The Highlands Council is expected to approve the Highlands master plan today, which severely restricts development in over 80 percent of the 800,000 acres within the seven counties encompassing the Highlands region. There is substantial opposition to the plan from both ends of the spectrum, with environmentalists charging that the plan is too watered down while builders, farmers and property owners claim that the Highlands Act and the plan unduly limit their ability to develop their property and have destroyed their land values.
The Daily Record provides a comprehensive review of the plan here.
The Star Ledger outlines the issues in a question and answer format here.
Star Ledger columnist Paul Mulshine provides his take on the Highlands master plan here.
