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Allendale leaders say litigation tied to Avalon Bay settlement preserves downtown and secures temporary immunity
Summary
Officials told the Jan. 5 reorganizational meeting that recent negotiations resolved Allendale’s affordable-housing obligations linked to the nearby Avalon Bay project, yielding a plan they say avoids downtown rezoning and provides roughly a 10-year immunity from builder-remedy exposure.
Council members and municipal counsel described a year-long effort to resolve Allendale’s affordable-housing case and a related dispute involving the Avalon Bay project in neighboring Saddle River, saying the parties reached settlements on Dec. 31 that the borough’s leaders called protective of local character.
“We were able to settle both of them” by year’s end, a council member said, adding that the borough obtained what he called “the least…
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