RESOLUTION
TOWNSHIP OF FRANKLIN
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE DONATION OF PROPERTY OWNED BY THE
TOWNSHIP OF FRANKLIN KNOWN AS BLOCK 502, LOT 31, TO HABITAT FOR
HUMANITY, SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS
R-182-10
WHEREAS, the Township Committee of the Township of Franklin, County of
Gloucester, State of New Jersey, is the owner of Block 502, Lot 31, which is an undersized
lot and is not capable of being developed with a single family home under current zoning
ordinances; and
WHEREAS, Habitat for Humanity already owns, or is in the process of obtaining,
an adjacent undersized lot which when merged with Block 502, Lot 31 will create a
conforming building lot; and
WHEREAS, the Township is aware that it has certain constitutionally required
obligations to provide a realistic opportunity for affordable housing to be constructed in the
Township of Franklin; and
WHEREAS, the governing body feels it would be in the best interest of the
residents of Franklin Township to permit the donation of Block 502, Lot 31 to Habitat for
Humanity provided that the house to be constructed on the property, together with other
adjacent lands, be compliant with the rules and regulations created by the New Jersey
Council on Affordable Housing.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Township Committee of the
Township of Franklin, County of Gloucester, State of New Jersey, that the Township
Committee has authorized the Mayor as its designee to execute a Deed conveying Block
502, Lot 31 to Habitat for Humanity provided that the property be compliant with the rules
and regulations propounded by the Council on Affordable Housing for low and/or
moderate income occupancy and that said property be deed restricted to those ends.
ADOPTED at the regular meeting of the Township Committee of the Township of
Franklin on Tuesday, December 14, 2010, 2010.
ATTEST:
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CAROLYN K. TOY, CLERK
TOWNSHIP OF FRANKLIN
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PATRICK M. DOUGHERTY, MAYOR
CERTIFICATION
I, Carolyn Toy, Clerk of the Township of Franklin, do hereby certify that
the foregoing Resolution was presented and duly adopted by the Township Committee at a
meeting of the Franklin Township Committee held on December 14, 2010.
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CAROLYN K. TOY, CLERK