Kevin D. Kelly

Kevin D. Kelly was admitted to the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bars in 1979 and the United States Supreme Court bar in 2000. He is a member of the Sussex County and New Jersey Bar Associations and the New Jersey Institute of Municipal Attorneys. He received the Diplomate in Municipal Law from Rutgers University in 1992. 

Mr. Kelly was Sussex County Counsel from 2018-2021. He has served as municipal counsel for Byram, Frankford, Fredon, Green, Hamburg, Hardyston, Hopatcong, Mount Arlington, Newton, Vernon and West Milford.

Mr. Kelly was counsel for the first privately financed/owned baseball stadium in New Jersey at Skyland's Park in Frankford Township. As developer's counsel, Mr. Kelly obtained approvals for the Sky View Golf Course project including an 18 hole golf course and 65 residential lots in Sparta and approvals for Sussex Commons Lifestyle Outlets, a 350,000 square foot shopping center at Ross' Corner in Frankford Township.

As municipal counsel for Byram Township, he negotiated the public/private construction of the Byram sewer system and the Byram Plaza shopping center. As municipal counsel for West Milford, he successfully defended the Township in complex multi-party oil contamination litigation involving the NJDEP and the Spill Compensation statute.

Mr. Kelly was local counsel for the Southdown Quarry in the successful defense of injunction and environmental actions brought by Sparta Township and the Department of Environmental Protection. He led successful litigation efforts to attack the improper use of municipal zoning regulations in federal cases involving the First Amendment for the International Mahavir Jain Mission in Blairstown and the Fair Housing Act for the Sunrise House treatment facility in Lafayette. As defense counsel, he won the dismissal of all counts in the indictment of the Sussex Borough Police Chief in an obstruction of justice/conspiracy prosecution.

As objector's counsel, Mr. Kelly successfully represented the Lebanon Township Land Coalition before the Planning Board, Law Division and Appellate Division in opposition to an application by Toll Bros. Inc. for subdivision and site plan approval of a 248 acre tract in Lebanon Township.