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1 NEW JERSEY STATE LEAGUE OF MUNICIPALITIES VS DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS, ET AL -- rank: 1000

... Affairs (DCA) under the Residential Site Improvement Standards Act (Act). N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.1 to -40.7. At issue is whether the DCA ... to increased costs in residential construction without commensurate gains. See N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.2a. Municipalities clothed with the authority to zone had engendered ... discretionary design standards with objective residential site improvement standards. See N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.2d.     To reach that goal, the Legislature prescribed a format ... with the technical site improvement standards for residential development. See N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.2e. The Act authorized the establishment, and prescribed the composition, of a Site Improvement Advisory Board (Board). See N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.3. It charged the Board with implementing a uniform set ... all municipal ordinances prescribing residential subdivision and site improvement standards. N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.3, -40.4, -40.5.     The Act gave the ...

docket:	a3327-96
court:	njappellate
decided:	1998-03-16
status:	published
citation:	310 N.J.Super. 224
Document Size:	41547

2 Larry Price v. Himeji, LLC -- rank: 901

... the requirement imposed by the Residential Site Improvement Standards (RSIS), N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.1 to -40.7; N.J.A.C. 5:21 ...

docket:	A-46-11
court:	NJ Supreme Court
decided:	2013-06-25
status:
citation:
Document Size:	125209

3 League of Municipalities v. Department of Community Affairs -- rank: 893

... Affairs (DCA) pursuant to the Residential Site Improvement Standards Act, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.1 to 40.7 (the Act). Those regulations establish a ... roadways, other circulation facilities and water, sewerage and drainage facilities. N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.5. Another provision of the Act, however, stated that "nothing ... in any way limit the zoning power of any municipality." N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.6.     The Act established an Advisory Board (the Board) to ... the promulgation of the regulations. Relying on the language of N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.6 that nothing in the regulations "shall in any way ... regulations were facially valid. In so holding, it found that N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.6 was not violated because the Legislature had modified municipal ... accept the League's literal interpretation of the language of N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.6 that nothing contained in the Act can in ...

docket:	a-199-97
court:	njsupreme
decided:	1999-05-13
status:
citation:	158 N.J. 211
Document Size:	29131

4 Northgate Condominium Association, Inc. v. Borough of Hillsdale Planning Board -- rank: 824

... Site Improvement Standards Act, L. 1993, c. 32, codified at N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.1 to -40.7, as part of which the Commissioner ... directed to promulgate statewide residential development site improvement standards. See N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.3 to -40.4. The purpose of that statute was ... set of technical site improvement standards for land development.ā€¯ N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.2. After a lengthy period of study and consideration of ...

docket:	A-5-11
court:	NJ Supreme Court
decided:	2013-05-13
status:
citation:	214 N.J. 120 68 A.3d 292
Document Size:	96278

5 D.D. RESIDENTIAL LTD PARTNERSHIP - v. NEW JERSEY PINELANDS COMMISSION - -- rank: 802

... with requirements under the Residential Site Improvement Standards Act (RSIS), N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.1 to -40.7, enacted in the 1990s after the ...

docket:	a1464-10
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2012-07-27
status:	unpublished
citation:
Document Size:	48882

6 NEW JERSEY TRANSIT CORPORATION v. MARY FRANCO -- rank: 771

... connection with," site improvements such as streets in residential developments. N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.1, -40.2(e), -40.2(f); see Northgate Condo ... improvement standards incorporated within the development ordinances of any municipality." N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.5. However, the RSIS do not purport to determine whether ... review are best separated from the making of technical determinations." N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.2(g); see N.J. State League of Municipalities v ... in any way limit the zoning power of any municipality." N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.6. Similarly, "[n]othing contained in these rules shall be ...

docket:	a3802-12
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2016-10-19
status:	published
citation:	447 N.J.Super. 361 148 A.3d 424
Document Size:	77241

7 AARON STEFANSKY v. ZONING BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT OF THE TOWNSHIP OF LAKEWOOD -- rank: 734

... the Department of Community Affairs pursuant to the RSIS Act, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.1 to -40.7, designed to establish a uniform set ...

docket:	a5180-11
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2013-05-23
status:	unpublished
citation:
Document Size:	51455

8 BUILDERS LEAGUE OF SOUTH JERSEY v. BOROUGH OF HADDONFIELD -- rank: 679

... the MLUL by enacting the Site Improvement Standards Act (Act), N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.1 to -40.7, to 'replace the 'multiplicity of standards ... Hillsdale Planning Bd., 214 N.J. 120, 143 (2013) (citing N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.2). The Act and subsequently adopted standards were intended to ... improvement standards incorporated within the development ordinances of any municipality . . . .' N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.5. The DEP's Model Ordinance offers guidance to municipalities ...

docket:	a5588-18
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2021-03-03
status:	Unpublished
citation:
Document Size:	28960

9 TOLL BROS., INC. v. TOWNSHIP OF LEBANON PLANNING BOARD -- rank: 669

... not required. The legislature enacted the RSIS Act (the Act), N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.1 to -40.7, in 1993 to create uniform site ... the Act supersede any site improvement standards in municipal ordinances. N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.5. Implementing regulations were adopted in 1997. The RSIS were ...

docket:	A0116-04
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2006-08-16
status:	unpublished
citation:
Document Size:	95930

10 JOSEPH KUSHNER HEBREW ACADEMY INC v. TOWNSHIP OF LIVINGSTON -- rank: 566

... Community Affairs pursuant to the Residential Site Improvement Standards Act, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.1 to -40.7. Norris v. Borough of Leonia , 160 ...

docket:	a5797-10
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2013-08-30
status:	unpublished
citation:
Document Size:	99339

11 TOWNSHIP OF NORTH BRUNSWICK v. RENAISSANCE VILLAGE I CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC. -- rank: 559

... have to be obtained from the Planning Board pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.2, which mandated statewide uniform site improvement standards and superceded existing municipal standards. N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.5. The generic term "associations" refers to all three associations ...

docket:	A0156-05
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2007-01-25
status:	unpublished
citation:
Document Size:	45592

12 F.M. KIRBY v. TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE TOWNSHIP OF BEDMINSTER, IN THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET, et al. -- rank: 551

... attack on the lot averaging ordinance in the following terms:          N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40 is entitled " Discretionary contents of subdivision ordinance ." While the [statute ... R-10 zone. Its flexibility accords with its enabling legislation, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40, which provides:          An ordinance requiring subdivision approval by the planning ...

docket:	A1682-98
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2000-06-23
status:	published
citation:	341 N.J. Super. 276
Document Size:	46109

13 SAVE HAMILTON OPEN SPACE v. HAMILTON TOWNSHIP PLANNING BOARD -- rank: 501

... management, adopted pursuant to the Residential Site Improvement Standards Act, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.1 to -40.7, commonly referred to as the Residential ...

docket:	a1795-07
court:	NJ Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2008-11-07
status:	unpublished
citation:	404 N.J.Super. 278 961 A.2d 732
Document Size:	56450

14 MICHAEL J. KING, v. HARMONY TOWNSHIP LAND USE BOARD -- rank: 467

... the DEP amended its Residential Site Improvement Standards (RSIS) guidelines, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.1 to -40.7; N.J.A.C. 5:21 ...

docket:	a6255-12
court:	New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division
decided:	2015-03-09
status:	Published
citation:
Document Size:	23239

15 ARTHUR & CATHERINE BUBEN, h/w et al. v. PLANNING BOARD OF SEA ISLE CITY, et al. -- rank: 431

... pursuant to the New Jersey Uniform Site Improvement Standards Act, N.J.S.A. 40:55D-40.1 to -40.7, and adopted in l997. The new ...

docket:	a5715-04
court:	njappellate
decided:	2006-07-26
status:	unpublished
citation:	*CITE_PENDING*
Document Size:	58332