Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) No conveyance, sale or transfer of Pinelands Development Credits shall occur until the municipality with jurisdiction over the parcel of land from which the Pinelands Development Credits were obtained, the agency or organization to which the restriction is in favor, and the Commission have been provided with evidence of recordation of a restriction on the deed to the land from which the development credits were obtained.
(b) Such deed restriction shall specify the number of Pinelands Development Credits sold and that the parcel may only be used in perpetuity for the following uses:
1. In the Preservation Area District:
i. Berry agriculture; horticulture of native Pinelands plants; forestry; beekeeping; fish and wildlife management; wetlands management; low intensity recreational uses in which the use of motorized vehicles is not permitted except for necessary transportation, access to water bodies is limited to no more than 15 feet of frontage per 1,000 feet of frontage on the water body, clearing of vegetation does not exceed five percent of the parcel, and no more than one percent of the parcel will be covered with impermeable surfaces; and accessory uses.
ii. Where permitted by a certified municipal land use ordinance or when the property is located in an uncertified municipality, agricultural employee housing as an accessory use may also be specifically permitted in such deed restriction.
2. In Special Agricultural Production Areas:
i. Berry agriculture; horticulture of native Pinelands plants; forestry; beekeeping; fish and wildlife management; wetlands management; and accessory uses.
ii. Where permitted by a certified municipal land use ordinance or when the property is located in an uncertified municipality, agricultural employee housing as an accessory use may also be specifically permitted in such deed restriction.
3. In Agricultural Production Areas:
i. Agriculture; forestry; low intensity recreational uses in which the use of motorized vehicles is not permitted except for necessary transportation, access to water bodies is limited to no more than 15 feet of frontage per 1,000 feet of frontage on the water body, clearing of vegetation does not exceed five percent of the parcel, and no more than one percent of the parcel will be covered with impervious surfaces; agricultural commercial establishments, excluding supermarkets and restaurants and convenience stores, where the principal goods or products available for sale were produced in the Pinelands and the sales area does not exceed 5,000 square feet; agricultural products processing facilities; and accessory uses.
ii. Where permitted by a certified municipal land use ordinance or when the property is located in an uncertified municipality, the following additional uses may be specifically permitted in such deed restriction: airports and heliports accessory to agricultural uses and which are used exclusively for the storage, fueling, loading, and operation of aircraft as part of an ongoing agricultural operation; fish and wildlife management; wetlands management; and agricultural employee housing as an accessory use.
4. In all other Pinelands management areas where Pinelands Development Credits have been allocated pursuant to 7:50-4.62(d)2:
i. Agriculture; forestry; and low intensity recreational uses.
(c) No development involving the use of Pinelands Development Credits shall be approved by a local permitting agency until the developer has provided the Commission and the municipality in which the parcel of land to be developed is located with evidence of his ownership and redemption of the requisite Pinelands Development Credits; provided, however, that a municipality may grant general development plan, preliminary subdivision or preliminary site plan approval conditioned upon such evidence being presented as a prerequisite to final subdivision or site plan approval. For such a final subdivision or site plan, the developer shall provide evidence of Pinelands Development Credit ownership and redemption to secure the same proportion of lots or residential units as was approved for Pinelands Development Credit use in the preliminary approval or, as appropriate, the general development plan. Notification of a local permitting agency development approval shall be made to the Pinelands Commission pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:50-4 and to the New Jersey Pinelands Development Credit Bank in accordance with N.J.A.C. 3:42-3. Redemption of the requisite Pinelands Development Credits shall occur in accordance with 3:42-3.6 prior to the memorialization of the resolution granting final subdivision or final site plan approval, or if no such approval is required, prior to the issuance of any construction permits.
