N.J. Admin. Code § 7:50-5.43

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 24, December 18, 2024

Section 7:50-5.43 - Pinelands Development Credits established

(a) Except for land which is owned by a public agency on January 14, 1981, land which is thereafter purchased by the State for conservation purposes, land which is subject to an easement limiting the use of land to nonresidential uses or land otherwise excluded from entitlement pursuant to (b) below, every parcel of land in the Preservation Area District, an Agricultural Production Area or a Special Agricultural Production Area shall have a use right known as "Pinelands Development Credits" that can be used to secure a density bonus for lands located in Regional Growth Areas.

(b)Pinelands Development Credits are hereby established at the following ratios:

1. In the Preservation Area District, including those areas designated pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:50-5.22(b)7:

i. Uplands which are undisturbed but currently or previously approved for resource extraction pursuant to this Plan: two Pinelands Development Credits per 39 acres;

ii. Uplands which are mined as a result of a resource extraction permit approved pursuant to this Plan: zero Pinelands Development Credits per 39 acres;

iii. Other uplands: one Pinelands Development Credit per 39 acres; and

iv. Wetlands: two-tenths Pinelands Development Credits per 39 acres.

2. In the Agricultural Production Area and Special Agricultural Production Area:

i. Uplands which are undisturbed but approved for resource extraction pursuant to this Plan: two Pinelands Development Credits per 39 acres;

ii. Uplands which are mined as a result of a resource extraction permit approved pursuant to this Plan: zero Pinelands Development Credits per 39 acres;

iii. Other uplands and areas of active berry agricultural bogs and fields: two Pinelands Development Credits per 39 acres;

iv. Wetlands in active field agricultural use currently and as of February 7, 1979: two Pinelands Development Credits per 39 acres; and

v. Other wetlands: two-tenths Pinelands Development Credits per 39 acres.

3. The allocations established in (b)1 and 2 above shall be reduced as follows:

i. Any parcel of 10 acres or less which is developed for a commercial, industrial, resource extraction, intensive recreation, institutional, campground or landfill use shall not receive Pinelands Development Credit entitlement. For such an improved parcel of more than 10 acres, the area actively used for such use or 10 acres, whichever is greater, shall not receive Pinelands Development Credit entitlement.

ii. The Pinelands Development Credit entitlement for a parcel of land shall be reduced by .25 PDC for each existing dwelling unit on the parcel;

iii. The Pinelands Development Credit entitlement for a parcel of land shall be reduced by .25 PDC for each reserved right to build a dwelling unit on the parcel retained by the owner of the parcel pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:50-5.44(b).

4. Pinelands Development Credit allocations shall be calculated for an entire parcel as it exists at the time an application for a Letter of Interpretation is submitted to the Commission pursuant to N.J.A.C. 7:50-4.73 or, at the request of the applicant, for individual lots specified in the application.

5. Pinelands Development Credit allocations exceeding one-quarter of a Pinelands Development Credit shall be rounded to the nearest one-quarter of a Credit.

6. If the allocations established in (b)1, 2, and 4 above are less than one-quarter of a Pinelands Development Credit, the allocation shall be increased to one-quarter of a Pinelands Development Credit if the owner of record of one-tenth or greater acres of land in the Preservation Area District, Agricultural Production Areas, and Special Agricultural Production Areas, as of February 7, 1979, owns a vacant parcel of land that was not in common ownership with any contiguous land on or after February 7, 1979, and the parcel has not been sold or transferred except to a member of the owners immediate family.

7. The provisions of (b)6 above shall also apply to owners of record of less than one-tenth acres of land in the Preservation Area District, Agricultural Production Areas, and Special Agricultural Production Areas, as of February 7, 1979, provided that said owners acquire vacant, contiguous lands to which Pinelands Development Credits are allocated pursuant to (a) and (b) above which lands, when combined with the acreage of the parcel owned prior to February 7, 1979, total at least one-tenth of an acre.

8. The total allocations made pursuant to (b)6 and 7 above to any owner of record shall not exceed one-half of a Pinelands Development Credit. At such time as the application of (b)6 and 7 above would exceed a total allocation of one-half of a Pinelands Development Credit to an owner, all remaining lands of that owner in excess of that needed to yield the one-half Pinelands Development Credit allocation shall be entitled to an allocation of Pinelands Development Credits according to the allocation formulas specified in (b)1, 2, and 3 above.

(c) The owners of parcels of land which are smaller than 39 acres shall have fractional Pinelands Development Credits at the same ratio established in (b) above for the management area in which the parcel is located.

N.J. Admin. Code § 7:50-5.43

Amended by 46 N.J.R. 1877(b), effective 9/2/2014.