Affordable housing

Belle Mead Station: 189 apartments and the Pike Run deal

The township agreed to support 189 market-rate apartments and a park-and-ride on 13 vacant acres off Route 206 "in exchange for" extending affordability controls at Pike Run. The site still needs a rezoning, which has not been introduced.

Checked against the primary record on . Every figure on this page is sourced at the foot of the article.

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What happens next

A rezoning ordinance must be introduced, reviewed by the Planning Board and given a public hearing before the Township Committee. None has been introduced as of October 15, 2026.

Resolution #26-4-152, adopted April 30, 2026, authorizes a memorandum of agreement with Country Club Meadows, LLC and Pike Run II, LLC, the owner of Pike Run. The township would support “a 189-unit multi-family residential development and a park-and-ride facility” on Block 4071, Lot 1; Block 5002, Lots 4–6; and Block 5003, Lot 1, between Route 206 and Township Line Road. In return, affordability controls on 96 Pike Run rentals are extended. That extension is what let the township take the Kenvue site out of its housing plan.

The current “Transit Commercial” zoning allows about 22,000 square feet of one-storey retail and no housing, so the apartments need a rezoning. The executed memorandum and the concept plans are not public; residents can request them from the Township Clerk.

Belle Mead Station, explained

Timeline

Each dated event on this issue, oldest first, linked to the full sourced entry.

  1. Milestone The Committee announces a Pike Run agreement: the Kenvue site will come out of the housing planMayor Singh read a statement on behalf of the Township Committee: the township had "reached an agreement with the owner of Pike Run" to extend affordability controls, and "as a result of this agreement, the Kenvue site will no longer be included in or required for the Township's affordable housing plan." The statement did not say what the township gave in return.
  2. Pending Committee authorizes the Pike Run deal: 189 apartments "in exchange for" extended controlsAt a special meeting, the Township Committee authorized an affordable housing memorandum of agreement with Country Club Meadows, LLC and Pike Run II, LLC. The township would support 189 apartments and a park-and-ride on 13 vacant acres off Route 206 "in exchange for the extension of affordability controls at Pike Run" — the extension that let the Kenvue site come out of the housing plan. Passed 4-0, Ahn abstaining.
  3. Pending The other half of the Pike Run deal: 189 apartments at "Belle Mead Station"Updating the Planning Board on the housing plan, the township administrator described a planned 189-unit market-rate apartment complex on the "Transit Commercial" site near Pike Run as "the offset to the extension" of affordability controls on 96 Pike Run apartments — the extension that let Montgomery take the Kenvue site out of its Fourth Round plan.

Explainers

  • Belle Mead Station, Explained: The Apartments Behind the Pike Run Extension

    In April 2026 the Township Committee agreed to support up to 189 apartments and a park-and-ride on 13 vacant acres between Route 206 and Township Line Road "in exchange for" extending affordability controls on 96 Pike Run rentals. That extension is what let Kenvue come out of the housing plan. This explainer covers where the site is, how the deal took shape, what the resolution says, how it differs from the nearby Thrive project, what the record leaves out, and where residents can weigh in. The rezoning it needs has not been introduced.

Documents

The township's own records on this issue. Each links to the official copy.

Meetings

  • Planning Board — September 14, 2026

    A short meeting with one item that matters to the housing story: the township administrator's update on the "Transit Commercial" site, where 189 market-rate apartments called Belle Mead Station are planned as what she called "the offset to the extension" of affordability controls on 96 Pike Run apartments. The Board then went into closed session on hiring a special planning consultant and on E. Kahn Development's lawsuit against the Board.

  • Township Committee — April 30, 2026 (special meeting)

    A short special meeting ahead of the May 14 budget hearing. After executive session the Committee added one item, Resolution #26-4-152, which authorizes an agreement with the owners of Pike Run: the township supports up to 189 apartments and a park-and-ride off Route 206 in exchange for extending affordability controls on 96 Pike Run rentals. It passed 4-0 with Committee Member Ahn abstaining, read by title and with no discussion.

  • Township Committee — October 16, 2025

    Mayor Singh read a statement announcing an agreement with the owner of Pike Run to extend affordability controls, and said that as a result the Kenvue site would no longer be needed in the township's housing plan. Later the same night, without discussion, the Committee voted 5-0 to direct the Planning Board to study 23 Orchard Road as a non-condemnation redevelopment area.

Sources for this overview

  1. Township Committee special meeting minutes, April 30, 2026 (Resolution #26-4-152)
  2. Planning Board meeting video, September 14, 2026
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