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Franklin Township adopts ordinance updating affordable-housing code to implement fourth-round plan of about 650 units
Summary
On second reading the council adopted Ordinance 4497-26, replacing prior affordable-housing rules to reflect the state's 2025 statutes and the township's fourth-round obligation of roughly 650 units across several sites, including a 100% senior-affordable redevelopment proposal on Franklin Boulevard.
Franklin Township Council adopted Ordinance 4497-26 on Feb. 24, repealing older affordable-housing provisions and installing new code to implement the township’s fourth-round affordable-housing plan under recent state statutes.
Township officials and council members described the law as the product of the state's 2025 statutory changes and the municipal program approved by the court. The manager said the township's fourth-round obligation is about 650 units, to be met across five sites including one redevelopment area intended to be 100% senior-affordable on Franklin Boulevard. Other projects include conversions and new construction with mixed affordability levels (some 100% affordable, others mixed market/affordable). “This is the fourth round… I think the total is about 650 give or take for our fourth round obligation for affordable housing,” the manager said.
Speakers from the public asked how the ordinance and plan would affect neighborhoods and whether county agencies had a role; officials said the state oversees municipal obligations and that the county does not set municipal affordable-housing requirements. Council members said redevelopment planning will seek a mix of residential, commercial and green spaces where appropriate.
The ordinance passed on recorded final adoption. Council instructed staff to continue public outreach about site plans and to work with redevelopment commissioners and prospective developers on project details.
