West Orange Township_Fourth Round HEFSP_Final Draft

ra The Applicant is proposing to construct a three-story multifamily residential building with 17 dwelling units. The ground floor is proposed to include five dwelling units and a management office. Six units per floor are proposed on the second and third stories of the building. The breakdown of unit types is three one-bedroom units, 10 two-bedroom units and four three-bedroom units. The bedroom distribution is dictated by New Jersey's Uniform Housing Affordability Controls (UHAC), which set a minimum of 20 percent three-bedroom units and a maximum of 20 percent one-bedroom units. 8. Access to the units in the front third of the building, as well as the management office, will be provided by a front entrance. The remaining units will be accessed by an entrance on the north side of the building. An additional door is proposed on the south side of the building, which will provide access to a fenced-in area including a trash area. Exterior doors accessing the electrical and water meter rooms are proposed in this area as well. A freestanding mailbox for tenants is proposed in the front yard area. Two existing driveway aprons along the street will be replaced by Belgian block curbing. 9. The building’s design is more in keeping with the low-rise residential character of the surrounding properties than the design of the developments on Central Avenue constructed or proposed by related entities of the applicant. Brick will be provided on the base of the facade as well as up to the top of the second floor in some other locations on the building. Horizontal siding and cedar shake siding will clad the rest of the building below the roof line. The building will have double hung windows and a pitched roof. 10. No on-site parking spaces are proposed. Instead, one space per unit in this building is reserved in the parking lot of the recently approved multifamily development at 18 Central Avenue. 11. The application materials list the correct block and lot number but have the incorrect street address (20 Tompkins Street is an existing dwelling on the east side of the street). The applicant will revise the application materials to remove the incorrect information. A street number will need to be provided for the subject property. 2; The quality of the units will be very comparable to the Harvard Printing development and the recently approved 18 Central Avenue project.

number will need to be provided for the subject property. 2; The quality of the units will be very comparable to the Harvard Printing development and the recently approved 18 Central Avenue project. The building will be fully sprinklered. 13. The first-floor entrances will be ADA accessible and one ADA accessible unit will be provided. 14. The applicant stated that trash will be picked up by the publicly contracted hauler but a private hauler will be contracted to provide additional service if necessary, similar to the arrangement for the Harvard Printing site and as approved by the Board for the new Central Avenue project. 7 in The public was afforded an opportunity to ask questions of witnesses and offer testimony on the application. NOW, THEREFORE, based upon the foregoing findings of fact, the Board reaches the following conclusions of law.