For 30 years now, New Jersey has protected the forests and waters of the Pinelands through the Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan. The Plan sets out a truly regional vision of where development should and should not go for 1.1 million acres, or nearly 25 percent of the state. The key is that local governments, which elsewhere have free rein over land use controls, must conform their local zoning to this regional plan.
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