Exempts expansion or reconstruction, within 125% of existing footprint, of municipal and county buildings and certain emergency services buildings from "Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act."

This bill exempts certain expansions or reconstructions of municipal and county government buildings, courthouses, and emergency services facilities from the Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act. Specifically, it allows these buildings to be expanded or reconstructed within 125% of their existing footprint, provided the expansion doesn't increase impervious surface area by more than one-quarter acre. The exemption directly affects local governments and emergency service organizations that own or operate these facilities within New Jersey's Highlands Region. This change modifies existing exemptions under the Highlands Act to specifically include these public buildings, maintaining the same 125% footprint and impervious surface limitations already applied to other types of building reconstruction.