Public Township Council Meeting — Packet

DRAFT PROPOSED REVISIONS – OCTOBER 2011 Environmental Commission shall mean the West Orange Environmental Commission established by Section 2-19 of the Revised General Ordinance of the Township of West Orange as amended and supplemented. Erect shall mean to build, construct, attach, place, suspend, or affix and shall also include the painting of wall signs and the painting of signs or displays on the exterior surface of a building, structure, or natural surface. Facade shall mean the front, side and rear building planes visible from adjoining streets, sidewalks and parking areas. Family shall mean any number of persons related by blood, marriage, legal adoption or foster children living together, including live-in servants, as a single not for profit housekeeping unit and using certain rooms and cooking facilities in common; or, a group of not more than four (4) persons not necessarily related in the manner aforesaid living together as a single, not for profit housekeeping unit. Comment [PG13]: term not used in ordinance Fast food restaurants shall mean the retail sale of ready-to-eat foods and beverages for on and/or off premises consumption, whenever the foods and beverages are available upon a short waiting time, and orders are placed by the customer at a counter, and primarily served in or on disposable wrappers, containers or plates, and where there is a seating capacity of more than fifteen (15) individuals. This does not include restaurants which have "take-out" as accessory to a traditional restaurant. Flat bed truck shall mean an open back truck designed primarily for the transportation or removal of motor vehicles temporarily or permanently incapable of being operated on the street or highway. Floor area shall mean the area of all floors computed by measuring the inside dimension of the outside walls in a building, excluding the floors of the following: crawl spaces, cellars, porches, breezeways, patios, terraces, garages, and carports. The floor area of a second floor room or attic shall be included if the ceiling height is at least seven (7) feet, notwithstanding that the room or attic has minor ceiling slopes, provided that these walls are at least five (5) feet in height. Functional sign shall mean direction, information, or public service signs, such as

ing that the room or attic has minor ceiling slopes, provided that these walls are at least five (5) feet in height. Functional sign shall mean direction, information, or public service signs, such as signs advertising locations of rest rooms, telephone, or similar facilities of public convenience; and signs located on mechanical dispensing equipment that identify its product. Garage, private shall mean an accessory building or portion of a building housing motor vehicles strictly for the benefit of the resident. Garage, public shall mean a building or part thereof, housing motor vehicles, subject to the payment of rent or charges, and which may include a motor vehicle service or repair station and gasoline filling station facilities and other clearly accessory services. Comment [PG14]: term not used in ordinance Garden apartment shall mean an multi-family residenceapartment house not to exceed three (3) stories in which not more than four (4) families are served by two (2) entrances and all the livable space for each apartment is on one (1) floor or level. Gasoline filling station shall mean a building or other structure or premises where gasoline, stored only in underground tanks, is dispensed, sold or offered for sale directly to users of motor vehicles; where the washing of automobiles (only where no chain conveyor, blower, steam cleaner or other mechanical device is employed) and the dispensing of oil, grease, anti- freeze, tires, batteries, and automobile accessories directly to users of motor vehicles are carried on as accessory uses; and where major repairs including but not limited to engines, and other mechanical repairs, upholstery work, auto glass work, vehicle body repair, painting, welding, tire recapping and auto dismantling are expressly prohibited. Comment [PG15]: replaced by motor vehicle fueling station 14