Ogdensburg City Zoning Code
§ 30-705
POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE PLANNING BOARD.
[Ord. No. 02-09 § 15-1]
The Board shall adopt such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions and purposes of this chapter. In the issuance of subpoenas, administration of oaths taking of testimony, the provisions of N.J.S.A. 2A:67A-1 et seq. shall apply. It shall also have the following powers and duties:
A.
To make and adopt and form time-to-time amend a Master Plan for the physical development of the municipality, including any areas outside its boundaries which, in the Board's judgment, bear essential relation to the planning of the municipality, in accordance with the provisions of N.J.S.A. 40:55D-28.
B.
To administer the provisions of Land Use Ordinances of the Borough of Ogdensburg located in this Code in accordance with the provisions of said chapters and the Municipal Land Use Law, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.
C.
To approve conditional use applications in accordance with the provisions of this chapter pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.
D.
To participate in the preparation and review of programs or plans required by State or Federal law or regulations.
E.
To assemble data on a continuing basis as part of a continuous planting process.
F.
To annually prepare a program of municipal capital improvement projects projected over a term of six years, and amendments therefrom, and recommend same to the Governing Body.
G.
To consider and make report to the Governing Body within 35 days after referral as to any proposed development regulations 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 Governing Body pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.A. 40:55D-26b.
H.
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, variances pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-70c. 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.
I.
To perform such other advisory duties as are assigned to by ordinance or resolution of the Governing Body for the aid and assistance of the Governing Body or other agencies or officers.
J.
Pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-25c(1), the Planning Board shall exercise, to the same extent and subject to the same restrictions, all the powers of a Board of Adjustment, but the Class I and the Class III members shall not participate in the consideration of applications for development which involve relief pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-70d.