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732-842-2400 phone 732-219-0581 fax

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R-1 Estate Residential

SECTION-10.4     R-l ESTATE RESIDENTIAL ZONE

A.       Permitted Principal Uses

1.    A single detached house used as a residence and by not more than one family     except that rooms may be rented to not more than three people for sleeping purposes only.

B.        Required Accessory Uses

    1.         Off street parking subject to the provisions of Section 8.20.

    2.    Each residence shall provide a garage.

C.    Permitted Accessory Uses

    1.    Fences and walls subject to the provisions of Section 8.14.

    2.         Private swimming pools subject to the provisions of Section 8.21.

    3.        Signs subject to the provisions of Section 8.26.

4.        Other customary accessory uses and buildings which are clearly incidental to the principal use and building, including a private garage, boat house or bath house.

D.        Conditional Permitted Uses

    1.    Churches and places of religious worship.

E.    Prohibited Uses:  Other uses not expressly permitted in this section are prohibited.
   
F.    Area Yard and Building Requirements

         1.        Minimum lot area:     60,000 square feet.

         2.        a.     Minimum lot frontage:  160 feet.
        b.     Minimum corner lot frontage:  160 feet facing both streets.

         3.        Minimum front setback:  50 feet.




         4.        Minimum rear yard setback:

                  a.      Principal building      -     50 feet.
                  b.     Accessory building     -     15 feet.

         5.        Minimum side yard setback:

a.       Principal building - 25 feet for a building and/or structure height of 16 feet     and not exceeding 1 1/2 stories. The sideyard setback shall increase one foot for every foot the principal building exceeds 16 feet and 1 1/2 stories up to the maximum permissible height.
         b.       Accessory building - 15 feet.

6.        Maximum building and/or structure height:  35 feet and not exceeding 2 1/2 stories.
        16 feet for any free standing accessory building.

         7.        Minimum gross habitable ground floor area:  1,600 square feet.                                       

         8.        Maximum lot coverage:      Twenty-five percent (25%).

         9.        Maximum impervious surface:     Twenty-five percent (25%)

    10.    Maximum number of bedrooms: Seven (7)

G.      Additional Regulations and Standards

1.       No  building,  structure,  improvement  and/or  development, which increases the footprint of any existing structure or building or which enlarges the ground area of development currently existing on the subject property or which is new development, shall be permitted in the Coastal Flood Zone, as defined in Chapter XIX of the Revised General Ordinances of the Borough of Little Silver.  For purposes of this paragraph, the following shall not be considered buildings,     structures, improvements and/or development regulated hereby: fences.




         
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Borough of Little Silver
480 Prospect Avenue, Little Silver, NJ 07739
732-842-2400 phone      732-219-0581 fax