Page 8 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • August 11, 2010 Franklin Lakes COAH requests more affordable housing information by Frank J. McMahon The Council on Affordable Housing has asked the Borough of Franklin Lakes for additional information regarding the municipality’s petition for certification of its affordable housing plan. COAH has given borough officials until Sept. 18 to comply with the request. The scheduling of the mediation of several objections to the borough’s plan will continue during the period of time the borough must reply to COAH. The borough’s Housing Element and Fair Share Plan was adopted in November 2008 and calls for the rezoning of three areas and two municipality-owned properties to provide the reasonable opportunity for the construction of 72 affordable housing units within the borough. The borough’s previous affordable housing obligation was 109 units, which was satisfied by constructing 15 affordable housing units at Mill Pond on Old Mill Road plus a credit of 15 units because they are rental units; rezoning a Colonial Road site to receive a credit for 16 units; effecting a regional contribution agreement with Garfield in which the borough paid to transfer 54 units of its obligation to that city; and by agreeing to rezone for the creation of nine affordable accessory apartments in the borough. The COAH report, however, indicates the borough has a projected growth share obligation of 127 units based on residential household and non-residential employment growth projections for 2004 through 2018. In addition, COAH is requiring the borough to address three rehabilitation units which are considered deficient and occupied by households of low- or moderate-income, and the prior realistic development potential of 109 units which the borough is obligated to provide after receiving a vacant land adjustment. COAH calculated this growth share number after a staff review of the data included in the borough’s plan and it is higher than the borough’s fair share plan calculation of 72 units that was included in the borough’s petition for certification. The 34-page COAH report plus appendix describes the ways the borough plans to meet these obligations and it lists the information the borough must provide about each of the parts of the borough’s affordable housing obligation. The report also lists the objections to the borough’s plan which are to be mediated. The objectors include Countrywide Developers, Inc., which wants the 15.6acre site known as the Temple Emmanuel property at the intersection of Colonial Road and McCoy Drive to be considered as an eligible site to address the borough’s realistic development plan for affordable housing; the Galenkamp Brothers and the Mountain Club, Inc., which own the 131acre High Mountain Golf Course who claim the site is available, approvable, developable, and suitable for affordable housing and they are meeting with prospective buyers who intend to develop the property for residential use and therefore it should be included in the borough’s plan. The Fair Share Housing Center also objected, maintaining that the borough failed to include its actual growth share in the process of asking for a growth projection adjustment and it claims that the borough will not be eligible for a growth projection adjustment once its actual growth share is considered. Also objecting was Shirley O’Reilly, an interested property owner who previously lived on DeKorte Drive across the street from the borough owned lot that is included in the affordable housing plan. O’Reilly said she was having problems obtaining straight answers from the borough’s elected officials about the plan, and she believes the residents of the borough have not been fully informed about it. She claims to have numerous questions as to why certain locations are included in the plan while other locations, which are owned by the borough, are excluded and she would like those questions answered. Among the 22 items of additional information COAH wants the borough to provide is an updated plan to address a 73-unit shortfall in its third round share obligation, a requirement to designate an experienced administrative agent for its proposed rehabilitation program with a draft manual and marketing plan for the re-rental of rehabilitated units, the allocation of at least $20,000 per moderate-income unit, and at least $25,000 per low-income unit proposed in its accessory apartment program. COAH also wants the borough to demonstrate how the proposed 100 percent affordable housing development on DeKorte Drive would provide 12 affordable units inasmuch as that property is in the Green Acres Open Space database, and to demonstrate how a five bedroom group home on DeKorte Drive will realistically occur in light of its inclusion in the Green Acres database. Bank donation (continued from page 7) vegetables, canned meats, peanut butter, pasta, rice and cereal. 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