Gloucester Department of Planning and Zoning has released an online survey to gather public opinion on future potential zoning regulations. The survey will close March 31 and the results will be shared with the Gloucester County Planning Commission.

Approximately 650 responses have been recorded so far, providing Planning and Zoning Director Anne Ducey-Ortiz, AICP and Senior Comprehensive Planner Carol Rizzio, PLA, AICP, with insight into where the results are headed.

In the initial results, most people do not support allowing a mix of commercial and residential uses and density without any special approval process in the Court House area and other areas zoned Business-2 (B-2) village mixed use.

For agriculture uses, most survey takers believe that these uses (such as farm crops, livestock and aquaculture) should be required to go through a special approval process in the rural residential districts (C-2 and SC-1), instead of only applying for a permit without such a process....