16 Fulton St, Clark, NJ 07066

Downtown Village DIstrict

The downtown of any community should be a mixed-use center with many diverse retail shops and restaurants where the community can gather on nights and weekends. The Downtown Village District has been created in that area along Westfield Avenue between Washington Street and Broadway, from Denman Avenue and Benjamin Street to the Rahway border. The purpose of the DTV Downtown Village District is to permit construction of a multifamily residential development with a 15 Percent affordable housing set-aside in accordance with the Township's adopted Housing Element and Fair Share plan and the terms and conditions of the Township's Court-approved Affordable Housing Ordinance Chapter 66 of the Township Code. The DTV Zone District is intended to encourage retail sales and personal services oriented to pedestrian shopping on the ground floor. Second floors may be commercial or residential, and shall have only one use, commercial or residential in any one building. Only residential uses are allowed on the third and fourth floors of any building. ; Authentic period Colonial, Federal or Victorian reproductions are encouraged to complement the established character of more recently constructed buildings. In any case, as a minimum, in order to assure compatibility of new building construction or alterations of existing buildings, the building design standards in this section shall be adhered to, except that the Planning Board may grant waivers of specific requirements on a showing by the developer of unavoidable hardship.; Exterior walls shall be finished with face brick, integrally colored masonry units not panels, or wood clapboards, cedar shingles or vertical boards. All exterior walls of buildings shall be finished with the same materials or combinations of materials. Exceptions require Board of Adjustment or Planning Board approval.; Visible sections of roof areas shall be cedar shingle or textured asphalt shingle, in dark colors. Mansard roofs, when provided, shall be full canopies of textured asphalt shingle, or fiberglass in dark colors.; All design features applied to building exteriors shall be functional, rather than superimposed for decorative purposes only, unless part of authentic period architecture. Shutters, when provided, shall be designed to fit the windows to which they are attached.; No rooftop mechanical structures shall be permitted in the DTV Zone without Planning Board or Board of Adjustment approval. All mechanicals shall be adequately screened so as to conceal them.; All development applications containing proposed new buildings and structures or alterations or modifications to existing structures shall conform to the building site design standards set forth in 195-182 of this chapter.