In their final voting sessions prior to summer recess, members of the New Jersey Senate and Assembly last night took action on a host of environmental bills.
Among those receiving final passage and sent to the governor’s desk were bills that:
- Place on the November, 2009 election ballot a $400 million open-space and farmland preservation bond issue question .
- Make it more difficult for local zoners to block the construction of wind and solar energy facilities.
- Authorize counties and towns to acquire land for resale or lease with agricultural deed restrictions attached for farmland preservation purposes.
- Appropriate funds to DEP for environmental infrastructure projects.
- Authorize the New Jersey Environmental Infrastructure Trust
to make loans for environmental infrastructure projects. - Extend the deadline for municipal recycling coordinators’ educational requirements.
- Allow developers with approved but un-built housing projects aimed at buyers aged 55 and older to be able to seek permission
to eliminate the age restrictions.
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