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Appellate Court Doesn’t Buy Arguments from East Brunswick Used Car Salesmen, Requires Variance

By | Published August 2, 2021 | Posted in Land Use, Zoning | Tagged Tags: , , , | Comments Off on Appellate Court Doesn’t Buy Arguments from East Brunswick Used Car Salesmen, Requires Variance

The Appellate Division rejected an East Brunswick car wrecking business’s attempts to keep selling used cars without a use variance, holding it was not a preexisting nonconforming use, in Hidden Oak Woods, LLC v. P&F Giancola, d/b/a Giancola Wrecking and Auto Sales, 2021 N.J. Super. Unpub. __ (App. Div. 2021), Docket No. A-2704-19. Property owners Read More

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Piscataway community members challenge Zoning Board variance approval of giant warehouse development in residential zone

By | Published June 28, 2021 | Posted in Land Use, Planning, Real Estate, Zoning | Tagged Tags: , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Piscataway community members challenge Zoning Board variance approval of giant warehouse development in residential zone

Warehouse development is a controversial arena in the State of New Jersey. The most densely populated state in the country has little open and natural space to spare, yet that very population’s online purchases necessitate more and more facilities for product storage and distribution. The industry, which was already growing thanks to services such as Read More

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NJDEP new stormwater regulations are in effect

By | Published June 10, 2021 | Posted in Environmental Litigation, Land Use, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), New Jersey Environmental Laws, Zoning | Tagged Tags: , , , , , | Comments Off on NJDEP new stormwater regulations are in effect

Developers in New Jersey must now meet the State’s new stormwater regulations. New Jersey has had numerous generations of stormwater regulations, some of which have had to be revised following court challenges. Stormwater regulation is the control of rainwater that cannot not be naturally absorbed as a result of new development or disturbances. Poor stormwater Read More

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Warehouse Construction in NJ May Be Curtailed in Proposed Legislation

By | Published June 1, 2021 | Posted in Environmental & Natural Resources, Land Use, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), New Jersey Environmental Laws, Zoning | Tagged Tags: , , , , , | Comments Off on Warehouse Construction in NJ May Be Curtailed in Proposed Legislation

New Jersey State Senate subcommittees are currently considering a bill (S-3688) that aims to dramatically slow shipping and distribution warehouse construction across the State. Recently it seems that is the only thing that anyone has wanted to build in this state but some lawmakers believe that there may be such a thing as too many Read More

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Applications for apartment complexes across New Jersey face community pushback

By | Published May 24, 2021 | Posted in Land Use, Land Use Regulation Program (LURP), Planning, Zoning | Tagged Tags: , , , , | Comments Off on Applications for apartment complexes across New Jersey face community pushback

Zoning and planning boards across the state have recently been confronted with some contentious hearings regarding applications for apartment complexes near neighborhoods typically zoned for single-family homes. The zoning board in Woodcliff Lake denied an application in July 2019 after seven months of hearings that is currently before the same board again in amended form. Read More

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Contentious zoning board application heads to the final stage for approval

By | Published April 27, 2021 | Posted in Environmental & Natural Resources, Land Use, Pinelands, Planning, Wetlands, Zoning | Tagged Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Contentious zoning board application heads to the final stage for approval

The Robbinsville Zoning Board of Adjustment is likely to approve an application for the construction of new warehouse that community members are less than thrilled about. Alleging environmental concerns as well as fears of traffic increases, activists and residents alike have not been shy in expressing their concerns to the Board, with around 80 interested Read More

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NJ Supreme Court Sees Standing in Tax Lienholders to Challenge Municipal Approval

By | Published August 13, 2018 | Posted in Appeals, Environmental Issues, Land Use, Planning, Zoning | Comments Off on NJ Supreme Court Sees Standing in Tax Lienholders to Challenge Municipal Approval

NJ Supreme Court Sees Standing in Tax Lienholders to Challenge Municipal Approval On August 2, 2018, New Jersey’s Supreme Court held that a holder of a municipal tax lien may have standing to challenge a local planning board’s approval for a neighboring property.  The syllabus and opinion for this case, Cherokee LCP Land, LLC v. Read More

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Administrative Remedies Must Be Exhausted Before Inverse Condemnation Lawsuit

By | Published March 30, 2015 | Posted in Appeals, Condemnation, Development, Land Use, Litigation, Pinelands, Planning, Zoning | Tagged Tags: , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Supreme Court in Griepenburg v. Ocean Township, 220 N.J. 239 (2015), considered the circumstances under which municipal zoning ordinances represent a legitimate exercise of a municipality’s power to zone property consistent with its Master Plan and the Municipal Land Use Law (“MLUL”) goals.  In the late 1990s, Ocean Township, which is bordered by the Read More

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Court Applies Principles of Penn Central v. New York in Coastal Wetlands Case

By | Published April 9, 2014 | Posted in Development, Land Use, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Permitting, Wetlands, Zoning | Tagged Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

In Scot Netherlands, Inc. v. State of New Jersey, the plaintiff owned a 22.87-acre plot of land in Atlantic City that was vacant wetlands except for a rent-producing billboard on the site. In 2007, after owning the property for 30 years, the plaintiff filed an application with New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (“DEP”) for Read More

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L&B Reflects on the Legacy of Environmental Activist Jane Tousman

By | Published March 28, 2014 | Posted in Citizen Groups, Development, Environmental Issues, Land Use, Planning, Wetlands, Zoning | Tagged Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Jane Tousman, a New Jersey environmental activist who made great strides in wetlands preservation in Edison, passed away on Saturday, March 22, 2014 at the age of 77 due to complications of a stroke. Jane dedicated much of her life to the battle for land preservation. Jane was known to be relentless and prepared; she Read More

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