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Ventnor City planning board adopts housing element and fair-share plan to meet state's fourth-round deadline
Summary
The Ventnor City Planning Board voted to adopt a fourth-round housing element and fair-share plan on June 30, 2025, a move staff said preserves the city's protection against builder's-remedy lawsuits; the plan relies on existing credits, two vacant parcels and an overlay zone for future large developments.
The Ventnor City Planning Board voted on June 30 to adopt a housing element and fair share plan aimed at meeting New Jersey's fourth-round affordable-housing requirements and preserving the city's protection against builder's-remedy lawsuits.
Tiffany Morrissey, a licensed professional planner who was sworn in and accepted as an expert for the record, told the board the plan must "be adopted and uploaded to the state portal by the end of the day today" to secure the statutory protections and meet the program deadline.
Morrissey told the board the city's cumulative obligation for the period 1987 through 2035 is 60 affordable-housing credits (she emphasized credits, not necessarily new units). She said the city has a rehabilitation (present-need) obligation of 24 credits and that a large, age-restricted development referred to in the presentation (Shalom Towers) and two existing group homes provide a…
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