Monday, August 15, 2011
NEWS
Little Silver Mulling Removal of Age Restriction for Proposed Condo Complex (Kulaga, Little Silver-Oceanport Patch) Little Silver, Monmouth County
“Public concerns have caused the Little Silver Planning Board to carefully consider the impact of allowing a previously approved but undeveloped 39-unit condominium complex to remove its age restriction, pushing back their vote on the matter for a special meeting to be held on Sept. 13.”
GEMS Area Landowner Wins Approval (McCullen, Gloucester Township Patch) Gloucester, Gloucester County
“A developer can proceed with a 5-year-old plan to build 18 homes in the shadow of the Gloucester Environmental Management Services (GEMS) landfill following an Appellate Court decision last month that labeled the township Planning Board’s decision to shoot down a preliminary site plan “arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable.”
OPINION
From brownfields to opportunity (Martin and Franzini, northjersey.com) Statewide
“The state’s brownfields redevelopment program is a national model, for two decades turning contaminated and underutilized parcels into opportunities for economic growth.”
Thursday, December 2, 2010 (Morning)
NEWS
Subtraction pending for addition (Frankel, Bloomfield Life) Bloomfield, Essex County
“Two Halcyon Park residents have been ordered to tear down a home addition that was ruled illegal, even after the township originally gave them a go-ahead to build.”
RFP
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CASE
Dreskin v. ZBA of the Township of Jackson (Appellate Division, Jackson, Ocean County)
Appellate Division affirms Law Division’s ruling that the ZBA did not act in an arbitrary, unreasonable, or capricious manner in granting a conditional use variance to allow a wrestling school as a home occupation.”
Friday, November 5, 2010 (Morning)
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NEWS
What Comes After COAH? (McDermott, NJ Spotlight) Statewide
“The overhaul of New Jersey’s affordable housing system is going back to the drawing board.”
Gloucester Twp. among towns plotting redevelopment for when the market rebounds (Osborne, The Inquirer) Gloucester Township, Gloucester County
“The days of developers jumping over one another to turn a farm into a shopping center are long gone.”
Affordable housing plan opposed by Clinton Township citizen’s group (Dawson, The Hunterdon Review) Clinton, Hunterdon County
“A citizen’s group has lodged a formal objection to the township’s affordable housing plan with the Council on Affordable Housing (COAH), but the plan will likely change anyway because of a recent state Appellate Court ruling.”
Proposed tree ordinance creates ‘property rights’ issues in Clinton Township (Dawson, The Hunterdon Review) Clinton, Hunterdon County
“A lot of people had a lot to say about a proposed tree ordinance at the council’s Wednesday, Oct. 27 meeting — and they’re pretty evenly divided pro and con.”
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 (Morning)
NEWS
Plans for smaller temple (Forrest, Parsippany Life) Parsippany, Morris County
“Testimony on the International Swaminarayan Satsang Organization (ISSO) Hindu temple application, which has been majorly scaled back from the original plan, resumed at a recent Parsippany Zoning Board of Adjustment hearing.”
OPINION
Redevelopment reform still lacks (Staff Editorial, The Gloucester County Times) East Greenwich, Gloucester County/Statewide
“A case in East Greenwich Township is a reminder that the Legislature still hasn’t enacted reforms to prevent use of eminent domain by towns too eager to tear down private property and hand it to chosen redevelopers.”
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 (Morning)
NEWS
Deptford Township hotel project gains early approval (Hefler, The Philadelphia Inquirer) Deptford, Gloucester County
“The latest vision for a vacant Deptford Township parcel eyed by several developers before the economic downturn has progressed despite the slow economy.”
Residents concerned about New Jersey Motorsports Park’s proposed motocross track (Landau, The Daily Journal) Millville, Cumberland County
“Members of the public voiced their concerns about a proposed motocross facility at the New Jersey Motorsports Park at Tuesday’s City Commission meeting.”
OPINION
Affordable housing plan makes town unaffordable (Klein, for the Home News Tribune)
“This is in response to the article in the July 25 edition of the Home News Tribune by Kevin Walsh, Director of Fair Share Housing Center concerning Senate Bill S-1 to eliminate COAH (Council on Affordable Housing).
COURT OPINION
PPF Industrial — Route 130/Exit 8A, LLC v. Planning Board of Township of South Brunswick (Appellate Division) South Brunswick, Middlesex County
Appellate Division affirms Law Division’s decision that Board’s action denying a bulk variance was arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable.
Monday, August 2, 2010 (Morning)
NEWS
500 residences to replace old dumpsite (Kaulessar, The Hudson Reporter) Jersey City, Hudson County
“Where factories, warehouses, and a junkyard once stood on a 10-acre site on Monmouth Street, 500 new homes may rise in an entire new section of downtown Jersey City.”
@Issue: Is an expanded tax base worth it? (Jordan, The Daily Record) Statewide
“When an industrial zoning change recently was adopted in Hillsborough, officials in the Somerset County township said their aim was to stimulate commercial property values that could help offset the percentage of property taxes levied on homeowners.”
New Jersey’s solar-energy industry gets boost as state renews program to pay users (Ortiz, The Press of Atlantic City) Statewide
“Beneath a blazing sun, Dan Potkay’s crew fastened the final solar panels to the roof of a Brigantine dental office. The patchwork of 272 panels totals 49 kilowatts - enough to power 75 percent of the dental business and a neighboring arcade and save the owner about $7,100 per year, he said.”
OPINION
One lot is not redevelopment (Staff Editorial, The Gloucester County Times) Woodbury, Gloucester County
“Perhaps it’s a step in the right direction, but Woodbury City Council should explain what the direction is, now that it has spent $110,000 to acquire a vacant, condemned, pocket-sized Broad Street property.”
Highlands Act is an idea whose time has gone (Mulshine, The Star-Ledger) Highlands
“Perhaps it was a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand was doing.”
Don’t let towns block starter homes (Walsh, for the Courier-Post) Statewide
“New Jersey’s housing market is broken. Unfortunately, the Legislature is proposing to make things worse. The Legislature is considering a bill that would eliminate the Council on Affordable Housing without providing any alternative way to ensure housing for working families, seniors, and people with special needs is provided in New Jersey.”
Cleaner Raritan is an example (Spiegel, for the Courier-Post) Middlesex/Somerset Counties
“New Jersey is the most densely populated, overcrowded state in the nation, and the environmental problems facing our state are well documented. Yet that reputation makes it easy to lose sight of one key fact — New Jersey’s waters have greatly improved over the last few decades.”
