Vineland, NJ Building Setbacks & Zoning: Structure Height Limits (2026)

City Code § 425-299E lets an institutional campus in the IN-2 Zone convert to an age-restricted residential community once the Planning Board approves a comprehensive adaptive-reuse plan for the whole tract. Subsection E(8) sets the design standards for the single-family detached dwellings inside that planned development, measuring street setbacks from the right-of-way line under the state Residential Site Improvement Standards and requiring a 30-foot setback from a minor or major collector street and a 25-foot setback from a residential access or neighborhood street. Within that envelope, subsection E(8)(j) caps every single-family detached home at two and one-half stories, not to exceed 35 feet.

Subsection E(9), which governs townhouse buildings in the same planned development, repeats the identical 35-foot, two-and-one-half-story ceiling at E(9)(i), so the height cap does not vary between the two housing types the zone allows. The same subsection separately requires each single-family unit to include an attached one-car garage served by a paved driveway at least 10 feet wide, and it caps rear patios, porches and decks at 300 square feet with privacy fencing no taller than six feet. Because this height standard sits inside the age-restricted planned-development option, it governs campus-redevelopment sites such as the Vineland Developmental Center rather than the City's ordinary R-1 through R-6 residential zones, whose height figures are set by the Zoning Schedule attached to Chapter 425 rather than printed in the zone-standards text itself.