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Provides guidance to inform the appropriate location for affordable housing in the Highlands region.

• Affordable Housing Amendment (pdf)
• Adopting resolution, 2024-24 (pdf)

A revision to the Highlands LUCZ Map Technical Report to reflect updates to the underlying data used to create the map.

• Highlands Land Use Capability Zone (LUCZ) Map Technical Report (pdf)
• LUCZ via Highlands Interactive Map - Layers >Administrative >Land Use Capability Zones
• Adopting resolution, 2024-16 (pdf)

Provides policy guidance for Highlands municipalities regarding siting and standards of warehouse facilities in the Highlands Region. Supplement statewide policy guidance on this issue (“Distribution Warehousing and Goods Movement Guidelines,” NJ State Planning Commission, Sept 2022) by providing information specific to the Highlands Region.

• Policy Standards for Warehousing in the New Jersey Highlands Region (pdf) 
• Adopting resolution, 2024-15 (pdf)

Outlines the process by which a municipality or county revises its local master plan and development regulations to bring them into alignment with the goals, requirements, and provisions of the Highlands Act and the RMP.

• Plan Conformance Procedures (pdf)
• Adopting resolution 2019-13 (pdf)

Summarizes the Council’s process for designating a Highlands Redevelopment Area as required by the Highlands Act. 

• Highlands Redevelopment Area Designation Procedures (pdf)
• Adopting resolution 2019-03 (pdf)

Summarizes the Council's process for reviewing the Regional Master Plan and considering any amendments to it.

• Procedure for Considering Proposals to Amend the Highlands Regional Master Plan (pdf)
• Adopting resolution 2018-11 (pdf)

Amends Table 1.1 of the RMP (p 20-22) "Acreage of the Highlands Region in Municipalities and Counties."

• Addendum A, January 2011 (pdf)