[Added 9-6-88]

No person shall throw, dump or deposit paper, bottles, containers, automobile parts, junked or wrecked or abandoned motor vehicles, unusable machinery or parts of machinery, old appliances, metal trash, debris, wood scraps or other waste material upon open fields, woods or private property. Anyone who is in violation of this section shall be given a thirty-day notice, after which, if it has not been corrected, he will receive a summons from the Zoning Officer.

[Added 9-6-88]

No person or persons shall permit land to be covered with or contain refuse and debris resulting from construction activities or the demolishing of buildings. A certificate of occupancy shall not be issued until completion of this work. Salvaged building material neatly stored on the owner's premises shall not be deemed refuse or debris.

[Added 9-6-88]

Any accessory building or barn in a residential zone, in such a state of disrepair as to endanger lives or to be ruled a fire hazard, shall be dismantled and removed by the owner. A demolition permit shall be obtained from the Construction Official for this purpose. The Township Committee shall be consulted for approval before taking any action in this section.

[Added 8-1-1994 by Ord. No. 13-94]

A. Purpose. The Township Committee finds that there are many relatively small lots in Liberty Township. The Committee further finds that development of these small lots is often proposed to occupy a disproportionately large portion of a lot, leaving little room for septic disposal areas, proper location of wells and provision of appropriate external recreation space. In order to avoid the overutilization of properties within the township, floor area ratio provisions shall apply to all properties zoned for single-family detached development of one acre or less and for all nonresidential properties. The rationale for designation of one acre as the threshold is that for large lot development even a very large home will fit well within the conventional floor area ratio of zero and two-tenths (0.2).

B. "Floor area ratio' is defined as the ratio of all floor areas of the building, excluding stairwells and elevator shafts, equipment rooms, interior vehicular parking or loading and all floors below the first or ground floor except when used or intended to be used for human habitation or service to the public.

C. Zone requirements.

(1) In the R-1 Zone, no dwelling shall exceed a floor area ratio of zero and two-tenths (0.2).

(2) In the R-4 Zone, no dwelling shall exceed a floor area ratio of zero and twenty-five hundredths (0.25).

(3) In all nonresidential zones, no building or combination of buildings on a lot shall exceed zero and three-tenths (0.3).

D. Utilization of floor area ratio shall not be construed to permit violation of any other yard area or height limitation as set out elsewhere in this Code.

When a new lot or lots are formed from a parcel of land or where two or more lots are combined into a single parcel of land, the separation or combination must be effected in such a manner as not to impair any of the provisions of this chapter. Taxes must be paid up to the current quarter before consideration can be given for approval (N.J.S.A. 40:55D-39e). Also, before an application may be considered for rezoning, all taxes must be paid up to the current quarter (N.J.S.A. 40:55D-65h).

Temporary permits may be authorized by the Board of Adjustment, after a hearing, for a period not to exceed one year for nonconforming structures incidental to construction project-, on the same premises and intended for such uses as storage of building supplies and machinery and the assembly of building materials. In addition, the Board of Adjustment. after a hearing, may authorize a certificate of occupancy for a dwelling house to be temporarily used as a sales and management office for the sale of those homes within a subdivision, provided that all of the following requirements are complied with:

A. The house to be used as such office is built upon a lot approved as part of a subdivision that has been approved by the Planning Board.

B. Said house is of substantially the same quality of construction as those homes to be sold within the subdivision.

C. No business other than that accessory to the management and sales of the lands owned by the applicant shall be permitted.

D. Said dwelling house shall meet all other zoning restrictions of the zone in which it is located.

E. The temporary certificate of occupancy issued under this section shall be for no longer than a one-year period. However, such permit may be renewed by the Construction Official annually after a hearing."

On a corner lot, a fence, wall or planting over thirty (30) inches in height above the curb or edge of roadway which would obstruct vision for the purpose of traffic safety shall not be erected or maintained within a triangle formed by the point of intersection of the right-of-way lines of the intersecting streets and points on each of the intersecting right-of-way lines twenty-five (25) feet from the point of intersection.

A. Every lot must provide front, rear and side yards as required for its zone. All front yards must face upon a public street or private street approved by the Planning Board or Township Committee. On streets less than fifty (50) feet in width, the required front yard shall be increased by one-half (1/2) of the difference between the width of the street and fifty (50) feet. If a width greater than fifty (50) feet is shown on an adopted Master Plan or Official Map, the required front yard shall be increased by one-half (1/2) of the difference between the width of the street and said greater width. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply if an established setback has been formed in accordance with § 105-14.

B. Front, side and rear building locations shall be surveyed and certified by a licensed New Jersey land surveyor. The survey shall be performed at any time after the foundation is constructed and prior to the erection of the building above the foundation. A certified copy of the survey shall be presented to the Construction Official when the foundation of the building is complete.

C. On corner lots, the "front yard" shall be construed as the yard on which the main entrance of the dwelling faces, and the "rear yard" shall be the yard opposite the front yard. If a building is located diagonally on a lot facing two (2) streets, the yard adjoining either street may be selected as the "front yard".