the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Upper Saddle River NJ, a short sparsely attended 40-minute hearing was all the borough needed to be declared in compliance with its six-year-old affordable housing agreement. The ruling on Friday by Superior Court Judge Christine Farrington provides the Borough of Upper Saddle River with protection through 2025 against lawsuits arising from challenges to its affordable housing plan, part of a statewide initiative dating back to the 1980s requiring that each municipality provide its “fair share” of affordable housing.
The game is that if a project has ANY element of Fair Share Housing in it, the project then does not have to abide by some Local ordinances that are in place to protect the environment and surrounding neighborhoods.
The borough’s 2020 Housing Element & Fair Share Plan includes four future affordable housing sites:
Mack Cali/Toll Brothers, 47.65-acre former Pearson Education campus site now under construction for 186 market rate units, 22 affordable
Porcelanosa, 7.8-acre borough-owned property behind the headquarters building at 600 Route 17 north; 70 affordable units, including 34 senior units and 18 units for homeless veterans; nine units to be underwritten by a $2.3 million bond approved Wednesday by the Borough Council, the rest by New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency on behalf of the Bergen County Housing Authority
Crescent Village, 160-168 E. Crescent Ave., 25 additional affordable family rental units generated by the Mack Cali site on borough-owned property in cooperation with United Way
Alzheimer’s facility, 172-176 E. Crescent Ave., borough-owned, 16-bedroom complex.
What’s the price for the affordable housing is it ownership on 600 route 17 north
When I s it going to be built ? Thank you
My god they are building these places all over the place and jamming it right up our ass.
There goes the neighborhood
I need an affordable housing. Upper saddle river. For Just one person. Great references. 700 credit score. Thanks! P.S I’m not a low life either.
Same nonsense as 55 years ago, when I was a kid living in USR.
I’ve never been able to afford to live there and it doesn’t bother me.
I live where I can afford (am no longer in NJ).
Why does it bother some people so much that they have to pass laws to force DEI housing on USR residents?
You want better schools for your kids in NJ? Then work for it; get involved in your local school board & make damn sure your kids value education. Make your town, where you are now, an idyllic place to live and raise a family.