New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 7 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 7 - COASTAL PERMIT PROGRAM RULES
Subchapter 13 - REQUIREMENTS FOR IMPERVIOUS COVER AND VEGETATIVE COVER FOR GENERAL LAND AREAS AND CERTAIN SPECIAL AREAS
Section 7:7-13.2 - Definitions

Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 7:7-13.2
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 6, March 18, 2024

In addition to the terms defined at 7:7-1.5, the following terms are defined for purposes of this subchapter:

"CAFRA center" means a center with a boundary incorporated by reference or revised in accordance with 7:7-13.16.

"CAFRA core" means a core with a boundary incorporated by reference or revised in accordance with 7:7-13.16.

"CAFRA node" means a node with a boundary incorporated by reference or revised in accordance with 7:7-13.16.

"CAFRA Planning Map" means the map used by the Department to identify the location of Coastal Planning Areas, CAFRA centers, CAFRA cores and CAFRA nodes. The CAFRA Planning Map is available on the Department's Geographic Information System (GIS).

"Center" means a compact form of development which may have one or more cores and residential neighborhoods. A center may be an urban center, regional center, town, village, or hamlet, based on factors such as comparative size, population density, total population, transportation access, infrastructure, and employment base.

"Coastal center" means a center in the CAFRA area with a boundary delineated by the Department for the purpose of applying the requirements for impervious cover and vegetative cover at 7:7-13.1 through 13.5 and 13.15 through 13.19 until such time as, in accordance with 7:7-13.19, the coastal center expires or in accordance with 7:7-13.16, the coastal center is superseded by the CAFRA center. There are two categories of coastal centers, mainland coastal centers and non-mainland coastal centers. Each of these centers may be further categorized as a coastal regional center, coastal town, coastal village or coastal hamlet.

"Coastal Critical Environmental Site" means a Critical Environmental Site in the CAFRA area with a boundary incorporated by reference in accordance with 7:7-13.19(f).

"Coastal Planning Area" means a planning area in the CAFRA area with a boundary incorporated by reference in accordance with 7:7-13.16.

"Community development boundary" means the line delineating a center from the environs of the center. The boundary is defined by physical features such as rivers, roads, or changes in the pattern of development, or by open space or farmland.

"Core" means a pedestrian-oriented area of commercial and civic uses serving the surrounding municipality or center, generally including some housing and access to public transportation.

"Critical Environmental Site" means an area generally less than a square mile which includes one or more environmentally sensitive features located either outside of a planning area classified as environmentally sensitive or within centers located within such planning areas.

"95-97 imagery" means the 1995-1997 National Aerial Photographic Program, New Jersey color infra-red imagery.

"Node" means a concentration of facilities and activities which are not organized in a compact form.

"Planning area" means an area of greater than one square mile that shares a common set of conditions such as population density, infrastructure systems, level of development, or environmental sensitivity. The five types of planning areas are Metropolitan Planning Area, Suburban Planning Area, Fringe Planning Area, Rural Planning Area, and Environmentally Sensitive Planning Area.

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