Three changes, none of which needed a change in state law. Set them yourself and watch what happens to what the Township collects — and to what the school district gets. Everything else is held at the figures from the documents.
This is not an assumption or a modelling choice — it is how the statute works. Everything on this page below follows from it.
| What is taxed | A home in Robbinsville | A property under a long-term agreement |
|---|---|---|
| The land | Assessed at value. Taxed. Split between the township, the county and the schools. | The same. The land is never exempt. |
| The building | Assessed at value. Taxed. Split the same three ways. | Exempt. In its place, a negotiated Annual Service Charge — a share of the rent roll, not of the value — of which 95% goes to the municipality, 5% to the county and nothing to the school district. |
So the quarrel is not that these properties pay nothing. They pay a great deal — this page puts a number on it. The quarrel is with how the building is priced and where that money goes. It is priced off rent rather than value, so it does not track what the property is worth. And it bypasses the schools entirely, while the children who live in those buildings turn up at the schoolhouse door like everyone else.
The statute exists for a reason, and the reason deserves a fair hearing: redevelopment of underused land is supposed to need an inducement, and without one the argument runs that nothing gets built and the township taxes a vacant field instead. That case can be made honestly. What we cannot find is anywhere it was made in public, with the arithmetic attached, before these agreements were signed. And even granting it in full, thirty years at a tenth of the rent with nothing for the schools was never the only deal that satisfied it.
The Liberty/McKesson abatement ran five years and that property is back on the normal rolls today. Ordinance 2018-18 ran eleven. Thirty years is a choice, not a requirement — and the longer the term, the more of it falls on whoever is paying taxes here in 2050.
This clause already exists in every agreement in the file. It is simply switched off until year fifteen or later. It is the only clause tied to the building’s value rather than its rent roll. A developer who cannot carry a set share of a tax bill from the start has a financing problem, not a tax problem.
The statutory 95/5/0 split governs the service charge itself. It does not prevent a separately negotiated payment to the district written into the financial agreement. Sixteen agreements in the file, and not one of them asks.
| Year | 1 — As signed | 2 — As you would write it | 3 — Difference | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collected | To schools | Collected | To schools | Collected | To schools | |
Held fixed, from the documents: a year-one rent roll of $7,935,479 growing 1.6% a year and a total assessed value of $86,331,300, both from the Matrix 7A Fiscal Plan exhibit; land assessed at $4,000,000; a tax rate of $3.488 per $100, of which the schools receive $1.924; the land tax credit as every agreement provides for it; and the administrative fee where the agreement carries one. The rent roll and the assessed value are the two figures the campaign has not independently verified — they come from the developer’s own exhibit.
Every document behind this page is available from the campaign on request. If an assumption here is wrong, we would rather hear it now than be corrected in October.
Every figure on this page comes from a document you can open, or from arithmetic on one. The tax rates are from the New Jersey Division of Taxation. The agreement terms and the Annual Service Charge schedule are from the Township of Robbinsville's own records, obtained under the Open Public Records Act on April 12, 2026, and available from this campaign on request.
If you find an error on this page, tell us and we will correct it in public.