New Jersey Land Use and Environmental Law

By: Henry T. Chou, Esq.

In an opinion issued on February 24, 2011, the Appellate Division ruled that COAH's Regional Affordable Housing Development Program Guidelines ("Guidelines") are actually regulations that should have been adopted under the Administrative Procedure Act ("APA").

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By: Henry T. Chou, Esq.

The Appellate Division has determined that the provision of the Pinelands Protection Act requiring Pinelands Commission approval of municipal ordinances is a substantive review procedure that renders an unapproved ordinance invalid as a matter of law.

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