markets" or other similar types of merchandising outlets
Paint, oil, varnish, turpentine, shellac, enamel, japan, lacquer or solvents manufacture
Paper pulp manufacture
Parking, storing or garaging garbage, refuse or scavenger trucks in the B-1, B-2, B3 M-1 or UN Zones; permitted in the M-2 zone if stored in a fully enclosed garage
Petroleum refining
Plastics manufacture or the manufacture of articles from plastic having an inflammable base 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
Quarry, sandpits, gravel pits, topsoil stripping
Raw hides or skins storage, cleaning, curing, pickling or tanning or retanning
Rental of furnished apartments
Rock or stone crusher
Rubber, latex or gutta-percha manufacture or treatment
Shoddy manufacture or wool scouring
Slaughtering or wholesaling of animals or fowl
Smelting, smelters, and foundries
Soap manufacture
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
Tobacco manufacture or treatment
Used automobile sales, except when operated in conjunction with a duly authorized new car agency and located on the same lot
Yeast plant
