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Meeting archive

13 Montgomery Township public meetings, catalogued. Each one has the recording, a chapter index you can jump through, and a written account of what the body actually did.

Meetings
13
Recorded
27 hrs
Earliest
June 23, 2025
Latest
September 17, 2026

Where this material comes from

The recordings are the township's own. Montgomery streams and archives its Township Committee, Planning Board and Zoning Board meetings, and the archive is linked from the township website. Every meeting on this page links back to its page in that archive, and every chapter link opens the same moment there.

The agenda indexes come from the published agendas. The written summaries are ours, and they cite the minute they came from so you can check them against the recording.

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Montgomery's boards generally meet on a fixed cadence — Township Committee on the first and third Thursday, Planning Board on the second and fourth Monday, Zoning Board of Adjustment generally on the fourth Tuesday — but meetings are moved, added and skipped. Always check the township's own calendar: montgomerynj.gov board meetings

2026

7 meetings

  • Turning point The Kenvue redevelopment study and the E. Kahn escrow, both adopted 4-0 with one member absent.

    Township Committee Running time 2 hours 2 minutes

    Township Committee — September 17, 2026

    The Township Committee directed the Planning Board to study whether Block 14001, Lot 2 at 199 Grandview Road meets the statutory criteria for a non-condemnation redevelopment area, and authorised an escrow agreement under which E. Kahn Development pays for the study. Both passed 4-0 with Committeeman Martin absent, over roughly 40 minutes of public comment that ran heavily against them. The township attorney also said on the record that the widely reported "$300 million" damages figure in the data-center lawsuit is false.

    • Kenvue site
    • Affordable housing
    • Litigation
    • Data centers
    • Process
    6 moments worth watching

  • Turning point Ordinance 26-1779, the townwide data-center and detention-center ban, adopted 4-0 with the fifth seat vacant.

    Township Committee Running time 2 hours 12 minutes

    Township Committee — June 18, 2026

    The Committee adopted Ordinance #26-1779, which prohibits data centers and detention centers everywhere in Montgomery Township, by a 4-0 roll call after a public hearing at which a lawyer and a partner for E. Kahn Development asked them to table it. The same meeting opened with Deputy Mayor Vince Barragan's resignation and closed, after an executive session on the affordable housing litigation, with an added resolution approving a Fourth Round settlement agreement with Fair Share Housing Center.

    • Data centers
    • Kenvue site
    • Affordable housing
    • Litigation
    • Process
    6 moments worth watching
  • Planning Board Running time 23 minutes

    Planning Board — June 8, 2026

    A 40-minute meeting whose single consequential act was a 9-0 recommendation that the Township Committee adopt Ordinance #26-1779, the townwide ban on data centers and detention centers. The minutes record that "the Board found the ordinance to be consistent with the Master Plan" — the finding that reporting on E. Kahn Development's lawsuit says was never documented. The Board then went into closed session on the developer's separate suit against it.

    • Data centers
    • Kenvue site
    • Litigation
    • Process
    6 moments worth watching

  • Turning point The Board adopted the amended plan, 8-0 — preserved existing units in place of the Kenvue site.

    Planning Board Running time 3 hours 4 minutes

    Planning Board — March 9, 2026

    The adoption meeting. After a hearing that ran about twenty minutes and drew no public comment, the Planning Board adopted the 2026 Amended Fourth Round Housing Element and Fair Share Plan on an 8-0 roll call — the plan that replaces the Kenvue site and the other proposed inclusionary developments with extended affordability controls on 210 existing units. Board planner Michael Sullivan put the total at 275 credits against a 260-unit obligation. The rest of the three-hour meeting was the Princeton Promenade signage and model-home application.

    • Affordable housing
    • Kenvue site
    • Litigation
    • Process
    6 moments worth watching
  • Township Committee Running time 3 hours 3 minutes

    Township Committee — March 5, 2026

    The Township Committee adopted every implementing piece of the amended Fourth Round housing framework — the rewritten Chapter 15 ordinance, the amended spending plan, the administrative agent and the affirmative marketing plan — all 5-0. The township attorney reported that Program Judge Miller had found no consensus among the objectors and had recommended a fairness hearing before any order issues, and that the Planning Board hearing on the plan itself, snowed out in February, was reset to March 9.

    • Affordable housing
    • Litigation
    • Process
    5 moments worth watching
  • Township Committee Running time 1 hour 42 minutes

    Township Committee — February 19, 2026

    The township planner walked the full Committee through the draft amended Fourth Round housing plan — the plan that drops the Kenvue site and substitutes preservation of existing affordable units — and the Committee introduced Ordinance #26-1771, the implementing affordable housing ordinance, on first reading. Residents used public comment to press for no zoning change at 199 Grandview Road.

    • Affordable housing
    • Kenvue site
    • Process
    • Litigation
    6 moments worth watching
  • Planning Board Running time 32 minutes

    Planning Board — February 9, 2026

    A 30-minute information session, not a hearing: township staff walked the Planning Board and the public through the draft amendment to the Fourth Round housing plan, which drops the E. Kahn/Kenvue site, 23 Orchard Road and Thrive Assisted Living in favor of extending affordability controls on existing units. No vote was taken on the amendment.

    • Affordable housing
    • Kenvue site
    • Litigation
    • Process
    6 moments worth watching

2025

6 meetings

  • Turning point After the first mediation session, the township said the Kenvue site would come out of the plan.

    Township Committee Running time 2 hours 41 minutes

    Township Committee — December 4, 2025

    The meeting opened with the township attorney's report on the first mediation session in the Round Four housing case: the township had formally notified the Program and all interested parties that it would amend its plan, and — with an agreement in principle to extend controls on at least 96 Pike Run units — no other development, including the Kenvue site, would remain in the plan. The Committee then held the public hearing on and adopted Ordinance #25-1766, the $1,100,000 bond ordinance that pays for those extensions.

    • Affordable housing
    • Kenvue site
    • Litigation
    • Process
    5 moments worth watching
  • Township Committee Running time 1 hour 42 minutes

    Township Committee — November 13, 2025

    The first Township Committee meeting after the November 4 election, and the night the alternative to building on the Kenvue site became concrete: a $1.1 million bond ordinance to pay for extending affordability controls on existing affordable homes, the first two extension resolutions covering 54 owner-occupied units, and a resolution ratifying a settlement agreement. All five members were present and every recorded vote was 5-0.

    • Affordable housing
    • Litigation
    • Process
    6 moments worth watching
  • Planning Board Running time 1 hour 41 minutes

    Planning Board — September 8, 2025

    The developer of the former Kenvue campus laid out, in public for the first time, the full set of concepts it had shown township staff since August 2024 — a by-right industrial build-out, a mixed-use plan, an all-residential plan and the 417-unit plan the township put in its Fourth Round housing plan — with its own traffic, tax and impervious-coverage numbers. No application was before the board and no vote was taken on the site.

    • Kenvue site
    • Affordable housing
    • Process
    6 moments worth watching
  • Township Committee Running time 1 hour 54 minutes

    Township Committee — July 17, 2025

    The first regular Township Committee meeting after the Fourth Round housing plan was adopted. Nothing about the Kenvue site was on the agenda, yet roughly 80 minutes of public comment was about it — the headquarters building slated for demolition, which speakers that night attributed to Henry N. Cobb and W. Steven Wood of I.M. Pei & Partners against the plan's finding of no architecturally important buildings on the site; Grandview Road traffic, flooding, and repeated demands for an alternative site. Officials corrected the unit numbers, explained why the township did not challenge its state obligation, and promised August town halls.

    • Affordable housing
    • Kenvue site
    • Process
    6 moments worth watching

  • Turning point The Board adopted the 2025 Fourth Round plan, Kenvue site included, on an 8-1 roll call.

    Planning Board Running time 2 hours 41 minutes

    Planning Board — June 26, 2025

    A special 5:00 p.m. meeting that ran two hours and forty minutes: the continuation of the Fourth Round Housing Element and Fair Share Plan hearing, roughly two more hours of public comment, and then the vote. The Board adopted the June 13, 2025 plan — the version that put around 400 homes on the Kenvue site at 199 Grandview Road — on a roll call of eight ayes and one no, four days before the state's June 30 deadline.

    • Affordable housing
    • Kenvue site
    • Litigation
    • Process
    6 moments worth watching

  • Turning point About three hours on the plan that put 417 units on the Kenvue site — a presentation and then questions, never reaching public comment. No vote.

    Planning Board Running time 3 hours 2 minutes

    Planning Board — June 23, 2025

    The public hearing on the 2025 Fourth Round Housing Element and Fair Share Plan — the plan that put 417 residential units, 70 of them affordable, on the former Kenvue campus at 199 Grandview Road. The meeting ran about three hours in all — roughly the first half-hour the planner's presentation, the rest questions — and never reached the formal public-comment period; the board took no vote and carried the hearing to Thursday, June 26.

    • Affordable housing
    • Kenvue site
    • Process
    6 moments worth watching

What this archive does and does not cover

These are the meetings that dealt with the Fourth Round housing plan, the former Kenvue campus at 199 Grandview Road, or the data-center ordinance. Montgomery holds many more public meetings than this, and everything it records is on the township's archive whether or not it is catalogued here. If a meeting bearing on these subjects is missing, write to info@savemontgomery.org .

Save Montgomery is a grassroots group of Montgomery Township residents. The summaries here are ours; the recordings, agendas and minutes are the township's.