West Orange Township_Fourth Round HEFSP_Final Draft

ESESX L004697-15 08/03/2020 Pg 2 of 8 Trans ID: LCV20201360847 20 ESSEX COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT McMANIMON, SCOTLAND & BAUMANN, LLC 75 Livingston Avenue AUG 03 2020 Rescland, New Jersey 07068 (973) 622-1800 FILED Richard D. Trenk, Esq. (016951982) Attorneys for Plaintiff/Petitioner Township of West Orange SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY LAW DIVISION: ESSEX COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF WEST ORANGE, a Civil Action municipal corporation of the State of New (Mount Laurel) Jersey, DOCKET NO.: ESX-L-4697-15 Plaintiff/Petitioner. ORDER OF FAIRNESS AND PRELIMINARY ROUND 3 MOUNT LAUREL COMPLIANCE Hearing Date: July 10, 2020 THIS MATTER having been opened to the Court by McManimon, Scotland and Baumann, LLC (Richard D. Trenk, Esq. appearing), attorneys for Plaintiff, the Township of West Orange (“Township”), and a Declaratory Judgment Compiaint having been fied on July 7, 2015 to approve the Township’s Housing Element and Fair Share Plan (hercinafter “Fair Share Pian”), as may be amended, in response to In Re Adoption of N.LA.C. 5:96, 221 N.J. 1 (2015) (‘Mount Laurel TV”); and the Court having granted the Township immunity from Mount Laurel iawsuits from the time of the filing of the Township’s Declaratory Judgment action (hercinafler “DJ Action”); and the Court having appointed Elizabeth K. McManus, P.P., A.LC.P., LEED AP as the Special Mount Laurel Court Master (hercinafter the “Special Master”); and Fair Sharc Housing Center (“FSHC”) having participated in the Township's DJ Action as an Intervenor, and Redwood, LLC (“Redwood”) and West Essex Highlands, Inc. (“WEHI") having also appeared