1. The Zoning Officer shall review an application for tentative approval within one week of delivery and shall notify the applicant of any deficiencies of certify the applicant as complete. Submissions of deficient items shall be reviewed in the same manner. The Zoning Officer shall, when all application materials are submitted, certify the application as complete. The date on which completion is certified shall constitute the official filing date.
2. The Planning Commission shall review the application at the next regular meeting scheduled 21 days or later from the official filing date.
3. The governing body shall hold a public hearing on the matter pursuant to public notice within 60 days of the official filing date. The governing body may hold subsequent hearings, provided that all hearings are concluded within 60 days of the initial hearing.
4. Decision. Within 60 days following the conclusion of the public hearings or 180 days from the official filing date, whichever is less, the governing body shall, by official written communication, either grant tentative approval of the development plan, as submitted; grant tentative approval of the development plan, subject to specified conditions not included in the development plan as submitted; or deny tentative approval. Failure to act within said period shall be deemed to be a grant of tentative approval of the development plan as submitted. In the event, however, that tentative approval is granted subject to conditions, the landowner may, within 30 days after receiving a copy of the official written communication of the governing body, notify the governing body of his refusal to accept all said conditions, in which case, the governing body shall be deemed to have denied tentative approval of the development plan. In the event that the landowner does not, within said period, notify the governing body of his refusal to accept all said conditions, tentative approval of the development plan, with all said conditions, shall stand as granted. The decision will be filed with the secretary of the governing body and the applicant. The decision shall include an approved schedule of final plan application filing which shall not be less than three months from the tentative approval date.
5. Tentative approval of a development plan shall not qualify a plat of the planned residential development for recording nor authorize development or the issuance of any building permits. A development plan which has been given tentative approval as submitted, or which has been given tentative approval with conditions which have been accepted by the landowner (and provided that the landowner has not defaulted nor violated any of the conditions of the tentative approval), shall not be modified or revoked nor otherwise impaired by action of the municipality pending an application or applications for final approval, without the consent of the landowner, provided an application or applications for final approval is filed or, in the case of development over a period of years, provided applications are filed, within the periods of time specified in the official written communication granting tentative approval.
6. In the event that a development plan is given tentative approval and thereafter, but prior to final approval, the landowner shall elect to abandon said development plan and shall so notify the governing body in writing, or in the event the landowner shall fail to file application or applications for final approval within the required period of time or times, as the case may be, the tentative approval shall be deemed to be revoked and all that portion of the area included in the development plan for which final approval has not been given shall be subject to those local ordinances otherwise applicable thereto as they may be amended from time to time, and the same shall be noted on the zoning map and in the records of the municipal secretary or clerk of the municipality.
(Ord. 935, 5/10/2018, §27-605)