Court Opinion

ID: 7296987
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-25 20:41:58.546464+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:19:25.554240
License: Public Domain

Mountain, J.
(concurring). I agree with the conclusions reached in the Court’s opinion and essentially with the opinion itself. In one important respect, however, I disagree. The Court rests its decision upon a ground of State constitutional law. I reach the same result by concluding that the term, “general welfare,” appearing in N. J. S. A. 40:55-32, can and should properly be interpreted with the same amplitude attributed to that phrase in the opinion of the Court, as well as otherwise in the manner there set forth. I therefore would rest the conclusions we here announce upon an interpretation of the statute, and not upon the State constitution.
Accordingly, since I read the statute — without resort to the Constitution — to justify, if not compel, our decision, I find it unnecessary to express any view as to the merits of the constitutional argument set forth in the Court’s opinion.