There is hereby established a Planning Board of nine members and four alternate members of the following four classes:

Two other citizens of the City of Englewood shall be appointed by the Mayor as alternate members of Class IV. Alternate members may attend and participate in all meetings of the Board. Such alternate members shall be designated by the Chairperson as "Alternate No. 1" and "Alternate No. 2" and shall vote in rotation during the absence or disqualification of any regular Class IV member.

The term of the Class I member shall correspond with his official tenure.

The terms of the Class II and Class III members and alternate members of Classes II and III shall be for one year or shall terminate at the completion of their respective terms of office, whichever occurs first.

The terms of a Class IV member who is also a member of the Board of Adjustment or the Board of Education shall terminate whenever he is no longer a member of such other body or at the completion of his Class IV term, whichever occurs first.

Members of the Planning Board holding office on the effective date of this chapter shall continue in office until completion of their terms as provided by prior law.

The term of the first Class IV member appointed after the effective date hereof shall be for a period of two years, commencing on January 1 next following the effective date hereof. The terms of all Class IV members appointed thereafter shall be for periods of four years.

The terms of the first two Class IV alternate members appointed shall be for periods of one and two years, respectively. The terms of all Class IV alternate members appointed thereafter shall be for periods of two years.

The term of a Class II or a Class IV member who is also a member of the Environmental Commission shall be for three years or shall terminate at the completion of his term of office as a member of the Environmental Commission, whichever occurs first.

All terms shall commence on January 1 of the year in which the appointment is made.

To make and adopt and from time to time amend a Master Plan for the physical development of the municipality, which Master Plan shall include the specific policy statement referred to in N.J.S.A. 40:55D-28d.

To administer the provisions of Article VI, Site Plan Review, and Article VII, Subdivision, of this chapter.

To participate in the preparation and review of programs or plans required by state or federal law or regulation.

To assemble data on a continuing basis as part of a continuous planning process.

To prepare annually a program of municipal capital improvement projects projected over a term of six years, and amendments thereto, and recommend same to the governing body.

To consider and report to the governing body, within 35 days after referral, on any proposed development regulation submitted to it and to pass upon other matters specifically referred to it by the governing body.

To grant, to the same extent and subject to the same restrictions as the Board of Adjustment, the following types of relief when required in connection with subdivision, site plan review or conditional use review:

To grant conditional uses in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

To perform such other advisory duties as are assigned to it by ordinance or resolution of the governing body for the aid and assistance of the governing body or other agencies or officers.

To administer the provisions of Chapter 358, Soil Erosion and Sediment Control, to the extent provided by ordinance.

To administer the provisions of the ordinances and laws relating to planned development.

To exercise such powers and duties as the Planning Board may be given under Part 4, Zoning, of this chapter.

To recommend to the City Council acquisition, regulation, or preservation of sites of special historic or scenic value, preservation or regulation of existing natural resources, acquisition, regulation, or preservation of sites or areas involving special architectural design, and acquisition, regulation, or preservation of other public areas, as defined in N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq. (c. 291, P.L. 1975).

To administer the provisions of such other ordinances and laws as may require review, report, or other action, including redevelopment plan ordinances adopted by the City Council pursuant to the State of New Jersey Local Redevelopment and Housing Law (N.J.S.A. 40A:12A-1 et seq.), including the review of site plans and the granting of variances from redevelopment plan ordinances pursuant to Subsection G above.

There is hereby established a Board of Adjustment consisting of seven residents of the City of Englewood. Four residents of the City of Englewood shall be appointed and designated as alternative members of the Board of Adjustment. No member of the Board of Adjustment may hold a position under the municipality. The appointments shall be made by the Mayor, subject to the consent and confirmation of the City Council. If the Mayor fails to make such appointment within 30 days after the expiration of a member's or alternate member's term or creation of a vacancy, or if the City Council fails to confirm such appointment after the expiration of said 30 days, the City Council shall make such appointment.

Alternate members of the Board of Adjustment shall be designated by the Chairperson as "Alternate No. 1," "Alternate No. 2," "Alternate 3" and "Alternate 4" and may attend and participate in all meetings of the Board. Such alternate members shall vote in rotation during the absence or disqualification of any regular member or members.

The term of each member shall be for four years. The term of each alternate member shall be for two years.

Regular members of the Board of Adjustment holding office on the effective date of this chapter shall continue in office until completion of their three-year terms as provided under prior law.

The term of the sixth member, who is not holding office as a regular member on the effective date of this chapter, shall be for one year; the term of the seventh member shall be for two years. All other appointments made after the effective date hereof shall be for four years.

All terms shall commence on January 1 of the year in which the appointment is made.

To grant, to the same extent and subject to the same restrictions as the Planning Board, subdivision, site plan or conditional use approval when required in connection with a use variance properly before the Board of Adjustment pursuant to Subsection d of N.J.S.A. 40:55D-70.

To grant variances from the requirements of law that no permit shall be issued for any building or structure in the bed of any street, public drainageway, flood control basin or public area reserved on the Official Map. Such variances may be approved only if:

To grant variances from the requirements of law that no permit for the erection of any building or structure be issued unless the lot abuts a street giving access to the proposed building or structure. Such a variance shall be granted only if the enforcement of such requirements of law would entail practical difficulties or undue hardship or where the circumstances of the case do not require the building or structure to be related to a street. Such variances may be granted subject to conditions that will provide adequate access for fire-fighting equipment, ambulances and other emergency vehicles necessary for the protection of health and safety and that will protect any future street layout shown on the Official Map or on a general circulation plan element of the Master Plan.