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NEW JERSEY SUPREME COURT INVALIDATES COAH 3RD ROUND REGULATIONS
After years of legal challenges to the concept of “growth share” devised by the Council on Affordable Housing (“COAH”) as a method of providing for prospective affordable housing need, on September 26, 2013, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled in…New Jersey Supreme Court Decides COAH Is Ineffective and Opens the Courtroom Doors for Enforcement of Municipal Fair Share Housing Obligations – Gives Municipalities 120 Days to Act
This article was initially posted on March 24. On April 14 the post was updated to provide a more in depth analysis of the decision.
On March 10, 2015 the New Jersey Supreme Court took another step in the continuing …
Court enjoins COAH and Executive Branch from seizing affordable housing trust funds collected by municipalities.
In the continuing fallout from the failure of COAH to adopt Third Round Regulations, including those defining when affordable housing trust funds are committed, the Appellate Division was faced with an application from the Fair Share Housing Center to order …
NJ App. Div. addresses exemption under the Highlands Act for grandfathered approvals.
In a recent decision, Intellect Real Estate Development v. NJDEP, the Appellate Division addressed a provision of the Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act which provides an exemption for permits gaining certain approvals before a specified date. Intellect Real Estate…NJ Supreme Court Rules on Effect of Potential Zoning Change in Eminent Domain Case
In the recent New Jersey Supreme Court decision, Borough of Saddle River v. 66 East Allendale, LLC, the Court considered whether, in a trial on just compensation, it was proper to allow the jury to hear evidence on the likelihood…Developers benefit from “Time of Application” law passed on May 5.
On May 5, 2010, Governor Christie signed into law P.L. 2010, Chapter 9, known as the “Time of Application” law, which protects the rights of a developer by requiring the municipality to apply the zoning in place when application is…Applicant has burden to prove that it did not abandon a prior non-conforming use
In Beverly Square Association, Inc. vs. Zoning Board of Adjust of the City of Trenton et al., the New Jersey Appellate Division held that a property owner, applicant for permit to renovate a prior non-conforming use, has the ultimate burden…FIRM HONORED BY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Our law firm was honored by the Raritan Valley Habitat for Humanity at their annual Dream Builders Gala held on September 28th at the Basking Ridge Country Club. Our attorneys and staff received special recognition for the pro bono services…NJ App. Div. Reinforces Standard for Abandonment of Nonconforming Use
In 2006, Plaintiff leased a piece of commercial property located in the Amusement Zone (Zone A) of the Wildwood Boardwalk. The prior owner of the property operated a business that provided body piercing and tattooing services on the subject property.…- Copyright 2015, All Rights Reserved.
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