Affordable housing
Belle Mead Station: 189 apartments and the Pike Run deal
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.
Rezoning not introduced
What happens next
A rezoning ordinance must be introduced, reviewed by the Planning Board and given a public hearing before the Township Committee. None has been introduced as of October 15, 2026.
Resolution #26-4-152, adopted April 30, 2026, authorizes a memorandum of agreement with Country Club Meadows, LLC and Pike Run II, LLC, the owner of Pike Run. The township would support “a 189-unit multi-family residential development and a park-and-ride facility” on Block 4071, Lot 1; Block 5002, Lots 4–6; and Block 5003, Lot 1, between Route 206 and Township Line Road. In return, affordability controls on 96 Pike Run rentals are extended. That extension is what let the township take the Kenvue site out of its housing plan.
The current “Transit Commercial” zoning allows about 22,000 square feet of one-storey retail and no housing, so the apartments need a rezoning. The executed memorandum and the concept plans are not public; residents can request them from the Township Clerk.
Timeline
- Milestone The Committee announces a Pike Run agreement: the Kenvue site will come out of the housing planMayor Singh read a statement on behalf of the Township Committee: the township had "reached an agreement with the owner of Pike Run" to extend affordability controls, and "as a result of this agreement, the Kenvue site will no longer be included in or required for the Township's affordable housing plan." The statement did not say what the township gave in return.
- Pending Committee authorizes the Pike Run deal: 189 apartments "in exchange for" extended controlsAt a special meeting, the Township Committee authorized an affordable housing memorandum of agreement with Country Club Meadows, LLC and Pike Run II, LLC. The township would support 189 apartments and a park-and-ride on 13 vacant acres off Route 206 "in exchange for the extension of affordability controls at Pike Run" — the extension that let the Kenvue site come out of the housing plan. Passed 4-0, Ahn abstaining.
- Pending The other half of the Pike Run deal: 189 apartments at "Belle Mead Station"Updating the Planning Board on the housing plan, the township administrator described a planned 189-unit market-rate apartment complex on the "Transit Commercial" site near Pike Run as "the offset to the extension" of affordability controls on 96 Pike Run apartments — the extension that let Montgomery take the Kenvue site out of its Fourth Round plan.