Maximum height
40 ftHow tall the building may be.
“Maximum Building Height: Four stories and forty (40) feet.”§ 345-42. - R-2 Multi-Unit Attached Housing District (four stories or less). › 345-42 · Jersey City code · read 2026-10-02
Jersey City, NJ · zoning record
R-2 zoning in Jersey City.
The dimensional standards that govern what you can build in the R-2 district, straight from Jersey City's ordinance, with every figure quoting its source. Check a specific address to see how these rules apply to a real lot.
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R-2 dimensional standards.
These are the letter-of-the-law limits for the base R-2 district. Overlays (historic, neighborhood plan, and similar) can tighten them; a specific address check resolves the overlays that actually apply.
Maximum stories
4 storiesStory cap where the code sets one.
“Maximum Building Height: Four stories and forty (40) feet.”§ 345-42. - R-2 Multi-Unit Attached Housing District (four stories or less). › 345-42 · Jersey City code · read 2026-10-02
Minimum lot size
1,800 sfSmallest conforming lot.
“Minimum Lot Size: One thousand eight hundred (1,800) square feet.”§ 345-42. - R-2 Multi-Unit Attached Housing District (four stories or less). › 345-42 · Jersey City code · read 2026-10-02
Minimum lot width
18 ftNarrowest conforming lot.
“Minimum Lot Width: Eighteen (18) feet.”§ 345-42. - R-2 Multi-Unit Attached Housing District (four stories or less). › 345-42 · Jersey City code · read 2026-10-02
Maximum building coverage
80 %Share of the lot the building footprint may cover.
“Maximum Lot Coverage: Eighty percent (80%).”§ 345-42. - R-2 Multi-Unit Attached Housing District (four stories or less). › 345-42 · Jersey City code · read 2026-10-02
Sources
Every figure above is quoted verbatim from the current ordinance. We never substitute a typical-for-zone default: a field absent from the record shows nothing, not a guess.
- § 345-42. - R-2 Multi-Unit Attached Housing District (four stories or less). · Jersey City, NJ code of ordinances (read 2026-10-02)
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