A Superior Court judge has upheld a Hunterdon County town’s anti-sprawl, pro-farmland ordinance against suits charging exclusionary zoning.
Landowners and the N.J. Farm Bureau sued to overturn the East Amwell zoning scheme, which increased from three acres to 10 acres the minimum lot sizes in the town’s agricultural zone. The challengers claimed the law’s intent was to restrict the number of school children in the township and to keep down taxes, in violation of the Fair Housing Act and the Law Against Discrimination.
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