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

City Code § 425-299 establishes the IN-2 Institutional Zone to cover Vineland's public and quasi-public institutional campuses, the kind of site the Code says provides residential facilities, training, care and therapy for disabled individuals, language that matches the Vineland Developmental Center campus within the zone. Subsection E lets an applicant redevelop such a campus as a planned, age-restricted residential community once it clears Planning Board review of a comprehensive plan covering land use, circulation, open space, utilities, stormwater, housing and architecture. Subsection E(5) then sets the numeric ceiling: impervious coverage for the entire tract cannot exceed 40 percent, and total tract building coverage cannot exceed 18 percent, while floor area ratio for all buildings, residential and nonresidential combined, is capped at 0.18, and overall residential density is capped at three dwellings per acre.

The same paragraph requires a minimum contiguous tract of 140 acres, 500 feet of frontage and 500 feet of depth on each public street, and reserves at least 50 percent of the tract as open space, with stormwater basins excluded from that open-space count unless the Planning Board credits landscaped bioretention features. A perimeter open-space buffer of 100 to 150 feet, varying by which street the tract fronts, further limits where buildings can sit within the coverage envelope. These figures apply only to the IN-2 planned-development option; they do not set the coverage limit for Vineland's ordinary residential zones, which are governed by the Zoning Schedule attached to Chapter 425 rather than printed in the zone-standards text.