The Combined Planning Board has the power to:
A. Hear and decide appeals where it is alleged by the
appellant that there is error in any order, requirement, decision
or refusal made by the Zoning Officer based on or made in the enforcement
of this chapter;
B. Hear and decide in accordance with the provisions
of this chapter, requests for interpretation of the Zoning Map or
this chapter or for decisions upon other special questions upon which
such Board is authorized to pass by any Zoning or Official Map Ordinance
in accordance with the New Jersey Municipal Land Use Law;
C. Where by reason of exceptional narrowness, shallowness
or shape of a specific piece of property, or by reason of exceptional
topographic condition, or by reason of other extraordinary and exceptional
situation or condition of such piece of property, the strict application
of any regulation would result in peculiar and exceptional practical
difficulties to, or exceptional and undue hardship upon the developer
of such property, grant, upon an application or an appeal relating
to such property, a variance from such strict application of such
regulation so as to relieve such difficulties or hardship as provided
for by law and the procedures of the Combined Planning Board.
[Added 8-4-1986 by Ord. No. 10-1986; amended 3-5-2012 by Ord. No. 16-2012]
Pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.A. 40:55D-65
every application for development submitted to the Combined Planning
Board shall be accompanied by proof that no taxes or assessments for
local improvements are due or delinquent on the property which is
the subject of such application; or, if it is shown that taxes or
assessments are delinquent on said property, any approvals or other
relief granted by said Board shall be conditioned upon either the
prompt payment of such taxes or assessments or the making of adequate
provision for the payment thereof in such manner that the municipality
will be adequately protected.