Land use and development

The 2026 Master Plan reexamination

The township is rewriting the document that sets its land-use goals, funded by a Plan4HealthNJ grant and due for adoption by March 2027. Public engagement has closed; a draft is expected in early November 2026.

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What happens next

The draft is due in early November. The planner said the Board would likely take it up at the beginning of December (the calendar shows one December meeting, December 14); adoption needs a noticed public hearing.

New Jersey requires the Planning Board to reexamine the Master Plan at least every ten years. Montgomery’s last reexamination was in 2017. The 2026 report is being written by Tara Kenyon of Kenyon Planning under a one-year, $50,000 Plan4HealthNJ grant, and must say how the township’s redevelopment plans fit the master plan.

Surveys and listening sessions ran from the summer to October 8. Residents’ top concern, the planner said, was getting around without a car.

The reexamination, explained

Timeline

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

  1. Resolved Montgomery wins a $50,000 Plan4HealthNJ grant that pays for its master plan reexaminationThe township announced a one-year, $50,000 grant from Plan4HealthNJ, a program of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Planning Association funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. It pays for the 2026 reexamination of the Master Plan, the first since August 2017, and sets a March 2027 deadline for adoption.
  2. Resolved The last master plan listening session closes public engagementAn in-person listening session on October 8 at the Municipal Building was the last of the public engagement for the 2026 Master Plan reexamination. A map survey closed in August, a community survey at the end of September, and a virtual session was held September 22.
  3. Active Planner reports mobility as residents' top concern; master plan draft due early NovemberAt the Planning Board, planner Tara Kenyon said the number one concern residents raised was getting around Montgomery, followed by housing affordability, aging in place, and air and water quality. The draft reexamination is due at the beginning of November, and everything must be adopted by March 2027.

Explainers

  • The 2026 Master Plan Reexamination: What It Is and When It Comes Back

    Montgomery is rewriting the document that sets its land-use goals, on a grant deadline of March 2027. The listening sessions and surveys are over; a draft is due in early November. What the reexamination must cover, what residents told the planner, what the current goals say about industrial land and open space, and where residents can still weigh in.

Documents

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

Meetings

  • Planning Board — October 12, 2026

    A half-hour meeting. The Board adopted the township's new Comprehensive Municipal Farmland Preservation Plan without questions, then heard the Plan4Health consultant's status report on the 2026 Master Plan reexamination: a draft is due at the beginning of November, and everything must be adopted by March 2027 under the grant. The Kenvue site stayed on the future-agenda list with no date.

  • Planning Board — September 28, 2026

    The Planning Board's first look at the Committee's referral of the Kenvue site. The Board's attorney laid out the steps: a study report, made public, then a noticed hearing, then a recommendation. No planner was named and no dates were set. Three residents spoke. The consultant hired that night, eConsult Solutions, was for 23 Orchard Road's redevelopment plan, not Grandview.

Sources for this overview

  1. Planning Board meeting video and transcript, October 12, 2026
  2. Montgomery Township: Plan4HealthNJ
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