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Vineland council defeats zoning changes on harm-reduction centers, sends revised proposals to planning board
Summary
After extensive public comment, the council voted down two zoning ordinances that would have clarified where harm reduction centers and sterile syringe programs could locate; related draft ordinances were later referred to the planning board for further review and first reading.
Vineland City Council on March 11 defeated two proposed zoning amendments after a lengthy public hearing and debate focused on how the city should classify and locate harm reduction centers and sterile syringe programs.
The council considered Ordinance 2025-9 and Ordinance 2025-10, both of which arose from a draft the Planning Board had reviewed. Chris Dockney, a professional planner with CME Associates, summarized a report and recommended that the city add a definition for "harm reduction center" (drawing from the state Harm Reduction Act) and explicitly permit such centers in the IN-1 institutional zone, allow them conditionally in the B-3 business zone, and permit a sterile syringe program only as an accessory use to a harm reduction center in IN-1. "We recommend ... you include a definition for a harm reduction center, taking that straight from the state of New Jersey's definition in the…
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