Personal Thoughts on the Land Use Partnership Act - New Framework for Local/Regional Planning (Part 9)

This section is very simple establishing the valid life of the plan and the subsequent impacts on certification. The section reads;

9) Expiration and renewal of certified plan community status; amendments.

(a) A municipality’s status as a certified plan community shall expire ten years after the municipality’s effective date, unless a renewal plan, together with any necessary implementing regulations, is prepared, certified, and adopted in accordance with the provisions hereof prior to such date. Each such renewal plan shall also expire in ten years.

(b) From and after a municipality’s effective date, any material amendment to a certified plan or to any certified implementing regulations shall be prepared, certified and adopted in accordance with the provisions hereof. The Interagency Planning Board may by regulation define categories of amendments that shall be deemed non-material.

This is pretty straight forward, the plans and certifications are valid for a ten year time period, this is pretty standard. The requirement for renewal matches normal requirements for updating and readopting local plans. The amendment process also seems rather straight-forward.