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Pompton Lakes council adopts binding affordable-housing obligation after planner recommends 104-unit figure
Summary
An H2M planner outlined the borough’s 2025–2035 affordable-housing obligation and the council adopted a binding resolution reflected on the consent agenda that aligns the borough's local calculation (104 units) with the state process.
San Chivan, the borough's retained affordable-housing planner from H2M, told the Borough Council of Pompton Lakes on Jan. 27 that the state's Department of Community Affairs calculated a 2025'2035 regional prospective need of 106 units for the borough but that local adjustments reduced the town's realistic obligation to 104 units.
Chivan said municipalities must adopt a binding obligation by Jan. 31, 2025, as part of the Fair Housing Act framework and the new post-2024 round rules the presenter described as enacted through legislation signed in March 2024. She described two parts of the obligation: the prospective need (2025'2035) and an existing-deficit component (45 units in the borough's case). Chivan said DCA provided baseline calculations…
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