Focused on Land Use and Redevelopment Law in New Jersey
By Eric Peterson
TRENTON, NJ-The New Jersey EDA has taken several steps to speed up the approval process for grants awarded under the state’s Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation grant and loan program, as well as the Petroleum Underground Storage Tank remediation program. Both are jointly administered by the EDA and the New Jersey DEP.
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New Jersey is a hotbed of eminent domain activity and could be the source of the next U.S. Supreme Court case on eminent domain — a case that would redefine and clarify the Court’s Kelo decision, according to a recent New York Times article. In that story, which appeared on Sunday, May 28, Ted Zangari…
From today’s Times of Trenton…
“But that doesn’t mean New Jersey doesn’t have room for smart growth. George Hawkins, executive director of New Jersey Future, said if the whole state had the density of Princeton Borough, the entire population could fit in 20 percent of the state’s acreage.
And if the state had the density
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In a decision dated May 19, 2006, Judge Harris of the New Jersey Superior Court, Law Division, “employ[ed] drastic steps” to fulfill the Mount Laurel mandate and cure two municipalities’ “longstanding and blatant disregard for the unhoused and underhoused poor.” As a result, the Southern Bergen County municipalities of East Rutherford and Carlstadt…
