Assembly bill 2586
Regarding “State law may let U. expand without local approval” (Monday, September 17, 2012)
In 1972, New Jersey’s Supreme Court ruled that our public colleges, as agencies of the state, can bypass local land use boards.
Just because something is deemed legal doesn’t necessarily make it right.
Yes, local land use boards sometimes hold applicants “hostage” and/or leverage authority inappropriately to extract benefits separate from the applicant’s project. Such proceedings are terribly unfair to applicants and should end. Extending the 1972 Supreme Court ruling to New Jersey’s private colleges, however, is not the answer. Doing so makes bad public policy even worse. Will hospitals be next to claim exemption?
When institutions use municipal services, like police, fire and rescue squads ... and when vehicles to and from those institutions burden local roads, it is only fair that proposed projects go through the local land use process, especially when the project is beyond the existing “footprint” of the applicant.
I’m all for cutting “red tape” and making New Jersey less bureaucratic, but bypassing local land use boards, as proposed by Assembly Bill 2586, is a slippery slope. The local land use process, when done right, is beneficial to both applicant and municipality, forging a long-term partnership based in mutuality.
Assemblyman Jack M. Ciattarelli
Legislative District 16
Princeton, NJ
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