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Hopatcong council adopts resolution modifying DCA fourth-round affordable-housing obligation
Summary
Council accepted a planner-led analysis that reduced the borough's fourth-round affordable-housing obligation from 306 to 244 units and authorized filing the analysis with the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs.
Hopatcong Borough Council on Jan. 20 adopted Resolution 2025-40 to accept a locally produced analysis that reduces the borough's fourth-round affordable-housing obligation as calculated by the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA).
The council voted unanimously to file the borough's supplemental analysis and a declaratory-judgment action within 48 hours, preserving the borough's ability to seek a reduction in the DCA's published numbers.
Planner Joe Fuge of Van Cleef Engineering and Associates summarized the supplemental analysis during the meeting. He told the council the DCA had identified 78 unconstrained GIS "features" totaling 43.77 acres; his review found 31 of those features (13.54 acres) were improperly included because of mapping artifacts or constraints such as inclusion of state park land or parcels outside the sewer-service area.
"The numbers that are in front of you tonight are a…
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