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Affordable Housing: Smaller House Rule Disregarded

Laptop Battery In 1999, Fair Haven decided that houses in the R-5 zone should have no more than 2,200 square feet of habitable area, but the Zoning Board has been allowing more.

The Coalition for Affordable Housing and the Environment has long suggested overhauling the current affordable housing rules. We have also suggested using a growth share methodology to enable municipalities to better plan the type and pace of their growth, as long as they include affordable housing as part of it. These rules, however, will not accomplish that goal. Instead, they will promote sprawl, degrade the environment, produce little or no affordable housing and increase the number of lawsuits.

Thinkpad For example, in October, it approved a variance allowing the owners of a vacant lot measuring 50- by 171 feet in the R-5 zone to build a new dwelling consisting of 2,550 square feet of habitable floor area, 16 percent above the cap. No hardship was shown to justify a variance.

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Microsoft Just last August, the state Supreme Court upheld the legality of the habitable floor area cap when a builder challenged a decision of the Fair Haven Planning Board. The court said, "Fair Haven underscores the need to build smaller, more affordable houses, observing that many municipal workers cannot afford to live in town. The municipality chose to confront that problem by initiating the cap."

Critics said the new rules favor towns so much that fewer units will be built. "COAH has clearly abdicated its responsibility to produce affordable housing, protect the environment and promote sound planning, " said Paul Chrystie, executive director of the Coalition for Affordable Housing and the Environment. "Municipalities will be planning not on the basis of what is right for the town, but for how they can get the lowest affordable housing numbers possible."

Laptop Computers Is 2,550 square feet the new standard in Fair Haven, or does the building code, enacted by council, get enforced? I say that the Zoning Board should obey the law, not rewrite it.

Under the old system, every town in the state was assigned a number of affordable units based on past growth. Since 1975, the state Supreme Court has ruled that every town in the state had to provide its "fair share" of housing for the poor. The new rules conceivably could allow towns to decide they had grown enough and, therefore, no longer had an obligation to get more affordable housing built.

Laptop Computer Stephen R. Knowlton
Fair Haven, NJ

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