New Jersey Pinelands — Comprehensive Management Plan Preemption (NJ)
Tracked preemption from the New Jersey overlay bundle.
Overview
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Effective
1981-01-14
Sunset
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Authority
state
Scope
state:NJ
Other New Jersey preemptions
New Jersey A4 / S50 — Affordable Housing Act of 2024New Jersey S3442 — Office-to-Residential Conversion By-RightNew Jersey Highlands — Preservation Area Council PreemptionNew Jersey Transit Village Program — TOD Incentive OverlayNew Jersey Fair Housing Act — Statutory Fair Share FrameworkNew Jersey Urban Enterprise Zone Program — Economic Incentive OverlayNew Jersey Municipal Land Use Law — ADU Permissive FrameworkNew Jersey Mount Laurel Doctrine — Constitutional Fair Share Obligation
Trigger predicate
When this evaluates true for a parcel, the law's preempted fields take precedence over base zoning.
city.is_in_pinelands == TruePreempted fields
4 fields on the base district schema are rewritten when the trigger fires.
| Field | Op | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
base_districts[*].allowed_uses | override | per_pinelands_cmp_management_area | CMP defines 8 management areas (Preservation, Forest, Agricultural, Rural Development, Regional Growth, Towns, Villages, Military/Federal) — each with its own use schedule |
base_districts[*].max_units_per_acre | override | per_pinelands_cmp_density_schedule | |
base_districts[*].min_lot_size_sf | override | per_pinelands_cmp_management_area | |
review_type | override | pinelands_commission_certificate_of_filing_required |
Citation
Authority source
NJSA 13:18A-1 et seq. (Pinelands Protection Act); NJAC 7:50 (Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan)
§ NJAC 7:50-1 through 7:50-10
Research notes
Pinelands Commission's CMP preempts all municipal and county zoning within the 1.1-million-acre Pinelands Area. Every development application requires a Certificate of Filing from the Commission. Municipal ordinances must be certified as conforming to CMP. Federal conflict check is relevant because Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst AICUZ overlaps significant Pinelands acreage; Pinelands CMP and AICUZ can impose conflicting use/density constraints on the same parcel.