N.J. Admin. Code § 7:7-4.13

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 12, June 17, 2024

Section 7:7-4.13 - Permit-by-rule 13 - installation of solar panels on a maintained lawn or landscaped area at a single-family home or duplex lot

(a) This permit-by-rule authorizes the installation of solar panels on a maintained lawn or landscaped area at a single-family home or duplex lot, provided:

1. The solar panel development shall not be located in or on dunes, beaches, wetlands, floodways, or coastal bluffs;

2. The solar panel development shall be set back a minimum of 50 feet from the inland limit of any wetlands, beach, or dune;

3. The maintained lawn or landscaped area is not subject to a previous coastal permit requirement that it remain as vegetative cover; and

4. The solar panel development shall not be located within an area mapped as threatened or endangered species habitat on the Department's Landscape Maps of Habitat for Endangered, Threatened and Other Priority Wildlife (Landscape Maps), except as provided at (a)4i and ii below. The Landscape Maps are available from the Department's Division of Fish and Wildlife, Endangered and Nongame Species Program at http://www.nj.gov/dep/fgw/ensp/landscape/index.htm;

i. The solar panel(s) is located within 120 feet of an existing building on an actively maintained lawn or area of land that has been manipulated by contouring of the soil and/or by intentional planting of flowers, grasses, shrubs, trees or other ornamental vegetation, which is maintained in such a condition by regular and frequent (at least one time per year) cutting, mowing, pruning, planting, weeding or mulching; or

ii. The solar panel(s) is located on legally existing impervious cover.

N.J. Admin. Code § 7:7-4.13

Renumbered from 7:7-7.2(a)(14) by 47 N.J.R. 1392(a), effective 7/6/2015

Amended by 50 N.J.R. 361(a), effective 1/16/2018

Administrative Change, 51 N.J.R. 1193(a).