[Amended 12-16-2019 by Ord. No. 22-2019]
Prior to the subdivision or resubdivision of land and prior to the issuance of a building permit or certificate of occupancy for any development, an application shall be submitted to and approved by the Planning Board in accordance with the requirements of this section; except that site plans or individual lot applications for detached one- and two-family dwelling unit buildings shall be exempt from site plan review and approval. Site plan approval shall be required for any new building, any new addition to any existing building, any change in use of an existing building, any new off-street parking area and any land disturbance involving an area of 1,000 square feet or more, including excavation, soil removal, land filling or site clearance. The Planning Board, upon recommendation of the Subdivision and Site Plan Committee, may permit the submission of a combined preliminary and final site plan when, due to unusual conditions relating to the nature of the development, separate preliminary and final site plans, would not be necessary to meet the purposes and criteria of this chapter. Site plan approval is not required for any change in occupancy of a building or interior alterations of a building, provided there is no change in use of the structure.
A. 
Application shall be made in triplicate on forms available from the Town Clerk and shall be accompanied by the required filing fee and 12 blue or black on white prints of the subdivision plat or site plan and 12 copies of any other required documents and improvement plans. An application for final subdivision approval shall also be accompanied by the original tracing, three translucent tracings, and two cloth prints of the subdivision plat. In addition, each subdivision application and each site plan application requiring review by the County Planning Board shall be accompanied by one additional print and one reverse line sepia which shall be submitted by the Secretary of the Planning Board to the County Planning Board.
B. 
Application under this section shall contain any and all data and material indicated on the checklist referred to in § 300-36 below.
The application shall be accompanied by a filing fee pursuant to § 300-12 to cover the technical, investigative and administrative expenses involved in processing the application.
[Amended by Ord. No. 17-92; Ord. No. 4-93; Ord. No. 2-94; Ord. No. 5-96]
A. 
An application for development shall be complete for purposes of commencing the applicable time period for action by the Planning Board when so certified by the Board. In the event that the Board does not certify the application to be complete within 45 days of the date of its submission, the application shall be deemed complete upon the expiration of the forty-five-day time period unless:
(1) 
The application lacks information indicated on the checklist referred to below and provided to the applicant; and
(2) 
The Secretary of the Board has notified the applicant, in writing, of deficiencies in the application within 45 days of submission of the application.
B. 
The applicant may request that one or more of the submission requirements be waived, in which event the Planning Board shall not grant or deny the request within 45 days. Nothing herein shall be constructed as diminishing the applicant's obligation to prove in the application process that he is entitled to approval of the application. The Planning Board may subsequently require correction of any information found to be in error and submission of additional information not specified in this chapter or any revisions in the accompanying documents, as whether the requirements have been met. The application shall not be deemed incomplete for lack of any such additional information or any revisions in the accompanying documents so required by the municipal agency.
C. 
For the purpose of administering this section, the checklist entitled "Town of Boonton Land Development Application Checklist," dated June 11, 2024, is hereby adopted and made a part of this chapter and is on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
[Amended 9-16-2024 by Ord. No. 19-24]
A. 
Prior to the filing of a formal application for development, an applicant may request, and the Planning Board shall grant, an informal review of a concept plan of the intended development. The concept plan shall be in sufficient detail to clearly show the intended scope and design of the proposed development and, in addition, any information required by §§ 300-43A and 300-44A shall be included.
B. 
The informal review shall not be binding for either the Planning Board or the application. However, this step is recommended, particularly for major subdivisions and site plans in order to help ensure later compliance with ordinance requirements and Planning Board satisfaction with basic elements of the plan.