The Planning Board shall prepare and after public hearing adopt or amend a Master Plan, or component parts thereof, to guide the use of lands within the Township in a manner which protects public health and safety and promotes the general welfare.

The Master Plan shall generally comprise a report or statement and the land and development proposals, with maps, diagrams, and text, presenting where appropriate, the following elements:

A. A statement of objectives, principles, assumptions, policies, and standards upon which the constituent proposals for the physical, economic and social development of the Township are based;

B. A land use plan element:

(1) Taking into account the other Master Plan elements and natural conditions, including but not being necessarily limited to topography, soil conditions, water supply, drainage, floodplain areas, marshes, and woodlands;

(2) Showing the existing and proposed location, extent and intensity of development of land to be used in the future for varying types of residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational, educational and other public and private purposes or combination of purposes; and

(3) Including a statement of the standards of population density and development intensity recommended for the Township.

C. A housing plan element, including but not limited to, residential standards and proposals for the construction and improvement of housing;

D. A circulation plan element showing the location and types of facilities for all modes of transportation required for the efficient movement of people and goods into, about, and through the Township;

E. Utility service plan element analyzing the need for and showing the future general location of water supply and distribution facilities, drainage and flood control facilities, sewerage and waste treatment, solid waste disposal and provision for other related utilities;

F. A community facilities plan element showing the location and type of educational or cultural facilities, historic sites, libraries, hospitals, firehouses, police stations, and other related facilities, including their relation to the surrounding areas;

G. A recreation plan element showing a comprehensive system of areas and public sites for recreation;

H. A conservation plan element providing for the preservation, conservation, and utilization of natural resources, including to the extent appropriate, open space, water, forests, soil, marshes, wetlands, harbors, rivers and other waters, fisheries, wildlife and other natural resources;

I. Appendices or separate reports containing the technical foundation for the Master Plan and its constituent elements;

J. An energy conservation plan that would systematically analyze the impact of each other component and element of the Master Plan on the present and future use of energy in the Township, detail specific measures contained in the other plan elements designed to reduce energy consumption and proposes other measures that the Township may take to reduce energy consumption and to provide for the maximum utilization of renewal energy sources.

The Master Plan and its plan elements may be divided into subplans and subplan elements projected according to periods of time or staging sequences.

The Master Plan shall include a specific policy statement indicating the relationship of the proposed development of the Township as developed in the Master Plan to:

A. The Master Plans of contiguous municipalities.

B. The Master Plan of Monmouth County.

C. Any comprehensive guide plan promulgated by the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs.