It is the intent of this chapter to exercise the authority delegated
to municipalities by the Municipal Land Use Law[1] in order to protect the public health, safety, morals
and general welfare by furthering the objectives of that law:
A.
To secure safety from fire, flood, panic and other natural and man-made
disasters.
B.
To provide adequate light, air and open space.
C.
To ensure that the development of individual municipalities does
not conflict with the development and general welfare of neighboring
municipalities, the county and the state as a whole.
D.
To promote the establishment of appropriate population densities
and concentrations that will contribute to the well-being of persons,
neighborhoods, communities and regions and preservation of the environment.
E.
To encourage the appropriate and efficient expenditure of public
funds by the coordination of public development with land use policies.
F.
To provide sufficient space in appropriate locations for a variety
of agricultural, residential, recreational, commercial and industrial
uses and open space, both public and private, according to their respective
environmental requirements in order to meet the needs of all New Jersey
citizens.
G.
To encourage the location and design of transportation routes which
will promote the free flow of traffic while discouraging location
of such facilities and routes which result in congestion or blight.
H.
To provide a desirable visual environment through creative development
techniques and good civic design and arrangements.
I.
To promote the conservation of open space, energy resources, and
valuable natural resources and to prevent urban sprawl and degradation
of the environment through the improper use of land.
J.
To encourage planned unit developments which incorporate the best
features of design and relate the type, design and layout of residential,
commercial, industrial and recreational development to the particular
site.
K.
To encourage senior citizen community housing construction.
L.
To encourage coordination of the various public and private procedures
and activities shaping land development with a view of lessening the
cost of such development and to the more-efficient use of land.
M.
To promote the conservation of energy through the use of planning
practices designed to reduce energy consumption and to provide maximum
utilization of renewal energy sources.
N.
To promote the maximum practical recovery and recycling of recyclable
materials from municipal solid waste through the use of planning practices
designed to incorporate the State Recycling Plan goals and to complement
municipal recycling programs.
[1]
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.
The provisions of this chapter shall be held to be minimum requirements.
Where this chapter imposes a greater restriction than is imposed or
required by other provisions of law or by other rules or regulations
or resolutions, the provisions of this chapter shall control. Where
other laws, rules, regulations or resolutions require greater restrictions
than are imposed or required by this chapter, the provisions of such
other laws, rules, regulations or restrictions shall control.
All uses not expressly permitted in this chapter are prohibited.
All requirements shall be met at the time of erection, enlargement,
alteration, moving or change in use of the principal use and shall
apply to the entire structure or structures, whether or not the entire
structures are involved in the erection, enlargement, alteration,
moving or change in use.
