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Southampton Township
City Zoning Code

12-4.8 Conformance

requirements and general standards.

a. 
Applicability. All development in Southampton Township shall demonstrate conformance to the design and performance standards of this chapter. The streets, drainage, right-of-way, school sites, public parks and playgrounds, scenic areas, historic sites and flood control basins shall be considered in approval of all development.
b. 
Approvals required.
1. 
No use shall be made of any lands or buildings in the Township until all required approvals are obtained in the application for development for the subdivision plat, site plan, planned development, conditional use, zoning variance or direction for the issuance of a permit pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-34 or 40:55D-36.
2. 
No construction or other physical alteration of any lands or buildings in the Township shall be made without compliance with the preconditions to commencement of construction and the obtaining of all required permits. No use shall be made of any lands or buildings in the Township pending any appeal.
3. 
No building or structure shall be erected, reconstructed, demolished, altered or restored, no use shall be made of any land, and no development shall be approved, unless the building, structure, use or development meets the design and performance standards specified in this chapter for all developments and the design and performance standards specified in this chapter for the specific type or class of use proposed, and meets the applicable zoning requirements unless zoning variance is granted in accordance with N.J.S.A. 40:55D-70 or a waiver from the design and performance standards is granted.
4. 
In addition to each and every other approval requirement of this chapter, no person shall carry out any development in the Pinelands Area of the Township until the development shall have been approved by an approving authority under the procedural requirements of the Pinelands Commission.