Hillsborough To Host Affordable Housing Town Hall

HILLSBOROUGH, NJ — Hillsborough will be hosting a Town Hall Public Information Session to educate the public on affordable housing.

The town hall will be held on Thursday, April 18 at 6 p.m. at the Peter J. Biondi Municipal Building regarding New Jersey State mandates relative to Affordable Housing.

The Town Hall will focus on the current court process that Hillsborough is undertaking and the current municipal plan in place to meet the anticipated obligations from Fair Share Housing.

Assemblywoman Holly Schepisi, a well regarded expert in Affordable Housing in the Assembly, will also provide a summary of the introduced legislation to assist municipalities against the impact of Affordable Housing including:

• Shift the obligation from municipalities to the state (A1645/ACR80)
• Eliminate the builder’s remedy (A1650/ACR79)
• Determine available redevelopment areas (A1647)
• Ensure municipal zoning sovereignty (A1646)
• Determine if towns can afford new housing (A1648)
• Eliminate exclusions for urban aid municipalities (A1649)
• Base affordable housing requirements on current need (A3928)
• Pause affordable housing litigation to enact reform (A5137)
• Require an independent bi-partisan authority to determine housing obligations based on statewide need, not town-by-town basis (A4333)
• A constitutional amendment to require all affordable housing decisions to be made by the Legislature not the courts (ACR188)

Following the presentations and summary, there will be an opportunity for the public to ask questions from officials:

• Mayor Frank DelCore
• Deputy Mayor Doug Tomson
• Assemblywoman Holly Schepisi
• Jennifer Beahm of Leon S. Avakian, LLC
• Eric M. Bernstein of Bernstein and Associates, LLC
• Anthony Ferrera, Hillsborough Township Administrator
• David Maski, Hillsborough Township Planner

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