New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › NEW JERSEY MEADOWLANDS COMMISSION › Chapter 3 - ADMINISTRATION › Subchapter 5 - REDEVELOPMENT AREAS › Section 19:3-5.7 - Criteria for determination of need for redevelopment

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) An area
				  shall be deemed to be in need of redevelopment if it is determined that any of
				  the following conditions exist:
1. The
				  generality of buildings are substandard, unsafe, unsanitary, dilapidated, or
				  obsolescent, or possess any such characteristics, or are so lacking in light,
				  air, or space, as to be conducive to unwholesome living or working
				  conditions;
2. The discontinuance
				  of the use of buildings previously utilized for commercial, manufacturing, or
				  industrial purposes; the abandonment of such buildings; or the same being
				  allowed to fall into so great a state of disrepair as to be
				  untenantable;
3. Land that is owned
				  by the NJMC, or other public entities, or unimproved vacant land that has
				  remained so for a period of 10 years prior to adoption of the resolution; or
				  land that by reason of its location, remoteness, lack of means of access to
				  developed sections or portions of the municipality, or topography, or nature of
				  the soil, is not likely to be developed through the instrumentality of private
				  capital;
4. Areas with buildings or
				  improvements that, by reason of dilapidation, obsolescence, overcrowding,
				  faulty arrangement or design, lack of ventilation, light and sanitary
				  facilities, excessive land coverage, deleterious land use or obsolete layout,
				  or any combination of these or other factors, are detrimental to the safety,
				  health, morals, or welfare of the community;
5. Lack of proper utilization of areas,
				  caused by the condition of the title, diverse ownership of the real property
				  therein, or other conditions resulting in a stagnant or not fully productive
				  condition of land potentially useful and valuable for contributing to and
				  serving the public health, safety and welfare;
6. Areas in excess of five contiguous acres,
				  whereon buildings or improvements have been destroyed, consumed by fire,
				  demolished or altered by the action of storm, fire, cyclone, tornado,
				  earthquake or other casualty in such a way that the aggregate assessed value of
				  the area has been materially depreciated;
7. Areas designated as an enterprise zone
				  pursuant to the New Jersey Urban Enterprise Zones Act,
				  52:27H-60 et seq., where the
				  execution of the actions prescribed in that act for the adoption by the
				  municipality and approval by the New Jersey Enterprise Zone Authority of the
				  zone development plan for the area of the enterprise zone shall be considered
				  sufficient for the determination that the area is in need of redevelopment
				  pursuant to
				  40A:12A-5 and
				  40A:12A-6 for the purpose of
				  granting tax exemptions within the enterprise zone district pursuant to the
				  provisions of
				  40A:20-1 et seq.; or
8. Areas, with or without improvements, where
				  there is historic evidence of illegal dumping activities; areas with evidence
				  of soil, groundwater, or surface water contamination; areas that, pursuant to
				  the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
				  (CERCLA), are listed on the CERCLA database; Federal, State, county, or
				  municipally designated brownfield areas; and/or areas on the New Jersey Known
				  Contaminated Sites List per N.J.S.A. 58:10-23.1 6 and 23.17.