249 Somerset St New Brunswick, NJ 08901-4125

C-1 Neighborhood Commercial District. a. Intent. The intent and purpose of these districts is to provide for the expansion and preserve the integrity of neighborhood oriented commercial uses and mixed multi-family residential uses. The commercial uses should offer convenience goods and services whereas the mixed multi-family residential uses should consist of apartments over the commercial uses and freestanding two-family dwellings or apartment buildings. b. Permitted Principal Uses. i. One-family dwellings subject to the standards and conditions of the R-5A residential district. ii. Two-family dwellings subject to the standards and conditions of the R-5A residential district; iii. Hardware and general merchandise store; iv. Grocery stores and delicatessen; v. Restaurants; vi. Packaged goods stores; vii. Personal services businesses; viii. Retail clothing stores; ix. Mixed-use buildings containing permitted commercial uses on the ground floor, and with residential uses above; x. General offices. xi. Multi-family residential developments. c. Permitted Accessory Uses. i. Home professional offices and home occupations; ii. Private garages for automobile storage; iii. Storage sheds, greenhouses and similar structures; iv. Fences and walls. d. Conditional Uses. Subject to the additional standards and conditions as specified herein: i. Quasi-public, Non-profit Clubs and Organizations. (a) No such use shall be established within two hundred (200) feet of a public or nonprofit school, library, or church except for those uses directly associated or affiliated with any nonprofit school or church. (b) Each such use shall provide an access driveway to provide access to a side or rear yard off-street parking area. (c) Off-street parking space shall be provided in side and rear yards only, at the raft [rate] of one space for each one hundred (100) square feet of gross floor area, or one space per three seats, which ever is greater. (d) All off-street parking provided within thirty (30) feet of any property line shall be protected from adverse impact upon adjacent residential properties through a visual screen of plantings not less than four feet on center, six feet high at planting, with buffer areas designed in conformance with this title. ii. Mixed-Use and Residential Multi-Family Developments.