421 Main St, Paterson, NJ 07501

Community Business District

The intent of the B-2 Community Business District is to provide sufficient space in appropriate locations for a wide variety of commercial and service activities, serving a wider area than the B-1 District. The district is intended to consist primarily of businesses involved in the rendering of services or selling of goods or merchandise primarily oriented towards residents of the City of Paterson as a whole (i.e., generally larger scale and more specialized retail establishments than permitted in the B-1 District such as auto supply stores, book stores, clothing and shoe stores, sporting goods stores and supermarkets), as well as other commercial uses that are not permitted in the B-1 District, including gasoline filling stations, automobile repair, hotels and motels, car washes and drive-through restaurants. However, more intensive and larger scale commercial uses (e.g., motor vehicle sales establishments, boat and marine showrooms and sales, building supply stores and home maintenance supply centers), businesses that are primarily involved in the rendering of sales or service to other businesses (e.g., business services and wholesale establishments), as well as warehousing and light industrial uses are not permitted in the B-2 District. This district is located normally at the conveyance of or along major thoroughfares where a general mixture of commercial and service activity now exists, but which uses are not characterized by extensive warehousing or frequent heavy truck activity.