[Amended 8-24-2004 by Ord. No. O-04-35]

The Professional Zone P-1 is generally intended to be utilized as a buffer zone between residential zones and more intensive nonresidential zones, and as such, each use within this zone shall be designed, constructed and operated in such a manner as to create the least possible disruption to adjacent residential properties. The P-1 Zone on Route 537 east of Gravel Hill Road is intended to provide for office uses related to and in support of the existing hospital and medical offices that serve Freehold and the western Monmouth region.

A. Permitted uses:

(1) Office buildings for professional, executive, engineering or administrative purposes including and similar to uses identified in the North American Industry Classification System (2002), where noted, as follows:

(a) Professional, scientific, and technical services (NAICS 54).

(b) Internet service providers, web search portals, and data processing services (NAICS 518).

(c) Office administrative services (NAICS 5611).

(d) Facilities support services (NAICS 5612).

(e) Employment services (NAICS 5613).

(f) Business support services (NAICS 5614).

(2) Health services including and similar to:

(a) Offices of physicians (NAICS 6211).

(b) Offices of dentists (NAICS 6212).

(c) Offices of other health practitioners (NAICS 6213).

(3) Social services including and similar to:

(a) Individual and family services (NAICS 6241).

(b) Vocational rehabilitation services (NAICS 6243).

(c) Other individual and family services (NAICS 62419).

(4) Banks and financial institutions.

(5) Municipal facilities.

(6) Child-care centers in accordance with N.J.S.A. 40:55D-66.6.

(7) Planned medical center support service development. In addition to the permitted uses in the P-1 Zone listed above, planned medical center support service developments shall be a permitted in the P-1 Zone on C.R. 537 and Gravel Hill Road in accordance with the provisions of N.J.S.A. 40:55D-65c for planned developments on one tract or on contiguous properties totaling 20 or more acres within the P-1 Zone in accordance with the following provisions. [Amended 12-23-2014 by Ord. No. O-14-21]

(a) Permitted uses and structures:

[1] Offices of physicians (NAICS 6211), dentists and orthodontists (NAICS 6212) and optometrists and other health practitioners (NAICS 6213) used solely by those medical professionals who regularly occupy and conduct their medical practice from these offices.

[2] Pharmacies and drugstores (NAICS 44610) and other retail establishments for the sale or lease of medical/surgical supplies, orthopedic braces, prosthetic appliances, and other medically related equipment, clothes, shoes or supplies used by health care professional or patients.

[3] Nursing homes, extended care, assisted living and other similar long-term in-patient residential living and/or long-term physical and mental health rehabilitation facilities.

[4] Hotels.

[5] Restaurants, banquet facilities, conference centers, auditoriums, spas only in included within a hotel.

[6] Schools and other educational institutions related to the practice of medicine, nursing, medical technician, or medical, hospital and physician health care provision, clerical, billing and administrative services, and related advanced or continuing education programs.

[7] Dormitories or other housing facilities for students registered in educational programs under Subsection [6] above.

[8] Adult day-care centers and child day-care centers.

[9] Opticians and other optical-related businesses; hearing aid centers; dental laboratories; and blood or specimen collection sites.

[10] Uses set forth in § 190-50A(1) through (6) above.

(b) Accessory permitted uses including public utilities, off-street parking lots and garages, loading facilities, fences, signs, and temporary structures such as tents and trailers for special events lasting no more than five days.

(c) Buildings and structures shall contain no more than three aboveground occupiable floors or be more than 45 feet in height from average adjacent ground levels within 25 feet from the structure.

(d) HVAC and other similar building equipment if installed on roofs shall be screened through the use of parapets and screening walls on all four sides, so that the roof equipment is not visible from Route 537 or 10 feet above ground level at the nearest structure of the CentraState Medical Center building complex. The parapets and screen walls shall not be used to compute building structure maximum height.

(e) All buildings, parking lots and structures shall have access to an internal road system that will ultimately link the Medical Center Support Service structures to each other and be located so that they may in the future connect to CentraState Medical Center roadways to minimize traffic flow on Monmouth County Route 537.

(f) Floor area ratio (FAR) shall not exceed 0.25.

(g) Within the development area, impervious coverage shall not exceed 60%.

(8) Houses of worship, provided that the front yard setback shall be a minimum of 100 feet and side yards shall be a minimum of 75 feet. [Added 6-17-2008 by Ord. No. O-08-11]

B. Permitted accessory uses:

(1) Signs.

(2) Fences.

C. Area, space and bulk requirements.

(1) Minimum lot size shall be two acres.

(2) All areas other than parking areas shall be planted with grass and other adequate landscaping. Parking shall not be allowed within the front yard setback area required for a principal building fronting on a public road. The facades of proposed structures shall be designed to complement the adjoining residential properties and, where applicable, the CentraState Medical Center.

D. Uses permitted subject to issuance of a conditional use permit:

(1) Funeral homes.

(2) Fences.

The Profession Zone P-2 is intended to provide for small offices in areas which were once residential in character and which retained the lot patterns and building characteristics of a residential area with converted structures for office uses. This zone also is a transition zone from residential zones to high-traffic roadways. Professional office uses shall provide coordinated driveways with adjacent office properties to the greatest extent practicable in order to limit the number of driveway cuts on arterial roadways. Driveways to side roads shall be utilized whenever practicable.

A. Permitted uses:

(1) Office buildings for insurance, engineering, legal services, architectural, surveying, accounting, auditing, bookkeeping, management, public relations, detective agencies, advertising agencies, real estate offices and medical offices.

(2) Printing and reprographics shops.

B. Permitted accessory uses.

(1) Signs.

(2) Fences.

(3) Parking.

C. Area, yard and building requirements.

(1) As specified in Schedule C at the end of this chapter.

(2) Parking shall not be permitted within the front yard setback area required for a principal building. The facades of proposed structures shall be designed to complement the adjoining residential properties.

A. Permitted uses:

(1) Research laboratories and light industries for the manufacture of products which may be produced without the creation of objectionable or detrimental effects on any other properties, subject to the performance requirements and specifications as set forth in this chapter.

(2) Warehouses.

(3) Office buildings for professional, executive engineering, or administrative purposes.

(4) Wholesale business and distributors.

(5) Municipal facilities.

(6) Public utility installations.

B. Permitted accessory uses:

(1) Signs in accordance with § 190-146F.

(2) Fences.

C. Area, yard and building requirements: as specified in Schedule C at the end of this chapter.

A. Permitted uses: same as those permitted in Light Industrial LI Zone in § 190-152.

B. Permitted accessory uses:

(1) Signs in accordance with § 190-146F.

(2) Fences in accordance with this chapter.

C. Area, yard and building requirements: as specified in Schedule C at the end of this chapter.

D. Conditional uses subject of the issuance of a conditional use permit:

(1) Day-care facilities.

(2) Hotels and conference facilities.

(3) Planned commercial development in accordance with § 190-203. [Added 8-28-2012 by Ord. No. O-12-18]

A. Permitted uses. Permitted uses based on the North American Industry Classification System include the NAICS classification and the sector or industry classification. [Amended 8-7-2012 by Ord. No. O-12-16]

B. Permitted accessory uses:

(1) Those buildings and uses which are essential to the operation of the principal use situated on the premises; which are incidental and subordinate to the principal use and which conform to all performance standards established in this chapter.

(2) Signs.

(3) Fences.

C. Area, yard and building requirements: as specified in Schedule C at the end of this chapter.

D. Uses permitted subject to issuance of a conditional use permit:

(1) Adult bookstores, adult motion-picture theaters, artist's body painting studios, cabarets, massage shops, modeling studios and tattoo shops.

(2) Cemeteries.

(3) Commercial and television antennas.

(4) Electrical cogeneration facilities.

(5) Pool or billiard parlor.

(6) Bulk document storage facilities.

(7) Automobile dealership repair and maintenance facilities. The purpose of this use is to allow automotive dealerships located in Freehold Township to store and provide sales preparation of automotive vehicles on site but offered for sale and/or sold off site. (See § 190-3, definition of "automobile dealership repair and maintenance facilities.")

(8) Wireless telecommunications towers and antennas.

(9) Alternative motor vehicle fueling station. [Added 5-28-2013 by Ord. No. O-13-16]