This chapter shall be known and may be cited
as the "Land Use and Development Regulations of the Township of Wall."
This chapter is adopted pursuant to the authority
provided by the Municipal Land Use Law, Chapter 291, Laws of New Jersey
1975 (N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq.).
The intent and purpose of this chapter is to
exercise the authority delegated to municipalities under N.J.S.A.
40:55D-1 et seq. to regulate development and to promote good planning
practices. The intent of the chapter is:
A.
To guide the appropriate use or development of all
lands in the Township, in a manner which will promote the public health,
safety, morals, and general welfare;
B.
To secure safety from fire, flood, panic and other
natural and man-made disasters;
C.
To provide adequate light, air and open space;
D.
To ensure that the development of the Township does
not conflict with the development and general welfare of neighboring
municipalities, the county and the state as a whole;
E.
To promote the establishment of appropriate population
densities and concentrations that will contribute to the well-being
of persons, neighborhoods, communities and regions and the preservation
of the environment;
F.
To encourage the appropriate and efficient expenditure
of public funds by the coordination of public development with land
use polices;
G.
To provide sufficient space in appropriate locations
for a variety of residential, recreational, industrial, and commercial
uses and open space, both public and private, according to their respective
environmental requirements in order to meet the needs of all the citizens
of the Township;
H.
To encourage the location and design of transportation
routes which will promote the free flow of traffic while discouraging
location of such facilities and routes which result in congestion
or blight;
I.
To promote a desirable visual environment through
creative development techniques and good civic design and arrangements;
J.
To promote the conservation of historic sites and
districts, open space, energy resources and valuable natural resources
and to prevent urban sprawl and degradation of the environment through
improper use of land;
K.
To encourage planned developments which incorporate
the best features of design and relate the type, design, and layout
of residential, commercial, and recreational development of the particular
site;
L.
To encourage senior citizen community housing and
affordable housing of various types for low and moderate income households;
M.
To encourage coordination of the various public and
private procedures and activities shaping land development with a
view of lessening the cost of such development and to the more efficient
use of land;
N.
To promote utilization of renewable energy sources;
and
O.
To promote the maximum practicable recovery and recycling
of recyclable materials from municipal solid waste.
In the application and interpretation of this
chapter, all provisions hereof shall be held to be minimum standards
or requirements adopted for the promotion of the public health, safety,
convenience, and general welfare of the Township. Whenever the requirements
of this chapter are at variance with the requirements of any other
lawfully adopted rules, regulations or ordinances, the most restrictive
or those imposing the higher standard shall govern.
Chapter XIV, Land Use Procedures; Chapter XV,
Zoning, Chapter XVI, Site Plan; and Chapter XVII, Land Subdivision,
are hereby repealed. Any other ordinance of the Township of the Revised
General Ordinances of the Township of Wall, 1977, as amended and supplemented,
which contains provisions inconsistent with this chapter are hereby
repealed to the extent of such inconsistency of such ordinance, permit
or approval; provided, however, that any building permit, variance,
special use permit, conditional use permit, or other permit validly
issued pursuant to any such ordinance shall remain valid and effective
and shall continue to be governed by the terms and conditions of such
ordinance.
