For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACUTE CARE FACILITY. A facility providing nursing care to sick, invalid, infirm, disabled or convalescent persons in addition to lodging and board or health related service, or any combination of the foregoing.
COMMERCIAL or INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE. A structure or part thereof used for the manufacturing, processing or assembling of materials or manufactured products or for research, office, industrial, commercial, retail, recreational, hotel or motel facilities or warehousing purposes, or for any combination thereof, which the Township Committee determines will tend to maintain or provide gainful employment within the Township, assist in economic development of the Township, maintain or increase the tax base of the Township and/or maintain or diversify and expand commerce within the Township. COMMERCIAL or INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE shall not include any structure or part thereof used or to be used by any business relocated from another qualifying municipality unless the total square footage of the floor area of the structure or part thereof used or to be used by the business at the new site together with the total square footage of the land used or to be used by the business at the new site exceeds the total square footage of the structure and the land utilized by the business at its current site of operations by at least 10% and the property that the business is relocating to has been the subject of a remedial action plan costing in excess of $250,000, performed pursuant to an Administrative Consent Order entered into pursuant to authority vested in the Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection under N.J.S.A. 13:1D-1 et seq., the Water Pollution Control Act, N.J.S.A. 58:10A-1 et seq., Solid Waste Management Act, N.J.S.A. 13:1E-1 et seq., and/or the Spill Compensation and Control Act, N.J.S.A. 58:10-23.11 et seq.
CONSTRUCTION. The erection or provision of a new commercial, industrial, residential or mixed-use structures on vacant land within the Township.
DWELLING. A building or part of a building used, to be used or held for use as a home or residence, including accessory buildings located on the same premises, together with the land upon which said building or buildings are erected and which may be necessary for the fair enjoyment thereof, but shall not include a building or part of a building defined as a ‘multiple dwelling’ pursuant to the Hotel and Multiple Dwelling Law, P.L.1967, c.76. A dwelling shall include, as they are separately conveyed to individual owners, individual residences within a cooperative, if purchased separately by the occupants thereof, and individual residences within a horizontal property regime or a condominium, but shall not include “general common elements” or “common elements” thereof where residential units are owned separately.
IMPROVEMENT. A modernization, rehabilitation, renovation, alternation or repair which produces a physical change in an existing building or structure that improves the safety, sanitation, decency or attractiveness of the building or structure as a place for human habitation or work, and which does not change its permitted use. In the case of a multiple dwelling, it includes only improvements which affect common areas or elements, or three or more dwelling units within the multiple dwelling. In the case of a multiple dwelling or commercial or industrial structure, it shall not include ordinary painting, repairs or replacement of maintenance items, or an enlargement of the volume of an existing structure by more than 30%. In no case shall it include the repair of fire or other damage to a property for which payment of a claim was received by any person from
an insurance company at any time during the three year period immediately preceding the filing of an application pursuant to this act.
NURSING HOME. A facility providing nursing care to sick, invalid, infirm, disabled or convalescent persons in addition to lodging and board or health related service, or any combination of foregoing.
PROJECT. The construction, improvement or conversion of a structure in an area in need of redevelopment that would qualify for an exemption or an exemption and abatement, pursuant to P.L. 1991, c.441 (C.40A:21-1 et seq.).
(Ord. 355-19, passed 10-28-19)