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uiment Page 1 of 2 toahibit B _ VATED THROUGH PLL. 2044, ch. 124, and JR 7) TITLE 40 MUNICIPALITIES AND COUNTIES 40:55D-70 Powers, 40:55D-70 Powers. 57. Powers. The board of adjustment shall have the power to: a. Hear and decide appeals where it is alleged by the appellant that there is error in any order, requirement, decision or refusal made by an administrative officer based on or made in the enforcement of the zoning ordinance; b. Hear and decide requests for interpretation of the zoning map or ordinance or for decisions upon other special questions upon which such board is authorized to pass by any zoning or official map ordinance, in accordance with this act; c. (1) Where: (a) by reason of exceptional narrowness, shallowness or shape of a specific picce of property, or (b) by reason of exceptional topographic conditions or physical features uniquely affecting a specific piece of property, or (c) by reason of an extraordinary and exceptional situation uniquely affecting a specific piece of property or the structures lawfully existing thereon, the strict application of any regulation pursuant to article 8 of this act would result in peculiar and exceptional practical difficulties to, or exceptional and undue hardship upon, the developer of such property, grant, upon an application or an appeal relating to such property, a variance from such strict application of such regulation so as to relieve such difficulties or hardship; @) where in an application or appeal relating to a specific piece of property the purposes of this act or the purposes of the "Educational Facilities Construction and Financing Act," P.L.2000, ¢.72 (C.18A:7G-1 et al.), would be advanced by a deviation from the zoning ordinance requirements and the benefits of the deviation would substantially outweigh any detriment, grant a variance to allow departure from regulations pursuant to article 8 of this act; provided, however, that the fact that a proposed use is an inherently beneficial use shall not be dispositive of a decision on a variance under this subsection and provided that no variance from those departures enumerated in subsection d. of this section shall be granted under this subsection; and provided further that the proposed development does not require approval by the planning board of a subdivision, site plan or conditional use, in conjunction with which the planning

is subsection; and provided further that the proposed development does not require approval by the planning board of a subdivision, site plan or conditional use, in conjunction with which the planning board has power to review a request for a variance pursuant to subsection a. of section 47 of. this act; and d. In particular cases for special reasons, grant a variance to allow departure from regulations pursuant to article 8 of this act to permit: () a use or principal structure in a district restricted against such use or principal structure, (2) an expansion of a nonconforming use, (3) deviation from a specification or standard pursuant to section 54 of P.L.1975, ¢.291 (C.40:55D-67) pertaining solely to a conditional use, (2) an increase in the permitted floor area ratio as defined in section 3.1 of P.L.1975, ¢.291 (C.40:55D-4), (5) an increase in the permitted density as defined in section 3.1 of P.L.1975, 6.291 (C.40:55D-4), except as applied to the required lot area for a lot ot lots for detached one or two dwelling unit buildings, which lot or lots are either an isolated undersized lot or lots resulting from a minor subdivision or (6) a height of a principal structure which exceeds by 10 feet or 10% the maximum height permitted in the district for a principal structure. A variance under this subsection shall be granted only by affirmative vote of at least five members, in the case of a municipal board, or two-thirds of the full authorized membership, in the case of a regional board, pursuant to article 10 of this act. If an application development requests one or more variances but not a variance for a purpose enumerated in subsection d. of this section, the decision on the requested variance or variances shall be http:/lis.njleg.state.nj-us/cgi-bin/om_isapi.dll?clientID=3 0858234&Depth=2&TD=WRAP.,. 9/28/2011