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Residents press committee on PILOTs, affordable-housing impacts and school costs
Summary
Public commenters and township officials debated Payment In Lieu Of Taxes (PILOT) deals and affordable-housing impacts on the tax base and school enrollment; speakers cited specific development counts and school-age child estimates and called for more commercial ratables to stabilize taxes.
Several residents used public comment time at the July 8 Cranford Township Committee meeting to challenge the committee on Payment In Lieu Of Taxes (PILOT) agreements, affordable-housing surplus calculations and how development affects school enrollment and the municipal budget.
A speaker identified a 38-unit affordable-housing surplus carried from the third round and questioned why the township did not use that surplus to deny a proposed development at 750 Walnut (a project referred to as Hart's Mountain in comments). The speaker said the 750 Walnut development produced 38 affordable units — the same number as the surplus — and argued that, had officials asserted the surplus, the project could have…
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