The design guidelines and standards described in this Article
shall be used as the Township's presumptive minimum requirements for
subdivision and site plan development and as criteria for evaluating
the plan and design of such development plans. However, the guidelines
and standards are not intended to restrict creativity, and an applicant
may request that the guidelines and standards be modified or waived.
To gain approval of such modification or waiver, the applicant shall
demonstrate to the Board the criteria for exceptions pursuant to N.J.S.A.
40:55D-51, which shall include a showing that the resulting change
will:
A. Generally satisfy the purpose of this Article;
B. Be designed in accordance with the Township's normally acceptable
engineering, planning and/or architectural practices;
C. Not have an adverse impact on the physical, visual or spatial characteristics
of the overall development plan for the tract to be developed;
D. Generally enhance the overall development plan for the tract;
E. Not have an adverse impact on the physical, visual or spatial characteristics
of the existing streetscape, neighborhood and district in which such
development is located or the Township, generally;
F. Generally enhance the streetscape and neighborhood in which it is
located;
G. Not reduce the useful life or increase the cost of maintenance of
the improvement to be modified or otherwise have an adverse impact
on the long-term function of the development;
H. Not materially detract from the real property value of the development
or adjacent or nearby properties.
The following regulations shall be used to prepare and review
buffering and screening for any site plan:
A. Residential Uses and Districts. Any residential use shall be suitably
buffered and screened from all uses other than single-family dwellings
in order to minimize the impacts of noise, glare, vibration, vehicular
traffic, pedestrian activity and other potential nuisances. Unless
otherwise provided in this chapter, the width of buffering and height
of screening shall be provided based on the type of use that is being
buffered as follows:
B. Required Buffer Strips. When any business commercial or industrial
building or uses, including but not limited to off-street parking
area, occupy a lot in any district as permitted by ordinance and such
lot abuts a Residential Zone, that portion specified hereinbelow of
the yard or yards immediately adjacent to and along the entire length
of such lot, shall be considered a buffer strip.
C. Location Within the Yard. The buffer strip shall be located within
the required yard area of the property used for nonresidential purposes,
and the structures and planting required by this Ordinance shall be
provided and properly maintained by the owner of the nonresidential
property. No part of any buffer strip shall be occupied by a sign,
or by any structure or use except as specifically permitted in this
section.
D. Type and Height of Buffer Strip. Buffer strips shall be planted with
lawn, ornamental shrubbery and other suitable plantings approved by
the Planning Board Engineer, to provide an effective screen along
the entire length of the buffer strip between nonresidential uses
and the abutting residential zone. Within the buffer area, a solid
and continuous landscape screen at least six feet in width shall be
planted and maintained. The landscape screen shall consist of massed
evergreen and decidous trees and shrubs at least four feet in height
of such species and size as will produce within two growing seasons
a screen at least six feet in height. Any portion of a buffer strip
not planted with shrubbery or trees shall be graded and planted with
grass seed or sod, and be attractively maintained and kept free of
all debris and rubbish.
E. Width of Buffer Strips. The minimum width of a buffer strip shall
be as follows:
1. Eight feet wide in BN-1 Zones.
2. Ten feet wide in BN-2 Zones.
3. Twenty feet wide in BH Zones.
4. Twenty-five feet wide in I-A and I-A-I Zones.
F. Walls or Fences in Buffer Strips. A free-standing wall or fence shall
not be more than four feet in height any may be erected on either
side of a buffer strip.
G. Buffer Strip for Off-Street Parking Areas. In the case of off-street
parking areas whether on a separate lot or within the yard of the
building to which such parking areas are appurtenant, a solid wall
or a substantial, tight, neat fence, four feet in height above grade
of the land in the abutting Residential Zone, shall be constructed
along the entire length of the buffer strip. In the case of off-street
parking areas, such wall or fence may be located within the buffer
strip, but shall be distant at least five feet from the abutting Residential
Zone. In addition, for the uses specified in this section, the planting
specified shall be located in the buffer strip on the Residential
side of such wall or fence.
H. Waivers for Buffer Strips Reserved for Public Recreation. When the
buffer strip is sufficiently wide and is reserved by agreement, approved
by the Planning Board and Township Attorney, subjecting its control
to the Township for public recreation purposes, the Municipal Agency
may waive the required screen planting in the portion of the buffer
strip so reserved.
I. Waivers Due to Hardship. When there are exceptional hardships in
the way of carrying out the strict provisions of this section, the
Municipal Agency may after public notice and hearing, waive or vary
from the foregoing requirements, subject to such conditions as may
be prescribed in the public interest.
J. Driveways and Parking Lots. All driveways and parking lots shall
be suitably buffered and screened to minimize the impacts of noise,
lighting and glare, exhaust fumes, views of parked vehicles and other
nuisances. Buffering and screening shall minimize such impacts both
from within the site itself, as well as from adjacent and nearby properties
and public rights-of-way as follows:
K. HVAC Equipment and Utility Service Boxes. All ground level HVAC equipment
and utility service boxes shall be suitably buffered and screened
to minimize views of the same from both within the site itself, as
well as from adjacent and nearby properties and public rights-of-way,
as follows.
1. Buffering shall consist of a minimum three-foot wide area surrounding
all sides of HVAC equipment and utility storage boxes exposed to view.
2. Screening shall consist of a minimum four-foot high evergreen hedge
along all sides of the same.
Township Design Standards as deemed appropriate by the Township Engineer are hereby incorporated into this Ordinance by reference. These standards shall be held to be minimum criteria for site improvements in the Township of Hazlet and shall include all specifications, procedures, requirements, plans and any other documentation as may be contained therein. Stormwater management for all Site Plans and Subdivisions for the following developments that require preliminary or final site plan or subdivision review. Refer to Section
181-525 (Stormwater Management Requirements).
A. Grading. Driveway grades shall not exceed 6% at any point along the
entire length of the driveway.
B. Aprons. Driveway aprons shall be designed to permit access to any
driveway from a street. Such aprons shall be constructed between the
curb or edge of street pavement and the sidewalk or, in the absence
of sidewalk, for a distance of four feet back from the curb or edge
of pavement. Driveway apron width may be enlarged to provide adequate
turning radii for larger vehicles. Driveway aprons shall consist of
six-inch thick 4,500 PSI concrete reinforced with six inch by six
inch by #6 welded wire mesh (or equal) installed on a compacted subgrade
approved by the Township Engineer. A four-inch thick base of compacted
DGA or RCA shall be provided if required by the Township Engineer
and expansion joints shall be provided as required.
[Ord. No. 1571-2015]
C. Side Slopes. Driveway side slopes shall be topsoiled, seeded, fertilized
and mulched or otherwise stabilized to prevent erosion. If banks exceed
a slope of two increments vertical to one increment horizontal (two
to one) and the slope face is not stable rock, retaining walls shall
be constructed of a design approved by the Township Engineer.
D. Clear Sight Triangles. At locations where driveways approach sidewalks
and streets in the public right-of-way, clear sight triangles shall
be provided on both sides of such driveways. No vision-obstructing
object with a height greater than 2 1/2 feet, as measured from
the elevation of the driveway, shall be located in such areas formed
by outward facing isosceles triangles, with equal sides of 10 feet
in length consisting of the curbline of the driveway and the property
line along the right-of-way.
The following guidelines shall be used to prepare and review
a landscaping plan for any site plan. The landscaping plan shall be
prepared by a New Jersey certified landscape architect.
A. Landscaping. The entire development shall be extensively landscaped
in accordance with a plan conceived as a complete pattern and style
throughout the total site. All areas of the site not occupied by buildings
and other improvements shall be intensively planted with trees, shrubs,
hedges, ground cover and perennials and annuals. Landscaping shall
be provided to achieve the following:
1. Preservation and enhancement, to the greatest extent possible, of
existing natural features on the site, including vegetation, land
forms and bodies of water;
2. Assistance in adapting a site to its proposed development;
3. Mitigation and control of environmental and community impacts from
a development;
4. Creation of an attractive appearance for the development, as viewed
from both within the site itself and the surrounding area;
5. Enhancement of the habitability of a development;
6. Definition of yard areas and other open space;
7. Energy conservation and micro-climatic control; and,
8. Maintenance of a desirable ecological balance on a developed site.
B. Other Site Design Elements. The development plan shall incorporate
landscaping with other functional and ornamental site design elements,
where appropriate, such as the following:
1. Courtyards, plazas, alleys and similar public and semi-public open
spaces;
2. Active recreation areas and facilities;
5. Berms and other earth forms;
6. Ponds, fountains and other water features;
7. Trellises, pergolas, gazebos and other accessory structures;
8. Fences, walls and other screens;
9. Street or site furniture;
C. Plant Species. The selection of plant species to be used shall be
appropriate in terms of function and size and shall be hardy for the
climatic zone in which the Township is located. Consideration shall
be given to soil conditions, availability of water, exposure to sunlight
and other existing conditions.
D. Planting Sizes. Deciduous trees shall have a minimum caliper of three
inches at time of planting. Evergreen trees shall be a minimum of
six feet in height at time of planting. Low-growing evergreen shrubs
shall be a minimum of 2 1/2 feet in height at time of planting.
Size of other plantings shall depend on setting and type of plant
material.
E. Planting Specifications. Only nursery-grown plant material shall
be utilized. All trees, shrubs and ground cover shall be planted according
to accepted horticultural standards. All grass shall be planted in
accordance with the New Jersey State Soil Conservation Committee's
Standards for Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control in New Jersey,
current edition. Mulch Trees and other vegetation that have been removed
may be reduced to chips and used as mulch in landscaped areas. Maintenance
plantings shall be watered regularly and in a manner appropriate for
the specific plant material through the first growing season. All
landscaped areas shall be well maintained and kept free of all debris,
rubbish, weeds, tall grass, other overgrown conditions and the storage
of any equipment or materials.
F. Replacement of Dead Plantings. The developer shall be required to replace dead or dying plant material for a period of two years from the date of issuance of a final zoning permit for occupancy and shall post a maintenance guarantee for such pursuant to Article
IX of this Ordinance. If plant material is dead or dying during a planting season, it shall be replaced that same season. If plant material is dead or dying during a non-planting season, it shall be replaced as soon as is reasonably possible at the start of the next planting season.
G. Fall Planting Hazard. Certain trees have been identified as having
a high degree of transplantation failure if planted during the fall
season. These should be noted on the landscape plans as spring planting
only.
H. Foundation Plantings. The base of all sides of a building shall be
planted with foundation plantings consisting of evergreen and/or semi-evergreen
shrubs and trees. Such plantings shall be a minimum of two feet high
at time of planting and spaced an average of three feet on center.
This foundation planting requirement shall not apply to the sides
of buildings that are directly abutting a public right-of-way.
I. Parking Lot Landscaping. The interior area of all parking lots shall
be landscaped to provide visual relief from the undesirable and monotonous
appearance of extensive parking areas, and to provide shading that
will reduce solar heat gain to both the surface of the parking lot
and vehicles parked thereon. Such landscaped areas shall be provided
in protected planting islands or peninsulas within the perimeter of
the parking lot and shall be placed so as not to obstruct the vision
of motorists. The area and types of plantings shall be provided based
on the number of parking spaces in the lot, as follows:
1. The perimeter of all parking lots shall be set back from all rear and side lot lines by a minimum of 10 feet. Per Article
IV, no individual parking space may be located within a required front setback area. Perimeter areas shall be landscaped as follows:
2. Side and rear yards shall be landscaped with a combination of evergreen
shrubs and deciduous trees to form a screen a minimum of six feet
tall at the time of planting.
3. Front yards shall be landscaped with a combination of an alternating
evergreen and deciduous hedge a minimum of three feet tall at the
time of planting, with deciduous shade trees located a spacing of
30 feet on-center, said spacing to supplement and alternate with required
street trees.
4. For parking lots with 15 spaces or less, no such interior landscaping
shall be required if the Board determines there is adequate landscaping
directly surrounding the perimeter of the parking lot. If the Board
finds that such landscaping is inadequate, then the requirements of
paragraph 5 below shall apply.
5. For parking lots containing 16 or more spaces, a minimum of 5% of
the interior area of the parking lot shall be provided with planting
islands containing a minimum of one deciduous tree planted for every
five parking spaces abutting such island. Planting islands in parking
lots shall also conform to the following requirements:
a. The minimum width of planting islands shall be four feet on the side
of parking spaces six feet between parking bays (head-to-head parking).
If sidewalks are incorporated through either the long sides of the
landscape islands between parking bays or through the landscape islands
on the sides of parking spaces, their width shall be added to these
requirements.
b. No more than eight parking spaces shall be placed in one row of parking
without an intervening landscape island.
c. Where the parking lot design will result in pedestrians cutting perpendicularly
through landscape islands, sidewalks shall be installed at regular
intervals across the islands.
d. The remainder of any such interior planting areas not containing
trees shall be planted with low-growing evergreen shrubs.
e. Parking lot lighting may be sited within landscape islands, however,
without hindering necessary lighting coverage.
6. For parking lots with 100 or more spaces, a minimum of 5% of the
interior area of the parking lot shall be provided with planting islands
containing a minimum of one deciduous tree planted for every five
parking spaces. Planting islands in such parking lots shall conform
to the following requirements:
a. Diamond-shaped tree islands shall be utilized between parking bays
(head-to-head parking) and shall contain a minimum of 36 square feet.
b. A landscaped island strip with a minimum width of four feet shall
be placed at the end of each row of parking.
c. No more than eight parking spaces shall be placed in one continuous
row of parking without an intervening landscaped island strip placed
on both sides of the spaces. The minimum width of an intervening landscaped
island strip shall be seven feet.
d. Sidewalks with a minimum width of four feet shall be placed adjacent
to landscaped island strips.
e. Intervening planting strips are placed adjacent to one another, the
aggregate width of the island shall be a minimum of 12 feet in order
to accommodate two planting strips and a sidewalk.
f. The remainder of any such interior planting areas not containing
trees shall be planted with low-growing evergreen shrubs.
g. Parking lot lighting may be sited within landscape islands, however, provided adequate lighting coverage is provided per Section
181-509.
J. Slope Plantings. All cut and fill areas, terraces, earth berms and
roadway embankments with slopes steeper than one increment vertical
to three increments horizontal (one to three) shall be sufficiently
landscaped to prevent erosion.
K. Drainage Facilities. Detention basins, headwalls, outlet structures,
concrete flow channels, rip-rap channels and other drainage facilities
shall be suitably planted with shrubs and trees. Detention basin embankments
shall be extensively landscaped with wet-site-tolerant plantings.
L. Energy Conservation. Landscaping shall be designed to conserve energy,
such as the planting of evergreen windbreaks to provide shielding
from northwesterly winds during the winter and deciduous shade trees
to reduce solar heat gain during the summer.
M. Street or Site Furniture. Benches, trash receptacles, kiosks, phone
booths and other street or site furniture shall be located and sized
in accordance with the functional need of such. Selection of such
furniture shall take into consideration issues of durability, maintenance
and vandalism. All such furniture shall be architecturally compatible
with the style, materials, colors and details of buildings on the
site.
Land use restrictions shall be required as applicable when a
proposed development includes one or more of the restrictions contained
herein. Land use restrictions shall be recorded with the Monmouth
County Recording Officer as deeds of easements or shall be placed
on final plats for such recording, as appropriate.
A. Drainage Easements. Within required drainage easements, no regrading
or the installation of structures, fences, trees and shrubs shall
be permitted unless otherwise elsewhere modified by this Ordinance.
B. Conservation Easements. Conservation easements for wetlands, wetlands
transition buffer, flood plain or flood plain buffer shall remain
in their natural, undisturbed state within which no regrading or clearing
shall be permitted, excepting the removal of minor underbrush or dead
trees that are hazardous to people or buildings.
C. Clear Sight Easements. Areas designated as clear sight triangles shall remain free of visual obstructions between 2 1/2 and 10 feet in height with the exception of street and traffic control signs, traffic control boxes, fire hydrants, lighting poles as approved by the Township Engineer. Field sited street trees may be located within a sight triangle in accordance with Section
181-518, Sight Triangle.
D. Utility Easements. Easements for public and local utilities shall
conform to any requirements of the appropriate company or authority.
Structures within utility easements shall be regulated by the appropriate
authority.
E. Cross-Access Easements. Cross-access easements shall permit pedestrians
and motorists to travel from adjacent lots to the lot in question
without the necessity for traveling on the public right-of-way.
F. Other Land Use Restrictions. Restrictions or easements of other governmental
agencies with jurisdiction of the application for development shall
conform to any requirements of the appropriate agency or authority.
All uses must provide an area used for refuse and recyclable
disposal collection. All containers, bins, dumpsters and/or storage
facilities shall be designed to reduce discernible odors and contain
such within the storage facility area. Refuse and recycling areas
shall comply with the following provisions:
A. Nonresidential Uses.
1. All nonresidential refuse and recyclable disposal collection areas
shall be suitably buffered and screened to minimize the impacts of
noise, odors, disposal and collection activities and views of collection
bins and dumpsters. Buffering and screening shall minimize such impacts
both from within the site itself, as well as from adjacent and nearby
properties and public rights-of-way. Buffering shall consist of a
minimum four-foot wide area surrounding all sides of such facility
exposed to view. If such facility is located on a site adjacent to
a residential use or zone, such buffering shall consist of a minimum
ten-foot area surrounding all sides of such facility exposed to view.
Screening shall consist of a minimum six foot-high masonry wall, solid
wooden fence or accessory building with gates or doors and ramped
access to facilitate the movement of bins or dumpsters. The base of
such screen shall be planted with a minimum four-foot high evergreen
hedge along the sides and rear of same.
2. All storage facilities shall be located in proximity to one another
or may be combined in a single common facility. Such facilities shall
be centrally located and convenient for the users of the site. Designated
recyclable storage facilities may be located inside a building. Such
facilities shall not be located as to be visual focal points in courtyards
or parking lots. Where located in a parking lot, such facilities shall
not be permitted to be placed on the paved surface of the parking
lot and shall be placed on a curbed area set back a minimum of two
feet from the curb edge of such parking lot. No refuse and recycling
area may be located within a required principal building setback area.
3. Adequate pedestrian and service vehicle access shall be provided
to all storage facilities. Such vehicular access shall accommodate
the type of service vehicles used for the collection of solid waste
and designated recyclable materials.
4. The size and capacity of all storage facilities shall be based on
the size and capacity of containers, bins and/or dumpsters utilized,
frequency of pickup and projected generation rates of users of the
site.
5. All nonresidential uses shall be designed to have a temporary designated
refuse and recyclable storage area located within the building occupied
by such use. Such storage area may be located anywhere within the
interior of a building, including basements, storage closets or attached
garages, but shall not be situated in a hallway or corridor necessary
for internal circulation or emergency access. Such area shall be designed
to accommodate the average accumulated volume of designated recycables
and refuse per occupant per period of collection and any necessary
storage equipment.
B. Residential Uses.
1. All dwelling units shall be designed to have a temporary designated
recyclable and refuse storage area located either within the interior
of such unit in the kitchen, laundry room, basement or storage closet
or in an attached garage or private rear yard area.
2. Such area shall be designed to accommodate the average accumulated
volume of designated recyclables and refuse per dwelling unit per
period of collection and any necessary storage equipment. The minimum
size of such storage area shall be six square feet.
The following regulations shall apply to residential development.
A. Elevation. No dwelling unit shall be located below grade, whether
fully or partially.
B. Single Family Development. The following look-a-like provisions/elevation
standards shall be used to prepare and review any new single family
residential development. The purpose of this section is to encourage
construction in character with existing residential neighborhoods
and to encourage construction that is diverse and aesthetically pleasing.
No dwelling unit shall hereafter be constructed in any residential
zone which shall be like or substantially like any neighboring dwelling
as hereinafter defined, in more than two of the following six respects:
1. Height of the main roof ridge above the elevation of the first floor.
2. Length of the main roof ridge.
3. Width between outside walls at the ends of the dwelling under the
main roof perpendicular to the length thereof.
4. Relative location with respect to each other: of garage, if attached,
of porch, if any, and the remainder of the dwelling on the front elevation.
5. Relative location of windows on the front elevation.
6. Materials used on the front elevation.
7. For sub paragraphs 1, 2, 3 and 4 above, dwellings shall be deemed
to be like each other if any dimension in which the difference between
them is no more than six feet.
8. For paragraph 5 above, dwellings shall be deemed to be like each
other if any dimension in which the difference between them is not
more than three feet.
9. For paragraph 6 above, dwellings shall be deemed to be like each
other if the difference between materials used is not more than 35%
of the facade area.
10. Dwellings between which the only difference is relative location
of elements from end to end or side to side reversal of elements shall
be deemed to be like each other in relative location of such elements.
11. For the purpose of this section, a neighboring dwelling, as stated
above is defined as any principal dwelling on any lot which is located
as follows:
a.
Any lot which is within 100 feet or three lots whichever is
greater and along the same side of the street as the subject lot without
regard to intervening street lines.
b.
Any lot, which is directly across said street from the subject
lot or from a lot referenced in the above paragraph.
On all corner lots in all zones there shall be an unobstructed
sight triangle formed by measuring 25 feet along each curb line from
the point of intersecting curb lines at such corner and connecting
such points to form a triangular area. No fences of any type may be
erected within the sight triangle. A sight triangle shall contain
no structures, signs, plantings or any other vision obstructing objects
that are greater than 24 inches in height as measured from the curb
level at the point of intersecting street lines. Trees shall be permitted
whose branches are trimmed away to a height of at least eight feet
above the curb level as measured from the point of intersecting street
lines.
Nothing herein shall permit the parking or storage of any vehicle
on a corner lot property that obstructs, impairs or obscures vision
of motor vehicle traffic at an intersection, as determined by the
Chief of Police.
Unless specifically defined below, words or phrases used in
this Ordinance shall be interpreted so as to give them the meaning
they have in common usage and to give this Ordinance its most reasonable
application. The definitions below are the same as or based on the
corresponding definitions in the Stormwater Management Rules at N.J.A.C.
7:8-1.2.
CAFRA PLANNING MMAP
The geographic depiction of the boundaries for Coastal Planning
Areas, CAFRA Centers, CAFRA Cores and CAFRA Nodes pursuant to N.J.A.C.
7:7E-5B.3.
COUNTY REVIEW AGENCY
An agency designated by the County Board of Chosen Freeholders
to review municipal stormwater management plans and implementing ordinance(s).
The County review agency may either be:
A County planning agency, which is the County Planning Board,
of the County of Monmouth as defined in N.J.S.A. 40:27-1 et seq. of
the County in which the land or development is located; or
A County water resource association created under N.J.S.A
58:16A-55.5, if the ordinance or resolution delegates authority to
approve, conditionally approve, or disapprove Municipal stormwater
management plans and implementing ordinances.
DEPARTMENT
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
DESIGN ENGINEER
A person professionally qualified and duly licensed in New
Jersey to perform engineering services that may include, but not necessarily
be limited to, development of project requirements, creation and development
of project design and preparation of drawings and specifications.
DEVELOPMENT
The division of a parcel of land into two or more parcels,
the construction, reconstruction, conversion, structural alteration,
relocation or enlargement of any building or structure, any mining
excavation or landfill, and any use or change in the use of any building
or other structure, or land or extension of use of land, by any person,
only for which permission is required under the Municipal Land Use
Law, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.
DRAINAGE AREA
A geographic area within which stormwater, sediments, or
dissolved materials drain to a particular receiving waterbody or to
a particular point along a receiving waterbody.
ENVIRONMENTALLY CRITICAL AREAS
An area or feature, which is of significant environmental
value, including but not limited to: stream corridors; natural heritage
priority sites; habitat of endangered or threatened species; large
areas of contiguous open space or upland forest; steep slopes; and
well head protection and groundwater recharge areas. Habitats of endangered
or threatened species are identified using the Department's Landscape
Project as approved by the Department's Endangered and Nongame Species
Program.
EROSION
The detachment and movement of soil or rock fragments by
water, wind, ice or gravity.
IMPERVIOUS SURFACE
A surface that has been covered with a layer of material
so that it is highly resistant to infiltration by water. Any surface
with a C-value exceeding 0.9, as determined by the Township Engineer,
shall be considered an impervious surface.
INFILTRATION
The process by which water seeps into the soil from precipitation.
MAJOR DEVELOPMENT
Any "development" that provides for ultimately disturbing
one or more acres of land or increasing impervious surface by 1/4
acre or more. Disturbance for the purpose of this rule is the placement
of impervious surface or exposure and/or movement of soil or bedrock
or clearing, cutting, or removing of vegetation. Projects undertaken
by any government agency which otherwise meet the definition of "major
development" but which do not require approval under the Municipal
Land Use Law, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq., are also considered "major
development."
NUTRIENT
A chemical element or compound, such as nitrogen or phosphorus,
which is essential to and promotes the development of organisms.
PERSON
Any individual, corporation, company, partnership, firm,
association, Township of Hazlet, or political subdivision of this
State subject to Municipal jurisdiction pursuant to the Municipal
Land Use Law, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.
POLLUTANT
Any dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage,
garbage, refuse, oil, grease, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes,
biological materials, medical wastes, radioactive substance (except
those regulated under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42
U.S.C. 2011 et seq.)), thermal waste, wrecked or discarded equipment,
rock, sand, cellar dirt, industrial, municipal, agricultural, and
construction waste or runoff, or other residue discharged directly
or indirectly to the land, ground waters or surface waters of the
State, or to a domestic treatment works. "Pollutant" includes both
hazardous and nonhazardous pollutants.
RECHARGE
The amount of water from precipitation that infiltrates into
the ground and is not evapotranspired.
SEDIMENT
Solid material, mineral or organic, that is in suspension,
is being transported, or has been moved from its site of origin by
air, water or gravity as a product of erosion.
SITE
The lot or lots upon which a major development is to occur
or has occurred.
SOIL
All unconsolidated mineral and organic material of any origin.
STATE PLAN POLICY MAP
The geographic application of the State Development and Redevelopment
Plan's goals and statewide policies, and the official map of these
goals and policies.
STORMWATER
Water resulting from precipitation (including rain and snow)
that runs off the land's surface, is transmitted to the subsurface,
or is captured by separate storm sewers or other sewage or drainage
facilities, or conveyed by snow removal equipment.
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT BASIN
An excavation or embankment and related areas designed to
retain stormwater runoff. A stormwater management basin may either
be normally dry (that is, a detention basin or infiltration basin),
retain water in a permanent pool (a retention basin), or be planted
mainly with wetland vegetation (most constructed stormwater wetlands).
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT MEASURE
Any structural or nonstructural strategy, practice, technology,
process, program, or other method intended to control or reduce stormwater
runoff and associated pollutants, or to induce or control the infiltration
or groundwater recharge of stormwater or to eliminate illicit or illegal
non-stormwater discharges into stormwater conveyances.
STORMWATER RUNOFF
Water flow on the surface of the ground or in storm sewers,
resulting from precipitation.
TIDAL FLOOD HAZARD AREA
A flood hazard area, which may be influenced by stormwater
runoff from inland areas, but which is primarily caused by the Atlantic
Ocean.
WATERS OF THE STATE
The ocean and its estuaries, all springs, streams, wetlands,
and bodies of surface or ground water, whether natural or artificial,
within the boundaries of the State of New Jersey or subject to its
jurisdiction.
WETLANDS OR WETLAND
An area that is inundated or saturated by surface water or
ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and
that under normal circumstances does support, a prevalence of vegetation
typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions, commonly
known as hydrophytic vegetation.
[Ord. No. 1481-10]
Any person who erects, constructs, alters, repairs, converts,
maintains, or uses any building, structure or land in violation of
this Ordinance shall be subject, upon conviction, to a penalty of
$1,250.