AVON-BY-THE-SEA — The Avon-By-The-Sea Planning Board adopted its fourth round Housing Element and Fair Share Plan at its June 23 meeting.
Christine Bell, a principal planner with Avakian Engineers, presented the plan to the board, before the floor was opened to residents for a public hearing.
The Mount Laurel doctrine creates a constitutional obligation for New Jersey municipalities to provide their ‘fair share’ of their region’s need for affordable housing. Affordable housing obligations are based on population changes and growth over time in a region, according to the Fair Share Housing Center.
The housing plan outlines required information, including an inventory of the borough’s housing stock, overview of demographics, employment characteristics and progression of housing trends, as well as a review of existing zoning, environmental or historic constraints and location of developable land in the future.
The Fair Share Plan, however, highlights the borough’s obligations over time and how it plans to address them.
Because the borough has only a small amount of developable land, it has conducted a vacant land assessment, which reviews an inventory of vacant, tax-exempt public properties, farm land, etc., looking at building potential.
The state’s prospective need set by the state was 29 units. Based on the vacant land adjustment, the borough’s realistic development potential is six units.
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