New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 5 - COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
Chapter 87 - BASIC COURSE IN LAND USE LAW AND PLANNING TRAINING PROGRAM
Subchapter 3 - MANDATORY CURRICULUM OF TRAINING PROGRAM
Section 5:87-3.3 - Municipal master plan
Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 5:87-3.3
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) The purpose of the "municipal master plan" segment of the Training Program is to provide an overview of the elements of a master plan; development and reexamination of the master plan; the relationship of the master plan to the ordinances and regulations implemented by the boards, and the availability of certain planning tools to implement the vision of the master plan. Required areas for discussion in this segment shall include, but are not limited to:
1. Review of the mandatory and optional
elements of the master plan as required by the Municipal Land Use Law,
40:55D-1
et seq. (MLUL). The overview of the master plan elements may also include a
review of other planning elements not necessarily addressed in the MLUL, such
as the community history, the community vision, neighborhood preservation
plans, a design element and redevelopment plans;
2. Background studies that inform the master
plan, including, but not limited to:
i. The
population, employment and housing characteristics of the municipality and the
relationship of the information to population, employment and household
projections contained in the State Development and Redevelopment Plan adopted
pursuant to the State Planning Act,
52:18A-203,
the applicable Metropolitan Planning Organization, and the Council on
Affordable Housing;
ii. The Natural
Resources Inventory prepared by the Environmental Commission;
iii. The Historic Preservation Plan prepared
by the Historic Preservation Commission;
iv. Brownfields inventory;
v. The build-out analysis;
vi. The master plan reexamination reports
prepared according to the MLUL;
vii. The zoning board of adjustment's annual
report; and
viii. The processes of
cross-acceptance, plan endorsement and center designation set forth in the
State Planning Act,
52:18A-203 et
seq., and the State Planning Rules, N.J.A.C. 5:85; and
3. Discussion on smart growth planning
principles, redevelopment, center-based development, transit villages,
clustering and transfer of development rights, and zoning as planning concepts
and tools available to planning boards to implement the vision of the master
plan for balancing future development and conservation in the municipality. An
overview of the LRHL and the New Jersey Fair Housing Act,
N.J.S.A.
52:27D-301et seq., shall be provided. In
addition, region-specific issues, such as the Right to Farm Act, N.J.S.A.
4:lC-1 et seq., shall be discussed for board members from municipalities that
have substantial active commercial agriculture.
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