The Planning Board may prepare and, after public
hearing, adopt or amend a Master Plan, or component parts thereof,
to guide the use of lands within the Borough in a manner which protects
the public health and safety and promotes the general welfare.
A.
The Master Plan shall generally comprise a report
or statement and land use and development proposals, with maps, diagrams,
and text, presenting at least the following elements (1) and (2) and,
where appropriate, the following elements (3) through (13), all as
more particularly described in N.J.S.A. 40:55D-28:
[Amended 6-28-1999 by Ord. No. 8-99]
(1)
A statement of objectives, principles, assumptions,
policies and standards.
(2)
A land use plan element.
(3)
A housing plan element.
(4)
A circulation plan element.
(5)
A utilities service plan element.
(6)
A community facilities plan element.
(7)
A recreation plan element.
(8)
A conservation plan element.
(9)
An economic plan element.
(10)
An historic preservation plan element.
(11)
Appendices or separate reports containing the technical
foundation for the Master Plan and its constituent elements.
(12)
A recycling plan element.
(13)
A specific policy statement indicating the relationship
of the proposed development of the Borough as developed in the Master
Plan to master plans for contiguous municipalities, the county, and
any other comprehensive guide plans, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-28(d).
B.
The Planning Board shall give public notice of a hearing
on adoption, revision or amendment of the Master Plan as required
in the Municipal Land Use Law, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-11 and 40:55D-13.
C.
The Borough Council shall, at least every six years,
provide for a general reexamination of its Master Plan and development
regulations by the Planning Board, which shall prepare a report on
the findings of such reexamination. This periodic examination is regulated
by the Municipal Land Use Law, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-89.
The Borough Council may, by ordinance, adopt
or amend an Official Map of the Borough, which shall reflect the appropriate
provisions of the Borough Master Plan, Municipal Land Use Law, N.J.S.A.
40:55D-32 through D-36. The Official Map shall be referred to the
Planning Board prior to the hearing on the adoption of the Official
Map or any amendment thereto. The Official Map shall be deemed conclusive
with respect to the location and width of streets and public drainageways
and the location and extent of flood-control basins and public areas,
whether or not such streets, ways, basins or areas are improved or
unimproved or are in actual physical existence.
The Borough Council may authorize the Planning
Board to prepare a program of municipal capital improvement projects
projected over a term of at least six years, and amendments thereto,
updated on an annual basis. Such program may encompass major projects
being currently undertaken, or future projects to be undertaken, with
federal, state, county, Borough or other public funds. The program
shall take into account public facility needs indicated by the prospective
development shown in the Master Plan and shall classify projects in
regard to the urgency and need for realization. The Borough Council
may adopt such program. (Municipal Land Use Law, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-29
through 40:55D-31).
