140 MAIN St, Sparta, NJ 07871-1906

Town Center Lower Main Street Commercial Zone

This zone provides for a planned development of community commercial uses and housing to compliment and enhance the existing professional business or service use, historic character and natural resources in the Town Center area. A planned development is required and it shall include 25 affordable units. The Master Plan establishes guidelines for proper site plan development which is referenced as a part of this subsection. The goals of community design and historic preservation of the Town Center is intended to accomplish the following: To accomplish the protection, enhancement and perpetuation of the Town Center area, which has been designated as a historic landmark, and other structures and resources within the Town Center which reflect the elements of the architectural history of the Township. To encourage construction and reconstruction with a residential appearance in keeping with the goals of the Town Center and the Appendix to the 1993 Master Plan Amendment to the Interchange Master Plan.; To encourage the continued use of the existing buildings and to appropriate reuses.; To maintain the character of the neighborhood and architecturally significant buildings.; To manage change by preventing alteration or new construction not in keeping with the zone.; To discourage the unnecessary demolition of historic resources.; To maintain economic viability of the existing land uses.; To improve access, circulation and parking.; To maintain a stable and balanced community fiscal structure.; To maintain and improve traffic circulation by implementing the Master Plan concepts and by limiting access to the Route 517 Bypass properties to the proposed connector road, Main Street and Sparta Avenue.