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MEMORANDUM
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Paula Dees, HighJandsCouo<:ll
FROM:
Ellen Horak, Borou.ghClerk
DATE:
December 4, 2008
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As per your request. attached hereto please find a copy of Resolution 210-08 and
Resolution 211-08 adopted by the Governing Body on November 25,2008. Resolution 210-08
reflects the Governing Body's intent to petition the Highlands Council for plan conformance and
Resolution 211-08 reflects the Governing Body's request for an extension of the deadline to
petition COAH for substantive certification.
You win be receiving an original certifi.edcopy of Resolurion 210-08 in the mail shortly.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
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- Rcsolution RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL
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OF THE BOROUGH
ST ANHOPE SEEKING AN EXTENSJON OF THE DEADLINE To
PETITION
FOR SUBSTANTIVE
CERTIFICATION
PURSUANT
To EXECUTIVE
ORDER 114 AND THE MEMORAND1.1M OF
UNDERSTANDING
BETWEEN THE HIGHLANDS COUNCIL
AND THE COUNCIL ON AFFORDABLE
HOUS,ING
WHEREAS,
requites the CounciJ
(Highlands) ro corer
regulations of both
critical environmental
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OF
on September 5, 2008, Governor Corzine sign,cd Executive Order 114 which
on Affordable ,Housing (COAH) and the New Jersey Highlands Council
imo a Memorandum of Unde1:~tanding (MOU) dc:;igued to coordinate the
agcoc,ie:; by maximizing affordable housing opportunities while preserviog
resources: and
WHEREAS, COAH and thcHighland!1 have prepared such an MOO, which was adopted
by COAH on Ocrober 29,2008 and by the Highlands Counc,i],on Oct.ober 30, 2008; and
WHEREAS,
conformance with thc Highlands Regional Master Plan (plan Confor.mance)
reqUlres tevlsIons to mU!l1ctpal and county m3.$tet plans and development regulations as applicable
to the development and lIse of land to align them with the goals, requlrement:;, and px:c:>vi~jomof the
RegIonal Ma:;ter Plan; -and
WHEREAS, COAH regulations establish a December 31.,2008 deadline for municipalities
cw:reotly under ~he jll1i:;d1ction of COAH to submlt thud round petitions fOl ~ub:;tancivc
cettlficatlon of a mumcipal hou8ing clement and fair share plan; and
WHEREAS,
the MOV C9t3blishes a procedure mat murucipilities under the jurisdic60n of
both CGAB and the New Jersey HIghlands Water Protection ilnd Planning Act may follow to seek
an exteMlO.o to the Decembel 31, 2008 deadline set by COAH for the submls~ion of third tOl.lnd
peritiom for substantive certificattOn of a murucipal housing element and fair share plan; and
WHEREAS, the MOU providcs for an extension of the December 31, 2008 deadline to
December 8, 2009 for any Highlands municipality under COAH's jUtlSdlctiOn that, before
December 31, 2008: 1) submits a duly adopted Notice of Intent to Pennon in accordance WIththe
HIghlands Council's Plan Conformance Guidelines; and 2) submm a duly adopted resolution
notifying COAI-I of its iiltcnc to petition COAH no later (han December 8, 2009; and
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WHEREAS,
on November 25, 200R, the governing body of the Borough of Stanhope
adopted :J.xesol,ut\on notifying the Highlands tbat the BOt<:1Ughof Stanhope has sct December 8,
2009 a~ the target date for $Ubmisslon of a Petition for Plan Conformance.
NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED, that the governing body of the Borough of
Stanhope hereby agtees that its deadline for rhe submission of a Hous111gElement and F:m Share
Plan pursuant to N.1.A.C. 5:96,16 is extended from December 31, 200B to December 8, 2009; and
BE IT FURTHER
RESOLVED
tbat the govetmng body of the Borough of Stanhope
hereby directs me Borough Clerk [0 1mmcctiately transmlt a slgned and sealed copy of thJS resolution
[0 COAH; and
BE IT FURTHER
RESOLVED
that the governing body of the Borough of Stanhope
hereby duects the Borough Cletk to lInm,ediatcly U:ansmtt II signed A.nd $cakd copy of the
November 25, 2008 duly adopted Notice of Intcnr ro Petirion 111accordance wiili the Highlands
Council's Pb[1 Conforlnance Guidelines to CGAH; aDd
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the governing body of the Borough of Stanhope
intends to submit a pcrition for substatlttve certtfication of a third round Housing Element and Fair
Sh~xePlan to COAH (lot late,(than Dcc.crobe.J:8, 2009,
I certIfy this is a true copy of the Resolution adopted by the Mayor aod CouncIl of the
Borough of Stanhope on November 25, 2008.
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Ellen Horak, RMC
Borough Clerk
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