Freehold Township, NJ Building Setbacks & Zoning: Setback Rules (2026)

Most of Freehold Township's residential zones set their minimum front, side, and rear yards through Schedule C, Schedule of Area, Yard and Building Requirements, a table that § 190-101 says is 'included at the end' of Chapter 190 as a separate attachment rather than printed in the article text. One zone breaks that pattern. The Rural Residential/Planned Adult Community (RR/PAC) Zone District, created for age-restricted, single-family detached cluster housing on tracts of at least 200 gross acres, writes its full building schedule directly into § 190-127 rather than deferring to Schedule C.

Under § 190-127B, every residential lot in an RR/PAC community must observe a minimum front setback line of 20 feet, a minimum side yard of 7 feet (5 feet for driveways, reducible to 2 feet at the front lot line on a cul-de-sac or curved street), and a minimum rear yard of 20 feet; decks and patios follow the same lines except for a 10-foot rear setback. Lots must also be at least 5,500 square feet with 50 feet of frontage and 100 feet of depth, and buildings are capped at 30 feet and two stories.

Beyond the individual lot lines, § 190-127D imposes a tract-wide perimeter setback: no building or structure, aside from roads, walkways, gatehouses, walls, fences, or drainage and utility facilities, may sit within 50 feet of the tract's exterior boundary, and the outer 25 feet of that 50-foot band must be kept as a landscape or conservation easement. The RR/PAC Zone was built as an overlay on the base Rural Residential (RR) Zone, so a developer choosing this track substitutes the § 190-127 numbers for whatever the RR Zone's own Schedule C entry would otherwise require.