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Monroe Township planning board backs zoning change to implement affordable-housing settlement
Summary
The board voted to recommend Ordinance O112025027, which reduces the number of market-rate "bonus" units and shifts where housing and industrial uses may locate while preserving the township's affordable-unit obligations; the board also adopted a resolution memorializing that recommendation.
Monroe Township Planning Board members voted to recommend that the Township Council adopt Ordinance O112025027, a zoning amendment the board said implements a negotiated affordable-housing settlement while reducing the number of market-rate units the developer may build.
The board's planner and a township presenter told the board the ordinance converts a previously settled 1,479-unit proposal to a configuration that removes 479 market-rate units and converts another 350 units to age-restricted senior housing, leaving the township's affordable-unit obligation for round 3 unchanged. "He successfully negotiated a much needed reduction in the township's round 3 affordable housing obligation, by reducing what was previously settled to be a 1,479 unit development, reducing that down to a thousand," the presenter said.
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