Public record
28 Hillsborough Township public meetings, catalogued. Each one has a written account of what the body actually did and a link to the township's own record.
The recordings and minutes are the township's own. Hillsborough livestreams its Township Committee and Planning Board meetings and archives them on YouTube; agendas, packets and minutes are on its CivicClerk portal. LocalWhy does not host copies: every meeting here links to the township's video and record. Zoning Board meetings are not recorded.
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.
Turning point
The agenda carried the introduction of Ordinance 2026-10, which replaces the township's flood damage prevention chapter and adopts the new FEMA flood maps, with a hearing set for a November 10 special meeting. The minutes are not yet posted, so outcomes are not confirmed here.
The agenda carried a police accreditation presentation and a $15,000 architectural design contract for the Mike Merdinger Community Recreation Center. The minutes are not yet posted, so outcomes are not confirmed here.
The agenda carried a letter of support for the township's Green Hills transportation-resilience and emergency-access planning grant, and proposed completeness-review procedures. The minutes are not yet posted, so outcomes are not confirmed here.
The Committee released the contractor's performance bond on the Route 206 pedestrian bridge and adopted the wrecker-fee ordinance. The 2026 repaving program had begun. Residents raised Flock cameras and Iron Peak's operating hours.
The consent agenda approved chip-surface treatment of Montgomery Road, not to exceed $186,392.70, and created a Community Partner Grant Advisory Committee.
The consent agenda covered rail quiet-zone recertification, county road striping and materials for Montgomery Road. The Committee adopted the $43,000 phone-system ordinance and introduced new wrecker fees. Engineering reminded residents about sump pumps and stormwater certification.
A 27-item consent agenda passed unanimously: $695,616.65 for the 2026 road paving program, $253,070 for Flemming Drive sidewalks, and $78,967.50 to demolish the old municipal building. About 24 residents spoke, the most of the year, including opposition to chip-sealing roads.
The longest meeting of the year. The agenda carried the hearings on Ordinance 2026-07, the Sunnymead Landfill Redevelopment Plan, and Ordinance 2026-06, plus a $41,600 contract for the Fox Chase Pond shoreline restoration. The minutes are not yet posted, so outcomes are not confirmed here.
The Planning Board found the Sunnymead Landfill Redevelopment Plan (Ordinance 2026-07) consistent with the master plan, 7-0, and recommended that the Township Committee adopt it. The Valley Road Realty housing application was carried to July 9.
The Committee adopted the 2026–27 Wildlife Management Plan, covering 19 properties and continuing a coyote-culling pilot, and applied for FY27 NJDOT Municipal Aid for Bloomingdale Drive.
The Planning Board's longest meeting of the year. A three-lot subdivision at 480 Hillsborough Road was heard with two objectors and carried to September 3. A one-year extension for Specialty Assays' building addition was approved, 8-0.
Ordinance 2026-07, the Sunnymead Landfill Redevelopment Plan, was introduced unanimously, along with an engineering-fees ordinance. The consent agenda renewed police body-camera service and approved a stormwater maintenance agreement.
A short meeting with a four-item consent agenda, passed unanimously. In public comment a resident said the state's funds for restoring Fox Chase Pond must be used by December 31, 2026.
The Committee adopted Ordinance 2026-04, limiting parking on Dickerson Road around events at the Performance Sports Center. The consent agenda covered an escrow waiver for the county's street-sweeping facility and network cabling for the police expansion.
Turning point
The Committee adopted Ordinance 2026-03, selling the Mindel tract's development easement to the state at $30,600 an acre. It approved three affordable-housing settlements, designated a Sunnymead Road lot an area in need of redevelopment, and sought bids to demolish the old municipal building.
Turning point
Ordinance 2026-03, selling the Mindel tract's development easement to the state farmland program, was introduced unanimously. The consent agenda committed the township to adopt its Fourth Round housing ordinances and amended the Belle Mead depot solar sublease.
A 5 pm special meeting. Routine business.
Turning point
The Committee awarded the $593,000 police department renovation, bought two police drones, settled the Volkert lawsuit tied to the former Belle Mead depot solar project, and adopted Ordinance 2026-01 on industrial-district uses.
The township announced $1 million in FY2026 federal appropriations for the Hillsborough Recreation Center at Merdinger Park. The Committee appointed a Health Officer, approved the AFSCME contract and ratified farm leases for 2026–2030.
A 30-item consent agenda passed unanimously, including the Farm Road design contract, the county recycling agreement and Rehabco as the affordable-housing administrative agent. Ordinance 2026-01, which implements the warehouse settlement, was introduced unanimously.
The Planning Board voted 9-0 to recommend that a 4.37-acre lot next to the former Sunnymead landfill be added to the redevelopment area, with no condemnation. The 303 Amwell Road warehouse application was withdrawn after the township acquired the property.
The 2026 reorganization meeting. A new member was sworn in, the Committee chose the mayor and deputy mayor from among its members, and it adopted the year's meeting schedule, official newspapers and professional appointments. No video was found.
A 5 pm special meeting held in executive session only, on affordable housing and a personnel contract negotiation. There was no public comment, and no video of this meeting was found.
The hearing on Ordinance 2025-17, the Millburn-area no-parking rules, was tabled unanimously after resident opposition. The township reported a $505,903 NJDOT grant for Farm Road and the rebuilt Harvard Way detention basin that Ida had damaged.
Turning point
On a court-ordered remand, the Planning Board voted 5-0 to reaffirm its 2022 denial of the 107,366-square-foot Harvard Way warehouse. It also heard a progress update on the 96-unit Campus Associates apartments, 23 of them affordable.
The Chick-fil-A application for 296 Route 206 (BA-24-05) was adjourned because notice was insufficient. It was later heard over several meetings in 2026. The Zoning Board is not videotaped.
A 39-item consent agenda passed unanimously. It included a $273,000 contract to replace the Route 206 pedestrian bridge over Royce Brook and a settlement of the Hillsborough Industrial warehouse-ordinance lawsuit. A no-parking ordinance for the Millburn Drive area was introduced.
Lead-in to the year. The Committee bought eight more Flock license-plate-reader cameras, took a 120-day option with the state for farmland preservation of the township-owned Mindel property, and heard the 2025 road report.
These are the Township Committee meetings from late 2025 onward, and the Planning and Zoning Board meetings that decided the issues we follow. Everything the township records is on its own channel whether or not it is catalogued here. If a meeting bearing on these issues is missing, write to info@localwhy.org .