Housing panel to be formed Dec. 1992

 


A board regulating affordable housing will be named by mayor and council to require developers to set aside units for low-and-moderate income families. Half of these units may be marked for senior citizens.

Mayor Anthony Just said the council could appoint the Leased Housing Board to this duty. This board presently oversees the development of senior citizen housing. The new board, however, must include a non-voting representative from the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission, which the Leasing Housing Board does not.

Of the 866 united now classified by the state as affordable, all are dedicated to seniors. Some housing would be created for low-income families unless the town negotiates for another town to accept this obligation.

The town must create the board within 45 days of the Council of Affordable Housing approving its plan. The town council issued the first reading of an ordinance Tuesday.

 

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