The Planning Board shall prepare and after public
hearing adopt or amend a Master Plan, or component parts thereof,
to guide the use of lands within the Township in a manner which protects
public health and safety and promotes the general welfare.
The Master Plan shall generally comprise a report
or statement and the land and development proposals, with maps, diagrams,
and text, presenting where appropriate, the following elements:
A.
A statement of objectives, principles, assumptions,
policies, and standards upon which the constituent proposals for the
physical, economic and social development of the Township are based;
B.
A land use plan element:
(1)
Taking into account the other Master Plan elements
and natural conditions, including but not being necessarily limited
to topography, soil conditions, water supply, drainage, floodplain
areas, marshes, and woodlands;
(2)
Showing the existing and proposed location, extent
and intensity of development of land to be used in the future for
varying types of residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural,
recreational, educational and other public and private purposes or
combination of purposes; and
(3)
Including a statement of the standards of population
density and development intensity recommended for the Township.
C.
A housing plan element, including but not limited
to, residential standards and proposals for the construction and improvement
of housing;
D.
A circulation plan element showing the location and
types of facilities for all modes of transportation required for the
efficient movement of people and goods into, about, and through the
Township;
E.
Utility service plan element analyzing the need for
and showing the future general location of water supply and distribution
facilities, drainage and flood control facilities, sewerage and waste
treatment, solid waste disposal and provision for other related utilities;
F.
A community facilities plan element showing the location
and type of educational or cultural facilities, historic sites, libraries,
hospitals, firehouses, police stations, and other related facilities,
including their relation to the surrounding areas;
G.
A recreation plan element showing a comprehensive
system of areas and public sites for recreation;
H.
A conservation plan element providing for the preservation,
conservation, and utilization of natural resources, including to the
extent appropriate, open space, water, forests, soil, marshes, wetlands,
harbors, rivers and other waters, fisheries, wildlife and other natural
resources;
I.
Appendices or separate reports containing the technical
foundation for the Master Plan and its constituent elements;
J.
An energy conservation plan that would systematically
analyze the impact of each other component and element of the Master
Plan on the present and future use of energy in the Township, detail
specific measures contained in the other plan elements designed to
reduce energy consumption and proposes other measures that the Township
may take to reduce energy consumption and to provide for the maximum
utilization of renewal energy sources.
The Master Plan and its plan elements may be
divided into subplans and subplan elements projected according to
periods of time or staging sequences.
The Master Plan shall include a specific policy
statement indicating the relationship of the proposed development
of the Township as developed in the Master Plan to:
