Perth Amboy, NJ Building Setbacks & Zoning: Setback Rules (2026)

The setback figures on this page come from the conditional-use standards in Perth Amboy City Code § 430-58(E), part of Chapter 430, Zoning and Land Development, adopted by the City Council. They cover two uses: high-rise multifamily residential development in subsection (3), and two-family dwellings in zones that permit them as a conditional use in subsection (11). The zone-by-zone yard table for ordinary lots is not printed in the code text. Section 430-9 points to the Schedule of Area, Yard and Building Requirements, which the code publishes as a Bulk Schedule attachment to the chapter, so this page does not state a district minimum that the text itself never gives.

For a high-rise multifamily project, the minimum front yard is fifty feet, at least one side yard must be fifty feet, the two side yards together must reach one hundred feet, and the rear yard is fifty feet. Subsection (3)(r) adds a separate buffer: no building may sit closer than one hundred feet to a property line that adjoins an existing single-family residential use or a single-family residential zone. Subsection (3)(o) also requires fifty feet between buildings.

A two-family conditional use needs a twenty-foot front yard, a five-foot minimum on one side, ten feet of total side yard and a thirty-foot rear yard. Subsection (11)(m) sets six feet as the minimum distance between buildings.

Other yard rules in § 430-60 apply on top of these numbers. Under § 430-60(D), a principal or accessory building on a corner lot must sit back from every street line by the required front yard, and the remaining yards count as side yards. Section 430-60(T) lets front and rear yards be reduced to the average of the yards in the same block within two hundred feet of the lot on the same side of the street. Under § 430-60(U), a yard in a heavy industrial district along a boundary with a residential or business district must be at least one hundred feet wide.