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Mayor details West Windsor plan for fourth‑round affordable housing after court settlement, ties growth to taxes
Summary
Mayor Hemat Marathi told the West Windsor Township Council on June 16 that the state Department of Community Affairs initially assigned the township 661 fourth‑round affordable housing units, the township contested that figure and ultimately reached a settlement fixing the obligation at 480 units, and that the township’s plan aims to produce 241 affordable units plus 51 credits for a total of 300.
Mayor Hemat Marathi told the West Windsor Township Council on June 16 that the state Department of Community Affairs (DCA) initially assigned West Windsor a fourth‑round affordable housing obligation of 661 units, that the township contested that figure, and that a court settlement with the Fair Share Housing Center set a requirement of 480 units.
The mayor said the township’s housing element and fair‑share plan, which he said will be presented to the planning board and posted on the township website, will seek to build 241 actual affordable units and claim 51 additional units in credits — a total of 300 units — while the township’s own land analysis would support a requirement of 236 units. “We immediately realized that the DCA had used faulty data and had included the land that had an approval for warehouse on the large 600 plus acre Atlantic Realty site,” Marathi said during his state of the township remarks.
Why it matters: Marathi framed the housing numbers as central to controlling growth, school enrollment…
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