The Planning Board and Board of Adjustment shall adopt and may
amend reasonable rules and regulations, not inconsistent with this
chapter, for the administration of their functions, powers and duties
and shall furnish a copy thereof to any person upon request and may
charge a reasonable fee for such copy. Copies of all such rules and
regulations and amendments thereto shall be maintained in the office
of the Borough Clerk.
Any power expressly authorized by this chapter to be exercised
by the Planning Board or the Board of Adjustment shall not be exercised
by any other body, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.
In the event that, during the period of approval heretofore
or hereafter granted to an application for development, the developer
is barred or prevented, directly or indirectly, from proceeding with
the development otherwise permitted under such approval by a legal
action instituted by any State agency, political subdivision or other
party to protect the public health and welfare or by a directive or
order issued by any State agency, political subdivision or court of
competent jurisdiction to protect the public health or welfare, and
the developer is otherwise ready, willing and able to proceed with
said development, the running of the period of approval under this
chapter or under any act repealed by this chapter, as the case may
be, shall be suspended for the period of time said legal action is
pending or such directive or order is in effect.
A developer whose proposed development requires a variance or direction of the issuance of a permit may elect to submit a separate application requesting the variance or direction of the issuance of a permit and a subsequent application for any required approval of a subdivision, site plan, or conditional use. The separate granting of the variance or direction of the issuance of a permit shall be conditioned upon the granting of all required subsequent approvals by the same approving authority. No such subsequent approval shall be granted unless such approval can be granted without substantial detriment to the public good and without substantial impairment of the intent and purpose of the zone plan. The number of votes of the Board members required to grant any such subsequent approval shall be as otherwise provided for the approval in question, and any special vote shall not be required. In the event that the developer elects to submit separate consecutive applications, the time period for granting or denying each separate application shall be as provided in Section
21-56 below.
Each application shall be accompanied by the appropriate fees
as determined by Part 6 of this chapter.