Planning Board Resolution Chapter XXV Amendments & Supplements re: Fair Share housing Center #20-04

f. To encourage the appropriate and efficient expenditures of public funds by the coordination of public development with land use policies. Commentary: The proposed Ordinance provides affordable housing through inclusionary development without the expenditure of public funds and results in the efficient use of the available public infrastructure while curtailing the extension of such infrastructure. i. To promote a desirable visual environment through creative development techniques and good civic design and arrangements. Commentary: The proposed Ordinance provides zoning requirements and standards that produce the opportunity to utilize creative development techniques in order to produce good civic design and arrangements, which are subject to further Planning Board review during the development application process. m. To encourage coordination of the various public and private procedures and activities shaping land development with a view of lessening the cost of such development and to the more efficient use of land. Commentary: The procedure followed in developing the proposed ordinance combines public and private procedures that result in an efficient use of land. 4. The Board has compared the Ordinance to the Land Use Plan Element of the 2019 Master Plan Update Report and the Township’s Housing Plan Element and finds that the intent of the proposed Ordinance advances the goal for a balanced land use plan that can meet the constitutional mandate to provide for the Township’s fair share of the regional need for affordable housing. Nonetheless, the Township’s Master Plan Land Use Plan Element currently designates cach of the areas proposed to be rezoned for the existing zoning of the property or properties in the proposed overlay zones. The proposed zoning in the Ordinance is therefore inconsistent with its Master Plan land use designation. 5. Notwithstanding this inconsistency, the Board recommends that the Township Council adopt the proposed Ordinance, considering the following facts and reasons: e The proposed ordinance provides a better balance of land uses sought in the Master Plan. e The proposed development required by the Ordinance should result in a compact building layout and design. e The proposed Ordinance will advance the goal of diversifying the housing stock and providing affordable housing to meet the constitutional

nce should result in a compact building layout and design. e The proposed Ordinance will advance the goal of diversifying the housing stock and providing affordable housing to meet the constitutional obligation. 6. For all of the above reasons, the Board finds that while the proposed Ordinance is technically inconsistent with the Land Use Plan element of the Master Plan, the proposed Ordinance strikes a reasonable balance among the many planning considerations affected