Senator Kip Bateman (R-16) issued the following statement in response to legislation (A-500) that would change the way in which municipalities manage their affordable housing obligations:
“The Council on Affordable Housing has adopted low-income housing requirements for municipalities that will be impossible for many of those towns to meet.
“It has been revealed that the new third-round requirements released by COAH were partially based on the projected development of land that appeared to be undeveloped in aerial photography. This methodology is clearly flawed.
“COAH has counted people’s backyards, school fields, preserved farmland and even the grass median of the Garden State Parkway as open space that can be developed. Many towns lacking real developable land will receive affordable housing requirements based on this flawed methodology nonetheless.
“This legislation will further exacerbate the problem by eliminating Regional Contribution Agreements that many municipalities lacking developable land have used to meet their affordable housing requirements. Without RCAs, many communities will not be able to meet their affordable housing requirements.
“Ultimately, it’s clear that COAH has assigned affordable housing obligations in a haphazard and ill-informed manner. I have introduced amendments to A-500 that would suspend the implementation of the new COAH requirements until their methodology can be reviewed, and I am disappointed that those amendments were not approved.”
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