Notice Final Compliance Hearing for Approval of Sea Girts Housing Element & Fair Share Plan
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on April 19, 2024 at 1:30 p.m. there will be a Final Compliance Hearing (the “Hearing”) held before the Honorable Linda Grasso Jones, J.S.C. at the Monmouth County Courthouse, 71 Monument Park, Freehold, NJ 07728-1266 in the above-referenced affordable housing litigation. The purpose of the Hearing is two-fold. First, the Court will consider approving the Borough of Sea Girt’s Housing Plan Element and Fair Share Plan and all other affordable housing actions required by the Settlement Agreement between the Borough and Fair Share Housing Center and the Court’s Order of Fairness and Preliminary Compliance dated October 12, 2023, including an Affordable Housing Ordinance incorporating the State regulations into the Borough Code; Two overlay mixed-use inclusionary zoning ordinances, Borough-wide affordable housing ordinance, Spending Plan, Affirmative Marketing Plan, Rehabilitation Program; and secondly, the Court will determine whether the Borough is entitled to a Judgment of Compliance and Repose providing the Borough immunity from all Mt. Laurel lawsuits through July 1, 2025.
The full text of the Housing Element and Fair Share Plan and all documents referenced herein are available for public inspection and/or photocopying (at requestor’s expense) during normal business hours at the Borough of Sea Girt Clerk’s Office, Borough of Sea Girt Municipal Building, 321 Baltimore Blvd., Sea Girt, NJ 088750.
Any interested third party that seeks to appear and be heard at the Final Compliance Hearing shall have the opportunity to present any position on the Housing Element and Fair Share Plan and all related affordable housing ordinances and resolutions referenced herein. Written objections or comments by any interested person must be filed with the Court at the above address on or before April 2, 2024 with duplicate copies being forwarded by mail and e-mail to the attention of the following:
Andrew Bayer, Esq.
Pashman Stein Walder Hayden, PC
Bell Works
101 Crawfords Corner Road, Suite 4202
Holmdel, NJ 07731-1985
Rachel Lokken Esq.
Fair Share Housing Center
510 Park Boulevard
Cherry Hill, NJ 08002
rachelokken@fairsharehousing.org
Kendra Lelie, AICP, PP
Kyle & McManus Associates
P.O. Box 236
Hopewell, NJ 08525
This Notice is provided pursuant to directive of the Court and is intended to inform interested parties of the Final Compliance Hearing and to inform such parties that they can comment on the Borough’s Housing Element and Fair Share Plan and related ordinances and resolutions referenced herein before the Court reviews and evaluates whether to issue a Final Judgment of Compliance and Repose providing the Borough immunity from Mt. Laurel lawsuits through July 1, 2025. This Notice does not indicate any view by the Court as to whether the Borough is entitled to a Judgment of Compliance and Repose and whether the Housing Element and Fair Share Plan should be approved.
Pashman Stein Walder Hayden, PC
Attorneys for the Borough of Sea Girt, Monmouth County, NJ
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