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SECTION 14 - RELATIONSHIP TO ADJOINING COMMUNITY MASTER PLANS The Municipal Land Use Law requires that community master plans consider their relationship to the master plans of adjoining municipalities, as well as to the County and State Development Plans. N.J.S. 40:55D-28.d indicates the following:

The Master Plan shall include a specific policy statement indicating the relationship of the proposed development of the municipality as developed in the master plan to (1) the master plans of contiguous municipalities, (2) the master plan of the county in which the municipality is located, (3) the State Development and Redevelopment Plan, adopted pursuant to the “State Planning Act, “ sections 1 through 12 of P.L. 1985, c. 398 (C. 52:18A-196 et seq.) and (4) the district solid waste management plan required pursuant to the provisions of the “Solid Waste Management Act.” P.L. 1970, c. 39 (C. 13:1E-1 et seq.) of the county in which the municipality is located.

There are two communities in Union County that adjoin the Borough of Garwood; Westfield and Cranford. Cranford The Township of Cranford last adopted a comprehensive master plan in October of 1979. The most recent master plan re-examination report was performed and adopted in 2002. The Township of Cranford has land use classifications, and has zoned land abutting Garwood, as follows:

Table 14-1

Zoning Consistency with Cranford, New Jersey

Location

Land Use / Zoning

Garwood Proposed Land Use

Compatibility/ Garwood Lots

North side of Brookside Single Family:10,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size:smaller South side of Brookside Single Family:8,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size:smaller Both sides of Cedar Single Family:8,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size:smaller Both sides of Moss Single Family:8,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size:smaller Both sides of Victoria Single Family:8,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size:smaller South side of Gallow Hill Single Family:8,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size:smaller Both sides of Park Single Family:6,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size:similar Both sides of Woods Hole Single Family:12,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size:smaller Both sides of Ramsgate Single Family:12,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size:smaller Both sides of Tulip Single Family:12,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size:smaller Both sides of West End Single Family:8,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size:smaller North side Gallow Hill Single Family:5,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size: same North side of North Single Family:5,000 SF lots Office/Retail Use:No South side of North Single Family:5,000 SF lots Industrial Use:No / Lot size: larger Both sides of South Commercial Service Oriented Use:Similar Both sides of Johnson Single Family:5,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size: same Both sides of New Single Family:5,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size: same


Location

Land Use / Zoning

Garwood Proposed Land Use

Compatibility/ Garwood Lots

Both sides of James Single Family:5,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size: same Both sides of Besler Single Family:5,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size: same Both sides of Preston Single Family:5,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size: same Both sides of Roosevelt Single Family:5,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size: same South side of Rankin Single Family:5,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size: same North side of Lexington to Burnside Single Family:5,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size: same Both sides of Burnside Single Family:5,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size: same North side of Lexington from Hickory Single Family:6,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size: similar North side of Union Single Family:6,000 SF lots Park Use: Yes

Westfield The Town of Westfield last adopted a master plan in 2002 and updated it in 2004 and 2005. The Town of Westfield is currently (2009) addressing additional planning issues in a new master plan amendment. The Town of Westfield has land use classifications, and has zoned land abutting Garwood, as follows:

Table 14-2

Zoning Consistency with Westfield, New Jersey

Location Land Use / Zoning Garwood Zoning Compatibility North side of Grandview Single Family:12,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size: smaller North side of Azalea Single Family:12,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size: smaller Terminus of Columbus Senior Housing RA Use: Somewhat Both sides of Columbus east of Sycamore Single Family:8,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size: smaller Both sides of Columbus west of Sycamore to Grove

Single Family:6,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size: similar

North side of grove Multi Family RA Use: Somewhat Both sides of Myrtle Multi Family RA Use: Somewhat Both sides of Windsor / Willow Commercial Two Family Use: No North side of South Commercial Industrial Use: No South side of South Commercial Service Oriented Use: Somewhat South side of North Commercial Commercial Use:Yes North side of North Single Family:10,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size: smaller Both sides of Chestnut Single Family: 10,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size: smaller Both sides of 4th Single Family: 10,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size: smaller Both sides of Sherman Single Family: 10,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size: smaller Both sides of Union Single Family: 10,000 SF lots RA Use:Yes / Lot size: smaller



Union County Union County prepared and adopted a Long Range Strategic Plan for Union County in 1996. More recently, in 2005 the County and all the municipalities within the County took part in the Cross Acceptance process.

Cross Acceptance is a two phase process developed by the State Planning Commission (SPC) empowered by the State Planning Act of 1985, N.J.S.A. 52:18A-196 et seq., to update the State Development and Redevelopment Plan (SDRP) known as the State Plan. The objective of this process

consists of updating the State Plan approximately every three years along with fostering a cooperative nature between municipalities, counties, and state agencies through this process.

Counties are generally selected as “Negotiating Entities” with the responsibility to compare local plans and county plans in relation to the State Plan. As negotiating entities, Counties request participation and input regarding the policies of the Preliminary State Plan. As a result of this comparative process the County prepares a Cross Acceptance Report that is subsequently submitted to the Office of Smart Growth for review in relation to the Preliminary State Plan.10

The final cross acceptance report was filed with the Office of Smart Growth on February 28, 2005. The following pages are excerpts from that report that involve the Borough of Garwood.

10 http://www.ucnj.org/p&cr/cross05.html







State Development Guide Plan (SDRP) The New Jersey State Development and Redevelopment Plan (SDRP) is required by the State Planning Act of 1985 and establishes State level planning policy. The current Plan was adopted by the State Planning Commission in 2001 and is required to be updated on a three year cycle. The SDRP is amended through a three-phase process and includes the preliminary plan, the interim plan and the final plan. The SDRP policies apply statewide except for the Hackensack Meadowlands district, the Pinelands and CAFRA areas. The Plan is intended to be utilized as a general framework whereby municipalities, counties and state agencies and special districts guide major policy decisions.

On April 28, 2004, the New Jersey State Planning Commission approved the release of the Preliminary State Development and Redevelopment Plan (State Plan) and the Preliminary State Plan Policy Map. This action launched the third round of Cross-acceptance. Cross-acceptance is a bottom-up approach to planning, designed to encourage consistency between municipal, county, regional, and state plans to create a meaningful, up-to-date and viable State Plan (N.J.S.A. 52:18A-202.b.). This process is meant to ensure that all New Jersey residents and levels of government have the opportunity to participate and shape the goals, strategies and policies of the State Plan.11

Cross-Acceptance is the process by which municipalities actively participate in the comparison of the content of their local planning efforts to the proposed SDRP (or its revisions) with negotiations concerning the proposed goals and policies. Several phases are involved in the cross acceptance process including the comparison phase (preliminary state plan compared to local plans), the negotiation phase (public hearings and several rounds of negotiating changes in the proposed policies, mediated by the counties), and the final review process (21 public hearings-one in each county-and acceptance of written comments on the Plan). Garwood believes that the State Plan will have not have a material effect on local planning. The Borough of Garwood has been designated as a PA 1, metropolitan planning area 1. The metropolitan planning areas include postwar suburbs and urban centers that are fully or almost fully developed, so further development is dominated by intensification of land uses through redevelopment and reuse. 11 http://www.nj.gov/dca/osg/plan/crossacceptance.shtml

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