Talk:Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act

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[edit] Municipalities involved

moved from User talk:ChrisRuvolo

The state website had a more definitive last of municipalities included under the Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act. See that page for the update, which removed over a dozen communities that are NOT under the Act's mandates. See the source provided for details. Thanks for the work on this task. We're making substantial progress on the New Jersey municipality articles! Alansohn 16:29, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

I did some more research. I believe the list after your edits includes only the municipalities with territory in the Highlands Preservation Area (green area on map), removing the municipalities only having territory in the Highlands Planning Area (grey area on map). Both areas are subject to the act, but have different rules. The stringent rule of getting NJDEP approval for major development is for the preservation area only.

I just looked at the text of the act itself [1], giving the following:

7. (New section) a. The Highlands Region shall consist of all that area within the boundaries of the following municipalities: (1) in Bergen County: Mahwah and Oakland; (2) in Hunterdon County: Alexandria, Bethlehem, Bloomsbury, Califon, Clinton Town, Clinton Township, Glen Gardner, Hampton, High Bridge, Holland, Lebanon Boro, Lebanon Township, Milford, Tewksbury, and Union; (3) in Morris County: Boonton Town, Boonton Township, Butler, Chester Boro, Chester Township, Denville, Dover, Hanover, Harding, Jefferson, Kinnelon, Mendham Boro, Mendham Township, Mine Hill, Montville, Morris Plains, Morris Township, Morristown, Mount Arlington, Mount Olive, Mountain Lakes, Netcong, Parsippany-Troy Hills, Pequannock, Randolph, Riverdale, Rockaway Boro, Rockaway Township, Roxbury, Victory Gardens, Washington, and Wharton; (4) in Passaic County: Bloomingdale, Pompton Lakes, Ringwood, Wanaque, and West Milford; (5) in Somerset County: Bedminster, Bernards, Bernardsville, Far Hills, and Peapack-Gladstone; (6) in Sussex County: Byram, Franklin, Green, Hamburg, Hardyston, Hopatcong, Ogdensburg, Sparta, Stanhope, and Vernon; and (7) in Warren County: Allamuchy, Alpha, Belvidere, Franklin, Frelinghuysen, Greenwich, Hackettstown, Harmony, Hope, Independence, Liberty, Lopatcong, Mansfield, Oxford, Phillipsburg, Pohatcong, Washington Boro, Washington Township, and White.

It then goes on to describe the Preservation Area within that region, before defining the Planning Area:

c. The planning area shall consist of all that area of the Highlands Region not within the preservation area.

Implications to the municipalities of the Planning Area are in Section 15. --ChrisRuvolo (t) 16:59, 21 March 2007 (UTC)