The full text of the Highlands Preservation Area boundary
description can be found in the Highlands Water Protection
and Planning Act at Section 7.b.1. An excerpt of the
Act containing just the boundary description is here:
Allamuchy State Park, Morris
County Camp Pulaski, Mount Olive
(Open Space
boundary update provided by Morris County)
At this location, Section 7b(1) provides:
“thence southeasterly on
International Drive North to its intersection with
Waterloo Valley Road; thence easterly and southerly on
Waterloo Valley Road to its intersection with Allamuchy
State Park; thence easterly and
southerly and westerly on the Allamuchy State Park
boundary to its intersection with Lozier Road;
thence easterly on Lozier Road to its intersection
with Waterloo Road;”
The geographic directions identified
in bold and with underlining do not coincide with the
physical direction of the indicated roadways on the ground.
The clear intent of the Act was to follow the Allamuchy
State Lands Boundary and run along Lozier Road to Waterloo
Road.
Therefore, the Department has applied the boundary
as follows:
“thence southwesterly southeasterly on
International Drive North to its intersection with
Waterloo Valley Road; thence westerly easterly and southerly northerly on Waterloo
Valley Road to its intersection with Allamuchy State
Park; thence easterly and southerly and westerly on
the Allamuchy State Park boundary to its intersection
with Lozier Road; thence easterly on Lozier Road to
its intersection with Waterloo Road;”
Please note that the changed text is underlined
while deleted text appears with a strikethrough.
Future
Open Space in the Highlands Region
Where the Highlands Act refers to the boundary of the
Highlands Preservation Area as a particular open space
property (i.e. park or wildlife management area) please
note that the boundary will be defined as it existed
on the date of enactment of the Highlands Act, that is
August 10, 2004. The subsequent addition of parcels to
an open space property through acquisition or deed restriction
shall not alter the Highlands Preservation Area boundary.
Roadways and Natural
Features as Boundaries
The Department also seeks to reiterate the language
in the Act at Section 7b(2) that “any natural
geographic feature, including a river, stream, or brook
used… for
the boundary description of the preservation area shall
be considered to lie totally within the preservation
area and any road, railroad, or railroad right of way
used…for
the boundary description of the preservation area boundary
shall be considered to lie totally outside of the preservation
area”.
Requests for changes
to the Highlands Map
The Department will consider written requests from
the public that identify errors in either the boundary
description language as it appears in the Act or in the
Highlands Preservation and Planning Area i-Map. Please
submit all requests in writing to:
Policy, Planning & Science
P.O. Box 402
Trenton
, NJ 08625
