§ 184-14. Powers and duties of the Board.

The Board shall follow the provisions of the Municipal Land Use Law and this chapter, and accordingly shall have authority to:

A. 

Prepare, adopt, and amend a Master Plan or component part thereof;

B. 

Exercise control over and review and approve or disapprove in whole or in part of subdivisions, site plans and conditional uses, including all variances and building permits;

C. 

Exercise control over and review and approve or disapprove of all variances whether or not the development which is the subject of such variance(s) requires subdivision, site plan or conditional use approval;

D. 

Exercise informal review of conceptual development plan;

E. 

Recommend to the Governing Body the adoption or amendment of development regulations and an official map;

F. 

Direct the issuance of building permits for buildings or structures in certain areas shown on an official map;

G. 

Direct the issuance of building permits for buildings or structures on a lot not related to a street;

H. 

Recommend to the Governing Body concerning the relationship of capital projects to the Master Plan.

I. 

Prepare a capital improvements program, if authorized by the Governing Body.

J. 

Participate in the preparation and review of programs or plans required by state or federal law or regulation;

K. 

Assemble data on a continuing basis as part of a continuous planning process;

L. 

Make recommendations to the Governing Body and/or any housing, parking, highway, special district or other authority, redevelopment agency, school board or other similar public agency, state, county or Borough, concerning the relationship of capital projects to the Master Plan pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-31;

M. 

Hear and decide appeals where it is alleged by the appellant that there is error in any order, requirement, decision, or refusal made by the Zoning Officer based on or made in the enforcement or application of the zoning regulations;

N. 

Hear and decide requests for interpretation of the Zoning Map or Zoning Regulations or for decisions upon other special questions upon which the Board is authorized to pass by any zoning regulation or official map regulation, in accordance with this chapter and the Municipal Land Use Law;

O. 

Prepare annually a report for the Mayor and Borough Council, based upon its review of its decisions on applications and appeals for variances during the previous year. The report shall be adopted by resolution of the Board not later than March 1 of each year, and shall comment on the zoning regulations which were the subject of variance requests, and shall make recommendations for any amendments to the zoning regulations that the Board may deem appropriate based upon prior variance applications.