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Morristown adopts first-step affordable-housing obligation number; town lowers DCA's advisory figure
Summary
Council adopted Resolution R44-2025 after planners recommended a revision to the Department of Community Affairs' advisory prospective need number, lowering Morristown's prospective need from DCA's 341 units to a town-calculated 266 units and confirming a present need of 40 units.
Morristown — The Town Council adopted Resolution R44-2025 Jan. 28 defining Morristown's affordable-housing obligations for the state's new planning period, a first formal step under New Jersey's 2024 affordable-housing law.
Town planners presented the council with the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) advisory calculation and a town review that revised the prospective need. Chris Colley, planner for the town, summarized the process: "The state put those numbers out in October through the DCA . . . communities have an opportunity to review what are advisory numbers from the DCA, look at how the DCA calculated the numbers, and then as the town take the methodology from the law and…
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