[Amended 6-13-2001 by Ord. No. 13-2001]
The payment of the following fees shall be required for the issuance of the permits specified in Subsections A through P, and the payment of the application fees shall be required for various categories of applications for development specified therein. The application and permit fees shall be paid by the applicant in the form of cash, money order, certified check or bank check at the time of the submission of the application to the Land Use Office. Applications requiring a combination of approvals such as subdivision, site plan and/or variance shall pay an application fee equal to the sum of the fee for each such approval required. The application fees specified herein are charged to cover the general administrative costs incurred by the Township in connection with such applications or permits. Escrow funds required to be deposited for professional services are in addition to the required application fees and are governed by §
140-59 hereof.
A. Bulk variances: $300 for the first variance plus $50
per additional variance per lot; appeals and interpretations (N.J.S.A.
40:55D-70a, b and c): $300.
B. Use variances. The fees for use variances (N.J.S.A.
40:55D-70D) are: $300 per use variance request for single- and two-family
uses; $600 per request for multifamily uses and $600 per request for
nonresidential uses.
C. Conditional use variances. The fees for conditional
use variances (N.J.S.A. 40:55D-67) are $300 per conditional use request.
D. Subdivision applications. The fees for subdivision
applications are:
(1) Minor subdivision applications and sketch plat classification
applications: $300 per application;
(2) Preliminary and major subdivision applications: $350
plus $45 per lot;
(3) Final major subdivision applications: $300 plus $40
per lot; and
(4) No fee is required for subdivisions of public property.
E. Site plan applications. The site plan application
fees are:
(1) Residential uses $600 plus $25 per dwelling unit;
(2) Nonresidential uses: $35 per 1,000 square foot of
area proposed to be developed, except that no fee shall be less than
$450 nor more than $850.
F. Certified list. The fee for a certified list is $10.
G. Special meetings. Special meeting for either board
requested by an applicant: $3,500.
[Amended 2-12-2003 by Ord. No. 2-2003]
H. Tree removal permit. Tree removal permit application:
$250 except that applications submitted as part of a major subdivision
or site plan shall not require a fee.
I. Fire Prevention Bureau review. By separate check addressed
to the Wall Township Fire Prevention Bureau for all major subdivisions
and site plans: $100.
J. Zone changes. Zone change requests: $250 for each
request.
K. Tax Map revisions. A fee of $50 plus $5 per lot or
unit shall be submitted for all minor subdivisions, major subdivisions,
residential unit site plans, and condominium or cooperative residential
or commercial development to cover the cost of revising the Township
Tax Map. This fee shall be paid prior to the signing of any final
map.
L. Requests for reapproval or extension of time: $250
per request.
M. Subdivision certificate of approval. Certificate as
to the approval of subdivision of land: $50 per lot.
N. Certificate of preexisting use: $50 per use.
P. Zoning or development permits.
(1) Permit fees.
(a)
Residential, new home townhouse building, apartment
building: $100;
(b)
Residential property additions: $30;
(c)
Nonresidential related to approving authority
resolution: $350;
(d)
Nonresidential other: $40; and
(e)
Administrative revision or minor site plan:
$750.
[Amended 8-8-2012 by Ord. No. 10-2012]
[Amended 3-27-2013 by Ord. No. 7-2013]
A. All charitable,
philanthropic, fraternal and religious nonprofit organizations, holding
a tax exempt status under the Federal Internal Revenue Code of 1954
[26 U.S.C.§ 501(c) or (d)], who are lessees of property
owned by the Township of Wall, shall be exempt from the payment of
fees or deposits as required by the Planning Board and Board of Adjustment
for any application pertaining to such leased property.
B. Fee exemption for disabled person or parent or sibling of disabled
person.
(1) No person shall be charged a zoning permit fee for any construction,
reconstruction, alteration or improvement designed and undertaken
solely to promote accessibility by the disabled to an existing public
or private structure or any facilities contained therein.
(2) A disabled person, or parent, sibling or adult child of a disabled
person, shall not be required to pay any Township zoning permit fee
or charge in order to secure a zoning permit for any construction,
reconstruction, alteration or improvement which promotes accessibility
to a disabled person's own living unit.
(3) For the purposes of this chapter, "disabled person" means a person
who has the total and permanent inability to engage in any substantial
gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical
or mental impairment, including blindness. The definition of "disabled
person" shall include but not be limited to, any resident of this
state who is disabled pursuant to the federal Social Security Act
(42 U.S.C. § 416) or federal Railroad Retirement Act of
1974 (45 U.S.C. § 231 et seq.) or is rated as having a sixty-percent
or higher disability pursuant to any federal law administered by the
United States Veterans Act. For purposes of this chapter, "blindness"
means central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with
the use of a corrective lens. An eye which is accompanied by a limitation
in the field of vision such that the widest diameter of the visual
field subtends an angle no greater than 20º shall be considered
as having a central visual acuity of 20/200 or less. Proof of disability
acceptable to the Township shall be required for a fee exemption.
C. Fee exemption for senior citizen.
(1) The Township shall exempt the first $250 in zoning permit fees unless
approvals are required from the Township Planning Board or Board of
Adjustment. Exemptions shall only be granted in connection with a
residential property. The total sum waived hereunder shall not exceed
$250 for any given property in any twelve-month period.
(2) All exemptions as described herein shall be in conformance with the
following:
(a)
A person applying for a fee exemption shall be 62 years old
or older at the time of the application. A valid driver's license,
valid passport, or birth or baptismal certificate shall be provided
as proof of age.
(b)
All exemption requests as noted herein shall be made at the
time of a zoning permit application.
(c)
An exemption applicant must be 62 years or older, a current
resident of the Township for at least one year and be at least a fifty-percent
owner/occupant of the property for which an exemption is requested.
All claims of ownership for the purpose of exemption qualification
shall match the deed on file in the Township Tax Assessor's office.
The property must also be the primary residence of the applicant seeking
an exemption as evidenced by the address on a valid driver's license,
current utility bill or current bank statement. The word "current"
as used above shall mean within three months of the exemption request.
(d)
All applications for a fee exemption shall be made by the individual
owner(s) of the residential property, and no corporations, partnerships,
estates or other forms of ownership shall be eligible for an exemption
herein.
(e)
No exemption shall be issued unless all real property taxes
of the applicant are current and all other outstanding amounts due
to the Township, including but not limited to fines, fees, and utility
bills, are paid in full.
(f)
Should any property owner receive an exemption hereunder and
convey the subject property to any other party, regardless of age,
within one year of the exemption, the conveyer shall reimburse the
Township the full amount of the exemption prior to the release of
a Fire Prevention Bureau smoke detector/carbon monoxide certificate.
Such reimbursement shall not be required when the sale or transfer
of the property is the result of the death of the qualifying property
owner.
(g)
Nothing herein shall create any other exemption whatsoever in
relation to a Township Planning Board or Board of Adjustment application.
Any exemption as noted herein shall not include an exemption for any
other monetary amount, including but not limited to any rate, fee,
fine, bond, penalty enforcement amount, or surety bond guaranteeing
faithful performance/payment as may be required and/or due the Township
or any other law.
The Township of Wall and its departments and
commissions shall be exempt from the payment of fees as required by
the Planning Board and the Board of Adjustment as to all properties
owned by the Township of Wall and used for municipal purposes.