No Remote Participation For Monday's Moorestown Council Meeting

MOORESTOWN, NJ — After Moorestown Council’s last regular meeting was marred by technical difficulties, anyone who wishes to participate in Monday night’s meeting will only be able to do so in-person, township officials announced on Friday.

Moorestown Council will meet at 7 p.m. Monday night at town hall, 111 West Second Street. There is no capacity limit listed for the meeting.

The meeting will stream live on the township’s website, but residents will not be able to participate unless they attend the meeting in person.

The live stream may be accessed by going to https://www.moorestown.nj.us/ and clicking on “Live Meetings” in the upper right-hand corner of the homepage. This will bring you to the “Agendas, Minutes, Meetings & Recordings” page. Once there, click on the “Township Council Meeting” link of the meeting you wish to watch.

This will be the first regular meeting of Moorestown Council since March 2020 in which there will be no option for remote participation.

The change was made after the June 14 meeting was marred by technical difficulties surrounding the township's telephone system. For much of that meeting, residents participating remotely couldn't hear what was happening in council chambers.

Monday night’s meeting will include public hearings and final votes on a pair of proposals concerning a land swap with defense contractor Lockheed Martin.

At the June 14 meeting, council unanimously approved a proposed ordinance to exchange the property known as the Nagle Tract with a 12.5 acre piece of land on Borton Landing Road that is currently owned by Lockheed Martin.

It also unanimously approved a proposed ordinance to re-zone the piece of land on Borton Landing Road to accommodate affordable housing, and re-zone the Nagle Tract for business zoning purposes.

These proposals were introduced after Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Navy last month said a housing complex on the Nagle Tract would pose a national security threat. Read more here: Moorestown Council Considering Land Swap With Lockheed Martin

They proposed the complex should be built about a mile down the road, on a piece of land that is roughly the same size. Lockheed Martin would assume ownership of the Nagle Tract, which it would leave empty and use as a buffer for the base. Read more here: National Security Concerns Spur Moorestown Land Swap Proposal

To view the full agenda, visit https://www.moorestown.nj.us/.