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Township of Middletown Master Plan October 27, 2004 Township of Middletown Master Plan October 27, 2004 Prepared by the Middletown Township Department of Planning and Community Development Anthony P. Mercantante, PP, AICP Jason A. Greenspan, PP, AICP Director of Planning Senior Planner PP Lic. # 4881 PP Lic. #5460 MIDDLETOWN MASTER PLAN P LANNING B OARD Judith H. Stanley, Chairman John Deus, Vice Chairman* Bernadette McManus, Mayors Designee Cliff Raisch* Rosemarie D. Peters Anne Prewett William Warters* Mary Lou Strong Carl Rathjen* Candace Cade, Alternate 1 Maureen Unsinn*, Alternate 2 * Members Participating in Master Plan Update Lawrence A. Carton III Planning Board Attorney DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Anthony P. Mercantante, P.P., AICP Director Jason Greenspan, P.P., AICP Senior Planner Eleanor L. D'Antoni, Planning Department Secretary Rosemary Minear, Planning and Zoning Board Secretary GIS Consultant – Maser Engineering Environmental Consultant – T&M Associates Cover Photos (left to right from top left): Navesink River and Hartshorne Woods; Middletown Cultural Arts Center; Chapel Hill Front Range Light at the Leonardo waterfront; Leonardo Elementary School; Campbell’s Junction storefronts; World Trade Center Memorial Gardens; Town Hall; Grover House; Belford Seaport. MIDDLETOWN MASTER PLAN TABLE OF CONTENTS I. STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES, PRINCIPLES, ASSUMPTIONS, POLICIES & STANDARDS 1 II. LAND USE ELEMENT* 6 III. CIRCULATION ELEMENT 21 IV. UTILITY SERVICE ELEMENT 36 V. COMMUNITY FACILITIES ELEMENT 39 VI. OPEN SPACE, RECREATION AND CONSERVATION PLAN 48 VII. HISTORIC PRESERVATION ELEMENT 83 VIII. RECYCLING ELEMENT 88 IX. HOUSING ELEMENT** 90 *Land Use Element Amended 7/15/09 **Replaced by Amended Housing Element and Fair Share Plan adopted 12/11/08 APPENDIX: MCCLEES CREEK STUDY (LAST REVISED 2/26/03) MAPS EXISTING LAND USE FUTURE LAND USE ROAD CLASSIFICATIONS & BIKEWAYS MASS TRANSIT UTILITIES COMMUNITY FACILITIES CONSERVATION RECREATION & OPEN SPACE FARMLAND HISTORIC RESOURCES RECYCLING DISTRICTS & FACILITIES AFFORDABLE HOUSING STATE PLANNING AREAS MIDDLETOWN MASTER PLAN Objectives, Principles, Assumptions, Policies & Standards general welfare of present and future I. STATEMENT OF residents. OBJECTIVES, PRINCIPLES, ASSUMPTIONS, POLICIES & 2. To secure safety of the community, to the extent possible from fire, flood, STANDARDS panic and other natural and man- made disasters. The Middletown Township Master Plan is a general guide for the physical, 3. To provide adequate light, air and economic and social development of the open space. Township. The Master Plan was developed in accordance with the 4. To ensure that development with the provisions of the New Jersey Municipal Township does not conflict with the Land Use Law (N.J.S.A. 40:55 D) and is development and general welfare of designed to guide development and neighboring municipalities, the redevelopment of lands within the County, the Region, and the State as Township in a manner which will a whole. promote and protect the public health, safety, morals, and general welfare of 5. To promote the establishment of the present and future residents of appropriate population densities in Middletown Township. locations that will contribute to the well being of persons and The Middletown Township Master Plan neighborhoods and preservation of is based upon objectives, principles, the environment. assumptions, policies and standards which have been developed over a 6. To encourage the appropriate and period of time by the Township Planning efficient expenditure of public funds Board, Township Committee, Zoning by coordinating public and private Board of Adjustment, and other boards investment and development within a and agencies within the Township. framework of land use and Master Plan proposals for the physical, development principles and policies. economic and social development of Middletown Township are based upon 7. To provide sufficient space in the following: appropriate locations within the Township for agricultural, residential, Objectives business, office, industrial, mixed use, and public and quasi-public uses The Middletown Township Master Plan in a manner which will provide for is based on several objectives: balanced Township growth and development. 1. To encourage municipal actions which will guide the long range 8. To support the upgrading of appropriate use, development and substandard housing in the Township preservation of lands within through code enforcement, home Middletown Township in a manner improvement loans, technical designed and intended to promote assistance, education, ordinance the public health, safety, morals and 1 MIDDLETOWN MASTER PLAN Objectives, Principles, Assumptions, Policies & Standards amendments, grants and provision of balance inevitable growth and land public improvements such as new development with preservation needs. streets, sidewalks, street lighting, street trees, drainage and sanitary 14. To encourage the preservation and sewage. restoration of historic buildings and sites within the Township in order to 9. To encourage the location and design maintain the heritage of Middletown of transportation and circulation Township for enjoyment of future routes which will promote the free generations. flow of traffic in appropriate locations while discouraging 15. To encourage streamlining roadways in areas which would development review procedures and result in new congestion, blight or a to the extent possible simplification substantial alteration to the character of the development standards and of an area. regulations to create a more efficient process which will help in reducing 10. To promote and enhance access to development costs. and utilization of all forms of public and mass transportation, including 16. To enhance the various promoting the use of shuttles to link neighborhoods throughout the transit centers with each other, as Township by providing for well as with residents and businesses. appropriate redevelopment, reinvestment, revitalization and 11. To promote a desirable visual capital improvements, designed to environment through creative strengthen and improve the fabric of development techniques with respect each area. to environmental assets and constraints of the overall Township 17. To encourage and promote a and of individual development sites. cooperative approach to economic development and revitalization 12. To promote the conservation of open through new investment, space through protection of wetlands, maintenance and reinvestment in stream corridors, steep slopes and existing commercial and industrial valuable natural resources and activities within the Township in prevent degradation of the areas suitable for such development. environment through improper use of land. 18. To encourage the efficient management of storm water through 13. To acquire, develop and maintain the development of appropriate park and recreation facilities as well guidelines which will prevent future as lands for purely open drainage problems and provide space/conservation purposes within environmentally sound land use the Township to meet reasonable planning. Emphasis should be needs and demands for recreation by consistent with the State of New present and future residents and to Jersey’s recently enacted stormwater management regulations. 2 MIDDLETOWN MASTER PLAN Objectives, Principles, Assumptions, Policies & Standards 19. To encourage the preservation and 4. Encouraging a development pattern active use of prime farmland for which will protect and enhance the agricultural production through long term economic, social and development of appropriate welfare interests of present and guidelines based upon state and future residents of the Township. municipal legislation and preservation techniques. 5. Continued recognition of the Township’s unique and historic 20. To control the bulk and scale of pattern of neighborhoods and single-family residential structures in villages. Efforts have been ongoing order to maintain consistency with to enhance, redevelop and improve neighborhood character and to avoid these areas throughout the Township. new structures that are Such endeavors should be continued. disproportionately large, compared to the lots that they are on. 6. Mixed use development should be encouraged in appropriate location, Principles including neighborhood and village centers such as Belford (Campbell’s The Middletown Township Master Plan Junction), Lincroft Village, is based upon several land use and land Leonardo, North Middletown and in development principles. These include: certain state highway locations. 1. Encouraging residential development 7. The Township should continue to in locations and at densities which monitor commuter parking needs and are compatible with existing issues and enhance commuter development patterns and which can parking and access to all modes of be properly serviced by public mass transportation. roadways, utilities and services. Assumptions 2. Locating public, commercial, industrial, professional office and The Middletown Township Master Plan agricultural uses at sites and in is based upon several assumptions: locations which are suitable for their use environmentally, economically 1. That there will be no catastrophic and geographically, and are man-made or natural disasters which compatible with existing uses, public will greatly affect the existing facilities, roadways, and natural natural and/or cultural development features. of the Township or the Township's ability to implement the Master Plan. 3. Protection
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