111 Cardinal Rd, Egg Harbor Township, NJ 08234

Affordable Housing Residential District

The Township of Egg Harbor uses its zoning code to meet affordable housing needs by requiring residential development in certain districts in the Pinelands area of the Township to provide affordable housing, as is required by the New Jersey Fair Housing Act (N.J.S.A. 52:27D-301 et seq.) (hereinafter Fair Housing Act). Consistent with Section 329.9 of the Fair Housing Act, this section requires all residential development within the RG-4 and RG-5 zoning districts to provide a 20 Percent affordable housing set-aside.; It is the specific purpose and intent of this section to meet affordable housing requirements required by Section 329.9 of the Fair Housing Act, in the RG-4 and RG-5 districts of the Pinelands area of the Township. This section also implements Section 8 of the settlement agreement between the Township of Egg Harbor and Fair Share Housing Center (hereinafter FSHC) in the case entitled In the Matter of the Application of the Township of Egg Harbor, County of Atlantic, Docket No: ATL-L-1506-15. The settlement agreement was entered into between the parties on August 16, 2017, and was approved by the Court during a properly noticed Fairness Hearing held on October 17, 2017, which was later memorialized by an order entered by the Court on November 27, 2017.