Cherry Hill, NJ Building Setbacks & Zoning: Lot Coverage Limits (2026)

Cherry Hill Township Code § 40-202 defines LOT COVERAGE as "the area of a lot covered by any impervious surface," a term distinct from BUILDING COVERAGE, which counts only the ground-floor exterior walls of principal and accessory buildings. Each of the eighteen zoning districts created in Chapter 40 sets its own coverage ceiling in the "Bulk requirements" subsection D of its own section, printed as a four-column table covering Residential Inside Lot, Residential Corner Lot, Nonresidential Inside Lot, and Nonresidential Corner Lot. In the Residential Agriculture (RA) zone at § 40-402D, a residential use is capped at a maximum building coverage of 25% on both inside and corner lots, and a maximum lot coverage, meaning all impervious surface including driveways and patios, of 30%, identical for inside and corner lots.

A nonresidential use permitted in the RA zone, such as a church, school, or municipal use, is held to a looser 30% building coverage and 65% lot coverage, but must in exchange set aside at least 25% of the site as usable open space under § 40-401K, a requirement that does not apply to residential lots. A. 40:55D-70c, defined at § 40-202 as a departure from setback, yard, frontage, lot size or similar physical requirements that would otherwise significantly interfere with use of the property.

Other districts, from the Residential (R1, R2, R3) zones through the Business (B1-B4) and Institutional (IN) zones, each carry their own coverage percentages in their own § D bulk tables.