Requires green building standards and impact studies for carbon, traffic, storm water, and schools for certain affordable housing development.

A1836

ASSEMBLY, No. 1836

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman GREGORY E. MYHRE

District 9 (Ocean)

Assemblyman BRIAN E. RUMPF

District 9 (Ocean)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblymen Simonsen, McGuckin, Guardian, Azzariti Jr.,
McClellan, Bergen, Kanitra, Sauickie, Auth and Assemblywoman Dunn

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires green building standards and impact studies
for carbon, traffic, storm water, and schools for certain affordable housing
development.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.

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An Act

requiring specific green building standards and
certification and impact studies for carbon, traffic, storm water, and schools
for certain affordable housing development and supplementing P.L.1985, c.222
(C.52:27D-301 et al.).

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Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.� A newly-built development
intended to be an inclusionary development, as defined in subsection f. of
section 4 of P.L.1985, c.222 (C.52:27D-304), consisting of 10 or more units or
four or more stories, shall only be constructed if it is designed, constructed,
and certified to, at minimum, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
(LEED) silver standards, or an equivalent green building rating system standard
as adopted by the United States Green Building Council, the Green Globes
Program adopted by the Green Building Initiative, or a comparable nationally
recognized, accepted, and appropriate sustainable development rating system.�
The provisions of this section shall not apply to a development for which a
complete application for development is submitted prior to the effective date
of P.L.��� , c.��� (C.������� ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill).

���� 2.� Prior to submitting an
application for development for any newly-built inclusionary development, as
defined in subsection f. of section 4 of P.L.1985, c.222 (C.52:27D-304),
consisting of 10 units or more, the developer shall submit a report of the findings
of the following studies to the approving authority of the municipality in
which the development is to be located: (1) a traffic impact study; (2) a
school impact study; and (3) a storm water impact study.� For any newly-built
inclusionary development, the construction of which would require more than one
acre of land to be cleared, the developer, prior to submitting an application
for development, shall submit a report of the findings of a carbon impact study
to the approving authority of the municipality in which the development is to
be located.

���� 3.� The Commissioner of
Community Affairs, in accordance with the �Administrative Procedures Act,�
P.L.1968, c.140 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), and in consultation with the Department
of Environmental Protection and the Department of Education, shall adopt rules
and regulations to effectuate the provisions of P.L.��� , c.��� (C.������� )
(pending before the Legislature as this bill) on or before the first day of the
eighth month next following enactment.

���� 4.� This act shall take effect
on or before the first day of the thirteenth month next following enactment,
but the Department of Community Affairs and municipalities are authorized to
take any anticipatory actions necessary to prepare for the implementation of
the provisions of this act.

STATEMENT

���� This bill requires newly-built
affordable housing inclusionary developments of 10 units or more to report the
results of a traffic impact study, school impact study, and storm water impact
study to the municipality in which the development is to be located.� A
newly-built inclusionary development requiring the clearing of more than one
acre of land would also be required to report the results of a carbon impact
study.

���� The bill also requires
newly-built inclusionary developments to be designed, constructed, and
certified to at least LEED silver standards, or equivalent green building
system standards, if the development consists of 10 or more units or four or
more floors.

���� The bill directs the
Commissioner of Community Affairs to adopt rules and regulations by the first
day of the eighth month following enactment.

���� This bill takes effect on the
first day of the thirteenth month next following enactment, and would not apply
to developments for which an application for development is submitted prior to
that date.