Rutgers v. Piluso

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Haíl, J.

The question presented by this litigation is whether Rutgers, The State University, (“Rutgers”) is subject to the zoning ordinance provisions of a municipality in which one of its campuses is located — here Piscataway Township, Middlesex County. Although the provision precisely involved is a limitation on the permissible number of housing facilities for student families, the broader issue necessarily present encompasses the matter of intergovernmental land use regulation in general as well as the particular status of Rutgers. The Law Division,…