Category: Land Use

Legislation Would Change “Town and Gown” Relationship With Private Non-Profit Colleges

Legislation that is currently advancing in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature would give New Jersey municipalities less control over development by private non profit colleges and universities. The bills aim to put private and public institutions on equal footing when it comes to land use approvals. Under the

Just How Far Away Must a Strip Club Be? New Jersey’s “Buffer Zone” Law Challenged

Whether Hott 22, a strip club in Union Township since 1995, can remain open depends how it measures up—with a tape measure.  A federal court in this New Jersey lawsuit will now decide how to measure the “buffer zone”—with a tape measure held from point A to point B as