Montgomery Township, New Jersey
Each issue has its own page: where it stands, what happens next, and every dated event, explainer, document and meeting recording behind it, each linked to the township's own record.
The former Kenvue campus at 199 Grandview Road: the sale, the redevelopment study and what the owner can build.
The Township Committee has directed the Planning Board to study whether Block 14001, Lot 2 at 199 Grandview Road qualifies as a non-condemnation area in need of redevelopment, at the owner's request and paid for by the owner's escrow. No hearing has been noticed.
The 382.771-acre campus sold for $23.5 million in December 2025 to four LLCs, with E. Kahn Development as their representative. Kenvue leaves by the end of 2026. An industrial site plan was declared complete in June 2026 and has not been scheduled.
The Fourth Round housing plan, the court case behind it, and the developments that carry it.
The 2026 amended plan meets the township's 260-unit obligation by extending affordability controls on existing homes instead of building on the Kenvue site. A court compliance hearing has not been held, so the plan is not yet certified.
The township agreed to support 189 market-rate apartments and a park-and-ride on 13 vacant acres off Route 206 "in exchange for" extending affordability controls at Pike Run. The site still needs a rezoning, which has not been introduced.
The townwide ban on data centers and detention centers, and the lawsuit against it.
Ordinance 26-1779, adopted June 18, 2026, bans data centers and detention centers throughout the township. E. Kahn Development sued on July 31, 2026 to void it. No answer, motion or hearing date has been reported.
Applications, redevelopment areas and the Master Plan: what is being proposed and built across the township.
The Promenade's owner has applied to split its 27.8-acre Phase II parcel on Route 206 into two lots (PB-11-26), with no variances requested. Route 518 neighbors say the developer has not kept written agreements on fencing, a berm and screening; the agreements are not public.
The township is rewriting the document that sets its land-use goals, funded by a Plan4HealthNJ grant and due for adoption by March 2027. Public engagement has closed; a draft is expected in early November 2026.
Designated a redevelopment area in April 2026. The owner proposes luxury apartments to pay for turning the vacant office building into an innovation center. An economic adviser has been hired; no planner has been appointed to write the plan.
Property taxes, the township budget, assessments and tax appeals.
The four LLCs that own the campus have appealed Lot 2's $41.3 million assessment to the New Jersey Tax Court. The roughly $1.4 million a year the township cited is about Lot 2's whole tax bill, most of it school and county tax.
Farmland and open-space preservation, wildlife, streams and the Sourland Mountain.
Montgomery has culled deer on township open space since 2001. A 2025 drone survey counted about 93 deer per square mile. In fall 2026 a resident asked the Board of Health to press for fewer deer; the Board discussed it without voting, and no new deer study has been funded.
The Planning Board adopted a new Farmland Preservation Plan on October 12, 2026, the first since 2010: 2,281.63 acres are preserved on 34 farms and 852.99 more are targeted. The township is also pursuing about 395 acres of state land and smaller open-space gifts and purchases.
Road projects, sidewalks, sewer and water, power and cell coverage.
The township has leased ground at the Cherry Valley treatment plant to Wireless Edge Towers III, LLC to build a cell tower for Skillman, at $46,212 a year. As of October 2026 the Mayor said no one had yet "taken a lease," and residents were asked to write to the FCC.
The township plans to close the Cherry Valley sewage plant, turn the site into a pump station and pipe its flow 18,000 feet to the Skillman Village plant, ending its discharge into Bedens Brook. The state budget includes $600,000; the township puts the cost at $15 million.
The township is designing a rebuild of about one mile of Orchard Road, the street, from Community Drive to Burnt Hill Road, with a sidewalk and shared bicycle markings, funded in part by state Municipal Aid grants ($537,522 so far). The design includes right-of-way acquisition. Not related to the 23 Orchard Road redevelopment.
PSE&G will build an unmanned 69/13 kV substation on a 7.1-acre lot at 151 Trent Place in Belle Mead, part of a $105.1 million project to relieve the overloaded Sunnymeade and Mount Rose substations. The Planning Board approved it 5-0. Construction is expected from about June 2027 to the end of 2029.
How the township is run: appointments, contracts, policing policy and public notice.
The police lease seven Flock cameras that read about 256,000 plates a month, for about $25,000 a year. State rules, not the township, set three-year retention and limit sharing. Committee members asked about misuse, retention and sharing in August 2026; no vote was taken.