Maximum height
35 ftHow tall the building may be.
“Maximum Building Height: three stories and thirty-five (35) feet.”§ 345-40.1. - RH-2 Residential Housing District (typical lots). › 345-40.1 · Jersey City code · read 2026-10-02
Jersey City, NJ · zoning record
RH-2 zoning in Jersey City.
The dimensional standards that govern what you can build in the RH-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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RH-2 dimensional standards.
These are the letter-of-the-law limits for the base RH-2 district. Overlays (historic, neighborhood plan, and similar) can tighten them; a specific address check resolves the overlays that actually apply.
Maximum stories
3 storiesStory cap where the code sets one.
“Maximum Building Height: three stories and thirty-five (35) feet.”§ 345-40.1. - RH-2 Residential Housing District (typical lots). › 345-40.1 · Jersey City code · read 2026-10-02
Minimum lot width
25 ftNarrowest conforming lot.
“Minimum Lot Width: Twenty-five (25) feet.”§ 345-40.1. - RH-2 Residential Housing District (typical lots). › 345-40.1 · Jersey City code · read 2026-10-02
Maximum building coverage
75 %Share of the lot the building footprint may cover.
“Maximum lot coverage: Seventy-five percent (75%).”§ 345-40.1. - RH-2 Residential Housing District (typical lots). › 345-40.1 · 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.
- § 345-40.1. - RH-2 Residential Housing District (typical lots). · Jersey City, NJ code of ordinances (read 2026-10-02)
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