Click on the blue buttons to view. Key restrictions are summarized below.
These original restrictions were amended to increase the minimum required square footage of a home from 1,300 to 1,400 square feet.
This document was prepared in 2010. All of the votes are dated 2013.
These are the current bylaws. They were adopted in 2008.
This is the South Shores Certificate of Incorporation, which originated in 2008 and was reinstated in 2025.
Restrictions highlights
These highlights are a composite of the legal document provided above:
- All lots shall be used for residential purposes and all lots shall be restricted and limited to single family residential purposes and uses only. No lots shall be used for business, commercial, medical, group residential, community counseling or similar purposes.
- Not more than one dwelling shall be erected upon any one lot, except a private garage or other small accessory building in addition to the dwelling. The use of any such garage or accessory building or dwelling shall not include any activity conducted as a business, and no such garage or accessory building may be constructed prior to the construction of the main dwelling.
- No wrecked, dismantled, abandoned, unregistered or inoperable vehicles shall be permitted on any numbered lot or any portion or subdivided portion of any numbered parcel.
- Any fence or wall must be approved by the Association and cannot exceed 3.5 feet if it projects into a front or side yard, or 7 feet high in the backyard (please read actual document for precise wording).
- No stripped down or junk motor vehicle or sizeable part thereof shall be permitted to be parked on any lot or any street in South Shores.
- No structure of any temporary character and no tent, trailer, shack, or other outbuilding, except as provided herein, shall be placed on any numbered lot within South Shores at any time except during periods of construction for storage or materials and such temporary structures for storage or materials shall not in any event be used for living quarters.
- It shall be the responsibility of each numbered lot owner to prevent the development of any unclean, unsightly, or unkept conditions of the buildings or grounds upon such lot which shall tend to substantially decrease the beauty of the neighbor hood as a whole or the beauty of the specific area. No noxious or offensive activity shall be carried on upon any numbered lot, nor, shall anything be done thereon tending to cause embarrass ment, discomfort, annoyance or nuisance to the neighborhood. There shall not be maintained on any lot any plant, animal, device or thing of any sort the normal activities or existence of which is in any way noxious, dangerous, unsightly, unpleasant or of such a nature as may diminish or destroy the enjoyment of other property in the neighborhood by owners thereof.
- No trash, ashes, garbage, or other refuse shall be dumped or stored or accumulated on any lot.
- Any outbuilding or other appurtenant structure to or accessory to a dwelling house which may be permitted to be constructed upon any numbered lot or any portion or subdivided portion of any numbered parcel shall be constructed of the same material and in the same style, shape, and color as any dwelling house on any numbered lot or any portion or subdivided portion of any numbered parcel.
- Lot owners shall not keep any animals, wildlife, livestock, reptiles or poultry of any kind, other than domesticated household birds and fish, dogs or domesticated cats; provided that in no event shall a lot owner or occupant of any lot keep more than a total of three (3) dogs or cats, or a combination thereof not to exceed three (3) animals in total. Breeding of domesticated animals of any kind is strictly prohibited. Pets shall not be permitted to run loose or uncontrolled on their lot and within thec ommunity. Lot owners shall immediately clean up any waste left by their pets anywhere within the community.
- No advertising signs shall be permitted upon any numbered lot in South Shores except a sign offering the premises for rent or sale, or both, may be displayed upon the lot which is for sale or for rent and any such sign shall not exceed eighteen (18) inches by twenty-four (24) inches in size.
- In addition to any other regulation, requirement or the like with respect to the construction of improvements on any lot in South Shores, each lot owner shall submit a copy of a proposed building site plan showing the location of any proposed improvements on the property to the appropriate Sussex County permitting officials for such permits or approvals as may be necessary at the time construction is to commence.
- These restrictions may be am.ended by and with the written consent of no less than sixty percent (60%) of the owners of all the lots in South Shores
Setbacks
- No dwelling house, outbuilding, or other structure shall be constructed, erected, placed, or permitted to remain upon any of the numbered lots or on any portion or subdivided portions of any numbered parcel unless the dwelling house, outbuilding, or other structure is set back at least fifty feet from the front-yard line of the lot or parcel. For corner lots or parcels, the dwelling house, outbuilding, or other structure must be set back at least fifty feet from each adjoining street.
- The front yard setback shall be thirty (30) feet from the nearest right-of-way line from the rear line of each numbered lot.
- The rear setback line shall be twenty ( 20) feet from the rear line of each numbered lot.
- There shall be two sideyards, each of which shall be fifteen ( 15) feet from their respective sidelines of each such lot.