The state Department of Environmental Protection has rejected a plan to build a massive housing and commercial project on 930 acres in the Pinelands National Reserve and watershed of Barnegat Bay.
The project in Manchester Township has been enmeshed in controversy for about three decades ever since an even bigger development was proposed on the site.
In denying permits for the latest project, the agency found the development violated stormwater standards and posed threats to threatened and endangered…
