Any application for development shall demonstrate conformity
to design standards that will encourage sound development patterns
within the Township. Where either an Official Map or Master Plan have
been adopted, the development shall conform to the proposals and conditions
shown thereon. The streets, drainage rights-of-way, school sites,
public parks and playgrounds, scenic sites, historic sites, and flood
control basins shown on the officially adopted Master Plan or Official
Map shall be considered in the approval of plats. In accordance with
good design practices, extreme deviations from rectangular lot shapes
and straight lot lines shall not be allowed unless made necessary
by special topographical conditions or other special conditions acceptable
to the approving authority. All improvements shall be installed and
connected with existing facilities or installed in required locations
to enable future connections with approved systems or contemplated
systems, and shall be adequate to handle all present and probable
future development.
Land which the approving authority finds to be unsuitable for
the intended lot(s) and its use due to flooding, improper drainage,
steep slopes, soil conditions, adverse topography, utility easements,
or other features which can reasonably be expected to be harmful to
the health, safety and general welfare of the present or future inhabitants
of the developments and/or its surrounding areas, shall not be subdivided
and site plans shall not be approved unless adequate and acceptable
methods are formulated by the developer to solve the problems by methods
meeting this title and all other requirements.
Whenever a development abuts or crosses a municipal boundary,
access to those lots within the Township shall be from within the
Township as the general rule. Wherever access to a development is
required across land in an adjoining community as the exception, the
approving authority may require documentation that such access is
legally established, and that the access road is adequately improved.
The proposed name of the development shall not duplicate, or
too closely approximate, the name of any other development in the
municipality. The approving authority shall have final authority to
designate the name of the development which shall be determined prior
to preliminary approval.
