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Sheds/private structures under 100 sq ft need only a 12-foot setback from any property line; those over 100 sq ft are barred from front yards and, if 16 ft tall or less, need a 12-foot side/rear setback. Swimming pools over 18 inches deep require a permit, a 12-foot setback to the water's edge (in-ground or above-ground), and a minimum four-foot-high enclosure fence. A general fence-height limit for residential yards was not found.
§ 115-22.H-2(c), § 115-22.H-7 ·
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No local rule found in code.
No permit or standard is required for private-property tree removal.
The chapter searched ·
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Backyard chickens are allowed as part of the "Agricultural and Horticulture" accessory use. Keeping of livestock, horses, or poultry is limited to lots of at least three acres, and capped at one head of livestock/horse or 50 fowl per acre on lots under 10 acres. Roosters are not addressed separately; no minimum/maximum count specific to hens vs. roosters.
§ 115-22.A(1)(c) ·
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Home occupations ("all home businesses") are a permitted accessory use by right, but must be carried on wholly indoors, be clearly incidental/subordinate to residential use, and have no visible show windows, display, or outdoor advertising (signage is separately regulated). In residential zones the home occupation must be run only by the dwelling's inhabitants; in nonresidential zones, up to three additional employees are allowed. Floor area is capped at 25% of the ground floor or 500 sq ft, whichever is less.
§ 115-22.H(1) ·
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No local rule found in code.
The code has no chapter or provision governing short-term/Airbnb-style rentals under 30 days.
The chapter searched ·
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A general accessory residential dwelling unit (H-2a) is permitted only in the AR, VR, VC, IC, LB, and AB zoning districts, on lots of at least 40 acres whose principal use is a farm, and is restricted to domestic servants, caretakers, farm labor, family members, or occasional gratuitous guests. Separately, an "Affordable Accessory Apartment Unit" is permitted as a conditional use in all zoning districts, capped at one per lot (three total townshipwide through July 2025), and must be deed-restricted to low/moderate-income households for at least 10 years.
§ 115-22.H(2)-(3.1) ·
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No person may leave an inoperable or unlicensed motor vehicle (or part) on public roads/lands for more than 24 hours (emergency exception), or on private land within eyesight of a public road for more than 45 days (consecutive or not). Vehicles in garages/buildings, or operable-but-unlicensed vehicles for sale at a licensed dealer, are exempt.
§ 168-2, § 168-3, § 168-4 ·
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No local rule found in code.
No chapter regulates yard/garage sales, permits, or frequency caps.
The chapter searched ·
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No local rule found in code.
No chapter regulates door-to-door solicitation, peddling, or a no-knock/no-solicitation registry.
The chapter searched ·
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One local oddity. The Peace and Good Order chapter still bans going "from door to door" or standing on a sidewalk or street "to bet or gather alms", an old-fashioned anti-begging clause sitting right next to the modern park rules that separately ban ATVs, dirt bikes, golf carts, snowmobiles, paragliders, and ultralights in township parks. § 133-2.U, § 133-2.FF(5)
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All fences require zoning clearance or Planning Board approval; general height caps are 5 ft in a required front yard and 8 ft in a required side/rear yard, with exceptions. Dog runs up to 8 ft (rear yard only), tennis-court enclosures up to 15 ft (rear yard only), and fences outside required yards up to 10 ft. Swimming pools must be enclosed by a 4-6 ft self-latching fence, sit no closer to a lot line than the accessory-structure setback, and cover no more than 75% of the yard area they occupy. Accessory buildings/structures cap at 25 ft in height (except farm silos/barns) and cannot be built before the principal building; poultry/livestock shelters need a 100-ft setback from dwellings and property lines.
§ 102-19.B, § 102-32, § 102-17 ·
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A permit is required to remove more than five trees per existing individual lot in a calendar year (one to five trees is exempt), or to remove any historic, landmark, or specimen tree, or any tree in a buffer strip, landscape easement, or on public/preserved/conservation land. On new-construction lots, a permit is required only for clearing beyond one acre for home/septic/driveway construction; up to one acre is exempt. Diseased/dead/hazard trees, invasive-species removal, farms under Right-to-Farm protection, and septic/well installation are exempt from the permit requirement.
§ 102-79, § 102-80 ·
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Backyard chickens/poultry are allowed; the code does not set a lot-size minimum or a per-acre headcount cap the way some neighboring towns do. The operative rule is a setback: no poultry or livestock shelter (excluding dog runs or pet shelters) may be erected, used, or located closer than 100 feet to any dwelling or to any property line. Roosters are not addressed separately.
§ 102-17.C, § 102-17.E ·
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Home occupations must be clearly incidental/subordinate to residential use; a specific permitted list includes tutors, licensed professionals, medical professionals (no overnight patients), artisans/craftsmen, and family day care. Prohibited categories include animal-related businesses (kennels, grooming, stables), vehicle repair/detailing/storage, industrial/construction activity, equipment rental/junkyards/warehousing, and businesses like tattoo parlors or funeral homes. No more than two home occupations are allowed per residence. Garage sales, home parties (up to six/year), and home-based offices are explicitly carved out as not requiring a home-occupation license.
§ 102-20 ·
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No local rule found in code.
No chapter or provision governs short-term/Airbnb-style rentals under 30 days.
The chapter searched ·
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Accessory apartments are permitted only as a conditional use tied to the Township's affordable-housing subsidy program, capped at three units townshipwide, each carrying a $25,000 township subsidy (total program cap $75,000), each deed-restricted to a qualified low-income household for at least 10 years. There is no general by-right ADU/in-law-suite provision outside this program; preexisting unauthorized apartments can be legalized under the same section without penalty (but no subsidy).
§ 102-35.I ·
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No vehicle may be abandoned on a public highway or public place. On private property, an inoperable motor vehicle (or part) cannot be left or maintained for more than 90 days total (consecutive or not) unless fully enclosed in a structure. "Abandoned" on public property is defined as left unattended more than 24 hours.
§ 144-1, § 144-1.1 ·
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No standalone garage-sale permit ordinance exists, but the sign regulations effectively cap garage/yard sales: each residential parcel may display one temporary garage-yard sale sign, no larger than 3 sq ft and 3 ft tall, for no more than three days, twice per year. Garage sales are also explicitly excluded from the home-occupation licensing requirement.
§ 102-30(12), § 102-20.A(3)(b) ·
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Peddlers/transient merchants and door-to-door distributors must obtain a license (application, fee, bond) from the Township Clerk before operating, and may not hawk or peddle before 8:00 a.m., after 6:00 p.m., or at all on Sundays. Separately, charitable/nonprofit solicitors and canvassers must register with the Township at least 48 hours in advance (including a paid background-check fee) and may not solicit after 9:00 p.m. or before dawn. No no-knock/do-not-solicit registry was found.
§ 115-3, § 115-10, § 115-16 ·
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One local oddity. The zoning code's home-occupation rules specifically bar residents from running an "animal hospital," "horse hack," "commercial stable," or renting out space for people to ride ATVs and dirt bikes on their property as a home business, while separately capping garage sales at exactly two three-day sales per year via the sign ordinance. § 102-20.A(2), § 102-30(12)
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Sheds are capped at 100 sq ft, 12 ft in any horizontal dimension, 12 ft peak height, one per lot, set back at least 5 ft from any property line and placed behind the principal structure; larger structures are treated as accessory buildings. Only one accessory building is allowed per lot (in addition to a shed). Fences/walls: max 72 inches in rear yards, 48 inches in front/side yards (retaining walls can go higher with approval); barbed wire, fabric, electrified wire, and glass-topped fences are banned; farm fencing and temporary snow fencing are exempt. Pools need a fence, 4 ft minimum with an 8-ft water setback for in-ground, or a 4-ft fence or an 18-inch pool-edge barrier for above-ground, with a lockable, self-securing entrance.
§ 270-119, § 270-106, § 270-117 ·
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No local rule found in code.
No permit or standard applies to a homeowner cutting down trees on an existing lot.
The chapter searched ·
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Chickens are allowed on residential lots with a zoning permit, capped by lot size: up to 6 chickens on lots to 1 acre, up to 10 on lots of 1 to under 3 acres, up to 15 on lots of 3 to under 5 acres. Roosters are banned on any residential lot under 5 acres. Coops need a permit application with a sketch/survey, a minimum 5-foot setback from any property line, at least 2 sq ft of coop space and 4 sq ft of run space per bird, must generally sit in the rear yard (never the front), be closer to the owner's own dwelling than to a neighbor's, and stay at least 25 feet from any neighboring dwelling.
§ 63-22, § 63-23 ·
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Home occupations are permitted only for the dwelling's own inhabitants plus at most one outside employee at a time, must be conducted wholly inside an enclosed building, and are capped at 25% of the ground floor area or 500 sq ft (whichever is less). No exterior signage, display, or outward sign of business use is allowed, deliveries are capped at two commercial-vehicle trips per week, and only items produced on-site may be sold. A Planning Board permit (with hearing and fee) is required, drawing from a specific list of pre-approved occupations (art studio, dressmaking, individual instruction, insurance agent, PC operation, etc.); anything not on the list needs a variance.
§ 270-149 ·
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No local rule found in code.
No chapter or provision governs short-term/Airbnb-style rentals under 30 days.
The chapter searched ·
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Bloomsbury does not have a general accessory dwelling unit provision. It permits only "aged parents temporary housing", a temporary living arrangement for a resident's aged parents, which must be restored to its original condition and use (or, if an external building, removed entirely) within six months after the parents stop using it.
§ 270-152 ·
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No inoperable or unlicensed motor vehicle (or part) may be left on public roads/lands except in an emergency, and then for no more than 24 hours. On private land, an inoperable or unlicensed vehicle (or part) cannot be left or maintained for more than 15 days, whether consecutive or not, the shortest private-property threshold of the five towns checked. Vehicles in garages/buildings, and operable-but-unlicensed dealer inventory, are exempt.
§ 260-2, § 260-3 ·
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No local rule found in code.
No permit, frequency cap, or duration limit for yard/garage sales was found.
The chapter searched ·
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Peddlers, distributors, and transient merchants must get a license (application, bond, fee, $50 annual/$15 daily) from the Borough Clerk before operating, and may not hawk or peddle before 8:00 a.m., after 6:00 p.m., or at all on Sundays. Political, charitable/religious/patriotic/community-service solicitors, wholesale salesmen calling on businesses, regulated public-utility employees, and government census-takers are exempt from licensing. No no-knock/do-not-solicit registry was found.
§ 183-3, § 183-5, § 183-9 ·
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One local oddity. The fence ordinance specifically bans topping a fence with broken glass, alongside barbed wire and electrified wire, a rule that only makes sense if someone, at some point, was doing exactly that. § 270-117.D
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Storage sheds up to 120 sq ft may sit within the side/rear setback with a 5-ft minimum property-line setback (R-1/R-2/R-3 zones); larger accessory buildings must meet full setbacks, cap at 15 ft in height, and no more than two per lot (detached garages don't count against that cap). Fences/walls cap at 4 ft in a front yard and 6 ft in a side/rear yard residentially (8 ft allowed around parks/playgrounds/commercial recreation with an open-wire fence); farm fencing and windbreaks are exempt. Swimming pools are treated as accessory structures, need a 15-ft lot-line setback, a 10-ft septic-tank separation and 20-ft disposal-field separation, and must be enclosed by a permanent 4-6 ft self-closing, self-latching fence (hot tubs/whirlpools may substitute a natural barrier or approved cover).
§ 16.12.030, § 16.12.040, § 16.28.110 ·
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No local rule found in code.
No permit or standard applies to a homeowner removing trees on an existing residential lot.
The chapter searched ·
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Chickens are allowed on residential lots with a zoning permit, capped by lot size: up to 6 on lots to 1 acre, up to 10 on lots of 1 to under 3 acres, up to 15 on lots of 3 to under 5 acres. Roosters are banned on any residential lot under 5 acres. Coops need a minimum of 2 sq ft per bird plus a run of 4 sq ft per bird, must sit in the rear yard within the building envelope, closer to the owner's dwelling than any neighbor's, at least 25 feet from a neighboring dwelling, and the run must have wire/mesh fencing plus overhead netting to keep other animals out. Separately, up to two horses are allowed on residential lots of 3+ acres (plus one more per additional acre), and 4-H/student livestock projects are allowed on lots of 3+ acres.
§ 16.12.010.M(4), § 16.12.030.E(3) ·
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Home occupations are permitted in residential buildings in every zone, but must be run solely by residents plus at most one non-resident employee, capped at one-third of a habitable floor's area (family day care exempt from the area cap), with no street-visible product display, at most one unlit wall sign (max 1 sq ft), no audible sound outside the building, no equipment that interferes with neighbors' radio/TV reception, no on-site retail sales, and the use confined entirely to either the principal building or an accessory building (not both). Medical/dental offices, kennels, and auto/truck repair or body work are explicitly prohibited as home occupations.
§ 16.12.010.J ·
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No local rule found in code.
No chapter or provision governs short-term/Airbnb-style rentals under 30 days.
The chapter searched ·
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No local rule found in code.
No accessory dwelling unit, in-law apartment, or "aged parents" temporary housing provision was found in the zoning code.
The chapter searched ·
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No inoperable or unlicensed motor vehicle (or part) may be left on public roads/lands except in an emergency, for no more than 24 hours. On private land, an inoperable or unlicensed vehicle (or part) cannot be left or maintained for more than 15 days, whether consecutive or not, matching Bloomsbury's threshold. Vehicles in garages/buildings, and operable-but-unlicensed dealer inventory, are exempt.
§ 10.08.020, § 10.08.030 ·
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No local rule found in code.
No permit, frequency cap, or duration limit for yard/garage sales was found.
The chapter searched ·
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No local rule found in code.
No peddling/soliciting license chapter or no-knock registry was found.
The chapter searched ·
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One local oddity. The sign ordinance carves out a specific, narrowly-defined category just for farm stands: a "seasonal agricultural sign" advertising farm produce can be posted only during that crop's actual harvest season and must come down immediately once the season ends, a level of sign-code precision most towns don't bother with. § 16.12.020.A(19)
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In residence districts, accessory buildings must meet the principal building's street/property-line setbacks and sit at least 50 feet from the principal building, capped at 16 feet in height. Private swimming pools and recreation facilities are held to a stricter standard: at least 100 feet from the principal building AND 100 feet from any property line. No general residential fence-height ordinance was found.
§ 88-52.B ·
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A permit is required to remove a tree with a DBH of 6 inches or more, a tree with canopy over a public right-of-way, any tree in a stream corridor, or any tree that was part of an approved landscape/subdivision plan, with a fee and mitigation (per a Tree Replacement Table) in most cases. No fee/mitigation is required (but a permit still is) for removing up to two 6"+ DBH trees per residential lot in any rolling 24-month period, dead/diseased/hazard trees (arborist-confirmed), invasive species, trees within 10 feet of an existing building, or trees removed for septic/water-line work. Trees under 6" DBH, farms/nurseries/orchards, and pruning that doesn't harm the tree are fully exempt from the permit requirement.
§ 130-10, § 130-11 ·
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Backyard hens are effectively off the table on an ordinary Clinton Town lot. In the R Residence Districts the only permitted use involving poultry is "agricultural uses, such as farms, orchards, plant nurseries and the raising of poultry and livestock, except hogs, on properties of five acres or more in size," and the only animal-related accessory use permitted is "animal shelters for not more than two domestic pets." Zoning then closes the gap: "any use that is not specifically permitted in a zone district is prohibited." The animal-control chapter's fowl permit (annual Board of Health permit, coop at least 20 feet from any dwelling, runway at least 12 feet, no fowl inside a residential building, none running at large) is a health regulation layered on top of zoning, not an independent right to keep birds on a lot where zoning does not allow the use. No headcount cap and no rooster ban appear anywhere.
§ 88-52.A(7); § 88-52.B(3); § 88-60.G(1); § 64-13 through § 64-16 · second chapter ·
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Home occupations split into minor and major. Minor (zoning-permit only, allowed in all residential zones): conducted entirely inside the dwelling, no non-resident employees, capped at 50% of a floor/basement or 250 sq ft (whichever is less), no off-site noise/smoke/odor/glare, and no sign at all. Major (conditional-use permit, Land Use Board site plan review, allowed only in specific zones, residential uses in C-1, and parts of R-3 on West Main and Leigh Streets): up to two non-resident employees, capped at 500 sq ft, may use an accessory building, and one sign is allowed.
§ 88-60X (referenced as "minor and major home occupations" in § 88-52.B(7)) ·
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No local rule found in code.
The town's rental-registration ordinance (landlord registration + rental certificate of occupancy) defines a "tenant" as someone who "resides in a dwelling unit on a continuous basis for more than 30 days", which implies stays of 30 days or less fall outside that chapter's registration scheme, but there is no separate rule permitting, prohibiting, or licensing short-term/Airbnb-style rentals.
§ 70-1 (definition of "Tenant") ·
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Accessory apartments are a permitted use in all residential zoning districts plus the C-1 through C-4 commercial districts. The host lot must have an existing single-family dwelling of at least 1,600 sq ft (or a multistory commercial building), the unit must be occupied by an income-qualified low/moderate-income household under a deed restriction (sellable/rentable without restriction only after 30 years), and it needs its own living/sleeping space, kitchen, full bath (2+ rooms minimum), and a separate outside entrance. At least 3 on-site parking spaces are generally required.
§ 88-52 (Accessory apartments provision, added by Ord. No. 06-12) ·
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No inoperable or unlicensed motor vehicle (or part) may be left on public roads/lands except in an emergency, for no more than 24 hours. On private land, an inoperable or unlicensed vehicle (or part) cannot be left or maintained for more than 45 days, whether consecutive or not, the most lenient private-property threshold of the five towns checked. Vehicles in garages/buildings, and operable-but-unlicensed dealer inventory, are exempt.
§ 138-2, § 138-3 ·
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No local rule found in code.
No permit, frequency cap, or duration limit for yard/garage sales was found.
The chapter searched ·
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Peddlers and solicitors need a license from the Town Clerk (or county clerk under state law), must carry it while working, and are restricted to selling/soliciting between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., notifying the on-duty police officer before and after each day's activity. A separate article regulates charitable roadway "coin drop" solicitations (permit required, 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., minors prohibited from soliciting). No no-knock/do-not-solicit registry was found.
§ 107-3, § 107-8.A ·
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Storage sheds ≤200 sq ft / ≤10 ft eave height need only a zoning permit (with reduced 10-ft side/rear setback, 6 ft in SR/VR zones); sheds over 100 sq ft also need a construction permit. One shed per residential lot; additional accessory buildings must meet standard accessory-building rules (max height 16 ft residential; side/rear setback 10/20/30 ft depending on lot size under/1-3/over 3 acres). Fences: 4 ft max in front yard (2 ft off the property line), up to 6 ft in front yard if the zone's front setback is ≥50 ft, and up to 7 ft in side/rear yards; a zoning permit is required for any fence, plus a building permit if over 6 ft. No local swimming-pool barrier ordinance was found (governed by the NJ Uniform Construction Code).
§§ 165-97, 165-103, 165-117.1 ·
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A permit from the Zoning Officer is required to remove any street tree with DBH ≥2.5 inches, or any other private tree with DBH ≥6 inches; replacement trees or a fee ($250-$1,000 depending on size category) are required unless exempt. Residents removing fewer than four qualifying trees per acre in a rolling 5-year period are exempt, as are hazard trees, tree farms/nurseries/orchards, and land under an active forest stewardship plan.
§§ 259-3, 259-4 ·
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Chickens/poultry are allowed as part of "agricultural uses" in R Residence Districts (farms, orchards, raising of livestock), subject to numeric limits: fowl/livestock may not be housed closer than 50 feet to any property line, and more than 100 fowl (or 2 head of livestock) may not be housed closer than 100 feet to any property line. Poultry count toward an "animal unit" allowance of 50 birds = 1 animal unit; 0.5 animal unit is permitted per acre, plus 1 additional animal unit per additional acre. Hogs are prohibited on parcels of five acres or less; no separate rooster restriction is stated.
§ 165-134 (Permitted principal uses, R Residence Districts), Subsec. C ·
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Two categories of accessory home business are permitted by right in R Residence Districts: (1) a professional office/studio (doctor, dentist, teacher, artist, lawyer, architect, engineer, etc.) for a resident professional, capped at 1 non-resident employee and the lesser of 1/3 of one floor or 500 sq ft; and (2) "customary home occupations" (family day care, millinery, dressmaking, cabinetmaking, handicraft, small-appliance/radio/TV repair, excluding motor vehicle repair), capped at the same 1/3-floor-or-500-sq-ft limit, with signage capped at 2 sq ft and no street-visible advertising display.
§ 165-135 (Permitted accessory uses, R Residence Districts), Subsecs. H-I ·
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Short-term rentals under 45 consecutive days are prohibited township-wide ("vacation rentals") unless the dwelling is separately approved for transient occupancy (hotels/motels/B&Bs are carved out); hosting platforms are also barred from facilitating noncompliant listings.
§§ 216-2, 216-3 ·
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Accessory apartments are permitted only under a narrow affordable-housing set-aside program, not as a general ADU right: capped at 10 township-wide, must be occupied by a COAH-income-qualified household (and either the occupant or the host household must be a senior 62+), one apartment per improved residential lot, 400 sq ft minimum / 1,000 sq ft maximum, max 3 bedrooms, min 2 rooms including a full bath, separate egress, and Board of Health approval of the septic system serving it.
§ 165-114 (Standards for accessory apartments for lower income households in R-Residential Districts) ·
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Inoperable/unlicensed vehicles may not be left on public property (24-hour emergency exception) or on private property for more than 15 days (consecutive or not); exempt if inside a garage/building or on a licensed dealer's lot. Separately, off-road vehicles (minibikes, ATVs, dune buggies, snowmobiles, unlicensed motorcycles, etc.) must be registered with the Township Police ($3 fee) before use and may not be operated on others' property without written permission, on streets/sidewalks (unless dismounted), or with non-factory mufflers.
§§ 264-2, 264-3; §§ 267-4, 267-5 ·
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No permit is required for a garage/yard sale itself, but the accompanying temporary sign is capped: one sign per parcel, ≤4 sq ft / ≤3 ft tall, set back ≥5 ft from any lot line, and displayed no longer than 3 days, twice a year, which functions as a de facto frequency/duration cap on the sale.
§ 165-109L(12) ·
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A license is required for peddling/soliciting/canvassing (nonprofits, political speech, and noncommercial handbilling are exempt). The Township maintains a "Do-Not-Solicit Registry" kept by the Township Clerk and distributed to every licensee; soliciting at a registered address is a chapter violation and grounds for license revocation.
§§ 204-3, 204-4, 204-9 (Do-Not-Solicit Registry, exact subsection number not shown on rendered page, registry provisions run roughly §§ 204-9 through 204-13 per section text) ·
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Fences: 6 ft max height in residential/residential-commercial zones (no cap for agricultural fences in A-1/A-2); fences 4 ft or higher require a construction permit (except in A-1/A-2); pools require a fence at least 4 ft high fully enclosing any below-ground pool or above-ground pool under 4 ft tall, with a self-locking gate. Private garages are capped at 3 spaces per dwelling (agricultural use excepted). No general shed size/permit-threshold provision was found (searched "storage shed," "accessory building permit").
Ch. 230, Art. XI, Design Standards (Fences §§ ~230-100s); Zone Regulations, Art. III (garage cap) ·
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No local rule found in code.
No tree-removal ordinance was found for private property. Searched Ch. 230 (Land Use) and the general chapter list for "tree removal," "tree permit," "DBH," "diameter at breast height". No hits outside of subdivision/site-plan landscaping and specimen-tree preservation language tied to development applications (30"+ DBH specimen trees noted for site plan review only, not a removal-permit ordinance for existing homeowners).
The chapter searched ·
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Poultry/livestock raising is permitted as part of agricultural use, most explicitly in the A-1 and A-2 Agricultural Zones (right-to-farm provision covering crops, livestock, and poultry), and accessory livestock buildings are permitted township-wide subject to siting rules: no closer than 75 feet to any property line, and at least 100 feet from a residential structure on an adjoining lot. No numeric cap on flock size or separate rooster restriction was found (unlike Clinton's animal-unit table).
Ch. 230, Art. III, Zone Regulations (Right to Farm provision; Accessory Buildings for Livestock provision) ·
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A home occupation/home-based business is a permitted accessory use in every zone, provided it's conducted inside the principal dwelling (the bona fide residence of the operator) or an accessory building on the same lot, capped at 40% of first-floor area or 900 sq ft (whichever is less), with no more than 1 non-resident employee.
§ 230-104 ·
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No local rule found in code.
No short-term-rental/vacation-rental ordinance was found. The zoning code lists "bed-and-breakfast establishments" as a distinct conditional use in several zones, but that is a separate licensed-lodging category, not a regulation of whole-house Airbnb-style rentals under 30 days.
The chapter searched ·
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Accessory apartments are a permitted use in all zones that allow single-family homes, but only under Delaware's COAH affordable-housing program: must house a moderate-income household, requires a recorded 10-year deed restriction plus a permanent restriction against subdividing off the unit, is affirmatively marketed by the Township's housing agent, and is capped by unit size (500-1,200 sq ft, min. 2 rooms + bath + kitchen) and by lot size (1 unit on standard lots; a second allowed only on lots at least double the zone's minimum). Not a general "build an in-law suite" allowance.
Ch. 230, Art. III, § "Accessory apartments" (Zone Regulations) ·
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No local rule found in code.
The only vehicle-related ordinance found governs Township handling of already-impounded/abandoned vehicles (storage fee caps paid to towing contractors: $3/day for the first 30 days, $2/day after, $400 cap per vehicle). No ordinance was found restricting how long a junk, unregistered, or inoperable vehicle may sit on a resident's own private property.
§§ 337-1, 337-2 (impound/towing fees only) ·
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No local rule found in code.
No garage-sale or yard-sale ordinance (permit, frequency, sign, or duration cap) was found anywhere in the code.
The chapter searched ·
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Peddling/soliciting by hawkers, peddlers, or itinerant vendors going uninvited onto private property is restricted, with exemptions for veterans/exempt firefighters with state licenses, political and charitable/religious solicitation, and pre-arranged deliveries or regular-route customers. Notably, the Township repealed its license requirement, application process, license fees, and license-display rules in their entirety on 12-9-2024 (Ord. No. 2024-17). There is currently no license requirement and no no-knock/do-not-solicit registry.
§§ 265-1, 265-2 (post 12-9-2024 Ord. No. 2024-17 repeal of former §§ 265-3 through 265-8) ·
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One local oddity. Delaware Township repealed its entire door-to-door peddler/solicitor licensing scheme in December 2024. Six straight sections wiped in one ordinance (hours, application, fees, extra licenses, display requirements, validity), leaving only the underlying trespass-style prohibition. Most Hunterdon towns are moving the opposite direction (adding do-not-solicit registries), so this is a genuine outlier. Ch. 265, editor's notes at former §§ 265-3 through 265-8
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Fences may not exceed 4 feet for the length they run in the front yard and 6 feet behind the minimum front-yard setback; deer fencing may go to 12 feet. A fence may not sit in a required sight triangle or inside the road right-of-way, which runs a minimum of 25 feet from the road center line, and where the fence is not identical on both sides the better side must face the neighbor. Accessory buildings are graded by size for setback purposes: Class I is 100 sq ft or less, Class II is over 100 up to 750 sq ft, Class III is over 750 up to 2,000 sq ft, with setbacks set per district. Residential pools go in the side or rear yard only, are treated as a Class II accessory structure for setbacks regardless of actual size, and may occupy no more than 25% of the yard they sit in.
§ 92-53 (Fences and walls); § 92-4 (Definitions, accessory building class sizes); § 92-75 (Swimming pools); § 92-41 (Accessory buildings) ·
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Cutting more than 5 trees (≥4" diameter at 4 ft) on a tax lot in any 6-month period is a regulated "tree harvest" requiring a permit: Tier A (up to 20 trees/lot, under 7 trees/acre) costs $20; Tier B (over 20 trees/lot or over 6 trees/acre) costs $100 and needs Zoning Officer plan approval. Exemptions: hazard/diseased/storm-damaged trees, invasive-species removal, clearing up to 2 acres of a residential lot for a dwelling/outbuilding/driveway (with a building permit), nursery/orchard/Christmas-tree-farm trees, and documented Right-to-Farm woodland management. Unpermitted or violating removals require replanting at up to 3x the caliper removed.
§§ 129-3, 129-4, 129-5 ·
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The answer depends on the zone, and every residential zone was checked. In the Amwell Valley Agricultural District, the township's dominant zone, "all farm and agricultural uses" are a permitted accessory use with no acreage minimum, so hens are allowed by right alongside a house. Same in the Residential (Ringoes) zone, where the accessory list reads "all farm and agricultural activities, including nurseries, small animal and livestock raising." In the Sourland Mountain District the same activity is a conditional use requiring Planning Board approval, except that on lots under 30 acres the Zoning Officer must approve an accessory building of 2,000 sq ft or less for farm animals if it needs no new clearing and meets farm-building setbacks. In the Village District neither agriculture nor livestock appears in any use list, and § 92-86 prohibits all uses not expressly permitted, so hens are not allowed there. No flock-size cap and no rooster rule anywhere in the chapter.
§ 92-91.C(4) (Amwell Valley Agricultural); § 92-94.C(4) (Residential); § 92-89.D(4) and D(4)(c) (Sourland Mountain); § 92-95.B-C (Village); § 92-86 (Prohibited uses) ·
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Home occupations are permitted as an accessory use in residential districts, capped at 40% of the dwelling's floor area (excluding garage) or 750 sq ft, whichever is smaller. Workers must be limited to household members only (no outside employees permitted at all, stricter than Clinton/Delaware's 1-employee allowance). No exterior display, storage, or other visible sign of the business is allowed, and equipment can't interfere with neighbors' radio/TV reception. Examples given: art studios, dressmaking, professional offices (doctor, dentist, attorney, engineer, architect, accountant, artist), single-pupil music/dance teaching, mail-order assembly, small-appliance repair, cabinetmaking.
§ 92-4 (Definitions, "Home occupation," which carries the operative standards); § 92-91.C(5), § 92-94.C(5), § 92-89.C(2) (accessory use by district); § 92-64 (signs: one sign, 4 sq ft max) ·
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No local rule found in code.
No short-term-rental/vacation-rental ordinance was found. The zoning code did once regulate bed-and-breakfast uses, but that provision was repealed in 2019 (Ord. No. 19-08) in at least the district where I found the cross-reference; one other district section still references a "Bed-and-breakfast uses" conditional-use cross-reference, so B&B treatment may be inconsistent across zones, but neither addresses whole-house short-term/Airbnb-style rentals.
The chapter searched ·
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Two distinct mechanisms exist. (1) "Subsidized accessory apartment": converting part of an existing single-family home or accessory building into a deed-restricted low-income unit for 10 years as part of the Township's affordable-housing program (not a general in-law-suite allowance). (2) In the Sourland Mountain District specifically, a pre-1963 single-family home or outbuilding (barn, carriage house) may be converted to a "secondary living unit" as a conditional use, but only on a 30-acre-minimum lot, capped at 800 sq ft and 2 bedrooms, with Board of Health-approved septic and no further expansion allowed.
Ch. 92, Art. III definition of "Subsidized accessory apartment"; Ch. 92, Art. VII conditional-use provision (secondary living unit) ·
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It's unlawful to store an inoperable/unrepairable motor vehicle on land unless it's inside a building or not exposed to view (including aerial view), or specifically licensed by the Township Committee. It's also unlawful to park/leave a disabled vehicle on someone else's land or Township land without written permission. Enforcement starts on written complaint of 5+ property owners (or the Clerk's own motion); violators get 45 days to abate after notice before penalties apply.
§§ 132-1, 132-2, 132-3 ·
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No local rule found in code.
No garage-sale or yard-sale ordinance (permit, sign, frequency, or duration rule) was found anywhere in the code.
The chapter searched ·
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A permit (with photo ID badge worn visibly) is required for commercial solicitors/canvassers, $25 fee ($15 renewal), applicants must be 18+, and door-to-door activity is restricted to 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Exemptions: wholesale-to-retail sales calls, noncommercial religious/nonprofit/charitable/civic/veteran/political canvassing, regulated public utilities, pre-arranged deliveries, and farmers selling their own produce/eggs/poultry/butter. No do-not-solicit/no-knock registry was found. Exempt noncommercial canvassers may voluntarily apply for a free permit but aren't required to.
§§ 63-4, 63-6, 63-7, 63-8 ·
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One local oddity. East Amwell's home-occupation rule is unusually strict for a rural township, zero outside employees allowed (must be household members only), versus neighboring Clinton and Delaware Townships, which both permit at least one non-resident employee. Also notable: swimming pools in the Sourland Mountain District must be filled with water trucked in from outside the region, with a dated bill of sale required before a certificate of occupancy is issued, a groundwater-protection rule tied directly to the district's documented well-supply constraints. Ch. 92, Art. III definition of "Home occupation"; Ch. 92, Art. VII (swimming pool filling requirement)
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Fences: 4 ft max in front yards, 6 ft max in side/rear yards (up to 15 ft for a rear-yard tennis court, set back per accessory-building rules; 5 ft max in a reverse-frontage rear yard; 2 ft max in a corner-lot front-yard setback). Barbed wire, spikes, broken glass, or fences made of "discarded materials" (doors, old lumber, pallets) are banned; electric fences are banned except invisible pet fencing. Private pools require a fence at least 4 ft, no more than 6 ft, high. No specific shed size/permit-threshold number was found. Accessory buildings just take the principal-building setback when no accessory-specific setback is listed for that district.
Ch. 26, Zoning, § "Fences and walls" provision (Additional Standards Applying to All Districts) ·
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No local rule found in code.
No tree-removal permit ordinance for private property was found. Searched the Police Regulations, Property Maintenance, and full Zoning chapters for "tree removal," "DBH," "tree permit". No hits outside routine site-plan landscaping/screening standards for new development.
The chapter searched ·
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Up to 6 chickens/poultry per property are allowed; roosters are prohibited outright. Coops must be covered, ventilated, and predator/rodent-resistant, providing 4 sq ft/bird if equal-or-greater outdoor run space is also provided, or 10 sq ft/bird if it isn't; the run must be well-drained, kept clean, and droppings collected at least weekly. A separate section of the same article, § 6-7.8, caps the maximum weight of any single animal at fifty (50) pounds; that rule covers animals generally and is not part of the chickens section. Shelter location and setbacks are pushed out to the zoning chapter at Ch. 26, § 2609.
§ 6-7.9 (Chickens and Other Poultry), adopted by Ord. No. 2012-02; § 6-7.8 (Maximum Weight); § 6-7.7 (Compliance with Chapter 26, Zoning) ·
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Home occupations are limited to office uses and licensed cottage-food operations, run only by full-time residents of the dwelling (zero outside employees, matching East Amwell's strict no-employee rule), confined to a single room with no separate entrance, with no exterior sign of business use (no visible storage, signage, lights, or parking changes) and no noise/vibration/glare/odor/interference detectable by neighbors. Cottage-food operations may have up to 3 customers on-site at a time as the sole exception to the no-visitors rule.
Ch. 26, Zoning, § "Home Occupations" (Additional Standards Applying to All Districts) ·
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No local rule found in code.
No short-term-rental/Airbnb ordinance was found. The zoning code permits "bed and breakfast accommodations" as a conditional use in some districts (max 6 guest rooms, no expansion of the existing dwelling, 1 parking space/room, food service to guests only, no in-room cooking, 30-day max guest residency), but that's a licensed lodging-business category, not a regulation of whole-house short-term rentals.
Ch. 26, Zoning, Bed and Breakfast conditional-use provision ·
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One accessory apartment per lot is permitted, but only under Flemington's COAH affordable-housing set-aside: must be created within the existing footprint of the primary dwelling (no expansion), min. 500 sq ft but capped at 35% of the principal building's gross floor area, exterior entrance can't be on the same façade as the main entrance, 1 extra off-street parking space required, biennial affidavit of continuing use, and the unit must be rented to and affirmatively marketed to a COAH low/moderate-income household. Not a general in-law-suite allowance.
Ch. 26, Zoning, § "Accessory apartment" provision ·
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Any vehicle not currently registered in NJ, or partially dismantled/wrecked/junked/discarded/nonoperating, may not remain on any property at all, no grace period, unlike Clinton's 15-day allowance, unless the vehicle is properly garaged (inside a building) or the property owner is a licensed used-car/junk-yard/repair business.
§ 3-13.2 ·
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A "yard sale license" ($5 fee) is required from the Borough Clerk, filed at least 1 day ahead. Limits: max twice per year per person/location, sales at least 30 days apart, max 2 consecutive calendar days, no sales on legal holidays, hours 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. (commercial-premises sales may run during normal business hours instead). One sign max 3'×3', postable no more than 1 week before the sale and removed immediately after. Charitable/religious/civic organizations can get more than 2 licenses/year with Common Council approval and no fee.
Ch. 4, § 4-11 (Garage Sales) ·
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A license (with bond) is required to hawk, peddle, or solicit door-to-door; permitted hours are 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday and 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Saturday only (no Sunday soliciting implied by omission); telephone soliciting is banned at all times. No do-not-solicit/no-knock registry was found.
Ch. 4, §§ 4-2.5, 4-2.6 (Peddlers, Solicitors, and Transient Vendors) ·
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Fences 50%-or-more open are not treated as "structures" and are allowed within setbacks (must keep a 5-ft access strip on both sides for maintenance). Detached accessory buildings are capped at the lesser of 1,210 sq ft or 90% of the principal building's square footage, and total accessory building area can't exceed the principal building's footprint. Patios must sit in side/rear yards, 10+ ft from the lot line. No swimming-pool-specific fencing/setback provision or shed-size permit exemption was found in the zoning chapter.
§ 220-42 ·
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No local rule found in code.
The chapter searched ·
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Fowl are permitted in all zones without a coop-specific permit, on a sliding density scale: up to 25 fowl on a 65,340-sq-ft lot (1.5 acres), up to 150 fowl on a 130,680-sq-ft lot (3 acres), pro-rated between those sizes, and up to 300 fowl per acre beyond 3 acres (higher with off-tract manure disposal and Land Use Board/Board of Health approval). Buildings housing more than 500 fowl or 5 head of livestock must sit at least 100 feet from any road or side/rear lot line. Roosters are not separately addressed.
§ 220-13.E(1) and (5) ·
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Home occupations are a permitted principal use by right in the AR-7.0, RR-5.0, R-3.0, and NB zones. The use must be conducted entirely inside the dwelling or an accessory structure, incidental/secondary to the residential use; signage is capped at one unlit sign, 4 sq ft or less; the business can employ residents plus no more than 2 nonresident employees; and it can't cause objectionable noise, fumes, odor, dust, electrical interference, or hazardous waste. A zoning permit is required.
§ 220-5 (definition of "Home Occupation," which carries the operative standards); § 220-10.A(1)(c) and the parallel permitted-use lists for RR-5.0, R-3.0 and NB ·
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No local rule found in code.
The chapter searched ·
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Franklin has no live ADU standard. The zoning chapter still defines "accessory apartment" and still lists "two-dwelling-unit conversions in accordance with the provisions of § 220-23" as a conditional use in the AR-7.0, RR-5.0 and R-3.0 zones, but § 220-23 itself was repealed: the editor's note reads "Former § 220-23, Two-dwelling-unit conversions, as amended, was repealed 11-13-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-18." There are no conditions left for an applicant to satisfy, so as the code reads today an in-law apartment is not an available conditional use in Franklin.
§ 220-23 (Reserved; former section repealed 11-13-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-18); § 220-10.A(3)(b) and the parallel conditional-use lists for RR-5.0 and R-3.0; § 220-5 (definition of "Accessory apartment") ·
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Junk vehicles, those lacking a current license plate and inspection sticker, or that are wrecked/dismantled/inoperative/abandoned, may not be kept or stored outdoors on public or private property anywhere in the Township. Separately, no more than 3 commercial vehicles (only one exceeding 10,000 lbs GVW) may be parked/garaged on a residential lot outside the Neighborhood Business/Commercial zones; this doesn't limit farm vehicles used in an active farming operation.
§ 347-2, § 347-3 (junk vehicles); § 220-39 (commercial vehicles) ·
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Garage/yard sales (by a resident using their own goods, or by a nonprofit/religious/civic group on property it owns or occupies) are capped at 2 consecutive days and no more than 1 sale per 3-month period.
§ 208-1, § 208-2 ·
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Door-to-door canvassers/solicitors must obtain a license from the Township Clerk before operating, with a detailed application (identity, employer, references, criminal history) and a fee. Licenses are non-transferable. The chapter also separately regulates clothing donation bins under the same licensing scheme.
§ 144-2, § 144-3 ·
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One local oddity. The "Right to Farm" section doesn't just protect farms. It sets an actual math formula for how many chickens (and pigs, cows, and horses) any residential lot in Franklin Township can keep, right down to a pro-rated fowl count between 1.5 and 3 acres, and a specific carve-out distinguishing "feeder" swine (no limit on piglets until market size) from breeding swine. § 220-13.E
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Accessory buildings can't exceed 15 ft in height (farm structures and rooftop solar panels exempted) and must sit at least 15 ft from any other building on the lot; they can't be built before the principal building. Fences/walls max 4 ft in front yards and 6 ft in side/rear yards (up to 6 ft borough-wide in commercial zones); front-yard fences over 2 ft must be at least 50% open, and any fence 4 ft or taller needs a zoning permit. Private residential pools must sit in a rear/side yard, 15+ ft from any lot line, and be enclosed by a permanent wood privacy fence 4-6 ft tall with self-closing, self-latching gates (a natural hedge barrier is allowed for hot tubs/whirlpools only, if kept covered).
§ 50-303 (accessory buildings); § 50-304 (fences); § 50-712 (pools) · second chapter ·
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Removing any non-street tree with a diameter at breast height (DBH) of 6 inches or more requires an application to the Borough Clerk and municipal review/approval before removal. Street trees (in the public right-of-way) go through the Shade Tree Commission instead. Certified hazard trees (dead/dying, diseased, structurally dangerous, obstructing sightlines) are exempt from the application requirement. Removing 6"+ DBH trees also triggers replacement requirements under a Tree Replacement Requirements Table.
§ 50-311 ·
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No local rule found in code.
The chapter searched ·
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The code splits this into two categories. "Home occupation" (physician, dentist, lawyer, architect, real estate or insurance agent and similar, whose clients visit and who may have employees) is a conditional use in the R-1 zone and in Overlay Zone A, and the conditions are numeric: no more than three persons engaged at any one time including the resident owner; if it is inside the residence, at least 960 sq ft of living floor area must remain for the residence and no more than 25% of the principal structure's floor area may go to the business; it may instead occupy an accessory building on the lot; no part of it may be conducted outdoors; the residential character of the lot and building may not change; no sound from it may be audible outside the building; and no equipment may interfere with neighbors' radio or TV. Signage is one non-illuminated nameplate of no more than 2 sq ft, one per dwelling. "Home office" (no client visits, no nonresident employees, capped at 200 sq ft inside the residence or an accessory building, no exterior indication, no added traffic or deliveries, one per lot) is a by-right accessory use to a single- or two-family detached dwelling, and it does not preclude tutoring up to three students.
§ 50-309.G (Home occupations, conditional use standards); § 50-104 (definitions of "Home Occupation" and "Home Office"); § 50-302 (signs); § 50-306 (parking) ·
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No local rule found in code.
The chapter searched · second chapter ·
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Frenchtown permits "Elder Cottage Housing Opportunities" (ECHO) units as an accessory use in the R-1 zone, a detached ADU-style unit, one story/18 ft max, pitched roof, max 500 sq ft, with a full kitchen and bathroom. Occupants must be income-qualified (affordable), capped at 2 occupants, the unit must stay affordable for 10 years under a recorded deed restriction, and no more than 5 ECHO units are allowed borough-wide in the R-1 zone.
§ 50-401.B(10) ·
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Any motor vehicle parked or stored outside a garage on public or private land that lacks current registration/plates is deemed "automotive junk" and is prohibited, even on a person's own land, except as specifically allowed by the chapter. Police take possession of abandoned vehicles and may sell/dispose of them per state statute if unclaimed.
§ 3-3.5, § 3-3.6 ·
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No local rule found in code.
The chapter searched ·
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Door-to-door peddlers/solicitors must obtain a license before operating in the Borough.
§ 4-1.3 ·
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One local oddity. Frenchtown's ADU-equivalent isn't a generic in-law-apartment ordinance. It's an affordable-housing tool. "Elder Cottage Housing Opportunities" units cap out at 500 sq ft, require income-qualified occupants, carry a 10-year deed restriction, and the whole borough is capped at 5 of them in the R-1 zone. § 50-401.B(10)
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Fences and walls are capped at 7 feet. Storage sheds, bathhouses, and greenhouses up to 200 sq ft need a 5-foot setback from any property line; 200-500 sq ft need 12 feet; over 500 sq ft must meet the district setback. Accessory structures are capped at one story or 18 feet (whichever is greater), no more than 3 per residential lot excluding pools, and 1,000 sq ft total excluding pools. Swimming pools capable of holding more than 18 inches of water need a permit, must sit at least 15 feet back from the front building setback line and no closer than 10 feet to property lines; ornamental/wading pools 18 inches or shallower are exempt.
§ 104-23.H(6) [H-6, residential accessory structure]; § 104-23.H(7) [H-7, swimming pool]; § 104-33 (setbacks; rear-yard coverage) · second chapter ·
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No local rule found in code.
The chapter searched ·
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Chickens are permitted on residential lots with explicit count caps: a maximum of 8 chickens (excluding roosters) on a residential lot up to one acre, and a maximum of 24 chickens (excluding roosters) on a lot of one or more acres. Roosters may be kept only on a residential lot of three acres or more. Coops need a roofed shelter with at least 2 sq ft per adult bird plus an attached fenced run of at least 4 sq ft per bird, sited in the rear or side yard, placed closer to the owner's own dwelling than to any neighbor's, and never within 25 feet of a dwelling on an adjoining lot; free-ranging is prohibited and a diagram must accompany the zoning application. Certified commercial farms under the Right to Farm rules are exempt.
§ 104-23.A(7) [A-7, poultry]; § 104-23.H(6)(g) (Chicken shelters); § 53-15, § 53-16 (animal-control fencing/running at large) · second chapter ·
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Home occupations ("H-4") are allowed and include all home businesses, but must be accessory and subordinate to the residence, carried on wholly indoors in the dwelling or an accessory structure, run only by inhabitants of the dwelling plus no more than 3 additional employees, and capped at 25% of the ground floor area of the principal residence. No show windows, display, or advertising visible outside the premises beyond one identification sign of 2 sq ft or less; no exterior storage of materials or parking of commercial vehicles; only goods produced on the premises may be sold; deliveries capped at 2 trucks per week; and no more than 3 additional off-street parking spaces. In the district checked, H-4 is a use by conditional approval rather than by right.
§ 104-23.H(4) [H-4, home occupation] ·
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No local rule found in code.
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Glen Gardner allows an ADU-equivalent as "B-11, residential conversion", the conversion of an existing dwelling into more than one dwelling, or the conversion of an accessory building into no more than one dwelling. Conditions: the district's yard requirements must be met, a maximum of one residential conversion per residential building or lot, the conversion must match the existing structure in size and bulk, exterior fire escapes and outside stairways must be at the rear or side, documentation that the existing well and septic can handle the added demand, and at least 2 off-street parking spaces per dwelling unit (none in the front yard, and side/rear parking must be visually buffered).
§ 104-23.B(11) [B-11, residential conversion] ·
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Inoperable or unregistered motor vehicles (or parts) can't sit on private land for more than 15 days (consecutive or not), and can't sit on public roads/lands at all except during an emergency, for up to 24 hours. Exempt: vehicles inside a garage/building, or operable-but-unregistered vehicles on a licensed dealer's lot.
§ 158-2, § 158-3 ·
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No local rule found in code.
The chapter searched ·
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Peddlers and solicitors (including door-to-door canvassers) must obtain a license from the Borough before operating.
§ 125-3 ·
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One local oddity. A standalone 1957 Board of Health ordinance still on the books makes it "unlawful for any person... to have, keep, raise or maintain more than 100 pigs at any one time" in the Borough without first getting a written Board of Health permit, and bans bringing garbage or decaying vegetable matter into town specifically to feed pigs. § 175-1, § 175-4
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Detached tool sheds under 50 sq ft can sit as close as 10 ft to a side/rear lot line; other accessory structures must meet the same setback as a principal structure. Accessory building height is capped at 15 ft, and total accessory building area scales with lot size (up to 900 sq ft on a lot ≤2 acres, 2,000 sq ft on 5 acres, plus 450 sq ft per additional acre beyond 5). Pools, tennis courts, and similar recreational facilities (except portable pools under 3 ft tall/10 ft wide) must sit on the same lot as the house, meet the principal-building setback, and be "appropriately screened or fenced so as not to be an attractive nuisance". No permanent exterior lighting that extends hours of use without Planning Board site-plan approval.
§ 157-59 ·
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Removing more than 5 trees (18"+ caliper, measured 4.5 ft up) from any woodland or wooded lot 1/4 acre or larger, within any 7-year period, requires a Zoning Officer permit, and a certified forester's woodland management plan if the removal could hurt drainage, cause erosion, or degrade property values. Fees scale from $50 (5-15 trees) to $300 (100+ trees). Exempt: lots ≤3 acres with an existing single-family home (on slopes under 17%), farmland-assessed properties, nurseries/orchards, hazard trees, and firewood cut for personal (non-resale) use.
§ 238-2, § 238-3, § 238-6 ·
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Backyard chickens are permitted for single-family and two-family homes on a minimum 1/4-acre lot. Max 6 chickens on a 1/4-acre lot, plus 2 more per additional 1/4 acre (so 12 on a full acre). Roosters are prohibited. Coops must be in the rear yard, 15+ ft from a neighboring house, ≤15 ft tall, ≤150 sq ft, with 3+ sq ft per bird, surrounded by a predator-proof fence up to 6 ft tall. A $10/year license from the Borough Clerk is required, and tenants need landlord consent to apply.
§ 93-18, § 93-19 ·
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Unclear, check with the town.
§ 157-3 (definition of "Home Occupation") ·
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Unclear, check with the town.
§ 187-1 ·
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No local rule found in code.
The chapter searched ·
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No more than 1 junk/inoperable motor vehicle (or set of parts) may be stored outside an enclosed building on any property, unless it's inventory at a licensed auto sales/repair business (capped at 5). One inoperable or unlicensed vehicle is allowed if it's not visible from a public road and poses no danger, but once flagged as visible or dangerous, it must be removed within 15 days of a warning.
§ 229-1, § 229-4 ·
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No local rule found in code.
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The chapter searched ·
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One local oddity. Hampton's backyard-chicken ordinance is unusually specific for a borough this size: chickens scale precisely with lot size (6 on a quarter acre, 12 on a full acre), coops need a minimum 3 square feet per bird, tarps are explicitly banned as a coop roofing material, and slaughtering chickens "in public view" is against the law. § 93-18
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Accessory structures can't be built before the principal building (except sheds/farm buildings/construction trailers), must stay 15 ft from other buildings on the lot (10 ft in the R-4 zone), and are capped at 20 ft in height (farm structures exempt). Open decks without walls/roof need a 10-ft setback even if unattached; temporary structures like tents used as a substitute for a permanent accessory building are banned outright. Fences/walls in residential zones: max 4 ft in front yards, 6 ft in side/rear yards (hedges have no height cap; taller "invisible" deer-mesh fencing is allowed specifically to protect gardens/landscaping). Permanent swimming pools (14"+ deep) need a Borough permit, must meet the same setback as principal structures, can't be in a front or side-street yard, and can't sit within 15 ft of overhead electrical lines, but no specific pool-fence height is stated in the Swimming Pools chapter itself.
§ 145-303 (accessory structures); § 145-304 (fences); Ch. 348 (pools) · second chapter ·
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A permit is required to destroy or remove any tree on private or public land in the Borough (adopted 2-8-2024, a recent rewrite). Exempt: residents removing fewer than 4 trees per acre (in certain size/species categories) within a rolling 5-year window, active tree farms/nurseries/orchards, land under an approved forest stewardship plan, and a few state-environmental-program carve-outs. Subdivision/site-plan applications involving tree removal also require a landscaping/reforestation plan reviewed by the Planning Board and Environmental Commission.
§ 380-13, § 380-14 ·
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Chickens (and other fowl/livestock) are permitted but can't be kept inside a dwelling or cellar. They must be confined to a suitable coop with an enclosed runway, meeting the setback requirements in the Land Use chapter (§ 145-303). The coop/enclosure must stay clean and not become a nuisance. In the R-2, R-3, R-4, and DB zones specifically, roosters are banned and outdoor slaughter of farm animals is prohibited.
§ 120-6 ·
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Home occupations are a permitted accessory use in residential buildings in the R-1, R-2, R-3, and R-4 Zones, conducted solely by resident occupants, subject to: no more than one non-resident employee on the premises; no more than 1/3 of one habitable floor of the principal building used for the purpose (family day care homes exempt); no display of products visible from the street; no advertising sign permitted at all; the occupation confined entirely to either the principal building or an accessory building but not both; no occupational sounds audible outside the building; no equipment causing radio/TV interference; no article offered for sale on the premises; and compliance with the environmental performance standards at § 145-311.
§ 145-301K (Home occupations); § 145-104 (Definitions, "Home occupation") ·
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Unclear, check with the town.
§ 284-2, § 284-3 ·
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Accessory apartments for low- and moderate-income households are permitted in single-family homes and accessory buildings in all residential zones, as a conditional use. The owner must live on the property year round; only one accessory apartment is allowed per lot; the apartment may occupy no more than 35% of the total floor area of the owner's house; it must be a self-contained unit with its own kitchen, bathroom and sleeping facilities, at least two rooms excluding bathrooms, and direct access to the outside or to a hall with direct access, with an egress door that does not alter the character of the exterior facade. The occupant must meet COAH income limits for the Hunterdon-Somerset-Middlesex region, rent must be affordable to a household at no more than 52% of median income, affordability controls of at least 10 years must be recorded by deed restriction, and the owner must file an affidavit of continuing use every two years. This is an affordable-housing mechanism, not a market-rate in-law-suite right, and the ordinance says the ability to create them terminates once the Borough has addressed its 1987-1999 housing obligation.
§ 145-301.K (Accessory apartments); § 145-301 (district conditional-use lists, "Accessory apartments for low- and moderate-income households") ·
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An inoperable or unlicensed motor vehicle can't sit on private land for more than 30 days (consecutive or not), except vehicles equipped for snow removal on private rights-of-way. On public land, inoperable vehicles are banned outright except for a 24-hour emergency window. Licensed service stations, new/used dealers, and lawful junkyards are exempt. Separately, parking or displaying a vehicle for sale in a residential zone is prohibited outright.
§ 390-3, § 390-4 ·
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Garage and yard sales are capped at two consecutive days and no more than one sale during any three-month period. The rule covers sales run by the owner or occupier of a residential dwelling using goods regularly associated with the residential use, and sales by a bona fide nonprofit, religious, charitable, or civic organization on property it owns or occupies. No permit or fee is imposed by this provision.
§ 145-104 (Definitions, "Garage and yard sale") ·
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Peddlers and solicitors must obtain a license from the Borough before operating, with restricted sale hours and zoning-compliance requirements. A separate article (§§ 268-15 to 268-26) governs roadside charitable solicitation permits (e.g. fundraising car washes/intersection collections).
§ 268-2 ·
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One local oddity. High Bridge's fence-height cap (4 ft front yard, 6 ft side/rear) has a specific carve-out just for deer: a fence can go taller than the limit only if the portion above 4 ft is "invisible" plastic mesh with an opening between 1"x1" and 2"x4", and only if it's protecting landscaping or a garden from deer damage. § 145-304.B
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Accessory storage structures (sheds) are capped by lot size: 300 sq ft max on lots of 2 acres or less, 400 sq ft on lots over 2 and up to 3 acres, 1,000 sq ft on lots over 3 and up to 10 acres, and 50% of the principal structure's footprint on lots over 10 acres. These are size ceilings for a permitted accessory use, not permit triggers. Holland's code sets no square-footage permit threshold of its own. General accessory buildings must sit at least 5 ft from any other building and can't go in a front yard. Fences, private swimming pools and animal shelters for pets are listed as permitted "customary accessory residential structures" with no height or barrier standards of their own: the only fence rule in the whole chapter is the corner-lot sight triangle, which bars anything over 3 ft within 25 ft of the two street lines, and pools are pushed out to the Uniform Construction Code.
§ 100-45.B, § 100-45.C, § 100-10, § 100-17 ·
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No local rule found in code.
Holland's "Trees" chapter (164) only governs trees within Township road/street rights-of-way (cutting, pruning, or damaging requires Township Committee permission). It does not regulate tree removal on private property. No private-property tree-removal permit ordinance was found elsewhere in the code.
§ 164-1 ·
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In the R-5 District only, a lot may raise fewer than 50 domestic fowl, game birds, or small animals as a non-commercial agricultural accessory use, provided no shelter/feed/fertilizer structure sits closer than 100 ft to any lot or street line. This use is not permitted in the R-1 District at all. A 4-H/student livestock-raising project is allowed on any lot 3+ acres in any R District regardless of zone.
§ 100-43A(1)(d), § 100-43A(3) ·
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Home occupations are only an accessory use in the R-5 District (not R-1) and must be conducted entirely inside the dwelling (except a seasonal farm-produce stand), with no more than two clients or customers on premises at a time and no signage or physical evidence visible from off the site (aside from permitted signs).
§ 100-45E ·
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No local rule found in code.
No chapter or zoning use list addresses short-term/vacation rentals, tourist homes, or transient lodging.
The chapter searched ·
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Accessory apartments in Holland exist only as a subsidized affordable-housing program: up to 10 units, income-restricted to very-low/low/moderate-income households, deed-restricted for at least 10 years, capped at no more than the principal dwelling's gross floor area, and permitted as a conditional use in the R-5 District under Ch. 41 and § 100-51. There's no general market-rate ADU allowance.
§ 41-1, § 41-2, § 100-44E ·
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No local rule found in code.
No ordinance was found capping the number of inoperable/unregistered/unlicensed vehicles a resident may keep on private property. Chapter 95 (Junk and Junk Dealers) is reserved/repealed, and Chapter 159 (Towing and Storage of Motor Vehicles) regulates towing-company operations and Township-requested tows, not residential vehicle storage.
The chapter searched ·
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No local rule found in code.
No chapter addresses yard/garage sales.
The chapter searched ·
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Peddlers and solicitors must obtain a Township license before selling goods or taking orders door-to-door; the chapter exempts on-premises sales of farm produce (meat, poultry, butter, eggs) and Township-sanctioned farmers' market sales.
§ 120-3, § 120-1B ·
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One local oddity. A 1980 ordinance bans placing any beehive or bee enclosure within 50 feet of a lot or street line, anywhere in the Township, a specific, decades-old rule that predates and is unrelated to the Right to Farm chapter. § 100-20
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Swimming pools must be in the side/rear yard, meet the zone's accessory-building setback (minimum 15 ft from any lot line in all cases), cover no more than 75% of the yard area they're in, and be enclosed by a self-latching fence 4-6 ft high (taller allowed in rear yards). Accessory buildings generally follow the principal building's yard setbacks under Article III's district schedule and cannot be built before the principal building.
§ 132-55, § 132-50A-C ·
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A tree removal permit is required to remove any tree 6 inches DBH or greater (or any tree with a canopy over a public right-of-way, or historic/landmark/specimen trees). Exemptions include dead/diseased/storm-damaged trees, invasive species removal, active tree farms/nurseries/orchards, land under an approved woodland management plan, and personal-use firewood cutting capped at 3 trees/acre/year and no more than 30% of a property's total trees in a year. Removed regulated trees must be replaced per a size-based schedule or a fee paid in lieu.
§ 121-2 ·
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Hens are allowed across almost all of Kingwood. In the AR-2 Agricultural and Single-Family Residential District, which covers most of the township, "farms and agriculture" is a permitted principal use with no acreage minimum, and Ch. 74 defines "home agriculture" as production including poultry "for household use only." There is no bird-count cap and no rooster rule; the only numeric constraint is that a poultry or livestock shelter must sit at least 100 feet from any dwelling on the same lot occupied by someone other than the owner-operator or farm workers. Two exceptions: inside the Route 12 Scenic Corridor Overlay, keeping poultry for the occupant's use requires a lot of at least two acres and a 150-foot separation from the neighboring residence; and in the VR-1 (Baptistown) and VR-2 (Barbertown) Village Residential Districts, neither agriculture nor poultry appears in any use list, so § 132-6 prohibits it.
§ 132-30.B(1) and C(6) (AR-2); § 132-41.E(6) (Route 12 SCO Overlay); § 132-31 and § 132-32 (VR-1, VR-2); § 132-6 (Prohibited uses); § 132-50.C (shelter setback); § 74-2, § 74-4 · second chapter ·
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Home occupations are a conditional use, not permitted by right. They must be carried on entirely indoors within the single-family dwelling, operated by a resident with at most one non-resident employee, limited to 1,000 sq ft of floor area, with no exterior display, signage beyond what Article V allows, or any change to the home's residential appearance, and no noise/vibration/glare/fumes/electrical interference at the property line.
§ 132-30D(3) (conditional use), § 132-102G (standards) ·
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No local rule found in code.
No chapter or zoning provision addresses short-term/vacation rentals, tourist homes, or transient lodging in residential zones; the AR-2, VR-1, and VR-2 permitted-use lists do not mention short-term rental as a use.
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General/market-rate accessory apartments were repealed in 2018; Kingwood now only permits "Affordable Accessory Apartments", income-restricted units for low-income households, deed-restricted for at least 10 years, minimum 550 sq ft (or 850 sq ft if the principal unit), with a separate entrance and full kitchen/bath, administered through the township's affordable housing program (Ch. 83).
§ 132-26; § 132-30D(6) (Editor's Note re: repeal) ·
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No more than 2 inoperable, unlicensed, unregistered, or uninsured vehicles may be kept on any private property, and even those must not sit outside a fully enclosed structure for more than 90 days (consecutive or not) unless the owner is a licensed junkyard. Up to 2 historic/collector-registered vehicles are exempt. Any such vehicle left on public roads/property is capped at 48 hours except emergencies.
§ 127-2, § 127-3, § 127-4 ·
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No local rule found in code.
No chapter addresses yard/garage sales, not in the general legislation table of contents and not called out in the zoning use lists reviewed.
The chapter searched ·
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Peddlers, solicitors, and transient merchants must obtain a license from the Township Clerk (application includes photo, fingerprints, references, $25 fee, max 60-day term), with exemptions for public utilities, prior-order deliveries, bona fide charities, honorably discharged veterans/exempt firemen with state licenses, and political candidates/campaigners.
§ 106-3, § 106-4, § 106-5, § 106-6 ·
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Swimming pools require a building permit and must follow NJ Uniform Construction Code standards; a private pool area must be fenced 4-6 ft high with no gaps that would allow entry. General fences/walls are capped at 3 ft in front yards and 6 ft in side/rear yards, with named exceptions: dog runs up to 7 ft (rear yard, 5-ft setback), deer-protection wire fences up to 8 ft in R-C/R-L districts, and tennis-court enclosures up to 12 ft. Accessory buildings must sit at least 5 ft from any other building or property line and can't be built before the principal building.
§ Z-518, § Z-507.1-.2, § Z-501.2, § Z-501.4 · second chapter ·
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No local rule found in code.
There is no tree-removal permit for an ordinary homeowner cutting a tree on an existing lot. Lambertville's tree rules sit inside the zoning ordinance's landscaping article, and that article's applicability clause limits it to new development and substantial expansion/renovation. Within that development context the standards do bite: existing trees retained "to the greatest feasible extent," and "specimen trees in excess of 24 inches in diameter, measured 4 1/2 feet above grade, shall not be removed unless diseased or a hazard to the general public." Separately, and regardless of development status, private individuals may not remove trees from public rights-of-way, parks, or public areas without approval from the Administrative Officer.
§ Z-510.1 (Applicability); § Z-510.13A(1), A(8), A(9) · second chapter ·
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Backyard chickens/poultry are not listed as a permitted, accessory, or conditional use in any zoning district (R-C, R-L, R-1, R-2, R-3, CBD, C-2, C-3), and the Zoning Ordinance states "all uses not expressly permitted in this Ordinance are hereby prohibited." Since no district's use list includes keeping poultry or livestock, chicken-keeping is effectively prohibited citywide by that catch-all clause.
§ Z-104A; permitted-use lists at §§ Z-401.2, Z-402.2, Z-403.2, Z-404.2, Z-405.2 ·
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Home occupations split into two tiers. Minor (zoning permit only): confined indoors, capped at 50% of first floor/basement or 250 sq ft (whichever is less), no visible product display or signage, max 2 clients on premises at a time, no non-resident employees, no added parking, hours limited roughly 8:00/9:00 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Major (needs a Planning Board conditional-use permit): same indoor/no-display/no-sign rules but a larger 450-sq-ft cap; specific employee/client limits for major occupations continue beyond what was reviewed here.
§ Z-520.1, § Z-520.2 ·
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Short-term rentals (adopted 2023, amended 2024) require a City permit and are restricted to specific ownership structures: individually/collectively owner-occupied single-family homes, one unit of an owner-occupied two-family home (with the other unit also short-term-rentable), or association units where governing documents allow it and the unit is the owner's principal residence. A non-owner-occupied STR may continue only if it was already registered as of the ordinance's adoption date and meets ongoing conditions (responsible party on call, compliance with the rest of the chapter). Rooming houses, dorms, assisted living, nursing homes, and similar institutional housing may not operate as STRs. Tenants cannot sublease as an STR.
§ 5-11.1, § 5-11.2 ·
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Accessory apartments are permitted only in the Central Business District, only as income-restricted low/moderate-income affordable units (per COAH/NJ affordable-housing rules), deed-restricted for at least 10 years, one per lot, barred from basements/cellars, and capped at 50% of the first floor if placed there. There's no general market-rate ADU allowance.
§ Z-406.14 ·
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No abandoned, inoperable, unlicensed, or uninspected motor vehicle, truck trailer, or automotive parts may be parked, left, stored, or maintained on private property at all. There's no numeric allowance like neighboring townships' "up to two" rules. Exceptions cover new/used car dealer inventory, commercial garages, antique-plated vehicles, farm/agricultural/industrial vehicles, and a vehicle actively being repaired on the owner's own premises.
§ 4-13.4, § 4-13.5 ·
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Garage sales "held on premises devoted to residential use" are explicitly exempted from the itinerant-vendor license requirement, meaning no permit is needed for an ordinary residential yard sale.
§ 5-5.2f ·
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Lambertville licenses "itinerant vendors" (temporary/transient sellers operating under 6 months/year) rather than a separate door-to-door "solicitor" category; a license or exemption permit is required before conducting such business in the City. Exemptions include wholesale trade shows, sales by sample/catalog for future delivery, nonprofit-sponsored sales/fairs/auctions, garage sales on residential premises, handmade-craft sales from one's own residence, and sales made by invitation of the resident.
§ 5-5.1, § 5-5.2, § 5-5.3 ·
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One local oddity. Lambertville's fence ordinance has an escalating menagerie of height exceptions inside otherwise-strict 3 ft (front)/6 ft (side-rear) limits: a fenced dog run can go to 7 ft, a wire deer-protection fence to 8 ft (R-C/R-L only), and a fenced-in home tennis court all the way to 12 ft. § Z-507.2A(1)-(3)
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Accessory storage sheds over 100 sq ft require a construction permit in addition to a zoning permit (sheds at or under 100 sq ft need only the zoning permit); setbacks for accessory structures are reduced to 3 ft in R-15/R-20/R-P and 10 ft in other districts. Fences are capped at 36 inches in front yards; 6 ft in side/rear yards; dog runs may reach 7 ft (rear yard only); deer-protection fencing up to 8 ft. Front-yard fences must be a "colonial" or "Victorian" open-picket style. Solid stockade-type fencing isn't allowed facing the street. Private pools must be fenced per NJ Uniform Construction Code barrier standards.
§§ 165-96, 165-97, 165-102, 165-103, 165-116 ·
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A borough-wide Tree Removal and Replacement Ordinance (adopted May 15, 2024) requires a Tree Removal Permit and $25 review fee before removing any private-property tree of 6 inches DBH or more, or any street tree of 2.5 inches DBH or more. This applies to ordinary residential lots, not just development sites. Removed trees must be replaced per a DBH-based table (e.g., a 6"-13" tree needs 2 replacements, a 30"+ tree needs 7), with alternatives of a $150-per-tree Tree Trust Fund payment or larger-caliper plantings. Exemptions include tree farms/nurseries, Right to Farm-protected activity, hazard trees, listed invasive species, forest-stewardship-plan land, and residents removing fewer than 4 trees per acre in a rolling 5-year period.
Ordinance No. 2024-03, §§ III, IV ·
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No zoning district (R-15, R-20, R-P, M-F, AH-1 through AH-4, B, C-ROM-1, C-ROM-2, ROM-1) lists poultry, livestock, or backyard chickens as a permitted, accessory, or conditional use, and the Land Use chapter's general rule bars any use "not specifically permitted in a zone district." The Right to Farm chapter protects poultry/livestock only as part of a bona fide commercial farm operation, which does not exist as a zoning category in this dense, small borough.
§ 165-93 (prohibited uses); § 165-123 (Right to Farm); district use lists §§ 165-134-137, 165-141-144 ·
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A home office for a licensed professional (doctor, dentist, teacher, artist, musician, lawyer, architect, engineer, or similar) is a permitted accessory use only in the R-P (Residential/Professional) District, not in R-15 or R-20, limited to the resident plus up to 4 total persons on premises, confined to the first floor or basement, and capped at 50% of floor area.
§ 165-136B(8) ·
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No local rule found in code.
No chapter, ordinance, or zoning use list addresses short-term/vacation rentals, tourist homes, or transient lodging.
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No local rule found in code.
No general accessory-apartment/ADU provision exists for ordinary single-family lots in any residential district (R-15, R-20, R-P). The Borough's affordable housing instead takes the form of four site-specific inclusionary developments (AH-1 through AH-4, named developments, "The Heights," "Presidential Place," "Villa on Main," "Town Center at Lebanon"), each a multi-family/townhouse project with its own affordable-unit set-aside, not an in-law-apartment right attached to an existing house.
§§ 165-141-144 ·
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Commercial vehicles stored on a residential lot are capped at 2, single-rear-wheel only. Recreational vehicles (campers, boats, trailers) have separate storage-location rules within the zoning chapter. No general "junk/inoperable vehicle" chapter distinct from these zoning storage provisions was located.
§§ 165-106, 165-107 ·
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Garage/yard sales aren't regulated by a standalone permit chapter, but the sign ordinance limits each residential parcel to one temporary garage-or-yard-sale sign, displayed no more than 3 days at a time and no more than twice per year, the closest thing to a frequency cap in the code.
§ 165-109L(12) ·
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Code not available online.
No peddler/solicitor licensing chapter or "no-knock" registry was located.
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One local oddity. Front-yard fences in Lebanon Borough must be built in a "colonial" or "Victorian" open-picket architectural style, the zoning code regulates not just fence height but fence aesthetic, barring solid/stockade fencing from facing the street. § 165-116
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Accessory structures may not sit in any required side, front or rear yard, except in the R-15 zone where they may go in the rear yard no closer than 10 ft to a side line and 20 ft to the rear line; none may be used for human habitation. A lot of 1.5 acres or less is capped at two accessory buildings, a larger lot at three. Pools, tennis courts and similar personal recreation facilities need a construction permit, must go in the side or rear yard at least 50 ft from any lot line, must be screened and fenced per the Uniform Construction Code, and may not have lighting other than in-pool lights. Portable pools under 3 ft high and under 10 ft long or across are exempt. Lebanon Township sets no numeric fence-height limit at all: § 400-10.C only bars fences that create a traffic or safety hazard and allows security fencing for business or industry.
§ 400-10.A, B, C (Accessory Uses and Structures; Personal Recreational Facilities; Fences and Walls) ·
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A permit is required to remove a street tree with a trunk diameter (DBH) of 2.5 inches or more, or (for non-homeowner applicants) any tree with DBH of 6 inches or more per acre. For homeowners specifically, a permit/replacement obligation is triggered by removing more than 3 trees per acre in the ordinance's Category 1-3 tree classes combined, or any 1 tree in Category 4 or 5, within a 5-year period. Removed trees must generally be replaced per a Tree Replacement Requirements Table, with listed exemptions (e.g., hazard trees, per § 349-3).
§ 349-3 (Exemptions); § 349-5 (Regulated Activities) ·
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On five acres or more in the RC, R-5, R-3 and R-1½ zones the answer is yes: "Farms" is a permitted principal use in those zones, "farm" is defined as land actively devoted to agricultural or horticultural use occupying no less than five acres, and the agriculture definition expressly covers keeping poultry "for sale, lease or personal use." Under five acres, and anywhere in the R-15 zone (where "Farms" is not a listed use at all), the code does not say. There is no small-flock provision, no bird-count cap, no coop standard and no rooster rule anywhere in Chapter 400. Structures on farms that house farm animals must sit at least 100 feet from any property line and 200 feet from any residence on an adjacent property.
§ 400-9.A (Use regulations, residential districts); § 400-4 (Definitions, "Farm," "Agriculture and Horticulture," "Prohibited use"); § 400-10.A(7) (farm animal structure setbacks) · second chapter ·
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Home occupations are a permitted accessory use, split into two tiers. "Exempt" home occupations (no Zoning Officer review) and Zoning-Officer-reviewed home occupations must both: be conducted entirely within the principal building or a permitted accessory building; use no more than 20% of gross floor area (and no more than 1,000 sq ft total); employ no more than one non-resident; have no more than one delivery and one shipment per day; and post only one sign, max 20"x30". No nuisance element may be detectable beyond the property line.
§ 400-11E, F (Home Occupations; Exempt Home Occupations) ·
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No local rule found in code.
The zoning and general-legislation chapters searched contain no short-term-rental/Airbnb-style provision (no permitted/prohibited/licensed treatment found). The Fire Prevention chapter's smoke-detector/CO certification article does define a "SEASONAL RENTAL UNIT" as a dwelling rented for not more than 125 consecutive days to someone with a permanent residence elsewhere, which implies short-term rentals occur and are subject to a safety-certification requirement before rental, but this is a life-safety rule, not a zoning-use rule.
§ 214-15 (Fire Prevention, Definitions, "Seasonal Rental Unit") ·
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Lebanon allows "Supplementary apartments" as a conditional use, but only inside a single-family detached dwelling or an accessory building that already existed as of July 1, 1987. New construction specifically for a supplementary apartment is not permitted under this provision. The apartment must have its own kitchen, bathroom, and private access, be accessible without passing through the other unit, and both units must be private/secure from each other.
§ 400-11B(13) (Conditional Uses, Supplementary Apartments) ·
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No owner or occupant may store, maintain, or place an inoperable or unlicensed motor vehicle (or part of one) on private property except as specifically permitted by the chapter. Any such vehicle visible from a public road or a neighboring property must be screened (behind a structure, an impermeable fence, or impermeable vegetation) and may not create a safety hazard.
§ 366-3 (Prohibited actions on private property); § 366-4 (Screening requirements) ·
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No local rule found in code.
No garage-sale or yard-sale ordinance was found. No permit requirement, frequency cap, or duration limit anywhere searched.
The chapter searched · second chapter ·
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Peddlers, solicitors, and canvassers must obtain a license from the Township (with listed exemptions, e.g., honorably discharged veterans and exempt firefighters under state law). Lebanon also maintains a "non-solicitation list" (a no-knock registry): the Clerk compiles and updates it quarterly and distributes it to licensees, who may not solicit or peddle at any listed address.
§ 274-3 (License required); § 274-16.1 (Collection, preparation and maintenance of a non-solicitation list) ·
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One local oddity. Lebanon Township has designated a physical "Exchange Zone", a marked area of the municipal parking lot at 530 West Hill Road, specifically as a safe, camera-covered spot for residents to complete in-person transactions arranged through online marketplaces (Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, etc.). Motor vehicles, weapons, illegal substances, and anything too big for a 10-ft-by-10-ft parking space may not be exchanged there, and the Township disclaims responsibility for the condition or authenticity of items traded. Ch. 197 (Exchange Zone), § 197-1, § 197-2
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Fences/walls in residential zones (or on residential lots in other zones) may not exceed 4 ft in the front yard or 6 ft in side/rear yards (business zone cap is 6 ft, industrial 8 ft, both extendable for security). A zoning permit is required for every pool and every shed, in every zone, regardless of size. Detached accessory buildings must sit behind the rear building line of the principal structure.
§ 190-16 (Fences and walls); § 190-7D, E, I (General regulations, accessory buildings; permit requirement) ·
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A tree-removal application/permit is required before removing a street tree with a trunk diameter (DBH) of 2.5 inches or more, or any non-street tree with DBH of 6 inches or more. Removing 6"+ DBH trees at a rate of one or more per acre triggers a Tree Replacement Requirements Table obligation, with listed exemptions (e.g., hazard trees, NJDEP/EPA-mandated cleanup).
§ 177-3 (Regulated Activities); § 177-4 (Exemptions) ·
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"Livestock", defined to expressly include chickens, ducks, geese, guinea hens, peacocks, turkeys, and all other poultry and fowl, is not permitted in any residential, business, commercial, or industrial zone in the Borough. The one exception: livestock may be conditionally permitted in a residential zone if the lot has a minimum of five acres.
§ 53-1 (Definitions, "Livestock"); § 53-2 (Keeping of livestock) ·
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Home offices/occupations are a conditional use. They must be clearly accessory to the residential use, conducted by the resident owner or tenant, produce no noise or other nuisance detectable off the lot, involve no more than 3 people working at once (including the resident), be conducted entirely indoors, and leave at least 960 sq ft of habitable floor area for dwelling use.
§ 190-113 (Home offices and home occupations) ·
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No local rule found in code.
No short-term-rental/Airbnb-style provision was found in the Zoning chapter (General Provisions, the Rural Residential and R-1 zone articles, and Conditional Uses were all searched). The chapter defines "hotel" and "motel" generically (5+ rooms rented for sleeping purposes) but has no rule addressing single-family/whole-house short-term rentals.
The chapter searched · second chapter ·
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No local rule found in code.
No general backyard/in-law accessory-dwelling-unit ordinance was found. The one adjacent provision is "Downtown residential apartments" (§ 190-116), a conditional use for apartments in the downtown business area with a 30-year affordability deed restriction. This is a downtown mixed-use/affordable-housing mechanism, not a standard ADU allowance for single-family lots.
§ 190-116 (Downtown residential apartments) ·
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It is unlawful for any owner, possessor, or occupant of land in the Borough to store, keep, place, park, or accumulate a motor vehicle needing substantial repair, not currently licensed, or not currently used for transportation, on that land, except as otherwise provided in the chapter.
§ 112-6 (Storage and abandonment prohibited) ·
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No local rule found in code.
No garage-sale or yard-sale ordinance was found. No permit, frequency cap, or duration limit in the chapters searched.
The chapter searched · second chapter ·
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A license from the Borough is required before peddling, soliciting, or canvassing. No no-knock/do-not-solicit registry provision was found in the sections searched.
§ 145-3 (License required) ·
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One local oddity. This roughly 1,200-person Delaware River borough has had a standalone "Amusement Devices" chapter on the books since 1982, requiring a license for pinball machines, jukeboxes, and other coin-operated amusement devices before they can be operated in town. Ch. 51 (Amusement Devices), adopted by Ord. No. 276-82 (4-5-1982)
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Utility sheds under 180 sq ft and under 10 ft high (plus unroofed patios/decks ≤3 ft high) are exempt from side/rear-yard setbacks on single-family lots. Fences in residential zones may not exceed 4 ft when closer to the street than the front setback line, or 7 ft farther back. A detached garage accessory structure is capped at 3 vehicles/1,500 sq ft; larger farm accessory buildings are allowed on 5+ acre farms.
§ 296-134 (Yard area); § 296-140 (Building and use regulations); § 296-142 (Fences) ·
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Permit required to remove a street tree with DBH of 2.5 inches or more, or any non-street tree with DBH of 6 inches or more per acre, with a Tree Replacement Requirements Table obligation. A permit is also required for any tree removal within a Township right-of-way/Township property, in designated habitat areas, or on slopes of 25%+, regardless of size. Listed exemptions include invasive species (e.g., Tree of Heaven, Bradford Pear, Norway Maple) and NJDEP/EPA-mandated cleanups.
§ 296-223 (Permit required; regulated activities); § 296-224 (Tree replacement requirements); § 296-225 (Exemptions) ·
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On residential/nonfarm lots under 3 acres, keeping chickens for personal, educational, or recreational purposes is allowed up to 5 chickens, in a covered/ventilated/predator-resistant enclosure (min. 4 sq ft per chicken, 6-ft fencing), with the coop/pen at least 30 ft from any property line and not in front of the house, coop capped at 100 sq ft (200 sq ft with a run). Roosters are prohibited (a "d(1)" use variance is required to deviate). A $100 permit from the Zoning Officer is required. On lots 3+ acres, general livestock/horses/poultry/rabbits keeping is allowed at 1 head (or 20 fowl/rabbits) per acre; swine and odor-causing fur-bearing animals are prohibited outright.
§ 296-95E(1) (Zoning, Land Development, District Regulations, Limitations, Keeping of animals on residential or nonfarm lots) ·
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Home occupations are split into three tiers: "Category A" is permitted by right in any legally permitted residence; "Category B" requires administrative Zoning Officer approval within a 45-day review window (deemed granted if the Township misses the deadline); "Category C" is a conditional use requiring board review.
§ 296-182.1 (Purpose); § 296-182.2 (Category A); § 296-182.3-.4 (Category B) ·
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Short-term rentals are explicitly prohibited. It is unlawful to rent a dwelling unit (or any part of one) for 30 days or less; a minimum 30-day tenancy is required, room rentals and commercial/corporate rentals are separately prohibited, and unpaid house-guest stays by a member of the owner's household are exempted.
§ 360-3 (Residential rentals for 30 days or less prohibited); § 360-4 (Room rentals prohibited); § 360-5 (Commercial rentals prohibited) ·
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Accessory apartments on lots with an existing single-family residence go through an administrative approval process (Zoning Officer review, 45-day decision window). One accessory apartment per lot, floor area between 400 and 1,200 sq ft; it may be located within the existing residence, in a new accessory structure, or incorporated into an accessory garage, subject to setback and utility (county health/RTMUA water-sewer) approval.
§ 296-182.9 (Purpose); § 296-182.10 (Applications; review); § 296-182.11 (Application requirements) ·
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No inoperable or unregistered motor vehicle/truck (without current plates) may be parked, left, stored, or maintained on private land for more than 30 days; the property owner/occupier is separately responsible for not permitting this. The chapter does not apply to vehicles stored inside a garage/building or at a commercial garage.
§ 459-4 (Parking on private land); § 459-5 (Responsibility of land owner); § 459-6 (Exception) ·
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Garage or yard sales are permitted "no more than twice a year". This exemption sits inside the same zoning "Limitations" section that governs household-goods sales generally, rather than in a standalone garage-sale ordinance.
§ 296-95E(2) (Zoning, District Regulations, Limitations, Sale of household goods and services) ·
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A license from the Township Clerk is required to peddle, solicit, canvass, or act as a transient merchant (with exemptions, e.g., honorably discharged veterans and exempt firefighters under state law). Raritan also maintains a "No Knock" list, updated at least twice a year (around April 1 and December 1); residents can register an address, and licensees must not solicit at listed addresses.
§ 347-3 (License required); § 347-6 ("No-Knock" list established) ·
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One local oddity. Raritan Township, Hunterdon's largest municipality, has a standalone Board of Health chapter just for pigs. "Swine" (Ch. 525) requires a license and property inspection before anyone may keep a pig, and sets its own separate regulations distinct from the general zoning livestock rules. Ch. 525 (Swine), adopted 10-11-2000 by Ord. No. 00-27
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Fences don't require a construction permit unless taller than 6 ft; a private residential pool enclosure fence must be 4-7 ft; deer fencing may go up to 8 ft. Accessory structures 650+ sq ft need the same front/side/rear setback as the principal structure; a lot under 4 acres may generally have no more than 2 accessory buildings. Pools may occupy up to 75% of the yard area they sit in and must meet accessory-structure setbacks.
§ 148-51 (Accessory buildings and structures); § 148-52 (Fences and walls); § 148-58 (Swimming pools) ·
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A permit is required to remove or destroy a tree with a trunk diameter (DBH) of 6 inches or more, in any zoning district (with a lower, 2-tree threshold triggering conditional-use review in the Special Resource Residential zone). Firewood-cutting for personal use is exempt, capped at 3 trees per acre per year and no more than 30% of the total trees on the property.
§ 148-79.9 (Permit required); § 148-79.10 (Exemptions) ·
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Farm/agricultural uses, including raising and training of poultry, small animals, and livestock, are permitted townshipwide, but generally require a lot of at least 5 acres. The code carves out an exception with no stated acreage minimum for "the raising of fowl, small animals and livestock for purely personal, educational or recreational purposes," provided it creates no nuisance or public-health menace, subject to the same setback rules as commercial-scale keeping (fowl/livestock shelters generally 50 ft from any property line; swine enclosures 200 ft from any property line, capped at 1 adult swine per acre; shelters for 1,000+ birds also need a 200-ft setback).
§ 148-51E (Land Development, Accessory Buildings and Structures, farm/agricultural uses) ·
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Home occupations are tiered by intensity. All must be contained in the principal single-family dwelling, be owner-occupied, produce no exterior evidence or off-site noise/interference, and are barred from certain trades (welding, auto/small-engine repair, retail sales, kennels, vet/medical/dental/real estate offices). The lightest tier (one household member working, nothing delivered off-site, no clients visiting) needs no site plan or conditional-use approval; heavier use tiers require minor site plan approval or conditional-use approval.
§ 148-53 (Home occupations); § 148-47 (Home occupation, conditional use cross-reference) ·
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Unclear, check with the town.
Readington licenses hotels, motels, and "residential rental housing having three or more rental units or apartments" (§ 135-1), requiring at least 85% of sleeping accommodations to go to transient occupants under the state's Hotel and Multiple Dwelling Law definitions. This licensing scheme is built for traditional hotels/motels/multi-unit rental buildings; it does not clearly reach a single-family home rented short-term (Airbnb-style), and no separate short-term-rental ordinance was found.
§ 135-1 (License required); § 135-18 (Restrictions on types of occupancy) ·
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Readington does not currently have a general "accessory apartment"/in-law-suite ordinance, a 1997 accessory-apartments provision (former § 148-48) was repealed in 2001. What does exist is "ECHO housing" (Elder Cottage-style units): a temporary, removable accessory dwelling limited to 8 units townshipwide, permitted only alongside a principal single-family dwelling, requiring at least a 1-acre lot (or 75,000 sq ft without public sewer), needing Zoning Officer permit only (no site plan), and must be removed, with the land restored, after use.
§ 148-51H (ECHO housing); § 148-48 editor's note (former Accessory Apartments provision, repealed 11-5-2001 by Ord. No. 32-2001) · second chapter ·
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No inoperable or unlicensed vehicle (or part of one) may be left on public roads/lands except in an emergency, and then for no more than 24 hours. On private land, such a vehicle may not be left or maintained for more than 30 days, whether the days are consecutive or not.
§ 227-2 (Abandonment on public roads or lands prohibited); § 227-3 (Leaving or maintaining on private land restricted) ·
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Garage sales "held on the premises devoted to residential use" are exempted from the peddler's-license fee requirement, meaning a homeowner garage sale doesn't need a peddling license. No explicit frequency or duration cap on garage sales was found.
§ 171-13 (Exemptions from fees), Subsection (13) ·
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A license from the Township is required for transient merchants, hawkers, peddlers, junk dealers, solicitors, and canvassers before selling or soliciting door-to-door ($100 fee, one-year term). Soliciting is additionally restricted to the hours of 8 a.m.-6 p.m. or sunset, whichever comes first, unless the resident specifically invited the visit. No no-knock/do-not-solicit registry provision was found.
§ 171-4 (License required); § 171-11 (General regulations, hours) ·
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One local oddity. Readington has a chapter that exists purely to impose a juvenile curfew on Halloween: for the 3-day window from October 30 through November 1, anyone under 18 may not be on public streets, parks, or other public places between 9:30 p.m. and 6 a.m. without a parent/guardian (exceptions for supervised school/church/civic events, work, and emergencies). Parents can be cited too. Ch. 101 (Curfew, Halloween), § 101-1 through § 101-4, adopted 10-19-1998 by Ord. No. 33-98
Borough Clerk, (609) 397-0070, 2 S. Main St., PO Box M, Stockton NJ 08559. This is the fastest way to get the actual zoning ordinance and the 2024 tree/noise ordinances in hand.
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Two tree ordinances are confirmed to exist, "2024-02 Tree Removal" (permit, fee, and tree-replacement standards) and "2024-10," which amended it to add exemptions for certain removal categories, but neither's text is published anywhere reachable.
Ordinance Nos. 2024-02 and 2024-10 (titles/numbers only, text not located) ·
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Fences/walls generally cap at 4 feet in front yards and 6 feet elsewhere, measured from finished grade (no berms/mounding to cheat the measurement), with a zoning permit required for installation or replacement. Notable carve-outs: dog runs up to 7 feet (rear yard, 15-foot setback), deer fencing up to 8 feet, tennis-court fencing up to 15 feet, and entrance gates up to 12 feet on 3+ acre lots. Chain-link is generally barred in residential areas outside those exceptions. Detailed shed/pool dimensional standards live in each zoning district's individual bulk table rather than one unified accessory-structure section.
§ 719 (Fences and Walls) ·
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No local rule found in code.
No standalone tree-removal chapter and no permit/DBH-threshold standard for cutting trees on private property was found. "Shade tree" references in the Development Code's design standards apply to subdivision/site-plan street-tree planting, not private-lot removal.
The chapter searched ·
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No local rule found in code.
Title 6 (Animals) covers only dogs, pet waste, wildlife feeding, and at-large/nuisance animals, its one relevant definition ("domestic animal" means any cat, dog, or livestock other than poultry) is incidental, not a keeping standard. The zoning code's closest provision is § 726.A.11, which exempts "keeping domesticated animals (including horses)" from the 10%-of-lot accessory-use coverage cap, but sets no chicken count, coop rule, or rooster ban.
§ 726.A.11 (Additional Accessory Use Provisions); Title 6 (Animals), definitions · second chapter ·
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Tewksbury splits home occupations into two tiers. Minor (zoning permit, by right): confined to the dwelling or an accessory building, capped at 50% of the first floor/basement or 250 sq ft (whichever is less), no more than one client on-site at a time, no employees who don't live there, no signage, no added off-street parking, hours 8:00 a.m. (9:00 a.m. weekends) to 8:30 p.m. Major (conditional-use permit from the Planning Board): up to 450 sq ft, up to one non-resident employee, up to 3 parking spaces screened from the street, same hours and no-signage rule.
§ 727.1 (Minor Home Occupation), § 727.2 (Major Home Occupation) ·
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No local rule found in code.
No short-term-rental, transient-rental, or Airbnb-specific ordinance was found in either the general code or the zoning/Development Code.
The chapter searched · second chapter ·
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Tewksbury permits an accessory apartment only as part of its affordable-housing program, and only in specific zoning districts (found in the FP Farmland Preservation district's provisions). A single-family lot may convert part of the existing house or an accessory structure into a second unit, capped at 900 sq ft, subsidized by the township ($20,000-$25,000), and deed-restricted for 10 years to a certified very-low/low/moderate-income household. No general market-rate ADU allowance was found.
§ 710.1.C.10 (FP Farmland Preservation District, Conversions for Affordable Housing) ·
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Junked, abandoned, or disrepaired vehicles, boats, and trailers, registered or not, licensed or not, are declared a prohibited nuisance on any residential or nonresidential premises under the township's Property Maintenance Code.
§ 9.12.040.A.2 ·
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No local rule found in code.
No permit, frequency, or duration rule for yard/garage sales was found.
The chapter searched ·
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Peddlers, canvassers, and solicitors need a license from the township clerk. Licensed activity is limited to 9:00 a.m.-9:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday (none on Sundays or federal/state holidays) unless the resident specifically invited them. Tewksbury runs a real no-knock system on two tracks: a posted "NO SOLICITORS/NO SOLICITING/DO NOT KNOCK" sign must be honored, and separately the township clerk's office collects, prepares, and maintains a formal non-solicitation ("do not knock") list of addresses that residents register directly with the township.
§ 5.16.120 (Hours), § 5.16.130 (Posted Property), § 5.16.140 (Do-Not-Knock List) ·
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One local oddity. Tewksbury's zoning code specifically regulates backyard sports as an accessory use: informal pickup games are fine, but a residential property can't host more than three gatherings a year with more than 20 people, can't involve team uniforms, referees, coaches, or entry fees, and can't be run by or affiliated with any actual athletic club, league, camp, or school, a direct zoning-code line against a homeowner quietly running an informal youth sports program out of their backyard. § 726.A (Additional Accessory Use Provisions, Personal Private Recreational or Athletic Facility)
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Fences and walls (H-2 accessory structures) are capped at 7 feet. Storage sheds under 100 square feet need only a 12-foot setback from side/rear lines; sheds 100+ sq ft must meet full district setbacks, and sheds overall are capped at 300 sq ft and 14 feet in height. Swimming pools deeper than 18 inches require a permit, must sit at least 10 feet from property lines and 15 feet from the front setback line, and must be enclosed by a fence at least 4 feet high before water is added. Decks generally can't extend closer than 5 feet to a side line and must follow accessory-structure setbacks.
§ 30-5.5.h.2(b) (fences), § 30-5.5.h.2(c) (sheds/garages), § 30-5.5.h.2.6 [H-6] (pools), § 30-5.5.h.2(d) (decks) ·
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A tree removal permit is required to remove any living tree greater than 10 inches DBH (measured 4.5 feet above grade), plus several other triggers (clear cutting, historic/landmark/specimen trees, trees on public property, trees within right-of-way, conservation easements, buffer yards). Notably exempt: trees within 40 feet of a residence, hazard trees, trees cut per an approved subdivision/site plan/building permit, farmland-assessed agricultural property, and trimming that doesn't harm tree health.
§ 18-1.2.b (Permit Required), § 18-1.3.j (Exemptions) ·
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Chickens are permitted township-wide. On agricultural lots (A-1 Agriculture and Horticulture use) they're capped at 50 chickens per acre on lots of five or more acres. On residential lots under five acres, chickens are allowed with a zoning permit: max 6 on a lot up to 1 acre, max 10 on 1-3 acres, max 15 on 3-5 acres. No roosters are permitted on any residential lot under five acres, and a chicken coop structure (built per the accessory-structure standards) is required.
§ 30-5.5.a.1(d) (Land Use Code, Use Regulations, Agricultural Uses) ·
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Home occupations (H-1) are permitted by right as an accessory use, carried on wholly indoors, with no exterior storage, display, or signage visible from the property line beyond what's otherwise permitted. Limited to the resident(s) plus no more than two additional employees, and floor area capped at 25% of the ground floor or 400 square feet, whichever is less. No more than two additional off-street parking spaces allowed. Certain uses are barred outright from qualifying (animal hospital, barber/beauty shop, kennel, funeral home, restaurant, boarding house, medical/dental office).
§ 30-5.5.h.1 [H-1] ·
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No local rule found in code.
No provision for short-term or transient rentals found.
The chapter searched · second chapter ·
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Union permits an "ECHO housing unit" (Elder Cottage Housing Opportunity) as an accessory dwelling on a single-family detached lot of at least 1.5 acres. The unit is capped at 750 sq ft, limited to one per lot, must sit in the rear yard, and, distinctively, must be a self-contained, movable structure set on piers (not a concrete slab) so it can be relocated later, not more than two bedrooms.
§ 30-5.5.h.2(e) [H-2, ECHO housing unit] ·
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No person may leave or maintain an inoperable, unlicensed, or unregistered motor vehicle (missing tires/wheels/engine/essential parts, extensively damaged, unregistered, or disassembled) on private land for more than 15 days, whether or not consecutive. Unless it's inside a garage or other building. Parking any vehicle on a residential lawn is separately prohibited outright.
§ 3-2.4 (Inoperable Vehicles on Private Lands), § 3-3.1 (Parking of Vehicles on Lawns Prohibited) ·
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No local rule found in code.
No garage-sale or yard-sale permit/frequency provision found.
The chapter searched · second chapter ·
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Door-to-door peddling/soliciting requires a license from the Municipal Clerk, issued after a background/character investigation. Licensed activity is restricted to 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. Solicitors must honor any posted sign expressly prohibiting solicitation at a residence. Union's version of a no-knock rule is property-by-property (a posted sign), not a centralized registry.
§ 4-1.3 (License Required), § 4-1.10 (Hours of Business), § 4-1.12 (Business Conduct) ·
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One local oddity. Union's zoning code allows an "ECHO housing unit", a movable elder-cottage accessory dwelling that state law (and the township) contemplates literally hauling off the property later: it must be self-contained, capable of being moved to another site, and set on masonry block or wooden piers with tie-downs rather than a poured concrete slab. § 30-5.5.h.2(e)
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Fences in the front yard are capped at 4 feet and must be at least 50% open; side/rear fences are capped at 6 feet; any fence or wall needs a construction permit and must sit at least 6 inches off the property line. Accessory buildings (sheds, detached garages) are capped at 15 feet in height, must sit at least 10 feet from side/rear lines, and can't exceed 500 sq ft (up to 1,200 sq ft if it meets the principal-building setbacks). Swimming pools can't exceed 25% of the rear yard, must meet principal-building setbacks, can't sit in the front yard, and require a 4-6 foot fence around the entire pool area.
§ 109-118 (Fences and Walls), § 109-117 (Accessory Buildings), § 109-120 (Swimming Pools) ·
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No local rule found in code.
No standalone tree-removal chapter, and no permit/diameter/exemption standard for tree removal on private property was found in the Land Development chapter's environmental features or design-standards articles.
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No local rule found in code.
The zoning use table (Schedule Three) has no line item for chickens, poultry, or fowl, only "Farm" (a broad agricultural use, permitted in every residential/ag zone) and "Animal boarding"/"Animal hospital" (highway-commercial zones only). The one animal-keeping standard in the Requirements for Certain Principal Uses article addresses horses only (min. 3 acres) and manure storage (100 feet from a property line), nothing sets a chicken count, coop rule, or rooster ban for a residential lot.
§ 109-109 (Farms); Attachment 3, Schedule Three (Schedule of Permitted Uses) · second chapter ·
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A home occupation is allowed in any single-family detached dwelling as an accessory use, subject to a zoning permit, provided: no more than 25% of the dwelling's gross floor area (excluding basement, cellar, and attic) or 500 sq ft, whichever is less, is used; no visible exterior evidence of the business and the structure keeps a residential appearance; no sales made on the premises; no part of the occupation conducted in an accessory building; no more than one employee who is not both a family member and a resident; no traffic beyond what a single-family dwelling normally generates; no machinery creating noise, vibration, glare, fumes, odors, or electrical interference detectable at the property lines; and no deliveries except in passenger cars or vans up to 20 feet long. A home-occupation sign is capped at 72 square inches and may show only the resident's name and profession.
§ 109-72 (Home occupations); § 109-3 (Definitions, "Home occupation") ·
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Short-term rentals are effectively banned. It is unlawful for anyone with a possessory interest in a dwelling to accept compensation for renting a dwelling (or dwelling unit) for 90 days or less, with only two narrow exceptions: conditionally-permitted bed-and-breakfast uses, and pre-closing "use and occupancy" arrangements between a home buyer and seller. The chapter also separately bars renting out pools, hot tubs, decks, patios, yards, or camping/glamping/RV space for compensation.
§ 134-2 ·
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West Amwell allows accessory dwelling units two ways. (1) A permanent "accessory apartment" program tied to its affordable-housing plan, capped township-wide at 11 units, income-restricted, 500-1,200 sq ft, one per lot, owner-occupancy required, deed-restricted 10-30 years. (2) A distinct, temporary "ECHO unit" (Elder Cottage Housing Opportunity) for an elderly (62+) or disabled family member: max 720 sq ft, rear yard only, one per lot, self-contained but built on piers rather than a slab specifically so it can be removed, and it legally must be removed within 90 days after the qualifying occupant dies or moves out, with the lot restored to its prior condition.
§ 109-116 (Accessory Apartments for Affordable Housing), § 109-123 (ECHO Units) ·
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It's unlawful to place, abandon, leave, or store any unlicensed/unused motor vehicle, auto machinery, or auto body outdoors on public or private land (an enclosed garage or barn is fine). On private land, leaving such an article for 15 or more days creates a legal presumption the owner/tenant is responsible. Licensed car dealers and agricultural/construction equipment are exempt.
§ 151-2 (Restricted Action), § 151-3 (Presumption of Knowledge), § 151-8 (Exemptions) ·
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No local rule found in code.
No permit, frequency, or duration rule for yard/garage sales was found.
The chapter searched ·
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Door-to-door peddling/soliciting/hawking without an invitation is declared a nuisance and unlawful unless licensed by the Township Clerk. License fee is $5/day or $25/year, must be worn on an outer garment, and activity is restricted to 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Exemptions cover veterans with a state license, political/charitable/religious solicitors, regular delivery routes, and farm-produce sellers.
§ 127-1 (Statement of Nuisance), § 127-2 (Exemptions), § 127-3.C (Application for Permit, hours) ·
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One local oddity. West Amwell's "ECHO unit" (Elder Cottage Housing Opportunity) accessory dwelling is designed to be temporary by law. It must be built on masonry-block or wooden piers rather than a poured slab specifically so it can be hauled off later, and once the elderly or disabled family member living in it dies or moves out, the owner has exactly 90 days to physically remove the unit and restore the lot, with bonding required to guarantee it happens. § 109-123
