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Lakewood Road affordable housing overlay (fourth round compliance plan implementation)

Description

First reading of an ordinance creating a 100% affordable housing overlay on township-owned Lakewood Road property, plus consent for a cemetery on Honey Locust Drive — tabled before the first-reading vote.

Impact summary

Puts two 100% affordable projects and a cemetery consent on hold pending what the court directs next.

Applicant

Address: Block 171, Lots 22, 23 and 42 (1970, 1976 and 1980 Lakewood Road); cemetery consent at Block 145, Lot 6.01 (100 Honey Locust Drive)

At a glance

Hearings: 1
Public comments: 1
Total mentions: 1

Last vote · City Council

Tabled4–3

Last discussed Jul 29, 2026.

Meeting timeline (1)

Jul 29, 2026Tabled 4–3

Township Council - Jul 29, 2026

Related issues (1)

Fourth round affordable housing compliance and use of the affordable housing trust fund

Toms River faces an October court deadline to finalize its affordable housing plan, and the council just restarted mediation talks. Property owner Joseph Tartabono pitched building senior/veterans affordable housing on his 6.8 acres behind the VA clinic as a private-land alternative to using township property in North Dover.

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