These rules, regulations and standards for guiding the subdivision and development of land within Pohatcong Township have been promulgated to provide for the orderly growth and coordinated development of the Township of Pohatcong and to assure and promote the comfort, convenience, safety, public health and general welfare of its people and, further, that the approval of such subdivisions and site plans shall be administered in accordance with the following considerations:

A. Conformance with the various parts of the Master Plan, Chapter 285, Zoning, and the Official Map.

B. Recognition of a desirable relationship to the general land form, its topographic and geologic character, to natural drainage and surface water runoff and to the groundwater table.

C. Recognition of desirable standards of site design, including adequate provision for pedestrian and vehicular traffic, parking, loading, lighting, surface water runoff, utilities and for suitable building sites for the land use contemplated.

D. Provision for such facilities as are desirable adjuncts to the contemplated use, such as parks, recreation areas, school sites, firehouses and off-street parking.

E. Preservation of such natural assets as ponds, streams, shrubs and trees.

F. Provisions for conservation of energy, the use of renewable resources and recycling of designated recyclable materials.