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Princeton Planning Board recommends suite of affordable-housing ordinances to council
Summary
At its March 5 meeting the Planning Board voted to find a package of six affordable-housing ordinances consistent with the master plan and recommended they go to Princeton Council for hearings March 9; the package includes multiple rezonings, an overlay for Jugtown and a rewrite of the municipality's affordable-housing chapter.
The Princeton Planning Board on March 5 recommended that Princeton Council take up a package of affordable-housing ordinances, finding them substantially consistent with the town's master plan.
Planning consultant Nathan Foote summarized six measures tied to the municipality's fourth-round housing element and fair-share plan. The ordinances would (among other changes) rezone parcels to create affordable-housing districts that require 100% affordable developments on some sites (minimums of 16, 34 and 35 units were specified for individual parcels), permit a range of building heights and parking standards, and establish an affordable-housing overlay for five historic Jugtown properties that limits rooftop additions and requires at least 20% of new units be affordable.
"In my professional opinion, the ordinance is consistent with the master plan," Foote told the board, repeatedly noting the proposals are intended to implement the fourth-round HEFSP.
Board members praised elements of the proposals while pressing for protections of…
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