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MILLSTONE TOWNSHIP AFFORDABLE HOUSING PLAN 10/10/2019 Millstone Township COAH Committee Confidential 1 Michael Steib: Planning Board Attorney/COAH Attorney Duane Davison: Township Attorney/ COAH Attorney - 2016 Fred Heyer: Township Planner

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MILLSTONE TOWNSHIP

AFFORDABLE HOUSING PLAN

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Millstone Township Team Members

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Michael Steib: Planning Board Attorney/COAH Attorney Duane Davison: Township Attorney/ COAH Attorney - 2016 Fred Heyer: Township Planner /Rich Coppola Matt Shafai: Township Engineer Donna Blaze: NJ Affordable Housing Derrick Griggs: NJ Affordable Housing Mitch Newman: Township Planning Board Chairman Bob Kinsey: Township Committee (Term Ended 2018) Nancy Grbelja: Township Committee Gary Dorfman: Township Committee (Term Started 2018)

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Millstone Township’s Goals and Commitment:

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Adhere to the Master Plan and no public water and/or sewer

Adhere

Avoid inclusionary zoning

Avoid

Utilize any opportunities for bonus unit credits through the building of group homes etc.

Utilize

Keep our immunity from Builder’s Remedy Suits

Keep

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N..J.S.A. 52:27B-301 e et seq

  • Determine municipal obligation
  • Determine compliance standards
  • Immunity

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Millstone Township Receives Substantive Certification from COAH

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Rounds #1 and #2 satisfied; Round #3 to include time from 1999 to 2015 plus the ten year period from 2015 to 2025 Millstone filed Declaratory Judgement Action in June 2015 which remains in effect today protecting us from builder remedy suits. Builder remedy suits would allow builders to choose locations to accommodate high density by bringing in public infrastructure paving the way for Millstone to lose its rural character and environmentally sensitive state plan designation;

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Round 2: 1993 - 1999

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1999 999-201 015 BL BL/L /LOT Comple pleted Un Units Bon

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s Cre Credits ts Total l Cre Credits ts

Millstone Road Group Home 417 Millstone Road (Very Low) 51/8.06 X 3 3 Red Valley Road Group Home 67 Red Valley Road (Very Low) 35/20.01 X 3 3 Indian Path Inclusionary Moccasin Court (Very Low) 20.01/11-16 X 6 6 12 Millstone Cainwright House 29 Burnt Tavern Road (Very Low) 57/16.01 X 9 9 18 Novad Court 57/16.02 X 1 1 2 Asbury Park RCA 57.01/20.02 X 46 46 Total Round 2 68 16 84 Prior Round COAH Required 81 Carry Over to 2016 - 2025 3

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Millstone Court Action

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Fair Share Housing enters as an interested party Showplace Farms intervened as a party to litigation Court appointed Professional Planner Michael

  • F. Bolan as the Court’s Master to oversee

settlement negotiations Judge O’Brien assigned

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What’s Different This Time?

  • 1. Change of control from the State Department of

Community Affairs to NJ Co Courts:

  • 2. Fair Share Housing is now apart of the approval

process

  • 3. Interveners at the table
  • 4. Calculation of the housing obligation:

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OBLIGATION and RISKS

■ Builder’s Association ■ Fair Share Housing ■ Redding ■ Kinsey ■ Econsult ■ Millstone faced the possibility

  • f being required to develop

1810 new housing units by 2025. ■ Diligent, consistent planning

  • ver the years by employing

mechanisms to satisfy as many 100% affordable units without inclusionary development.

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Millstone Township’s Third Round Obligation 1999- 2025

■ Final and accepted number of units to be completed by 2025:

231 Units

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Millstone Township’s COAH Committee Search for Solutions

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Searched all available land candidates Purchased lots through Planning Board Dedications and land that met established criteria Researched funding

  • pportunities through

various partners Continuous work towards 3rd round goal of 231 units

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Court Deadline Looming

■ Millstone was required to submit a plan to the Court in the Spring of 2018 or be cited as non compliant. (South Brunswick Case):

  • No other and/or enough land was available to make up the

deficit credits

  • Forced to consider inclusionary zoning
  • Still committed to no sewers and no public water
  • Ongoing discussions with intervener through attorneys

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Land Tracks Available with Developers:

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Baldachino Properties:

  • Flexible and willing to meet the needs of the

township

  • Residential zoning ; well and septic;
  • Outskirts of town, no chance of public water

Showplace Farms/ Schoor/Toll Brothers

  • Route 33; Highway Commercial
  • Initial plan 455 market rate units plus 114

affordable units (569 units) with public water

  • Largest commercial land piece in Millstone
  • Insisted on public water and sewer/ easy

access

  • Not flexible with their plan
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The Final Component of the Plan

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  • Inclusionary development 242 units
  • Engineering specs were designed / given to the court

to demonstrate ability of land to support development;

  • Normal planning process will follow
  • No chance of public water or sewer on this site

Baldachino Development Route 571 (44)

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Continued Discussions: Developer & Showplace

  • Township Plan was submitted

to the court

  • Court appointed engineers

reviewed plan to confirm feasibility of on-site well and wastewater

  • FSHC , Judge O’Brien and

Court appointed Master Bolan agreed plan submitted met the obligation number and was ripe for submission to the court for a fairness hearing

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Showplace/Intervener’s New Plan

■ June 3, 2019 Showplace’s New Plan

  • No housing
  • Fits the highway commercial zone

requirements with warehouse and commercial entities

  • No public water or sewer/ complies

with well and septic

  • Generates $1.9 in affordable

housing fees

  • Adds money to our tax base
  • Toll Bros is out; New developer is in

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Round 3: 1999 - 2025

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Round und 3 3 BL BL/L /LOT Complet eted ed Units Bonus nus Cr Credits Total Cr Credits

Prior Round Carry Over Millstone Road Group Home I 417 Burnt Tavern Road (Very Low) 51/8.06 X 3 3 Millstone Road Group Home I 417 Burnt Tavern Road (Very Low) 51/8.06 X 2 2 Red Valley Road Group Home 67 Red Valley Road (Very Low) 35/20.01 X 2 2 Indian Path Inclusionary Moccasin Court (Very Low) 20.01/11-16 X 2 2 Millstone Canwright House 29 Burnt Tavern Road (Very Low) 57/16.01 X 2 2 Group Home I 31 Burnt Tavern Road (Very Low) 57/16.02 X 6 6 Group Home II 8 Novad Court (Very Low) 57.01/20.02 X 6 6 Allen House 477 Stagecoach Road Sr. Rental (5 Very Low/5 Low) 35/13.03 X 10 10 Burnt Tavern Apartments 17 Burnt Tavern Road Family Rental (2 Very Low/2 Low) 57/14.03 Fall 2019 4 4 8 Shu Lee Apartments 10 & 14 Novad Court (100% Affordable Rental, 4 Very Low/11 Low/15 Moderate) 57.01/21.02 2/22/2022 30 10 40 Allen House II 471 Stagecoach Road (Sr. Rentals 5 Low/5 Moderate) 35/15 2/22/2022 10 10 CKV 27 Burnt Tavern Road (100% Affordable, 25 Low/24 Moderate 57/16.03 2/22/2022 49 49 Baldacino Family Rentals 711 Perrineville Road (242 Unit Inclusionary 20% Set Aside (6 Very Low/24 Moderate) B11L19 2/22/2022 48 44 92 Baldacino Affordable Accessory Apartment Overlay Zone B11L19 2/22/2022 10 10 Total Round 3 184 58 242 Round 3 COAH Required 1999 - 2025 231 Round 3 Present Need/Rehabilitation Obligation 1999 -2025 20 1999 - 2025 Total 251 2025 Carry Over 9 ***Construction to commence within 30 months of following execution of Agreement

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Already Built 3rd Round

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Conceptual Plan for Development

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The Best Under the Circumstances

■ Of the 231 affordable units required, 150 will be produced by 100% affordable

  • units. The remaining 92 units will be

produced by the inclusionary development with 48 units constructed and 44 units of bonus credits.

Millstone Township COAH Committee Confidential; Any unauthorized review, disclosure or distribution is prohibited.

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