Ronald C. Morgan

Mr. Morgan is the chair of the firm’s Real Estate Department and a senior member of the firm’s Land Use and Municipal and Banking Departments. His practice areas include (a) commercial, industrial and residential real estate, (b) zoning, planning and land use, (c) complex affordable housing compliance and exclusionary zoning litigation under the Mount Laurel doctrine on behalf of both municipalities and developers, (d) complex prerogative writ litigation, (e) brownfields development and redevelopment on behalf of local governments, developers and property owners, (f) federal and state environmental regulation, (g) tax appeals, (h) municipal law, (j) telecommunications law pertaining to the securement of development approvals for new towers and telecommunications facilities, 6557 and (k) commercial and residential real estate financing and construction on behalf of both institution lenders and developers.

Over the course of his extended practice, Mr. Morgan has served as the solicitor for numerous municipalities and planning, zoning and joint land use boards throughoutNew Jersey. He has secured literally thousands of complicated subdivision, site plan, general development plan, planned unit development and telecommunications approvals on behalf of the firm’s clients. Mr. Morgan is one ofNew Jersey’s few attorneys that specialize in affordable housing compliance under theMountLaurel doctrine, the Federal Fair Housing Act (FFHA), the New Jersey Fair Housing Act (FHA) and the regulations promulgated by the New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing (COAH). As such, he is frequently appointed as Special Affordable Housing Counsel by municipalities and likewise handles intricate class action exclusionary zoning litigation on behalf of developers, property owners and the protected class in the Law and Appellate Divisions of the Superior Court and the New Jersey Supreme Court. Mr. Morgan has assisted in the preparation of numerous Master Plans, land use ordinances and affordable housing Fair Share Plans.