Rockaway Shoprite Associates, Inc. v. City of Linden, 424 N.J. Super. 337 (App. Div. 2011). For many years, a large General Motors assembly plant occupied a 47.5 acre site in...

Tymczyszyn v. Columbus Gardens, 422 N.J. Super. 253 (App. Div. 2011). Plaintiff slipped on ice and fell on a sidewalk that abuts a "multi-unit residential property" operated by defendant Hoboken Housing Authority. Plaintiff...

Today, we are all used to the existence of senior citizen housing developments. Thirty five years ago, however, it was not so clear that such developments were legally permissible. On this date in 1976,...

Mahwah Realty Associates, Inc. v. Mahwah Tp.., 420 N.J. Super. 341 (App. Div. 2011). Out of the lengthy procedural history of this land use matter comes the simple message that...

Shakoor Supermarkets, Inc. v. Old Bridge Tp. Planning Bd., 420 N.J. Super. 193 (App. Div. 2011). This case dealt with the issue of how specific a public notice of a development...

Rezem Family Associates, LP v. Borough of Millstone, 2011 WL 1432181 (App. Div. April 15, 2011). Plaintiff ("Rezem") owned a 67-acre tract of vacant land. Rezem entered into a series of contracts to sell...

On this date in 1975, the Supreme Court of New Jersey decided Southern Burlington Cty. NAACP v. Mount Laurel Tp., 67 N.J. 151 (1975). There, the Court held that each...

Jennings v. Borough of Highlands, 418 N.J. Super. 405 (App. Div. 2011). "The right to protest zoning amendments has existed in this State for more than eighty years." A successful protest under...

White Tp. v. Castle Ridge Development Corp., 419 N.J. Super. 68 (App. Div. 2011). A developer, Castle Ridge, got approval to build a fifteen-lot subdivision. A developer's agreement that Castle Ridge signed with...

Society of Holy Child Jesus v. City of Summit, 418 N.J. Super. 365 (App. Div. 2011). State tax statutes and the Municipal Land Use Law ("MLUL") are not often bedfellows in the same case. This...