Turner's bill seeks to give municipalities the authority to enforce timed-growth zoning, if certain conditions are met. Turner's bill also requires that the delay or prohibition of development within a timed-growth ordinance must be limited in duration to the time remaining before a revision of the master plan is required under the state law. That time is currently every six years. Turner's bill seeks to extend that time to 10 years. Nov. 20, Mercer County Superior Court Assignment Judge Linda R. Feinberg invalidated West Windsor's timed-growth ordinance.
Moratoriums are illegal under the land-use law.
The township is currently appealing Feinberg's decision in the appellate division court.