BY SALVADOR RIZZO
STATE HOUSE BUREAU |
THE RECORD
New Jersey’s suburban towns got a big break Monday in the number of affordable housing units that must be built over the next decade, as a state appeals panel overturned a court order that could have added thousands of units to developers’ plans.
State law continues to mandate that cities and suburbs allow the development of low-income housing.
Suburban towns are not required to address the so-called “backlog” of unmet housing needs that supposedly accumulated from 1999-2015. This is a very good development for Ridgewood. The developers have much less leverage than they thought they did. Now we have to press the point that we are fully built-out, have been for decades, and should not be obliged by any court to “build up”, city-style, to accommodate large numbers of new residents.
What a shame for Saraceno, Simoncini, Pucciarelli and all the others that stood to gain big time and pushed so hard to get all that housing into the CBD. Kudos to,the citizens who delayed all the development and stood up to Aronsohn and his horrible reign of terror, and Gwenn with her sparkly eyed talk about COAH.
But the 5 monstrosities have already been approved by the 3 amigos in their final act of betrayal, no? Or is there still hope?
Well we have a Planner in Ridgewood who loves affordable housing. He is also the one that pushes for this but then again he doesn,t live in Ridgewood so what does he care
COAH should be buried forever.
“Planner” should be replaced asap.
“planner” is never really available. What has he “planned”?
There is still hope to stop the pending projects. Email and call your council people and tell them you want them to take action.