PB-23-09 Essex County Country Club Block: 156 Lot: 1

1. The Applicant requires the following variance relief as well as an amendment to final site plan approval and soil moving permit for modifications to the existing golf course and its facilities: SECTION/REQUIREMENT PERMITTED/REQUIRED PROPOSED 25-12.1.0. Landscape area within parking areas In parking areas with 30 or more parking spaces, there shall be a minimum of one tree plus ground level planting for each 10 parking stalls, which may be provided within and/or on the perimeter of the parking area. The maximum length of a single row of parking spaces shall be 20 spaces, at which point a landscaped area with a minimum width of eight feet shall be provided 2. The Municipal Land Use Law, at N.J.S.A. 40:55D-70(c) provides Planning Boards with the power to grant variances from bulk and other Ordinance requirements when the Applicant satisfies certain specific proofs enunciated in the statute. 3. Under the c(1) criteria, the Applicant must demonstrate that 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 would result in peculiar and exceptional practical difficulties to, or exceptional and undue hardship upon the developer of such property. 4. Under the c(2) criteria, the Applicant must demonstrate that in a particular instance relating to a specific piece of property, the purposes of the Act would be advanced by