Timeline

GSA’s fiscal 2026 prospectus asks Congress for $33,652,000 for the remaining cleanup: groundwater treatment on the North Parcel and at the Motor Pool Area, soil removal at the Battery Casing Area, and 30 years of monitoring. Design and construction are scheduled for FY 2026 to FY 2032. GSA says it must ensure that money is in place before the SCIA proceeds. Whether Congress funded the request is not known.

The meeting is at the Peter J. Biondi Municipal Building, 379 South Branch Road. Residents may comment on the ordinance at the hearing.

As of October 29, 2026 neither the county page nor the project website had posted the presentation or a revised schedule. The project website’s meetings page still listed the public meeting as “Fall 2025”.

The Board’s minutes for the meeting are not yet posted. The grant amount, scope and outcome were not found.

“Affordable Housing” has appeared on the Committee’s closed-session list at most of its meetings since March 2026, including the October 13 and October 27 agendas. No settlement resolution has come to a public vote since March 24.

The minutes do not record the details of the concerns. The meeting video is on the township’s YouTube channel; the comments come during public comment near the end.

Top Line Construction is milling and repaving the streets. The township said the contractor would tell residents about delays, and that questions can go to the Engineering Department at 908-369-4460.

The purchase was requested by the Director of Public Works. It was part of the consent agenda.

The answers are attached to the minutes. As of October 29, 2026 no draft element had been posted or placed on a Planning Board agenda through December 10.

The lines read “Flock Safety LPR, fka Falcon 60,000.00”, “Extended Data Retention (NJ 3 Years) 11,500.00” and “Flock Safety LPR Flex, fka Falcon Flex 10,500.00”. The bill list does not say what period the payment covers or how many cameras it pays for. The minutes record the resident’s question but no answer.

Older lines that discharge to gutters are grandfathered, and new construction may not discharge to the street. The reminders were also given in the Committee’s August 25 reports.

The resolution, R-233-2026, was part of a 27-item consent agenda that the minutes record as unanimously approved. The site is Block 86, Lot 21.02.

The bridge had been closed since February 2025. Fabrication began in February 2026. Final curb ramps and crosswalks at Beekman Lane, Auten Road, Raider Boulevard and the post office were to wait for the new traffic signal work. On September 22, 2026 the Committee released the contractor’s performance bond and accepted its maintenance bond, closing out the job.

The minutes summarize each comment in one line. The full remarks are in the meeting video. No Committee action on Montgomery Road was taken that night.

The only bid in the first round was rejected in November 2025 as over the township’s estimate. A completion date is not on record.

ARRIVE stands for “Alternative Responses Reduce Instances of Violence and Escalation.” The resolution says Bridgeway already takes part with other Somerset County police departments. It passed as part of a 27-item consent agenda, which also included furniture for the police department expansion.

On May 12, 2026 a resident told the Committee that NJDEP funds for the pond’s restoration “have to be used by December 31, 2026.” The June 23 minutes were approved in August but have not been posted, so the vote on R-210-2026 is not confirmed. The grant’s name and amount are not on record.

The township planner described the plan as “a hybrid of one of our industrial districts” and said that once adopted it “becomes the zoning for the area”, allowing the owner to apply for a site plan.

Part of Bloomingdale Drive was paved in 2025. NJDOT announced its previous two rounds of Municipal Aid awards in mid-November (November 14, 2024 and November 17, 2025).

WRNJ, relaying NJDOT, reported the traffic pattern is expected “to remain in place through late fall 2026.” NJDOT also said the new median barrier “will eliminate left turns to and from properties” along the widened road.

The hearing was set for June 23, 2026, and the ordinance was referred to the Planning Board for a consistency review.

The township later said it had “held two public engagement events”. No summary of the workshop has been published that LocalWhy has found.

The site is an Exxon station in the OLC zone, where drive-throughs are not permitted, so the application needed a use variance, along with four bulk variances and nine waivers. The applicant accepted the board planner’s 14 conditions. The key one ties the opening to the state road work: no certificate of occupancy until the Route 206 and Triangle Road improvements are completed to the satisfaction of NJDOT and the board engineer. Hearings ran from February to May 2026. The resolution was memorialized on September 2, 2026. Zoning Board meetings are not video-recorded.

LocalWhy has not found published results from any of the three surveys.

The law allows sharing only with other government entities “when permitted by law,” under a court order or warrant, with consent, or with out-of-state police for a criminal investigation after they certify the required conditions. Sharing agreements are public records. It does not change the three-year retention period set by the Attorney General.

All three passed on a consent agenda the minutes record as unanimously approved.

• R-131-2026, Murray Contracting and Homestead Corner, LLC: 279 Homestead Road near Route 206 (Block 200.02, part of Lot 12, and Lots 12.01 and 16). Murray withdraws its challenge with prejudice.
• Robertson Douglas Group, Inc.: Mountainview Road (Block 175, Lots 25 and 41).
• Valley Road Realty, LLC: a Third Round site of 44.53 acres on Valley Road (Block 151.09, Lot 227). The amendment reduces the market-rate units and changes their type “while maintaining the affordable housing obligation on the Property as previously agreed upon”.

Each agreement was “annexed” to its resolution, but none is in the minutes or the court’s posted filings.

The township announced the ordinance on March 16 and opened online comment on Engage Hillsborough. It said it expected “approximately $13.1 million” for the development rights.

The resolution says it was “necessary to further amend the Sublease … to extend certain timeframes and make other modifications due to the delay in the Project associated with litigation involving the Property.” The township administrator said the payments were being extended “because the solar field is taking longer to build.”

Whether the grant was awarded is not on record.

The minutes record that the drones were paid for with a $5,000 grant and a $20,000 donation. The next two lowest renovation bids were $594,000 and $616,000. Network cabling ($28,857.50, April 2026) and furniture ($28,137.60, July 2026) for the police “expansion” followed.

Resolution R-117-2026 records the withdrawal. It leaves eleven challengers, two of which (Murray and Robertson Douglas) had already reached settlements in principle.

The January 22 vote was 9–0; the written resolution passed with seven votes. The Committee’s March 24, 2026 designation resolution recites the February 5 resolution.

The work covers Farm Road between Route 206 and Triangle Road. No construction date is on record.

The order, quoted in Resolution R-117-2026, follows the procedure in the amended Fair Housing Act for towns “involved in a continuing dispute”. Any ordinances adopted under the first option would be “subject to change based on any forthcoming settlement”.

The township planner told the Board the hearing was limited to the statutory findings: it was not approving a development, choosing a developer, changing zoning or authorizing eminent domain. He said Lot 6 is zoned RA (residential) and the landfill lot I-1 light industrial, and that adding Lot 6 gives the owner the chance to use as much of the property as possible while it fully closes the landfill, which he confirmed still needs to be cleaned up.

The Committee later found that the testimony showed the lot had been “vacant and underutilized for more than fifty (50) years”, meeting criterion “e” of the state law, which covers land that is not being properly used and is stagnant or unproductive. The Board adopted its written resolution on February 5.

In December 2025 the Board attorney had said the township was “in the process of attempting to acquire” the site. The township had agreed in 2023 to buy 303 Amwell Road and 1170 Millstone River Road as open space to stop warehouse applications. According to the January 22 minutes, the prior owner asked for the return of its escrow funds; the Committee released the 303 Amwell, LLC development review escrow on March 10, 2026.

The Board had a master plan subcommittee in 2025 as well.

Project DB 780A would widen Route 206 from two lanes to four, add two jughandles and replace “the railroad bridge over Route 206.” Programmed: $6.0 million design in FY2026; construction of $3.0 million (FY2027), $50.0 million (FY2028) and $46.0 million (FY2029), plus $21.5 million in 2030–2035.

Project DB 14416 would replace the 1918 Hamilton Road bridge over the railroad, raising it and adding a north-side sidewalk. Design and right-of-way money are programmed for FY2026; its $25.9 million construction money is in 2030–2035.

The construction money sits in the program’s “unconstrained” years, beyond the four years it funds. The project website says the construction cost “is yet to be determined”; MyCentralJersey cited a 2021 estimate of $15.4 million.

The rebuild waited two years for an NJDEP permit, and work could not start until October 2025 because of bat-habitat restrictions, the Committee was told in June 2025.

The minutes say “the scope of work will include upgrading sidewalk ramps at intersections to meet the latest ADA handicap standards and installing enhanced crosswalks.” NJDOT announced $150 million in fiscal 2026 Municipal Aid statewide on November 17, 2025. Under the program NJDOT pays 75% of a grant when the town awards a contract and the rest when the project is complete.

The minutes record reasons including soil classification and infiltration testing, the lack of a witness to testify on the state environmental permits, and the unknown tenant. Whether the developer returned to court afterwards is not in the public record.

The resolution calls it the “Pennington Properties Pedestrian Bridge Replacement.” At the same meeting the township reported that the state had finished all stormwater detention basins and their fences on the Route 206 job.

The resolution, R-321-2025, passed on a 39-item consent agenda recorded as unanimously approved. Ordinance 2026-01 records that the parties signed the settlement on December 5, 2025.

The resolution says the bid, opened October 1, 2025, “substantially exceeds the Township’s cost estimate and appropriations budgeted for the project.” The same minutes record that Asphalt Paving Systems had finished “over seven miles of pavement preservation work” in 2025, and that the township would apply for a state grant to finish Bloomingdale Drive.

The resolution was titled “120-Day Option Agreement with the State Agriculture Development Committee for Potential Farmland Preservation of the Township Owned Mindel Property.” Consent items 1 through 17 passed unanimously. The resolution lists the acreage of each parcel.

Repaved in 2025: Kilmer Drive, Beverly Drive, Fern Way, Gail Court, Briar Way, Scott Drive, Barbara Drive, Arlene Court, Matthew Road, Daniel Drive, Walnut Grove Road, Falcon Crest Lane, the rest of Falcon Road, Township Line Road and Auten Road between the railroad and Triangle Road.

Grants. The Auten Road and Dukes Parkway West grants paid for more than half the cost of repaving those roads. The Brown Avenue project was reported complete, “fully funded” by “$1.9 million in grant money.”

Resolution R-117-2026 lists the challengers: Fair Share Housing Center; 00 Hamilton LLC; Adoni Property Group LLC; AvalonBay Communities Inc.; Fairhaven Development LLC; Hillsborough RB LLC; M&M Realty Partners LLC; Murray Contracting and Homestead Corner LLC; Robertson Douglas Group Inc.; Valley Industrial Partners LLC; West Essex Industrial Park LLC; and Weston Road LLC. The disputes were referred to the Dispute Resolution Program.

FEMA’s notice invited property owners to review the revised preliminary maps for Hillsborough, Bedminster, Branchburg and Union Township before they become final.

The amendment is described in the recitals of the March 10, 2026 second amendment.

The amended Fair Housing Act required towns to file their plans within 48 hours of adoption or by June 30, 2025. Resolution R-117-2026 records that Hillsborough filed on June 25, 2025, “in accordance with the requirements of the Amended FHA”. Patch reported that the Committee approved a resolution accepting the plan on June 24; it gave no vote tally.

On May 27, 2025 a Montgomery Road resident asked that paving the unpaved section be made a priority. On June 24 residents described dust and ditches “2-3 feet deep.” The minutes record the mayor at the time as saying that “full paving would cost approximately $1.5 million while the chip-seal preservation process would be approximately $100,000.”

The same night the township reported that it had submitted a local-aid request to improve Farm Road from Route 206 to Triangle Road.

Under Blue Acres, the state buys flood-prone homes from owners who want to sell and demolishes them. The Committee was told the houses are demolished within 90 days and the lots turned to grass, and that FEMA and Blue Acres were looking at homes in the floodplain along Dukes Parkway East and Kimberly Road. The same night’s stormwater report said the Harvard Way basin rebuild had its NJDEP permit after two years but could not start until October 2025 because of bat-habitat restrictions. How many purchases have closed is not on record.

The township’s March 24, 2026 settlement resolution with Robertson Douglas Group says the June 2025 plan “was designed to meet the fair share obligations established by the aforesaid April 23, 2025 Order”. The order itself is not among the filings posted on the court’s Somerset affordable-housing page.

The June 2025 plan lists the prospective need as 565 before adjustments, not the 270 the Committee had committed to. Whether the order accepted 270, 565 or another number is not in the public record.

The report described a minor revised flood area due to Tropical Storm Ida. Panel 137 is one of the two panels that get new maps under the township’s draft Ordinance 2026-10.

FEMA’s August 2025 notice lists Hillsborough among four communities with revised preliminary maps released on March 7, 2025, and gives the expected effective date as “Fall 2026,” subject to change.

The page’s milestone table had Stage 1 (northbound widening) finishing in fall 2025, Stage 2 (southbound widening) starting in fall 2025, and Stage 3 (median barrier and final paving) starting in spring 2026. As of October 29, 2026 the page still carried the February 27, 2025 date, so it is the most recent official NJDOT schedule.

Patch reported the vote as unanimous. The amending ordinance’s number was not reported.

This bridge is a township project, separate from NJDOT’s widening. In April 2025 the township expected the replacement to be done in fall 2025; it reopened in July 2026.

Patch reported that the court asked the Board to explain why it credited the objectors’ stormwater engineer over the applicant’s.

The township lists the amendment among its master plan documents. It is the most recent land use amendment before the Envision Hillsborough update.

Patch reported the suit on January 24, 2025 as filed “last week”. The docket number comes from the township’s November 2025 settlement resolution.

The 2024 amendments to the Fair Housing Act required the DCA to publish non-binding estimates of every town’s Fourth Round obligations by October 20, 2024. Its October 18 report put Hillsborough’s present need (rehabilitating substandard homes occupied by lower-income households) at 111 and its prospective need (new affordable homes for 2025–2035) at 565.

Towns could accept the estimates or make their own determination. The figures are recited in Hillsborough’s Resolution R-51-2025.

The project website says final design has an “Anticipated Start in 2028”. A first briefing for local officials was held virtually on April 17, 2025. The other meetings the website lists for 2025 are still marked “TBD”.

The settlement led to a master plan amendment in January 2025 and an ordinance amendment in February 2025.

The lot is next to the landfill and is in a residential zone.

Patch reported that Roman Asphalt was named the new contractor and that work resumed in August 2024. The Hillsborough Beacon also reported the new contractor. The original completion date had been 2024; press reports of it differ.

This step is recorded in the recitals of the October 14, 2025 resolution approving the SADC option agreement. The April 9, 2024 minutes themselves were not reviewed for this entry.

The case was filed in the Law Division in Somerset County. The township’s later settlement resolution says only that the plaintiff “makes numerous allegations and asserts various causes of action against the Township.” The filing date and complaint were not found; the docket number indicates 2024. The township later said the litigation delayed the solar project.

The base master plan dates from 1965–66, revised through 1996, and has been amended element by element since.

The Committee introduced Ordinance 2023-15 on October 24, 2023. It authorized buying two properties to stop pending warehouse applications:

Property	Acres	Price
1170 Millstone River Road	17.42	$5.3 million
303 Amwell Road	11.29	$4.2 million

Patch and TAPinto reported that the Committee approved the purchase on November 28, 2023. In December 2025 the Planning Board’s attorney still described 303 Amwell Road as a property the township “is in the process of attempting to acquire.” On January 22, 2026 the application there was withdrawn, and the Township Planner told the Board the township attorney had informed them the property had been acquired, “deed in hand.” The 1170 Millstone River Road application was also withdrawn (escrow released March 10, 2026, R-113-2026), but no record of that closing has been found.

LocalWhy has not seen the complaint or found its docket number.

MyCentralJersey reported that the complaint said the developer would also sue in federal court; LocalWhy has not confirmed a federal filing. LocalWhy has not seen the complaint or found a docket number.

Main points:

• Retention. “Records and ALPR data covered by this Section shall be retained for three years,” then purged unless tied to an active case.
• Searches. Stored data that did not trigger an alert may be searched only for a listed purpose, and every access is logged.
• Sharing. New Jersey agencies share through a statewide system. Sharing outside New Jersey needs a written agreement approved by the State ALPR Coordinator.
• Ownership. The data belongs to the police agency, “not any ALPR vendor.”
• Audits. Each agency audits its own program by January 31 every year.

The application (Block 58, Lot 1.09) sat beside the Green Hills community. MyCentralJersey reported the denial as unanimous, after six hearings.

Construction on the stretch press reports call “Phase 2” began in March 2021, according to the Hillsborough Beacon. NJDOT’s project page describes the job: two lanes in each direction with a concrete median barrier, jughandles at Triangle Road, Valley Road and near Camplain Road, a regraded Falcon Road, a replaced culvert and a new bridge near Valley Road, drainage basins, and new lighting and signals. The southbound noise wall between Farm Road and Doctors Way was finished in May 2022.

The first meeting, on the project’s purpose and need, was held in Branchburg on May 2, 2019. The preferred alternative, per the project FAQ, has 12-foot lanes, 8-foot bicycle-compatible shoulders and a 6-foot sidewalk on the south side. The 2019 presentations and boards, including a staging board, are in the project’s documents library.

GSA says TCE and carbon tetrachloride in the groundwater exceed state standards and that it expects “active treatment followed by long-term monitoring” to be needed.

The township’s master plan page gives the adoption date as both November 29 and November 30, 2018.

From 2009 the township and Sunnymeade Ventures pursued a closure and monitoring plan with the state Department of Environmental Protection. The township installed a passive methane mitigation system, which the company later added to.

The two areas are a Motor Pool Area, with groundwater contamination, and a Battery Casing Area, with soil contamination. GSA says proceeds from the property sale have partly paid for the cleanup.

The designation, under the Local Redevelopment and Housing Law, allows the township to adopt a redevelopment plan for the site. It is recited in the township’s March 24, 2026 resolution.

GSA stored “batteries, paint, petroleum products, propane, pesticides, solvents, and strategic metals” at the depot. In November 1986 GSA transferred the roughly 335-acre North Parcel to a private owner; it has had several owners since and is now controlled by the Somerset County Improvement Authority (SCIA). GSA’s cleanup duties are set out in an April 2000 agreement with NJDEP.