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At the 8/19/2026 West Amwell Township Committee meeting, one of the more curious discussions was about the format of Meeting Minutes. Specifically, the Township Attorney did not just advocate for a severely truncated form of minutes, but she actually railed at length against people having statements read into the record verbatim. This was a truly bizarre incident, because Attorney Quiñones Perez confused the living hell out of everyone. Even her advocates on the Township Comm

The next West Amwell Township Committee Meeting is scheduled for September 2nd, 2026, 7pm at the Township Municipal Building. The agenda is shown below. For the full PDF of the agenda click here. Items of interest include: Ordinance 11, 2026 "Stormwater Quality" Introduction. This is a continuation of the discussions about the Township adopting ordinances to align with the NJDEP's new storm water quality standards. I have no idea why this is called "Stormwater Quality" and no

The Township Comnmittee Meeting last night went on for over four hours. A wide range of topics were discussed, but some key controversies dominated the conversation. We are trying an experiment with AI on this one, based on our video stream of the meeting. The following is a meeting summary generated by an AI video transcript processing tool. We will be following up with a raw transcript of the meeting as well. Please let us know what you think of this kind of summary - good,

The Livestream for tonight's Township Committee Meeting at 7pm at the municipal building will be available at the below link: https://www.youtube.com/live/6Qc7AmOPgnQ It does not show on the agenda yet, but the Mayor has indicated via email that potential 25 Hewitt Road remedies and actions will discussed tonight as well.

We will be live streaming the Land use Board Meeting tonight, 8/18/2026, at 7pm. A direct link to the Youtube stream is available here: https://youtube.com/live/oax5JrnohqE For reference this is the agenda.

The Land Use Board will be meeting Tuesday, August 18th at 7pm at the Municipal Building. The Township Committee Meeting will be held the following night August 19th, also at 7pm at the Municipal Building. We will be live-streaming both meetings from the Municipal Building, links to follow. Land Use Board Meeting The Land Use Board meeting agenda is available here, and is also reproduced below. There's a fair amount going on here. Of most interest to the public: A "revote" on

Last night, members of the Township Committee, Open Space, Land Use Board, Environmental Commission, and Ag Advisory Committee came together in a workshop to talk about potential tree cutting ordinances. The full video of the meeting is available below. https://www.youtube.com/live/NNOHdj6Bp38 To set the context of the meeting, recently the New Jersey State Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) mandated that municipalities enact some sort of ordinance protecting tree

This is the live-stream page for tonight's joint meeting on potential tree management ordinances in conjunction to recent State-mandated storm water management changes. The livestream will start at 6:55pm, the meeting is set to begin at 7:00pm.

West Amwell Township government is having a storm water management & tree cutting ordinance special workshop involving a large portion of the overall municipal government at 7pm tomorrow night, Wednesday August 5th at the West Amwell Township Municipal Building. The meeting will be including: The Township Committee Environmental Commission Land Use Board Open Space Committee Agricultural Advisory Committee The purpose of the workshop is to discuss potential tree-cutting and f

Today we received the Stormwater Newsletter that has been discussed at the last several Township Committee Meetings. This is a six page snail-mailed newsletter that is in full color on heavy stock that went out to every household. You can see the online version here. We are conflicted by it. On the one hand, storm water management has obviously become an important topic in the Township. On the other hand, a six page snail-mailed newsletter seems to be ill-advised for a number

The Township has a packed agenda for its next meeting, including a proposed data center ban within the Township. The full agenda is available here: https://www.westamwelltwp.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07152026-75 The meeting is set to "follow the Board of Health Meeting", which starts at 7:00pm. Highlights include: Open Space - Updates on preservation of Rock Road West properties Storm water - Several ordinances related to the new State Storm Water ordinances Data Cent

It was another wild night at the West Amwell Township Municipal Building on Wednesday night which saw the agenda and incumbent party be challenged and flamed by several residents. The place was certainly packed for the June 17th, 2026 Township Committee meeting. Several items were withdrawn after public comment, and Committeeman Fitting was called out on issues on several occasions. Video of most of the meeting is available below: https://youtu.be/I5kquoEzBlI?si=XZMIKXQOEmrxd

The next West Amwell Township Land Use Board meeting is on Tuesday, June 16th. The meeting will include information on the following items: Completeness Review for Route 31N Urban Renewal, LLC. 420 Route 311, Block 21 Lot 14. This relates to a storage facility. Public Hearing continued on The Quarry House at 1872 River Road - Block 26 Lot 17, including Final Site Plan Approval Discussion on a Regional Planning Grant Discussion of an ordinance regarding Data Centers in the tow

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