Since March 2025, Teaneck’s Attorneys have been engaged in correspondence with Court officials concerning the timing and substance of the Township’s 4th Round obligations related to its provision of affordable housing credits under the Affordable Housing Dispute Resolution Program. This correspondence has been recorded under Docket No. BER-L-000776-25.

That correspondence has involved various issues related to what the Town has claimed should: 1) be its 4th Round obligation; 2) whether it could get a 90-day  extension to the June 30, 2025 due date of its next submission (a Housing Element & Fair Share Plan (HEFSP); and whether that HESP should have been finalized by the Town’s Planning Board and Council prior to submission. (The Town attorney had, for example, claimed that the deadline was “objectively untenable”).  The Town’s prior(January, 2025) submission had, in fact, been challenged by the Fair Share Housing Center and the state’s Builders’ Association. The correspondence recorded in the Docket from March 26 to June 19, 2025 is 31 pages long.

The most recent of this correspondence came in the early afternoon of June 19 from Township Redevelopment Attorney Ash wherein he acknowledged the receipt hours earlier of the Court’s extension of the challenged filing date, cited the fact that the Township had never received an April report of a court decision as to its 4th obligations but did, nevertheless formally file the HEFSP as voted (not memorialized) by the Planning Board on June 16 and a Council June 17, 2025  resolution acknowledging that PB vote on June 16, 2025.

To Voices knowledge, none of that correspondence has been provided to the Township’s residents – though, of course, some may have been provided to some officials in Council closed sessions. Voices believes its readers should have ready access to those 31 pages of Court correspondence.

The documents just filed by Attorney Ash will shape virtually everything the Town is allowed to do in its municipal policies for the next 10 years.

We have gathered those 31 Court docket pages into a single pdf which our readers may access by clicking the web address below:

Composite HEFSP Court Correspondence – 3-17 to 6-19