Long Hill Township City Zoning Code
§ LU-171.8
Powers and Duties.
The powers of the Planning Board shall be in accordance with Article II of the Municipal Land Use Law and amendments and supplements thereto and with the provisions of this section. The Planning Board is authorized to adopt bylaws governing its procedural operation. It shall also have the following powers and duties:
a.
To make and adopt and amend a Master Plan for the physical development of the Township, including its relationship to any area outside its boundaries which in the Board's judgment bears an essential relationship to the planning of the Township in accordance with the provisions of N.J.S.A. 40:55D28.
b.
To administer the applicable provisions of this Ordinance in accordance with the Municipal Land Use Law (N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.).
c.
To participate in the preparation and review of programs or plans required by State or Federal law or regulations.
d.
To assemble data on a continuing basis as part of a continuous planning process.
e.
To annually prepare a program of municipal capital improvement projects projected over a term of six years and amendments thereto, and recommend same to the Township Committee.
f.
To consider and make a report to the Township Committee within 35 days after referral as to any proposed development regulation submitted to it pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.A. 40:55D-26a and also pass upon other matters specifically referred to the Planning Board by the Township Committee of the Township of Long Hill pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.A. 40:55D-26b.
g.
When reviewing applications for approval of subdivision plats, site plans or conditional uses, to grant, to the same extent and subject to the same restrictions as the Zoning Board of Adjustment:
1.
Variances pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-70c from lot area, lot dimensional, setback and yard requirements, provided that such relief from lot area requirements shall not be granted except as applied to the required lot area for a lot or lots for detached one or two dwelling unit buildings which lot or lots are either an isolated undersized lot or lots resulting from a minor subdivision.
2.
Direction pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-34 for issuance of a permit for a building or structure in the bed of a mapped street or public drainageway, flood control basin or public area reserved pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-32, provided same shall not conflict with the provisions this Ordinance relating to flood damage prevention.
3.
Direction pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-36 for issuance of a permit for a building or structure not related to a street.
Whenever relief is requested pursuant to this subsection, notice of a hearing on the application for development shall include reference to the request for a variance or direction for issuance of a permit, as the case may be. |
h.
To perform such other advisory duties as are assigned to it by ordinance or resolution of the Township Committee or other agencies or offices.
i.
At the request of the applicant, the Planning Board shall grant a concept review of a sketch plan for a development for which the applicant intends to prepare and submit an application for development. Said concept review shall be made pursuant to the requirements of Subsection 162.4 of this Ordinance.