A. Location Requirements.
(1) No premises may be used as a gasoline service station and no building or structure may have its use changed to any such use if
(a) Any vehicular entrance to or exit from such premises or building is situated on either side of any portion of a street between two (2) intersecting streets, on which portion there exists a school, a public or school playground, a public park, a church, a hospital maintained as a charitable institution, a public library or a public museum; provided, however, that this prohibition shall not apply beyond nine hundred (900) feet; or
(b) Any vehicular entrance to or exit from such premises or building is situated within two hundred (200) feet of a school, a public or school playground, a public park, a church, a hospital maintained as a charitable institution, a public library or a public museum; or
(c) Any portion of such premises or building is situated within two hundred (200) feet of a church or a hospital maintained as a charitable institution.
(2) Distances shall be measured in a straight line from the vehicular entrance to or exit from the gasoline service station or garage to the nearest lot line of the school playground, park, hospital, church, library or museum, as the case may be; the distance referred to in Section 175-8.7A(1)(c) above shall be measured in a straight line from the lot lines of the gasoline service station nearest to the nearest lot line of the school playground, park, hospital, church, library or museum, as the case may be.
(3) This protection for schools shall extend to schools maintained by an established religious group and schools regulated under Chapters 19 and 20 of Title 18 of New Jersey Revised Statutes of 1937, together with amendments and supplements thereto, in addition to schools maintained by the public school authorities.
B. All fuel pumps shall be located at least fifteen (15) feet from any street line or property line.
C. Driveways shall cross the sidewalk at right angles and shall not be more than thirty (30) feet wide at any point. Driveways must be at least ten (10) feet from any side lot line and fifteen (15) feet from any intersection of street lines. No more than two (2) driveways shall be permitted for every one hundred (100) feet of street frontage.
D. All repairs of motor vehicles shall be performed in a fully enclosed building. No parts of partially dismantled motor vehicles may be stored outdoors.
E. Gasoline Service Stations are established as conditional uses in the B-1, B2, B-3, I and M-2 zones.
Landscaping shall be required for all gasoline services accounting for a minimum of 10 percent of the site. Landscaping requirements shall be in accordance with Article IX herein.
(1) Any building within which a pool hall or billiard hall is the principal use or that portion of any building used as a pool hall or billiard hall shall be located at least eight hundred (800) feet from any premises used as a public, parochial or private elementary, middle, junior high, high school, college or university, school playground, municipal park or playground or premises upon which is located a place of worship.
(2) Any building within which a pool hall or billiard hall is the principal use or that portion of any building used as a pool hall or billiard hall shall be located at least eight hundred (800) feet from another building or portion of a building used as an amusement machine complex, pool hall or billiard hall.
(3) Unless a pool hall or billiard hall is the only principal use of a building, it shall be located in a separate room, separated from other uses on the premises and from pedestrian circulation to and from such other uses. Such room or principal building housing a pool hall or billiard hall shall be arranged so that there is a management attendant within the building or room or such that management attendants outside of the room can easily see and supervise the interior of such room.
(4) Off-street parking in addition to that otherwise required for the uses on the premises shall be provided in the amount of four (4) spaces per pool table or billiard table or six (6) spaces per one thousand (1,000) square feet of G.L.A. for such building or portion of a building used as a pool hall or billiard hall, whichever is greater.
(5) Pool tables and/or billiard tables shall be arranged within a building or room so that aisle widths leading to exits shall be least forty-four (44) inches in width.
B. Licensing and Other Requirements.
In addition to the location and site plan requirements, an applicant for a conditional use must comply with the licensing and other requirements prescribed in Chapter 125 of the Code of the City of Hackensack.
A. Boundaries of District.
The PO Overlay District shall be designated as the area bounded by Beech Street, First Street, Essex Street and a line parallel to and located two hundred (200) feet west of the westerly right-of-way line of Summit Avenue between Essex Street and Beech Street. This district shall overlay the existing zoning districts within this above described area.
B. Requirements of Underlaying Zone.
(1) All regulations and requirements of each existing (underlaying) zoning district shall continue to apply to all permitted, accessory and conditional uses.
(2) The conversion only of an existing one- or two-family dwelling to professional office use shall be permitted as a conditional use.
(3) Within the PO Overlay District regulations of the underlaying existing zoning district applying to one- or two-family dwellings including minimum lot size, minimum lot frontage, minimum front yard, minimum rear yard, maximum height, and maximum lot coverage shall apply to such conversion of an existing one- or two-family dwelling into professional office use.
(4) In addition, on-site off-street parking shall also be provided as required herein.
An applicant proposing conversion of an existing one- or two-family dwelling to professional office use within the PO Overlay District shall submit to the Planning Board copies of a site plan which shall follow the procedures for conditional uses.
(1) Such site plan shall include the location of all existing buildings on the site, any proposed buildings and additions to existing buildings, the location of proposed off-street parking spaces, the location of proposed driveways with dimensions and location of such in relation to property lines.
(2) Proposed screening, lighting, landscaping and drainage plans shall also be shown on the site plan.
D. Parking Requirements of Professional Office District.
On-site off-street parking shall be provided at the rate of one (1) space for each two hundred fifty (250) square feet of gross floor area devoted to professional office use, but in no case shall the number of on-site off-street parking spaces for such conversion to professional office use be less than ten (10) parking spaces.
(1) Such off-street spaces shall be located only in the rear yard and in no case shall be located nearer to any street than the front yard setback line, required rear yard and/or required side yard setback line abutting a secondary street.
(2) In addition to the requirements herein above, no such off-street spaces shall be located closer than five (5) feet to any property line.
E. Other District Requirements.
(1) All requirements of Article X shall apply to the design, layout, screening and lighting of such proposed parking area and in addition thereto, the following shall be provided:
(a) Any parking area accessory to a professional office use on a premises which abuts other premises used for residential purposes shall be screened from such parking area along the side or sides or rear abutting such residential premises by a solid fence or wall having a minimum height of five (5) feet and a maximum height of seven (7) feet and landscaping as provided herein.
(b) Lighting of parking areas accessory to a professional office use shall be so arranged so as to throw no glare toward abutting or nearby residential properties. Such lighting shall be extinguished no later than 10:00 P.M., prevailing time.
(2) No more than one (1) two-way driveway or not more than two (2) one-way driveways shall be permitted providing access to such required off-street parking. The width of a two-way driveway shall not be less than eighteen (18) feet nor more than twenty-two (22) feet, and the width of a one-way driveway shall not be less than ten (10) feet nor more than twelve (12) feet.
(3) Drainage plans shall be reviewed by the Planning Board, which Board may in such review require a report thereon from the City Engineer. The objective of such drainage plan shall be to remove and direct stormwater from impervious surfaces to the street or natural drainage channel in such manner that will not increase drainage runoff onto any abutting properties.
(4) All of the area of the front yard, side yard or rear yard abutting a street not used for driveways or walkways shall be landscaped when such premises are located in any underlaying R District. Proposed landscaping plans shall be included with site plans.
(5) Signs for each professional offices in any R District shall be subject to the provisions of Section 175-7.14. Signs for each such professional in any R District shall not exceed two (2) square feet.
A. Enclosed or permanent structures.
Public utility services.
Such uses shall include electric substations, transformers, switches and auxiliary apparatus serving a district area, and water pumping station in R Districts and shall be subject to the following regulations:
(1) Such facility shall not be located on a residential street, unless no other site is available, and shall be so located as to draw a minimum of vehicular traffic to and through such street.
(2) The location, design and operation of such facility may not adversely affect the character of the surrounding residential area.
(3) Adequate fences, barriers and other safety devices shall be provided, and shall be landscaped in accordance with Article IX.
B. Open Uses.
(1) Such uses shall be limited to the erection, construction, alteration or maintenance, by public utilities or municipal or other govern mental agencies, of underground or overhead electrical, gas, water transmission or distribution systems or collection, communication, supply or disposal systems, include poles, wires, mains, drains, sewer, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants and other similar equipment and accessories in connection therewith reasonably necessary for the furnishing of adequate services by such public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies or for the public health or safety or general welfare, but not including buildings. Open essential services shall not include any human or animal fecal matter or material.
(2) Landscaping requirements and performance standards established in Articles IX and X herein shall be adhered to.
