Draft_October 2025_West Orange_HEFSP_with Appendices

Aprit 6, 2020 Page 7 The Township will also require that 13 percent of any affordable units produced from any site resulting from the mechanisms in paragraphs 10 through 12 of this agreement shall be very low income units. 14. The Township shall meet its Third Round Obligation in accordance with the following standards as agreed to by the Parties and reflected in the table in paragraph 7 above: a) Third Round bonuses will be applied in accordance with N.J.A.C. 5:93-5.15(d). b) At least 50 percent of the units addressing the Third Round Obligation shall be affordable to very-low-income and low-income households with the remainder affordable to moderate-income households. c) At least twenty-five percent of the Third Round Obligation shall be met through rental units, including at least half in rental units available to families. d) At least half of the units addressing the Third Round Prospective Need in total must be available to families. e) The Township agrees to comply with an age-restricted cap of 25% and to not request a waiver of that requirement. This shall be understood to mean that in no circumstance may the municipality claim credit toward its fair share obligation for age-restricted units that exceed 25% of all units developed or planned to meet its cumulative prior round and third round fair share obligation. 15. The Township shall add to the list of community and regional organizations in its affirmative marketing plan, pursuant to N.J.A.C. 5:80-26.15(f)(5), Fair Share Housing Center, the New Jersey State Conference of the NAACP, the Latino Action Network, East Orange NAACP, Newark NAACP, Morris County NAACP, Elizabeth NAACP, Supportive Housing Association , and shall, as part of its regional affirmative marketing strategies during its implementation of the affirmative marketing plan, provide direct notice to those organizations of all available affordable housing units, along with copies of application forms. The Township also agrees to require any other entities, including developers or persons or companies retained to do affirmative marketing, to comply with this paragraph. 16. All units shall include the required bedroom distribution, be governed by controls on affordability and affirmatively marketed in conformance with the Uniform Housing Affordability Controls, N.J.A.C. 5:80-26.1, et seq., or any successor regulation, with

tion, be governed by controls on affordability and affirmatively marketed in conformance with the Uniform Housing Affordability Controls, N.J.A.C. 5:80-26.1, et seq., or any successor regulation, with the exception that in lieu of 10 percent of affordable units in rental projects being required to be at 35 percent of median income, 13 percent of affordable units in rental projects shall be required to be at 30 percent of median income, and in conformance with all other applicable law. The Township, as part of its HEFSP, shall adopt and/or update appropriate implementing ordinances in conformance with standard ordinances and guidelines developed by COAH to ensure that this provision is satisfied. limits for all units that are part of the Plan required by this Agreement and for which income limits are not already established through a federal program exempted from the Uniform Housing Affordability Controls pursuant to N.J.A.C. 5:80-26.1 shall be updated by the Township annually within 30 days of the publication of determinations of median income by HUD as follows: