[Added 4-6-2017 by Ord.
No. 19-02-2017; amended 8-2-2018 by Ord. No. 19-16-2018]
A. Requirements for submission of digital plans and applications. Whenever
an applicant to the Planning Board or the Zoning Board of Adjustment
applies for a minor subdivision, final approval of a major subdivision
or approval of any site plan, the agency exercising jurisdiction over
such application and granting approval shall require upon submission
of the application that the applicant prepare and file with the Township
a copy of the completed application and checklist along with the plans
in a digital format satisfying the requirements set forth in this
chapter, and upon approval of the application shall require, as a
condition of approval, that the applicant prepare and file with the
Township a copy of the approved plans in digital format satisfying
the requirements set forth in this chapter.
B. Data standards.
(1)
This data standard has been established to manage both hardcopy
(paper) and electronic data submittals required by the Township of
Kingwood. These standards are part of the comprehensive municipal
initiative to best manage, inventory and utilize information. This
section contains the submittal standards for planning application
data. The data submittals will be divided into the following two categories,
application documents and design documents. Within these groups data
will be submitted in either paper copy or electronic copy as outlined
in these standards.
(2)
The Township of Kingwood intends to move toward the elimination
of paper copy documents and as such intends to eliminate paper processes,
where appropriate, which are obsolete or redundant.
(3)
Standard electronic format for application documents.
(a)
File type: The required format is an archival standards compatible
portable document format (PDF/A) file generated directly from document
files. They should be compatible with the latest Adobe Acrobat Version
Readers.
[1]
Scanned images of report text are not acceptable as the text
cannot be searched.
[2]
Scanned correspondence bearing the original signature and seal
shall be included.
[3]
Scanned documents will only be accepted when the native electronic
files are not available or developed for the application.
(b)
File naming: Application documents and report file names should
be named utilizing a reasonable descriptive naming convention.
(c)
Fonts should be those commonly available such as Times New Roman
or Arial. Other fonts may not readily open or print from all computers.
Less common fonts that are used (for instance ESRI symbols) must be
embedded to allow printing in all environments.
(d)
Security settings must be set so as to allow searching of text,
printing at full resolution, adding comments (to facilitate electronic
comment by reviewers, and for users to annotate their own copies if
they wish), content copying and extraction (to facilitate preparation
of management direction, and quoting of materials in other documents),
making changes related to document assembly to allow users to rotate
pages and create bookmarks and thumbnails to facilitate use of the
document.
(e)
Resolution: Minimum resolution for scanned documents shall be
in accordance with the New Jersey Division of Archives and Records
Management (NJDARM) as per N.J.A.C. 15:3.4.
(f)
Cartography: information on maps should be easily understood
when reproduced in black and white; sole reliance on color to convey
information means maps cannot be faxed or usefully printed in black
and white. Where color is necessary or useful, it should be combined
with techniques like line coding and patterned fills to ensure all
users can extract the information. This principle applies also to
labels and other layers added to images.
(g)
Submissions must be on current accepted media.
(h)
All digital media shall be provided with the following label
data on both the media and media container:
[1]
Municipality, tax block, and lot number.
(4)
CAD file standards.
(a)
Computer-aided design (CAD) is a tool used for producing design
documentation and plan sets required for the planning application
process. It can also provide a common medium of information exchange.
In fact, the true power and potential of CAD is the ability to reuse
and share the information contained within the CAD document. The key
to realizing this potential is common organizing principles and standards
for the production and dissemination of CAD information. The standard
organization of files, layers and entities, as well as standardized
software applications is essential for effective work and communication.
(b)
This section establishes performance standards for CAD data
provided to the municipality with the application package. The municipality
does not intend to influence the methods or means of practice of outside
consultants. Consultants may use any CAD system to develop design
documents as long as the delivered data conforms to the municipalities'
CAD data standards.
(c)
Much of the CAD data created through the planning process will
be utilized to update the municipal tax maps and brought into the
municipal and/or county GIS parcel data system. Data received by the
Township of Kingwood must follow these CAD data standards to be readily
useful within that system.
(d)
Electronic CAD files for minor subdivisions, final site plans
and final subdivisions shall be submitted in conformance with the
standards listed below:
[1]
CAD drawings: Consultants shall deliver, at minimum, a CAD document
in electronic format to the municipality. The document(s) must include
all supporting CAD data and must be delivered as follows:
[a] In the native CAD format as read only;
[b] In the CAD "dxf" file format;
[c] Using the data structure defined by these standards;
[d] File naming shall comply with the standards established
for application documents.
[2]
Text and fonts: Utilize only industry-wide supported fonts;
no custom fonts can be accepted. All fonts shall be provided with
the CAD file.
[3]
Layers: Specific layers shall be created and drawings organized
in conformance with the most current naming convention developed by
the New Jersey Digital Tax Map Task Force (see http://www.state.nj.us/treasury/taxation/1pt/DigitalTaxMaps.htm).
[4]
When possible, proposed lots, easements and rights-of-way shall
be comprised of closed polygons.
[5]
Easement and parcel boundaries shall be coincident in the CAD
file when coincident on ground.
[6]
All drawings shall be un-rotated and created at one to one full
scale.
[7]
Coordinate reference: All submittals, paper and digital, shall
be in NAD 83 (current) New Jersey State Plane Coordinates in United
States Survey Feet and North American Vertical Datum 1988 (current)
and in accordance with all other provisions of P.L. 2011, c. 217 (N.J.S.A.
46:26A), "Title Recordation Law."
[8]
There shall be endorsed upon any map, plat or plan submitted
to the Planning Board or Zoning Board a certification by the municipal
or board engineer as follows: "I have carefully examined this map
and the required digital submissions and to the best of my knowledge
and belief find it conforms with the provisions of the municipal ordinances
and requirements applicable thereto." There shall also be provided
a line for the municipal or board engineer's signature and professional
seal.
[Added 12-7-2004 by Ord. No. 12-25-2004]
Any variance application which receives approval
from a municipal agency, whether the Planning Board or the Zoning
Board of Adjustment, shall have incorporated into the memorializing
resolution the following conditions:
A. The applicant shall submit to the Board four additional
copies of the plans and drawings which were submitted to and reviewed
by the Board in conjunction with the variance application approved
by this Memorializing Resolution [Alternatively, as appropriate: The
applicant shall submit to the Board six additional copies of the plans
and drawings which were submitted to and reviewed by the Board in
conjunction with the variance application, revised as required by
this memorializing resolution] (the "approved plans"), and said approved
plans shall thereupon be endorsed with the following designation:
"Approved by the Kingwood Township [insert name
of approving authority]
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B. The applicant shall present a copy of the approved
plans, endorsed by the Board as approved, together with a copy of
this memorializing resolution, to the Zoning Officer of Kingwood Township
and obtain a zoning permit for the proposed construction before obtaining
a building permit for the proposed construction.
C. The applicant shall present a copy of the approved
plans, endorsed by the Board as approved, together with a copy of
this memorializing resolution, to the Construction Official of Kingwood
Township in connection with the application for a building permit
for the proposed construction.
D. Upon completion of the proposed construction, the
applicant shall submit to the Board five copies of an as-built survey
of the property and all improvements thereon.
E. No certificate of occupancy shall be issued for the
new construction authorized by this memorializing resolution unless
and until the appropriate Board, in consultation with the Board professionals,
verifies and provides written acknowledgment that the construction
as show on the as-built survey has been constructed in conformity
with the approved plans.