The Municipal Land Use Board shall have the
powers listed below in addition to other powers established by law:
A. Make, adopt and, from time to time, amend a Master
Plan for the physical development of the Township, including any areas
outside its boundaries which, in the Board's judgment, bear essential
relationship to the planning of the Township.
B. Administer the provisions of land subdivision and
site plan review in accordance with the applicable provisions of this
chapter.
C. Participate in the preparation and review of programs
or plans required by state or federal law or regulation.
D. Assemble data on a continuing basis as part of a continuous
planning process.
E. Annually, at the request of the Township Committee,
prepare a program of municipal capital improvement projects projected
over a term of six years and recommend same to the Township Committee.
F. Consider and report to the Township Committee within
35 days after referral as to any proposed development regulation submitted
to it and also pass upon other matters specifically referred to the
Municipal Land Use Board by the Township Committee.
G. The Municipal Land Use Board shall have such other
powers as prescribed by law, including but not limited to the power
to grant the following variances, to the same extent and subject to
the same restrictions as the Zoning Board of Adjustment, when the
Municipal Land Use Board is reviewing applications for approval of
subdivision plats, site plans or conditional uses:
(2) Direction pursuant to §
230-73C(1) of this chapter for issuance of a permit for a building or structure in the bed of a mapped street or public drainageway, flood control basin or public area.
(3) Direction pursuant to §
230-73C(2) of this chapter for issuance of a permit for a building or structure on a lot not abutting a street.
All appeals of decisions made by the Municipal
Land Use Board for the Township of Mantua shall be taken directly
to the Superior Court of New Jersey and not to the Mantua Township
Committee.
Any decision of the Municipal Land Use Board
when acting upon an application for development and any decision of
the Township Committee when acting upon an appeal shall be given notice
in the following manner:
A. A copy of the decision shall be mailed by the appropriate
Township authority within 10 days of the date of decision to the applicant
or appellant or, if represented, then to his attorney, without separate
charge. A copy of the decision shall also be mailed within 10 days
to any interested party who has requested it and who has paid the
fee prescribed by the Township authority for such service.
B. A brief notice of every final decision shall be published
in the official newspaper of the Township. Such publications shall
be arranged by the Secretary of the Municipal Land Use Board or the
Township Clerk, as the case may be, without separate charge to the
applicant. The notice shall be sent to the official newspaper for
publication within 10 days of the date of any such decision.
C. A copy of the decision shall also be filed in the office of the Township Clerk, who shall make a copy of such filed decision available to any interested party upon payment of a fee calculated in the same manner as those established for copies of other public documents in the Township, as indicated in §
230-87 of this chapter.