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Committee recommends Merlin Township rezoning to C3 with one‑per‑acre PDC requirement for nonresidential development
Summary
The committee recommended Merlin Township’s master plan reexamination and ordinance 2024‑15 to add parcels to the C3 zone, permit conditional warehouses and light industrial uses, and replace the floor‑area‑ratio PDC approach with a mandatory 1 PDC per acre for nonresidential disturbance.
The CFP Policy and Implementation Committee on Jan. 31 recommended that Merlin Township’s master plan reexamination and ordinance 2024‑15 — which rezones just over 22 acres to the regional C3 commercial zone and adds conditional uses — be forwarded to the full Pinelands Commission for certification.
Staff framed the ordinance as a long‑running effort to add a small set of vacant lots at the edge of the regional growth area to the C3 zone; the change preserves commercial zoning but expands conditional uses (including warehouses and light industrial)…
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