02-06-09 William Randolph v. City of Brigantine Planning Board, et al. A-3031-07T2
In this appeal, we concluded that conflict of interest principles embodied in the common law, the Municipal Land Use Law, and the Local Government Ethics Law, required a member of the planning board to disqualify herself from applications in
which the board's engineer reviews the application and provides recommendations to the board, where the board member had a personal relationship with, and owned a home jointly with, the principal of the engineering firm that employed the board engineer. As a result, we set aside the board's approval of a preliminary site plan application and reversed the trial court judge who affirmed the planning board's decision.
