Atlantic Health to Deed Restrict 19 Affordable Housing Units
Planning Board agreed to adjust condition of nearly decade-old approval.
Nineteen is better than nothing. That was the point being presented to the Planning Board Thursday night when the attorney for Atlantic Health System—the parent company of Morristown Medical Center—presented the board with a proposal that would see 19 already-built residences become affordable housing units. The compromise stems from approvals in 2004 and 2005 by the town which saw additions to the Carol G. Simon Cancer Center and the JCP&L parking garage. As part of those approvals, AHS would provide an affordable housing component in nearby Franklin Village, which the company owns. That affordable housing component of the approval would have gone toward the town's state requirements under its Council on Affordable Housing. However, as …
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Chris
5:08 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2012
and of course, who pays for affordable housing? Not the people living there, its John Q. Tax payer like you and me! How about building some middle income housing that I can pay for instead of the government. more ›