On June 4, 2020, the White House issued an Executive Order (“EO”), tied to the COVID-19 National Emergency, directing that “Agencies, including executive departments, should take all appropriate steps to use their lawful emergency authorities and other authorities to respond to the national emerg...
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General Services Administration Class Deviation CD-2020-05 – Relaxation of Signatures/Seals on Bonds
The General Services Administration has issued a Class Deviation in response to the COVID-19 pandemic amending certain requirements in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”), effective March 30, 2020, and the General Services Acquisition Regulation (“GSAR”), effective February 19, 2020, regar...
NJ Supreme Court puts courts in charge of affordable housing.
New Jersey Supreme Court rules on March 10, 2015 that New Jersey's Trial Court's are now responsible for determining how many homes should be made available to low and moderate income residents in municipalities. The Trial Courts will make affordable housing determinations on a case by case basis...
Court upholds municipality's power to zone
In a decision rendered January 22, 2015 in the Thomas Griepenburg v. Township of Ocean (A-55-13), the Court concluded that the Township of Ocean's ordinances rezoning a large tract of land, including most of plaintiffs' property, from residential and commercial use to an Environmental Conservatio...