With less than three months left for the Council on Affordable
Housing (COAH) to meet a state Supreme Court mandate to determine each
New Jersey municipality’s affordable housing obligation, the consensus
in the housing community is that there’s no way for the currently
inactive agency to meet its deadline.
Speaking Friday at a panel on the most recent of three Mt. Laurel Doctrine Supreme Court rulings, some of the state’s most prominent builders, municipal representatives, and housing attorneys agreed that even if COAH were to meet immediately for the first time since last May, the volunteer board wouldn’t be able to submit and publish its draft regulations with enough time to allow for the required 60-day public comment period.
This leaves the board with two options: petition the Supreme Court for an extension or ignore the court’s mandate.
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Speaking Friday at a panel on the most recent of three Mt. Laurel Doctrine Supreme Court rulings, some of the state’s most prominent builders, municipal representatives, and housing attorneys agreed that even if COAH were to meet immediately for the first time since last May, the volunteer board wouldn’t be able to submit and publish its draft regulations with enough time to allow for the required 60-day public comment period.
This leaves the board with two options: petition the Supreme Court for an extension or ignore the court’s mandate.
To read the complete piece click here.
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