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Page 6 of 11 5. Master Plan Considerations The Township’s Master Plan was last reexamined in December of 2019. The following goals, objectives, and recommendations of the Master Plan may be relevant to this application: • Encourage economic development and redevelopment that is compatible with the suburban character of the Township. • Maintain the existing scale of the community. • The master plan should continue to support economic development, including through maintenance and revitalization of commercial and office areas. • The master plan recommends that the Executive Drive and Essex Green area allow for a more broad mix of uses. 6. Planning Commentsa. The applicant should provide testimony summarizing and discussing the revisions to the plans that have been prepared as a result of questions and comments from the Board and the public at previous hearings. b. The applicant should discuss the proposed project, addressing the general scale and scope of improvements proposed for the site. Testimony should be provided addressing the anticipated operations of the auto service use on the site, including the scope of repairs that will or will not be performed, storage of vehicles, storage and removal of tires, hours of operation, and number of employees on the site. c. The application as proposed will require a D-1 use variance for non-compliance with the permitted principal use requirements for uses in the B-2 business district. With any ‘d’ variance, the applicant has an enhanced burden of proof to demonstrate that both the positive and negative criteria can be satisfied before the Board can grant a ‘d’ variance: i. Positive Criteria: The applicant must show that there are special reasons to grant the variance. Special reasons can come in one of three forms: 1) that there is an economic inutility in using the property for one of the permitted uses in the district; 2) that the proposed use is considered “inherently beneficial”; or 3) that the proposed use would promote the general welfare by advancing one of the purposes of zoning, and that the site is particularly suited for the use. ii. Negative Criteria: The applicant must show that the proposed use will not have a substantial detrimental impact on the public good, and will not substantially impair the intent and purpose of the zone plan. d. The applicant should provide testimony addressing how this

l not have a substantial detrimental impact on the public good, and will not substantially impair the intent and purpose of the zone plan. d. The applicant should provide testimony addressing how this particular site was identified for this business, whether there is a need for this type of use in the area, and how the site is suited for use as a tire center / auto service station use. e. We note that an automobile service station is listed as a permitted principal use in the I Industrial district of the Township. The applicant should address whether or not any property