Wantage Township City Zoning Code
§ 13-25.2
Permits.
a.
A zoning permit shall be required in the following instances:
1.
Zoning permits required prior to change of use. Before changing the use of any building, structure, lot or parcel of land, or a portion thereof, or allowing said change.
2.
Zoning permits required for the construction, erection, alteration or enlargement of any building except a single family residential dwelling. With the exception of a single family residential dwelling, before constructing, erecting, altering or enlarging or permitting the construction, erection, alteration or enlargement of any building or structure on a lot or tract of land or before occupying any building, structure, lot or tract of land.
3.
Zoning permits required for single family residential dwellings in certain instances. Before constructing or erecting a single family residential dwelling, or before constructing an addition to a single family residential dwelling, or before occupying a single family residential dwelling on a tract of land where the use has been changed to a single family residential dwelling from some other use.
b.
A zoning permit shall be shown that every building or premises or part thereof, and the proposed use thereof, are in conformity with the provisions of this chapter or in conformity with the provisions of a variance granted according to law.
c.
All zoning permits shall be issued in triplicate. No owner, contractor, workman or other persons shall perform any building operations of any kind unless the zoning permit covering such operation has been previously issued. Furthermore, no building operations of any kind shall be performed after notification of the revocation of said zoning permit.
d.
A record shall be kept of all zoning permits issued, and the original applications therefor shall be kept on file in the same manner as applications for building permits. No owner, tenant or other persons shall use or occupy any building or structure thereafter erected or altered, the use of which shall be changed after passage of this chapter, without first obtaining a zoning permit.
e.
A zoning permit, unless revoked, shall continue in effect so long as there is no change of use of the premises.
f.
The zoning officer shall act upon all such applications within 15 days after receipt of a fully filled in application or shall notify the applicant in writing of his refusal to issue such permit and the reasons therefor.
g.
Failure to notify the applicant in case of such refusal within said 15 days shall entitle the applicant for a zoning permit to file an appeal to the zoning board of adjustment as in the case of a denial.
h.
If it shall appear at any time to the zoning officer that the application or accompanying plans is in any material respect false or misleading or that the work being done upon the premises is materially different from that called for in the application previously filed with him or may be in violation of any provision of this chapter or that the conditions imposed by either the planning board or board of adjustment are not being met within the time or in the manner required by the approving authority, he may forthwith revoke the zoning permit.
i.
Within one year from the effective date of this chapter or within one year from the effective date of any subsequent amendment to the Zoning Ordinance of the Township of Wantage the effect of which is to make certain uses nonconforming, the owner of the property upon which any such nonconforming use exists may apply for and obtain at no charge a zoning permit certifying the extent and kind of use and specifying the nonconformity in detail. After the expiration of any such one-year period a zoning permit may be issued for a nonconforming use only by the zoning board of adjustment after a hearing held on notice to all persons entitled thereto, when such plans have been approved by the construction official together with such permits as may be granted.