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Turnersville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Washington Township, in Gloucester County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [9] As of the 2010 United States census, the CDP's population was 3,742. [10] [11] The community was named for the Turner family, one of the original families of Washington ...
The Optional Municipal Charter Law or Faulkner Act (N.J.S.A 40:69A-1 [1], et seq.) provides New Jersey municipalities with a variety of models of local government. This legislation is called the Faulkner Act in honor of the late Bayard H. Faulkner, former mayor of Montclair, New Jersey, U.S., and former chairman of the Commission on Municipal Government.
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The REAL rules call for higher building heights in coastal flood zones — an additional 5 feet above the Federal Emergency Management Agency's 100-year flood elevation — to account for rising ...
A township, in the context of New Jersey local government, refers to one of five types and one of eleven forms of municipal government. As a political entity, a township in New Jersey is a full-fledged municipality, on par with any town, city, borough, or village. They collect property taxes and provide services such as maintaining roads ...
Among New Jersey's 564 municipalities, the borough is the most common form of local government, though the majority of state residents actually reside in townships. In 2023 there were 253 boroughs in New Jersey. [2] However, boroughs were not always so common. In 1875 only 17 boroughs had been created, all by special acts of the legislature.
The Walsh Act is a piece of legislation in the U.S. state of New Jersey that permits municipalities to adopt a non-partisan commission form of government. The legislation was signed by Governor of New Jersey Woodrow Wilson on April 25, 1911. The commissions in Walsh Act municipalities are composed of either three or five members elected for ...
Gloucester County (/ ˈ ɡ l ɒ s t ər / GLOST-ər) is a county in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 census, the county was the state's 14th-most populous county [5] with a population of 302,294, [2] [3] its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 14,006 (+4.9%) from the 288,288 counted in the 2010 census, [6] which in turn represented an increase of 33,615 (+13.2%) from the ...