[CPEO-BIF] Affordable housing, Manalapan Township, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Action allows plan for apartments to advance
Next step is for developer to file an application with Manalapan 
Planning Board

BY MARK ROSMAN
News Transcript
December 23, 2009


MANALAPAN - A plan to construct a 100 percent affordable housing 
apartment complex on Wood Avenue, Manalapan, just outside of Englishtown 
was advanced by the Manalapan Township Committee on Dec. 16.


...

Jayne Carr, who is a councilwoman in Englishtown, asked the committee to 
considerwhy the current owner of the property is not cleaning up the 
Wood Avenue parcel.

It was noted that the land where the apartments are now a permitted use 
is a brownfields site with some level of environmental contamination.

Schwager said additional environmental investigation will occur as the 
project moves forward. She said if the project comes to fruition, the 
developer will examine the site and remediate it to meet residential 
standards.

...

For the entire article, see
http://newstranscript.gmnews.com/news/2009/1223/front_page/016.html


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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