Hillsborough 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 Fourth Round housing plan, the court case behind it, and the developments that carry it.
The state estimated 565 new affordable homes for 2025–2035. The township's June 2025 plan says only 223 can realistically be planned for now and counts 300 credits against that number. Twelve parties challenged the plan, a court mediator recommended a finding that it is not yet compliant, and the township is settling with challengers under court supervision.
Road projects, sidewalks, sewer and water, power and cell coverage.
NJDOT's $42 million widening of Route 206 from Doctors Way to Valley Road, under way since 2021, still lists a fall 2026 finish on a page last updated in February 2025. The next stage, Valley Road to Brown Avenue, is programmed at $130.918 million, with construction money from 2027.
Work under the $695,616.65 contract for 2026 repaving began in September on five streets. After a resident and the Sourland Conservancy objected in July, the Committee approved a $186,392.70 chip-surface treatment for Montgomery Road in September. A $505,903 state grant will pay for Farm Road improvements.
Somerset County plans to replace the 1979 Picket Place bridge over the South Branch of the Raritan, between Hillsborough and Branchburg. It is in preliminary engineering; the regional plan shows $18.616 million, with construction money only in 2030–2035.
How the township is run: appointments, contracts, policing policy and public notice.
Hillsborough police use Flock license-plate cameras. The Committee added eight for $28,000 in October 2025, and an $82,000 Flock payment was on the August 2026 bill list. A resident asked about the payment in August 2026, and two residents raised concerns in September. State rules set how the data is kept and shared.
Applications, redevelopment areas and the Master Plan: what is being proposed and built across the township.
The township is rewriting its master plan, the Planning Board's long-range land-use policy, under the name Envision Hillsborough. Three surveys and two public events are done; the township says the goals, land use and housing elements may go to the Planning Board before the end of 2026.
In 2023 the township removed warehouses as a permitted use in its industrial zones, and the Planning Board has denied the large warehouse plans that followed. Owners sued; the township settled two ordinance suits by allowing small-scale storage, while the Homestead Road denial is still being challenged in court.
Hillsborough subleases part of the former federal Belle Mead depot to a company that plans a solar facility. A lawsuit held the project up until the Committee approved a settlement in February 2026. The federal government is asking Congress for $33,652,000 to finish cleaning up contaminated groundwater and soil there.
The former township landfill on Sunnymead Road, now privately owned, has a redevelopment plan adopted in June 2026 that covers two lots of about 10.71 and 4.37 acres and allows solar and light industrial uses. The next step is a site plan application to the Planning Board; none has appeared on a Board agenda.
Farmland and open-space preservation, wildlife, streams and the Sourland Mountain.
Hillsborough bought the roughly 440-acre Mindel tract at Hamilton and Amwell Roads for $14 million in January 2022. In 2026 it agreed to sell the land's development rights to the state at $30,600 an acre, and the State Agriculture Development Committee gave final approval on April 30. No closing has been recorded yet.
FEMA's revised flood maps for Hillsborough take effect on November 13, 2026, the date FEMA set in an August 2026 Federal Register notice. The township must replace its floodplain rules to stay in the federal flood insurance program, and Ordinance 2026-10 has its hearing on November 10. Work since Ida includes a rebuilt basin, a Blue Acres buyout agreement and a state-required watershed plan.