§190-114. C Commercial District.

A. Principal uses and structures. The following principal uses and structures shall be permitted:

(1) Retail sales and service businesses which carry only merchandise intended to be sold at retail on the premises, and limited to antique shops; appliances- shops; art studios; art supply shops; auto body repair shops; barbershops; beauty parlors; bicycle shops; bookstores; butcher shops; camera stores; car rental establishments; card shops; Christian Science reading room; cleaning, dry cleaning, dyeing and pressing for individual retail customers or for the trade or the wholesale market; clothing and dress shops; coin-operated self-service laundries; confectioneries; coin stores; dance studios; delicatessens; department stores; drapery stores; drugstores; flower shops; franchised new car dealer showrooms; furniture and furnishing stores; gift shops; grocery stores; haberdashers; hardware and paint stores; hobby shops; interior decorators; jewelers; leather goods shops; linen stores; liquor stores; music and record shops; musical instrument sales; office equipment stores; optician stores; pet shops; photographers; radio; religious article sales; restaurants; retail bakeries; shoe repair shops; shoe sales stores; sporting goods stores; stamp stores; stationers; stereo and television sales and repair shops; tailor shops; taverns and inns; theaters; tobacconists; toy stores; travel and ticket agencies; and undertaking establishments;

(2) Financial institutions limited to banks and savings and loan institutions and similar institutions, stock -brokerage houses,, and finance companies;

(3) Professional office and business office uses on other than the ground floor or basement;

(4) Veterinarian hospitals;

(5) Buildings used for club, fraternal, recreational and athletic or social purposes;

(6) Shops of an electrician, plumber, welder, woodworker or similar tradesman;

(7) Light machine shops and limited manufacturing, processing and fabrication of products and materials;

(8) Furniture movers;

(9) Jobbing or distributing establishments, storage warehouses, storage yards supplying coal, wood, oil and building materials;

(10) Newspaper or job printing plants;

(11) Telephone and telegraph business offices, and telephone and telegraph equipment offices;

(12) Wholesale business-

(13) Dwelling units on other than the ground floor or basement;

(14) Child care centers; and

(15) municipal buildings owned or leased by the Village of Ridgewood and used for public purposes.

B. [Amended 5-13-96 by Ord. No. 2566] Accessory uses and structures. The following accessory uses and structures shall be permitted, provided they are located on the same premises as the principal use or structure to which they are accessory:

(1) Parking and loading facilities, as regulated in 19090 and § 190-121;

(2) Signs, as regulated in § 190-122;

(3) used car sales accessory to new car sales, not exceeding one (1) square foot of area devoted to used car lot use for each square foot of wall buildings devoted to new car dealer use;



(4) Instruction and organized parties; and

(5) Accessory uses and structures customarily incident to the above principal uses.

C. Conditional uses and structures. The following conditional uses and structures shall be permitted in the C district only if they comply with the appropriate regulations for such uses or structures in § 190-123:

(1) Motor vehicle service stations and public garages.

(2) Public or private schools for kindergarten through grade twelve (12).

(3) Houses of worship.

(4) Public utility buildings and structures.

(5) Fast food restaurants.

(6) Drive-in banks.

(7) Cellular telecommunications antennas mounted on an existing structure at least forty (40) feet high.

D. Prohibited uses. Any uses other than those uses permitted by this section are prohibited. without in any way limiting the generality and prohibition of this section, nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to permit commercial incinerations, junkyards, rubbish, garbage or trash dumps, residential construction or conversion of structures or residential uses, stockyards, abattoirs, slaughterhouses or other animal processing operations or any use which will in any manner create any dangerous, injurious, noxious or otherwise objectionable fire, explosive, radioactive or other hazard or noise or vibration or smoke, dust, odor or other form of air pollution or heat, cold, ampness, movement of air, electrical or other similar disturbances, glare or solid or liquid waste in any manner or amount which shall not conform to the performance standards set forth in § 190120G.

E. Bulk and lot regulations. The following conditions and requirements shall be complied with:

(1) Maximum building height: forty-five (45) feet.

(2) minimum front yard: five (5) feet.

(3) Minimum, side yard: none required, but if provided, twelve (12) feet. If adjacent to a residential zone, a minimum twelve (12) feet side yard is required.

(4) Minimum rear yard: six (6) inches for each foot of height of the principal building, or ten (10) feet, whichever is greater.

(5) Maximum floor area ratio: forty-five percent (45%).

(6) Maximum coverage by improvements ninety percent (90%) of the lot area.

**Webmasters Note: The previous subparagraph (6) has been amended as per Ordinance No. 2670.

F. Other regulations. In addition to the bulk and lot regulations, the following requirements shall be complied with:

(1) Any use permitted by this section, unless otherwise specifically permitted to be conducted outdoors, shall only be conducted within the confines of a building.

(2) Veterinary hospitals and establishments shall be contained within-a soundproof building.

(3) Any side or rear yard that abuts any residential zone shall be provided with a fence or special planting, maintained in good condition, to screen the commercial use from the abutting residential property.

**Webmasters Note: The previous subsection has been amended as per Ordinance No. 3242.

§ 190-115. P Professional and Office District.

A. Principal uses and structures. The following principal uses and structures shall be permitted:

(1) Business, professional or administrative offices which are not engaged in retail or wholesale sale of goods on the premises and which are not engaged in the repair or servicing of goods on the premises;

(2) Single-family residential uses in detached single family residential structures;

(3) Two-family residential uses in a single structure on the same lot;

(4) Business, professional or administrative offices in the same building as dwelling units as a mixed use;

(5) Parking areas;

(6) Child care centers; and

(7) Municipal buildings owned or leased by the Village of Ridgewood and used for public purposes.

B. Accessory uses and structures. The following accessory uses and structures shall, be permitted, provided they are located on the same premises as the principal use or structure to which they are accessory:



(1) Parking facilities, as regulated in 190-90 and 190121;

(2) Private garages accessory to a permitted residential use for up to four (4) motor vehicles, subject to 190-121G(3)

(3) Private swimming pools accessory to a permitted residential use as permitted and regulated by Chapter 251;

(4) Private tennis courts, racquetball courts, paddleball courts, platform tennis courts, handball courts and similar recreation facilities accessory to a permitted residential use and designed to serve the residents on the premises, all as regulated in § 190-124G;

(5) No more than one (1) office, contained in a detached single-family residence, of a single practitioner licensed by the State to practice chiropody, podiatry, dentistry, acupuncture, medicine, chiropractic and osteopathy, as regulated in § 190-124C;

(6) The office,, contained in a detached single-family residence, of an ordained clergyman of any faith or Christian Science practitioner;

(7) Family day-care homes accessory to a detached single family residence, as regulated in § 190- 124B;

(8) Signs, as regulated in § 190-122; and

(9) Accessory uses customarily incident to the above principal uses, provided that residential uses shall not include any activity commonly conducted for gain unless specifically permitted in this section.

C. Conditional uses and structures. The following conditional uses and structures shall be permitted in the P district only if they comply with the appropriate regulations for such uses or structures in § 190-123:

(1) Public or private schools for kindergarten through grade twelve (12).

(2) Houses of worship.

(3) Public utility buildings and structures.



D. Prohibited uses. Any use other than those uses permitted by this section are prohibited. Without in any way limiting the generality and prohibition of this section, nothing contained in this section shall be construed to permit any bank, savings and loan association, finance company or similar financial institution or company.

E. Bulk and lot regulations. Single family detached dwellings and two family dwellings shall comply with the bulk and lot regulations in § 190-106E. All other permitted uses shall comply with following conditions and requirements:

(1) maximum building height: thirty (30) feet, and two (2) stories.

(2) Minimum front yard: twenty-five (25) feet.

(3) Minimum side yard: six (6) feet.

(4) Minimum both side yards: eighteen (18) feet.

(5) Minimum rear yard: thirty (30) feet.

(6) Minimum lot area: eight thousand four hundred (8,400) square feet.

(7) Minimum lot width: sixty (60) feet, measured at the minimum front yard setback line.

(8) Minimum average lot width: sixty (60) feet, calculated so that at least eight thousand four hundred (8,400) square feet of lot area shall be provided within one hundred forty (140) feet of the front lot line.

(9) Maximum total coverage by above-grade structures: forty percent (40%) of the land area of the lot, except in the case when a parking area is the principal use, ten percent (10%) of the land area of the lot or forty (40) square feet, whichever is less.

(10) Maximum floor area ratio: forty percent (40%).

(11) Maximum coverage by improvements: eighty percent (80%) of the lot area.

**Webmasters Note: The previous subparagraph (11) has been amended by Ordinance No. 2670.

F. other regulations. In addition to the bulk and lot regulations, the following requirements shall be complied with:

(1) Any building constructed on piers, pillars or columns shall be enclosed on all sides by the same material as contained on the facade of the building except for an opening which provides vehicular access to a street, alley or parking area. Said piers, pillars or columns shall not be visible from any abutting street or property.

(2) Every dwelling unit shall contain a minimum habitable floor area of six hundred (600) square feet.

§ 190-116. P-2 Office Building District.

A. Principal uses and structures. The following principal uses and structures shall be permitted:



(1) Business, professional or administrative offices which are not engaged in retail or wholesale sale of goods on the premises and which are not engaged in the repair or servicing of goods on the premises;

(2) Single-family residential uses in detached single family residential structures;

(3) Two-family residential uses in a single structure on the same lot;

(4) Business, professional or administrative offices permitted in paragraph (1) above in the same building as dwelling units as a mixed use;

(5) Parking areas;

(6) Child care centers; and

(7) Municipal buildings owned or leased by the Village of Ridgewood and used for public purposes.

B. Accessory uses and structures. The following accessory uses and structures shall be permitted, provided they are located on the same premises as the principal use or structure to which they are accessory:

(1) Parking facilities, as regulated in § 190-90 and § 190121;

(2) Private garages accessory to a permitted residential use for up to four (4) motor vehicles, subject to 190-121G(3)

(3) Private swimming pools accessory to a permitted residential use as permitted and regulated by Chapter 251;

(4) Private tennis courts, racquetball courts, paddleball courts, platform tennis courts, handball courts and similar recreation facilities accessory to a permitted residential use and designed to serve the residents on -the premises, all as regulated in § 190-124G;

(5) No more than one (1) office, contained in a detached single-family residence, of a single practitioner licensed by the State to practice chiropody, podiatry, dentistry, acupuncture, medicine, chiropractic and osteopathy, as regulated in § 190-124C;

(6) The office,, contained in a detached single-family residence, of an ordained clergyman of any faith or Christian Science practitioner;

(7) Family day-care homes accessory to a detached single family residence, as regulated in § 190- 124B;

(8) signs, as regulated in § 190-122; and

(9) Accessory uses customarily incident to the above principal uses, provided that residential uses shall not include any activity commonly conducted for gain unless specifically permitted in this section.

C. Conditional uses and structures. The following conditional uses and structures shall be permitted in the P-2 district only if they comply with the appropriate regulations for such uses or structures in § 190-123:

(1) Public or private schools for kindergarten through grade twelve (12).

(2) Houses of worship.

(3) Public utility buildings and structures.

D. Prohibited uses. Any use other than those uses permitted by this section are prohibited. Without in any way limiting the generality and prohibition of this section, nothing contained in this section shall be construed to permit any bank, savings and loan association, finance company or similar financial institution or company.

E. Bulk and lot regulations. Single family detached dwellings and two family dwellings shall comply with the bulk and lot regulations in § 190-106E. All other permitted uses shall comply with following conditions and requirements:

(1) Maximum building height: forty-five (45) feet,, and two (2) stories.

(2) Minimum front yard: twenty-five (25) feet.

(3) Minimum side yard: six (6) feet.

(4) Minimum both side yards: eighteen (18) feet.

(5) minimum rear yard: thirty (30) feet.

(6) Minimum lot area: eight thousand four hundred (8,400) square feet.

(7) Minimum lot width: sixty (60) feet, measured at the minimum front yard setback line.

(8) Minimum average lot width: sixty (60) feet, calculated so that at least eight thousand four hundred (8,400) square feet of lot area shall be provided within one hundred forty (140) feet of the front lot line.

(9) Maximum total coverage by above-grade structures: forty percent (40%) of the land area of the lot, except in the case of a parking area as a principal use, ten percent (10%) of the land area of the lot or forty (40) square feet, whichever is less.



(10) Maximum floor area ratio: forty percent (40%).

(11) Maximum coverage by improvements: eighty percent (80%) of the lot area.

**Webmasters Note: The previous subparagraph (11) has been amended as per Ordinance No. 2670.

F. other regulations. In addition to the bulk and lot regulations, the following requirements shall be complied with:

(1) Any building constructed on piers, pillars or columns shall be enclosed on all sides by the same material as contained an the facade of the building except for an opening which provides vehicular access to a street, alley or parking area. Said piers, pillars or columns shall not be visible from any abutting street or property.

(2) Every dwelling unit shall contain a minimum habitable floor area of six hundred (600) square feet.