[Added 7-6-77 by Ord. No 68-1977]

A. A Residential Leasehold District shall be created within the Township of Wayne to accommodate the special needs of the Hoffman Grove Tract community, situate upon two (2) otherwise undivided tax lots described as Lot 1, Block 220, and Lot 2, Block 221, of approximately thirty (30) acres and bounded by certain physical barriers, namely, the Pompton River and two (21 branches of a railroad The Hoffman Grove Tract is fully unproved by single-family residential Dwelling houses, constructed on individual leasehold estates and served by private streets, all of which have access to New Jersey State Highway No 23 Such streets provide adequate access for fire-fighting equipment, ambulances and other emergency vehicles necessary for the protection of the public health and safety.

B. It is the intent and purpose of this Article to establish a special zoning district to address the special needs created by a leasehold residential community and to allow existing structures and partially destroyed structures to be upgraded and improved by alterations and additions thereto in compliance with Housing Code requirements It is, however, not the intent of this Article to permit the construction of new or additional single-family dwellings, except pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.A 40-55D-36

In the Residential Leasehold District, no lot, plot, parcel, tract of land or leasehold estate shall be used and no building or other structure shall be used, reconstructed or altered for any purposes other than that of:

A. Single-family detached Dwelling houses, each situate upon an individual leasehold estate

B. Attached garage and/or carport accessory to a single family Dwelling. Detached accessory structures such as, for example, garages, pools or metal sheds, are expressly prohibited.

C. Signs, to include the following

(1) Real estate signs advertising the sale or rental of the premises on which they are located

(2) Temporary signs for displaying political messages, subject to the following controls

(a) No such signs shall be permitted unless they are no more than four and one-half (4 1/2) square feet in area Only one (1) such sign shall be permitted on each given lot as defined in this chapter

(b) All such signs shall set back at least twenty-five (25) feet from the street line.

(c) No such sign shall be erected prior to one (1) month of the date of any national, state or local election, and all such signs shall be removed from the premises no later than three (3) days after the closing of the polls.

(d) No such sin shalt be illuminated

(e) All LED, digital, animated, scrolling, flashing, or any other form of electronic sign, are prohibited.

**Webmasters Note: The previous subsection (e) has been added as per Ordinance No. 42- 2006

D. [Added 6-19-85 by Ord No 30-1985] Satellite dish, as herein defined, subject to the following provisions

(1) Shall not exceed three (3) feet in diameter [or seven (7) square feet in area]

(2) Shall be installed(a) On the rear wall of the main structure, without regard to rear yard setback, provided that the dish does not protrude above or beyond any roof line, or

(b) On the rear portion of a pitched roof, provided that the dish does not project above or beyond any roof line.

(3) The color of the dish shall blend with its surroundings

(4) Only one (1) such dish shall be permitted for each individual lot, and its use shall be for the sole use of that lot

No leasehold lot shall have an area of less than three thousand two hundred (3,200) square feet and a width of lot of less than forty (40) feet

A. Setbacks No addition or alteration of a building or structure shall project beyond any existing wall facing a street or road

B. Yards.

(1) There shall be a minimum distance of sixty (60) feet between the rear walls of opposite-facing dwellings Further, no addition and/or alteration to the rear of any existing building or structure shall infringe by more than one-half (1/2) of any distance in excess of the sixty-foot minimum requirement between opposite facing buildings

(2) There shall be a minimum distance of twenty (20) feet between the sidewalls of any two (2) buildings No owner desiring to add an addition and/or make an alteration to the side of an existing building or structure shall infringe by more than one-half (1/2) of any distance in excess of the foregoing twenty-foot minimum side yard requirement

(3) No building or structure shall be altered or extended within twenty (20) feet from the top of a riverbank.

C. Height No building or structure shall exceed two and one-half (2 1/2) stones in height, measured from the minimum floodplain elevation as set forth by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

The number of single-family detached Dwelling houses shall be Limited to those which exist as of the date of the adoption of this Article, that is, one hundred thirty-one (131) units

All additions or alterations must comply with oh existing township Flood Control Ordinances,' including but not limited to the following.

A. Any additions or alterations must be limited as to the substantial improvement clauses

B. Department of Environmental Protection approval must be obtained for all additions containing living space.

C. All additions involving only utility rooms must comply with the one-hundred-square-foot maximum size and flood elevation requirements

D. All occupants of the area, when applying for permits for additions and/or alterations, must certify to the fact that they have purchased the necessary flood insurance