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Springfield Township planning board adopts amended housing element, approves overlay and PUD consistency reviews to satisfy court consent order
Summary
The planning board adopted an addendum to its fourth-round housing element and found two overlay zoning ordinances and a PUD subarea ordinance consistent with that plan, a step the planner said preserves municipal immunity under a court consent order and secures state certification through 07/01/2035.
The Springfield Township Planning Board on March 31 adopted an addendum to its fourth-round housing element and voted that two affordable-housing overlay ordinances and a planned-unit-development (PUD) subarea overlay are consistent with that plan, the planner said.
Mister Mastretta, the township planner, told the board the changes respond to a court consent order (Judge Lindeman) and to comments from Fair Share Housing Center. The order, Mastretta said, requires the township to provide proposed sites and draft ordinances by 02/15/2026 and to address the matter at a case management conference on 02/20/2026. "The township shall revise its fourth round housing element and fair share plan to include additional family units," he read from the consent order, and described a parallel…
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