Mount Laurel Township v. MiPro Homes, L.L.C.

We affirm the holding of the Appellate Division for the reasons expressed by Judge Sldllman in his thoughtful and well-written opinion. We recognize, as did the panel below, that the citizens of New Jersey have expressed a strong and sustained public interest in the acquisition and preservation of open space. The Appellate Division points to the numerous statutes enacted in the 1960s and 70s, and even more recently in the 1990s, authorizing loans and grants to expand the State’s Green Acres Program. Most pertinent here, various of those statutes provide municipalities with the power of…