If a vacancy of any class shall occur otherwise
than by expiration of term it shall be filled by appointment as above
provided for the unexpired term.
The Planning Board shall elect a Chairman and
Vice Chairman from the members of Class IV and select a secretary
who may but need not be a Board member or another Borough employee.
There is hereby created the office of Planning
Board Attorney. The Planning Board may annually appoint, fix the compensation
of or agree upon the rate of compensation of the Planning Board Attorney
who shall be an attorney other than the Borough Attorney.
The Planning and Zoning Boards may also employ
or contract for the services of experts and other staff and services
as it may deem necessary. The Board shall not, however, exceed, exclusive
of gifts or grants, the amount appropriated by the Borough Council
for its use.
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
and taking of testimony, the provisions of the County and Municipal
Investigations Law of 1953 (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 from time to time amend a Master
Plan for the physical development of the Borough, including any area
outside its boundaries which in the Board's judgment bear essential
relation to the planning of the Borough, in accordance with the provisions
of N.J.S.A. 40:55D-28.
B. To administer the provisions of the Land Subdivision
Ordinance and Site Plan Review Ordinance of the Borough in accordance
with the provisions of these ordinances, and the Municipal Land Use
Law, Chapter 291, P.L. 1975, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.
C. To approve conditional use applications in accordance with the provisions of Chapter
560, Zoning, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-67.
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 planning process.
F. To prepare a program of Borough capital improvement
projects projected over a term of six years, and amendments thereto,
at the request of Borough Council.
G. To consider and make a report to the Borough Council
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 Borough Council, pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.A.
40:55D-26b, as amended and/or supplemented from time to time.
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:
(1) Variances pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-70c, as amended
and/or supplemented from time to time. 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.
(2) Directions for issuance of permits pursuant to N.J.S.A.
40:55D-60 as amended and/or supplemented from time to time.
I. To perform such other advisory duties as are assigned
to it by ordinance or resolution of the Borough Council for the aid
and assistance of the Borough Council or other agencies or officers.