§ 184-112. Zone districts.

To implement the Master Plan and to effect the purposes of this chapter, the Borough is divided into 10 zones as follows:

A. 

R-150 (Residential Zone). The R-150 Zone is designed to provide a suitable environment for one-family dwelling units and for the conservation and maintenance of the established pattern of one-family dwelling units in this area.

B. 

R-75 (Residential Zone). The R-75 Zone is designed to provide a suitable environment for one-family dwelling units at a higher density than the R-150 Zone.

C. 

CC (Commercial Corridor). The Commercial Corridor Zone is comprised of the following districts: Commercial Corridor Western (CC-W); Commercial Corridor Central (CC-C); and Commercial Corridor Eastern (CC-E) and is designed to encourage compact, mixed-use developments in the downtown area through regulations that accommodate vehicles, pedestrians and transit users, stimulate pedestrian use of the corridor, develop attractive buildings and appealing site design, minimize visibility of parking lots and automobile accommodations and create a visually stimulating and economically viable commercial corridor.

[Amended 5-18-2015 by Ord. No. 15-07R]

(1) 

CC-W. The CC-W District serves as the western gateway into the Borough and contributes to visitors’ first impressions of the Borough. The CC-W District is designed to be comfortable and attractive for pedestrians while providing for a variety of commercial, light industrial and small manufacturing enterprises to accommodate a wide range of creative, maker and innovation/start-up businesses, as well as live-work units to meet the needs of entrepreneurs, small businesses and professionals.

(2) 

The purpose of the CC-C District, similar to the Downtown/Block64 Redevelopment District, is to create a vibrant, pedestrian-oriented and mixed-use downtown in the style of a transit village with ground floors being used by convenience and specialty retail shops, personal services, and indoor and outdoor dining establishments to create an uninterrupted retail frontage to stimulate pedestrian movement and the upper stories being occupied by residential, office and other appropriate uses.

(3) 

CC-E. The CC-E District is intended to create a characteristically suburban-like defining boundary to the compactly developed downtown corridor immediately to the west through larger-sized lots used for multifamily residential, senior housing, offices, and mixed-use development.

D. 

GC (General Commercial Business Zone). The GC Zone is designed to provide for local shopping and to include retail business and service establishments which cater to the needs of the residents of nearby neighborhoods and to promote the stability of retail development.

E. 

(Reserved)

Editor's Note: Former Subsection E, CC (Central Commercial Business Zone), was repealed 5-18-2015 by Ord. No. 15-07R.

F. 

(Reserved)

Editor's Note: Former Subsection F, CC2 (Central Commercial 2 Business Zone), was repealed 5-18-2015 by Ord. No. 15-07R.

G. 

(Reserved)

Editor's Note: Former Subsection G, LI (Light Industrial Zone), was repealed 5-18-2015 by Ord. No. 15-07R.

H. 

LGAH (LaGrande Affordable Housing Zone). The LGAH Zone is designed to provide one-family dwelling units on small lots fronting on Third Avenue and townhouse units behind the one-family units of which 20% would be affordable to low- and moderate-income families in the Borough, or where a developer contribution for the provision of affordable housing units will be made in lieu of restricting 20% of the townhouse units to low- and moderate-income families. The zoning restrictions in existence as of the time of the adoption of this chapter as applied to the LGAH Zone shall continue to be in full force and effect.

I. 

TAH (Terrill Affordable Housing Zone). The TAH Zone is designed to provide for a mix of residential units wherein eleven are one-family dwelling units on small lots and six are townhouse units contained in three two-family duplexes, three of which units would be affordable to low and moderate income families in the Borough. In the event that a developer owns and develops the MAH Zone and the TAH Zone, such developer shall have the option to develop the one affordable unit scheduled to be constructed in the MAH Zone in the TAH Zone instead, provided that such developer contributes the equivalent of 60% of the contribution for the cost of one unit under the Borough's regional contribution agreement ("RCA") with the City of Elizabeth of $18,000 and any incremental cost of the equivalent of 60% of the contribution for one such unit that results from inflation in the construction over the term of the RCA.

J. 

MAH (Midway Affordable Housing Zone). The MAH Zone is designed to provide one-family dwelling units on small lots, of which one lot would be affordable to low- and moderate-income families in the Borough, together with a developer contribution of the equivalent of 60% of the contribution for the cost of one unit under the Borough's RCA with the City of Elizabeth of $18,000 and any incremental cost of the equivalent of 60% of the contribution for one such unit that results from inflation in the construction over the term of the RCA; all for the provision of the equivalent of 20% of the units developed in the MAH Zone. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, a developer that also owns and develops the TAH Zone shall have the option to develop the one affordable unit scheduled to be constructed in the MAH Zone in the TAH Zone instead.