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Card Consolidation Credit Debt A state Supreme Court decision Thursday drew mixed views on how it could affect an affordable-housing case here. The court on Thursday upheld two lower-court rulings in favor of a developer in West Windsor, Mercer County, that fair-housing advocates say bolster their case against the township over the $500 million Garden State Park redevelopment project.

The Coalition for Affordable Housing and the Environment has long suggested overhauling the current affordable housing rules. We have also suggested using a growth share methodology to enable municipalities to better plan the type and pace of their growth, as long as they include affordable housing as part of it. These rules, however, will not accomplish that goal. Instead, they will promote sprawl, degrade the environment, produce little or no affordable housing and increase the number of lawsuits.

Credit Union The nonprofit Fair Share Housing Center contends the township has failed to meet its state-mandated obligation for affordable housing. The group sued the township to prevent the project's developers, Realen-Turnberry, from paying $4.3 million to the township instead of including affordable housing on the site.

Critics said the new rules favor towns so much that fewer units will be built. "COAH has clearly abdicated its responsibility to produce affordable housing, protect the environment and promote sound planning, " said Paul Chrystie, executive director of the Coalition for Affordable Housing and the Environment. "Municipalities will be planning not on the basis of what is right for the town, but for how they can get the lowest affordable housing numbers possible."

Merchant Credit Guide Co The money would have been earmarked for affordable housing in the region, likely outside the township.

Under the old system, every town in the state was assigned a number of affordable units based on past growth. Since 1975, the state Supreme Court has ruled that every town in the state had to provide its "fair share" of housing for the poor. The new rules conceivably could allow towns to decide they had grown enough and, therefore, no longer had an obligation to get more affordable housing built.

Apply Online For Credit Card ``The court provided a road map to consider the issues we wanted,'' said Kevin D. Walsh, a Fair Share attorney, about Thursday's ruling. ``Thumbs up.''

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By Card Credit Debt Debt Guide That ruling granted the developers, Toll Brothers Inc., the right to build single-family homes in a greater density than permitted by existing zoning on a 293-acre tract in West Windsor to offset the lesser value of homes for lower- income buyers.

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Credit Card Application "This ruling basically gives builders open license to go after towns that haven't filed plans, to be buccaneers," said Jeff Tittel of the Sierra Club. "Any town that doesn't get certified now, they just want the builders to come in, pave it over and destroy everything."

Credit Guide Managing The Supreme Court rejected the claim that affordable housing causes sprawl, said Paul Chrystie of the Coalition on Affordable Housing and the Environment. He said municipalities can avoid builders' lawsuits by writing affordable-housing plans with the state's Council on Affordable Housing.

Credit Card Offer "Hopefully it means that, given that the court did not back away from the builder's remedy, municipalities will take seriously their obligation to provide affordable housing," Chrystie said.

Merchant Credit Guide Company The Supreme Court ruled in 1975 that every growing municipality must provide a realistic opportunity for affordable housing, then created the builder's remedy two years later to compel uncooperative towns to create affordable housing plans.

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Credit Counseling "To state the obvious, developers are motivated by profit, and there is likely no greater area of concern for a developer than the marketability of its project. The colloquial phrase `if you build it, they will come' does not translate well to the building of homes," Chief Justice Deborah Poritz wrote.

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Courier-Post - 8/2/2002

Topic: Sprawl

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