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Absecon council adopts affordable-housing ordinance, schedules public hearing on updated background-check rules
Summary
The Absecon City Council on May 15 adopted Ordinance 03-2025 to amend the city's land-use code for affordable housing to meet Fair Share Housing Act and uniform affordability control requirements, and scheduled a June 5 hearing on a separate background-check ordinance.
The Absecon City Council voted May 15 to adopt Ordinance 03-2025, which repeals and replaces a section of the city's land-use ordinance to address the requirements of the Fair Share Housing Act and the State's uniform housing affordability controls.
The ordinance, described by the clerk at the meeting as an update to section 224-194 of the land-use and development code, was read for final passage and approved on roll call. Council also introduced Ordinance 04-2025, a separate measure updating criminal-history background checks…
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