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Elk Township planning board adopts amended housing plan, backs 20% inclusionary requirement for townhouses
Summary
The Elk Township Planning & Zoning Board on March 2 adopted an amended fourth-round Housing Element and Fair Share Plan and approved related affordable-housing obligations. The board also reviewed ordinances proposing a 20% inclusionary set-aside for townhouse developments of five or more units; all housing-related motions passed unanimously.
The Elk Township Planning & Zoning Board on March 2 adopted an amended fourth‑round Housing Element and Fair Share Plan and approved related affordable housing obligations, carrying a series of motions unanimously.
Board Engineer Steve Bach summarized the Amended 4th Round Affordable Housing Obligations for the board and the public, and the board voted to grant approval of the obligations and to memorialize the adoption in Resolutions 2026‑10, 2026‑11 and 2026‑12. The board recorded unanimous votes on the housing items (tallies recorded as 8‑0‑0).
Bach also reviewed two draft ordinances (Ordinance 0‑3‑2026 and Ordinance 0‑4‑2026) that would allow townhouse development on several parcels and tie those developments to an inclusionary affordable‑housing requirement. As summarized by Bach, “This Ordinance will require anyone that comes in with a development of 5 housing units or more will be required to do a 20% inclusionary affordable housing set aside.” The parcels referenced in the discussion included Block 34 (Lots 9, 8, 7 & 6), Block 31 Lot 2.01 and Block 58 Lot 2 (referred to in the minutes as “Nicholson Corner”).
Board members moved and seconded the motions to review the ordinances for master‑plan consistency and to adopt the memorializing resolutions; votes on those measures were recorded as unanimous (8‑0‑0). The minutes do not record further public testimony on those specific ordinance items beyond the board engineer’s overview.
Why it matters: the package updates the township’s housing element and fair‑share plan while advancing local ordinance language that would require a 20% inclusionary affordable set‑aside for certain townhouse developments. That policy, if adopted in final ordinance form, would affect the zoning and development conditions on the blocks named in the review.
The board took no additional substantive public action on implementation details at the meeting. The minutes note that the resolutions memorializing the decisions were adopted; next procedural steps are the usual memorialization and any subsequent ordinance hearings or administrative processing.
The meeting adjourned at 7:59 p.m.
