>Ridgewood Planning Board creates an AH-1 zone specifically for property at 234 South Broad St
Ridgewood drafts COAH ordinance
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
BY MICHAEL SEDON
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Staff Writer
Despite the state’s current efforts to abolish the New Jersey Council On Affordable Housing (COAH), the agency is still forcing planners and planning boards to submit ordinances that make towns comply with its regulations.
At a Ridgewood Planning Board meeting on Tuesday night, Village Planner Blais Brancheau introduced a 30-page draft ordinance that implements the final part of the village’s affordable housing element and fair share plan with a focus on the South Broad Street area and a property owned by West Bergen Mental Health (WBMH).
The village created an AH-1 zone specifically for property at 234 South Broad St., which is the location of a group home operated by WBMH, according to village zoning maps. The AH-1 zone is surrounded by a R-3 residential zone. The council initially voted down an expansion of the group home, but the issue resurfaced a year later when a threat from WBMH to bring a developer’s lawsuit to the village for not allowing its group home expansion caused the council to revote and approve the proposal.
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