Requires municipal planning boards and zoning boards of adjustment to incorporate recommendations from certain local environmental commissions on applications for development.

This bill (S 3728) requires New Jersey municipal planning boards and zoning boards of adjustment to review and incorporate recommendations from local environmental commissions when considering development applications. It applies to all municipalities with environmental commissions and changes current law by making boards legally obligated to include these environmental suggestions in their final decisions. The bill also mandates that boards provide environmental commissions with full copies (not just summaries) of all development applications and specifies that failing to do so would invalidate hearings. Currently, boards could disregard such recommendations without consequence.