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Bill Text

A5147 

ASSEMBLY, No. 5147 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED MAY 28, 2026

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman� GREGORY P. MCGUCKIN

District 10 (Monmouth and Ocean)

SYNOPSIS

���� Expands conditions for areas in need of redevelopment 
to include sites designated by municipality for affordable housing under 
certain circumstances. 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� As introduced.

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An Act concerning 
certain areas in need of redevelopment and amending P.L.1992, c.79.

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� Section 5 of P.L.1992, 
c.79 (C.40A:12A-5) is amended to read as follows:

���� 5.��� A delineated area may be 
determined to be in need of redevelopment if, after investigation, notice and 
hearing as provided in section 6 of P.L.1992, c.79 (C.40A:12A-6), the governing 
body of the municipality by resolution concludes that within the delineated 
area any of the following conditions is found:

���� a.���� The generality of 
buildings are substandard, unsafe, unsanitary, dilapidated, or obsolescent, or 
possess any of such characteristics, or are so lacking in light, air, or space, 
as to be conducive to unwholesome living or working conditions.

���� b.��� The discontinuance of 
the use of a building or buildings previously used for commercial, retail, 
shopping malls or plazas, office parks, manufacturing, or industrial purposes; 
the abandonment of such building or buildings; significant vacancies of such building 
or buildings for at least two consecutive years; or the same being allowed to 
fall into so great a state of disrepair as to be untenantable.

���� c.���� Land that is owned by 
the municipality, the county, a local housing authority, redevelopment agency 
or redevelopment entity, or unimproved vacant land that has remained so for a 
period of ten years prior to adoption of the resolution, and that by reason of 
its location, remoteness, lack of means of access to developed sections or 
portions of the municipality, or topography, or nature of the soil, is not 
likely to be developed through the instrumentality of private capital.

���� d.��� Areas with buildings or 
improvements which, by reason of dilapidation, obsolescence, overcrowding, 
faulty arrangement or design, lack of ventilation, light and sanitary 
facilities, excessive land coverage, deleterious land use or obsolete layout, 
or any combination of these or other factors, are detrimental to the safety, 
health, morals, or welfare of the community.

���� e.���� A growing lack or total 
lack of proper utilization of areas caused by the condition of the title, 
diverse ownership of the real properties therein or other similar conditions 
which impede land assemblage or discourage the undertaking of improvements, resulting 
in a stagnant and unproductive condition of land potentially useful and 
valuable for contributing to and serving the public health, safety and welfare, 
which condition is presumed to be having a negative social or economic impact 
or otherwise being detrimental to the safety, health, morals, or welfare of the 
surrounding area or the community in general.

���� f.���� Areas, in excess of 
five contiguous acres, whereon buildings or improvements have been destroyed, 
consumed by fire, demolished or altered by the action of storm, fire, cyclone, 
tornado, earthquake or other casualty in such a way that the aggregate assessed 
value of the area has been materially depreciated.

���� g.��� In any municipality in 
which an enterprise zone has been designated pursuant to the "New Jersey 
Urban Enterprise Zones Act," P.L.1983, c.303 (C.52:27H-60 et seq.) the 
execution of the actions prescribed in that act for the adoption by the municipality 
and approval by the New Jersey Urban Enterprise Zone Authority of the zone 
development plan for the area of the enterprise zone shall be considered 
sufficient for the determination that the area is in need of redevelopment 
pursuant to sections 5 and 6 of P.L.1992, c.79 (C.40A:12A-5 and 40A:12A-6) for 
the purpose of granting tax exemptions within the enterprise zone district 
pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1991, c.431 (C.40A:20-1 et seq.) or the 
adoption of a tax abatement and exemption ordinance pursuant to the provisions 
of P.L.1991, c.441 (C.40A:21-1 et seq.). The municipality shall not utilize any 
other redevelopment powers within the urban enterprise zone unless the 
municipal governing body and planning board have also taken the actions and 
fulfilled the requirements prescribed in P.L.1992, c.79 (C.40A:12A-1 et al.) 
for determining that the area is in need of redevelopment or an area in need of 
rehabilitation and the municipal governing body has adopted a redevelopment 
plan ordinance including the area of the enterprise zone.

���� h.��� The designation of the 
delineated area is consistent with smart growth planning principles adopted 
pursuant to law or regulation.

���� i.���� The area