PB 24 01 West Essex Highlands Inc Application and Relevant Documents

Township of West Orange, Docket No. ESX-L-4697-15 (the “Declaratory Judgment Litigation”); and WHEREAS, the Declaratory Judgment Litigation seeks declaratory relief approving the Township’s plan to satisfy its current affordable housing obligation and immunity from builders’ remedy lawsuits through the year 2025; and WHEREAS, WEHI intervened as a defendant in the Declaratory Judgment Litigation; WHEREAS, WEHI and the Township engaged in court-ordered mediation with Elizabeth McManus, P.P., the court-appointed Special Master in the Declaratory Judgment Litigation; and WHEREAS, the Association is not a party to the Declaratory Judgment Litigation, but WEHI and the Township recognized the Association, an adjacent neighbor to the Subject Property, as an interested party with respect to the development of the Subject Property whose participation and input at mediation was deemed essential; WHEREAS, the Township wishes to include the Subject Property as part of its affordable housing compliance plan in connection with the Declaratory Judgment Litigation; and WHEREAS, the Parties, subject to the terms hereof and all other required governmental approvals, have agreed that the Subject Property shall be developed as a multi-family residential development consisting of 396 market rate units and 100 affordable units, for a total of 496 units, and a clubhouse/amenity buildings (the “Proposed Development”) consistent with the “West Essex Highlands Concept Plan 16 for West Essex Highlands, Block 179, Lot 32, Township of West Orange, Essex County, New Jersey” dated March 3, 2020 prepared by Anderson Consulting Services, LLC (the “Concept Plan”), a true copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit A; and WHEREAS, the Concept Plan reflects certain requests by the Association, including that (1) the Proposed Development be located a sizeable distance from the Subject Property’s boundary