Toms River City Zoning Code
§ 348-7.8
Improvements required prior to issuance of certificate of occupancy.
[Amended 3-11-1992 by Ord. No. 2892-92]
A.
No certificate of occupancy shall be issued for any use or building involving the installation of utilities or street improvements, parking areas, buffer areas, storm drainage facilities, other site improvements, the alteration of the existing grade on a lot or the utilization of a new on-site well or sanitary disposal system unless all required improvements are installed and approved by the Township Engineer or other appropriate authority, or the Township Engineer or other appropriate authority, where applicable, shall have certified occupancy can occur with no detrimental impact on the health, welfare and/or safety of the occupants and the general public.
B.
The following items shall be considered in the view of a request for a certificate of occupancy:
(1)
Utilities and drainage. All utilities, including but not limited to water, gas, storm drains, sanitary sewers, electric lines and telephone lines, shall have been properly installed and service to the lot, building or use from such utilities shall be available.
(2)
Grading of street rights-of-way. All street rights-of-way necessary to provide access to the lot in question shall have been completely graded, and all slope retaining devices or slope plantings shall have been installed.
(3)
Street rights-of-way. All street rights-of-way necessary to provide access to the lot, building or use in question shall have been completely graded, and all slope retaining devices or slope planting shall have been installed.
(4)
Sidewalks. All sidewalks necessary to provide access to the lot, building or use in question shall have been properly installed.
(5)
Streets. Curbing and the bituminous base course of bituminous concrete streets or the curbing and pavement course for portland cement concrete streets necessary to provide access to the proposed lot, building or use shall have been properly installed.
(6)
Curbing and parking areas. Curbing and the bituminous base course of parking areas necessary to provide access to the required number of parking spaces for the building or use in question shall have been properly installed.
(7)
Obstructions. All exposed obstructions in parking areas, access drives or streets, such as manhole frames, water boxes, gas boxes and the like, shall be protected by building to the top of such exposures with bituminous concrete as directed by the Township Engineer.
(8)
Screening, fences and landscaping. All required screening, fencing and/or landscaping related to the lot, building or use in question shall have been properly installed unless the Township Engineer, upon the advice of the Toms River Township Environmental Commission, shall direct the developer to delay the planting of screening and landscaping until the next planting season in order to improve the chances of survival of such plantings.
(9)
Site grading. All site grading necessary to permit proper surface drainage and prevent erosion of soils shall have been completed in accordance with the approved soil disturbance plans.
(10)
On-site wells. All on-site wells shall have been installed, tested and approved by the Township Board of Health.
(11)
On-site sanitary disposal systems. All on-site sanitary disposal systems shall have been installed and approved by the Township Board of Health.
(12)
Public water supply. Where the proposed lot, building or use is served by a public water supply, said supply shall have been installed and tested and all required fire hydrants or fire connections shall have been installed and tested and approved by the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention and/or the Board of Fire Commissioners.
(13)
Lighting. All outdoor lighting shall have been installed and shall be operational.
(14)
Street signs and traffic control devices. All street signs, paint lining and/or traffic control devices affecting the proposed lot, building or use, and required under the terms of approval of a subdivision or site plan or by federal, state, county or municipal rules, regulations or laws, shall have been installed.
(15)
Other. Any other conditions established for issuance of a certificate of occupancy by the Planning Board as a condition of final site plan approval shall be complied with.