Draft_October 2025_West Orange_HEFSP_with Appendices

ESESX L.004697-15 08/03/2020 Pg 2 of 8 Trans ID: LCV20201360647 20 ESSEX COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT McMANIMON, SCOTLAND & BAUMANN, LLC 75 Livingston Avenue AUG 03 2020 Roseland, 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 Actton municipal corporation of the State of New (Mount Laurel) Jersey, DOCKET NO.: ESX-L-4697-15 Plaintif(/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), attorncys for Plaintiff, the Township of West Orange (“Township”), and a Declaratory Judgment Complaint having been filed on July 7, 2015 to approve the Township’s Housing Element and Fair Share Plan (hercinafter “Fair Share Plan”), as may be amended, in response to In Re Adoption of N.LA.C. 5:96, 221 N.J. 1 (2015) (“Mount Laurel IV”); and the Court having granted the Township immunity fom Mount Laurel lawsuits from the time of the filing of the Township’s Declaratory Judgment action (hereinafler “DJ Action”); and the Court having appointed Elizabeth K. McManus, P.P., A.LC.P., LEED AP as the Special Mount Lauret Court Master (hereinafter the “Special Master”); and Fair Share 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