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 Joint Planning/Zoning Board of Adjustment
shall elect a Chairman and Vice Chairman from the members of Class
IV and select a Secretary who may be either a member of the Joint
Planning/Zoning Board of Adjustment or a municipal employee designated
by it.
There is hereby created the office of Joint
Planning/Zoning Board of Adjustment Attorney. The Joint Planning/Zoning
Board of Adjustment may annually appoint, fix the compensation of
or agree upon the rate of compensation of the Joint Planning/Zoning
Board of Adjustment Attorney who shall be an attorney other than the
Municipal Attorney.
The Joint Planning/Zoning Board of Adjustment
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 governing body for its use.
The Joint Planning/Zoning Board of Adjustment
is authorized to adopt bylaws governing its procedural operation.
It shall also have the following powers and duties to:
A. Make and adopt and, from time to time, amend a Master
Plan for the physical development of the Borough, including any areas
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. Administer the provisions of Chapter
331, Subdivision of Land and Site Plan Review, of the Code of the Borough of Runnemede, in accordance with the provisions of said chapter and the Municipal Land Use Law of 1975, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.
C. Participate in the preparation and review of programs
or plans required by state or federal law or regulations.
D. Assemble data on a continuing basis as part of a continuous
planning process.
E. Annually prepare a program of municipal capital improvement
projects projected over a term of six years and amendments thereto
and recommend the same to the governing body.
F. Consider and make report to the governing body 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 Joint Planning/Zoning
Board of Adjustment by the governing body pursuant to the provisions
of N.J.S.A. 40:55D-26b.
G. Variance or direction.
(1) When reviewing applications for approval of subdivision
plats, site plans or conditional uses, grant to the same extent and
subject to the same restrictions as the Joint Planning/Zoning Board
of Adjustment:
[Amended 11-8-1995 by Ord. No. 95-16]
(a)
Variances pursuant to Subsection 57c of Chapter
291 of the Laws of New Jersey 1975.
(b)
Direction pursuant to Section 25 of said Act
for issuance of permit for building or structure in the bed of a mapped
street or public drainageway, flood control basin or public area reserved
pursuant to Section 23 of said Act.
(c)
Direction pursuant to Section 27 of said Act
for issuance of a permit for a building or structure not related to
a street.
(2) Whenever relief is required 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.
H. Perform such other advisory duties as are assigned
to it by ordinance or resolution of the governing body for the aid
and assistance of the governing body or other agencies or officers.
The Mayor may appoint one or more persons as
a Citizens' Advisory Committee to assist or collaborate with the Joint
Planning/Zoning Board of Adjustment in its duties, but such person
or persons shall have no power to vote or take other action required
of the Board. Such person or persons shall serve at the pleasure of
the Mayor.
Whenever the Environmental Commission has prepared
and submitted to the Joint Planning/Zoning Board of Adjustment an
index of the natural resources of the municipality, the Joint Planning/Zoning
Board of Adjustment shall make available to the Environmental Commission
an informational copy of every application for development to the
Joint Planning/Zoning Board of Adjustment. Failure of the Joint Planning/Zoning
Board of Adjustment to make such informational copy available to the
Environmental Commission shall not invalidate any hearing or proceeding.
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.
[Added 11-8-1995 by Ord. No. 95-16]
The Joint Planning/Zoning Board of Adjustment
shall exercise, to the same extent and subject to the same restrictions,
all the powers of a Board of Adjustment; but the Class I (Mayor) and
the Class III (Borough Committee Person) members shall not participate
in the consideration of applications for development which involve
relief pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-70d.