Public Township Council Meeting — Packet

DRAFT PROPOSED REVISIONS – OCTOBER 2011 SECTIONS 1-14 Article I General Development Regulations 25-1 TITLE. This chapter shall be known as "The Land Use Regulations of the Township of West Orange." (Ord. No. 904-88 § 25-1) 25-2 PURPOSE AND INTENT. 25-2.1 Purpose. This chapter is adopted pursuant to the N.J.S.A. 40:55D-1 et seq. to promote and protect the public health, safety, morals, and general welfare and in furtherance of the following related and more specific purposes. a. To guide and regulate the orderly growth, development, and redevelopment of the Township in accordance with a comprehensive plan and with long-term objectives, interests and welfare of the people. b. To protect the established character and the social and economic well-being of both private and public property. c. To promote, in the public interest, the utilization of land for its most appropriate purposes. d. To secure safety from fire, flood, panic and other natural and manmade disasters. e. To provide adequate light, air and open space. f. To promote the establishment of appropriate population densities and concentrations that will contribute to the well-being of the environment. g. To encourage the location and design of transportation routes which will promote the free flow of traffic while discouraging location of such facilities and routes which result in congestion or blight. h. To promote a desirable visual environment through creative development techniques and good civic design and arrangements. i. To promote the conservation of open space and valuable natural resources and to prevent urban sprawl and degradation of the environment through improper use of land. j. To encourage residential clusters and planned unit residential developments which incorporate the best features of design and relate the type, design and layout of residential and recreational development to the particular site. k. To conserve the value of buildings and to enhance the value of land throughout town. l. To encourage senior citizen community housing construction. m. To encourage coordination of the various public and private procedures and activities

hance the value of land throughout town. l. To encourage senior citizen community housing construction. m. To encourage coordination of the various public and private procedures and activities shaping land development with a view of lessening the cost of such development and to the more efficient use of land. n. To promote the conservation of energy through the use of planning practices designed to reduce energy consumption and to provide for maximum utilization of renewable energy sources. 1