> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://blog.johnmangini.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Warren adopted four new affordable housing districts 4-0, and nobody spoke at the hearings - URL: https://blog.johnmangini.com/ah9-ah12-adopted/ - Published: 2026-03-13T13:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-20T17:53:22.000Z - Description: Ordinances 26-07 through 26-11 create AH-9, AH-10, AH-11 and AH-12 with caps of 176, 69, 115 and 64 units and set asides from 25 to 31 percent. Six ordinances passed on unanimous 4-0 roll calls. - Author: John Mangini - Tags: Warren 07059, Township, affordable housing, zoning, ordinances, township committee The short answer On March 12, 2026 the Warren Township Committee adopted six affordable housing ordinances on second reading, each on a unanimous 4-0 roll call. Ordinances 26-07 through 26-11 create four new districts: AH-9 at a maximum of 176 units with a 31 percent set aside, AH-10 at 69 units with a 25 percent set aside, AH-11 at 115 units with a 25 percent set aside, and AH-12 at 64 units with a 30 percent set aside. No member of the public spoke at any of the six public hearings. Six ordinances that change where multi family housing can be built in Warren were adopted in a single sitting, and the public hearing record on all six is empty. That is the fact to sit with before the numbers. Present and voting were Committeeman McCarey, Committeeman Blick, Deputy Mayor Kian and Mayor Fine. Committeeman Croson was absent and excused. Every one of the six roll calls came back 4-0. 6 ordinances adopted 4-0 every roll call 0 public speakers across six hearings ## The four new districts | District | Ordinance | Block and lot | Rezoned from | Max units | Set aside | Market | Affordable | | -------- | --------- | ----------------------------- | ------------ | --------- | --------- | --------------- | ---------------- | | AH-9 | 26-11 | Block 82 Lot 12.02 | not stated | 176 | 31% | 121 | 55 | | AH-10 | 26-07 | Block 75 Lot 1 | BR-40 | 69 | 25% | no more than 52 | not stated | | AH-11 | 26-08 | Block 70.03 Lots 24 and 25.01 | BR-40 | 115 | 25% | 87 | 28 | | AH-12 | 26-09 | Block 88.08 Lot 4 | RBLR | 64 | 30% | 44 | no fewer than 20 | Added up, the four caps come to 424 units. That total is mine, not the township's, and it is a ceiling rather than a forecast. A zoning cap is what an applicant may seek, not what gets built or when. AH-9 is the largest and the most specific about form. Ordinance 26-11 permits townhouse and stacked townhouse units to a maximum height of 46 feet, with 8 units per structure, except that up to 24 units are allowed where the units are stacked. AH-10 is described in terms of its market ceiling rather than its affordable floor. The ordinance sets a maximum of 69 units at a 25 percent set aside and provides that no more than 52 may be market rate. I am not going to derive an affordable unit count from that, because the ordinance text is the operative document and it says what it says. ## Read the ordinance, not the summary Every one of these ordinances identifies its parcel by block and lot only. None of them gives a street address. I am not publishing street addresses for the AH-9 through AH-12 parcels, because doing so would mean substituting my interpretation of a tax map for the legal description in the ordinance. If you want to know whether a specific property is in or near one of these districts, read the ordinance text in the March 12 agenda packet and check the block and lot against the tax records. Do not rely on this post, a neighbor's description, or any other summary. Summaries of block and lot descriptions are where errors enter. ## The two ordinances that are not new districts Ordinance 26-06 repeals and replaces two sections of the township code outright: Section 15-5.4, Development Fees to Fund Affordable Housing, and Section 16-6, Affordable Housing Unit Regulations. This is the money and mechanics ordinance rather than a map change. Ordinance 26-10 amends Section 16-22A, the existing AH-4 district at Block 85.01 Lots 1 through 4\. It removes hotel as a permitted use and provides for age restricted inclusionary housing in its place. All six ordinances were introduced February 19, 2026, and the Planning Board found all six not inconsistent with the Master Plan on February 25, 2026. ## How Warren got here, per the record Resolution 2026-099, adopted the same night, recites the case history in the Fourth Round litigation. It is the clearest public timeline available. - April 23, 2025: Judge William Mennen set Warren's Fourth Round obligation at 10 Present Need units and 262 Prospective Need units. - August 31, 2025: Fair Share Housing Center and AvalonBay Communities each filed challenges. - December 21, 2025: a mediation agreement with Fair Share Housing Center was reached. - February 3, 2026: Judge Mennen approved the Housing Element and Fair Share Plan and dismissed the AvalonBay challenge. That sequence explains the pace. The zoning adopted on March 12 implements a plan a court had already approved five weeks earlier. ## The consent agenda that came with it Resolutions 2026-093 through 2026-105 were approved 4-0\. Several are the administrative scaffolding for the plan above. - 2026-098: professional services contract with Community Grants Planning and Housing as affordable housing administrative agent, $16,600.00 - 2026-093: contract with Rehabco Inc. to administer the Housing Rehabilitation Program, $10,000 - 2026-099: adopting the Affordable Housing Trust Fund Fourth Round Spending Plan - 2026-100: adopting an Affirmative Marketing Plan - 2026-104: endorsing the Amended Housing Element and Fair Share Plan - 2026-105: extending affordable housing deed restrictions with Cooperative Housing Corporation at 1, 2 and 4 Lindbergh Avenue ## Also adopted March 12 Two unrelated ordinances passed 4-0 with no public comment. Ordinance 26-04 raises the Mount Bethel Meeting House appropriation from $524,155 to $763,343\. Ordinance 26-05 is a bond ordinance for Valley View Road appropriating $445,000 and authorizing $420,000 in bonds or notes. ## Introduced March 12, hearings April 16 Three ordinances were introduced with public hearings set for April 16, 2026. Ordinance 26-12 appropriates $900,000 from a Congressional appropriation for a Public Safety Communications Equipment Upgrade. The minutes credit the support of Congressman Thomas Kean, and the money is administered through the Department of Justice COPS Program. Ordinance 26-13 amends Bond Ordinance 25-13 to fund an engineering feasibility study for Cherry Tree Lane drainage improvements, a supplemental appropriation of $100,000 with $95,000 in bonds or notes. Ordinance 26-14 amends Section 16-22C, the AH-6 district, to increase the unit count from 26 to 28, with both added units designated affordable. Administrator Krane identified this as the Berlant project at Straits Lane and Mountain Boulevard, replacing affordable units that were not completed on Hauser Lane. The approved footprint does not expand. What I could not verify The prior zoning district for the AH-9 parcel and an affordable unit count for AH-10 are not in the record I worked from. Both are marked unknown here rather than estimated. The ordinance text in the March 12 agenda packet controls. Sources 1. Township of Warren, Township Committee Regular Meeting Minutes, March 12, 2026\. [https://www.warrennj.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/\_03122026-963](https://www.warrennj.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Minutes/%5F03122026-963?ref=blog.johnmangini.com) 2. Township of Warren, Township Committee Agenda Packet with full ordinance texts, March 12, 2026\. [https://www.warrennj.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/\_03122026-963](https://www.warrennj.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/%5F03122026-963?ref=blog.johnmangini.com) 3. Warren Township Planning Board, Resolutions finding Ordinances 26-06 through 26-11 not inconsistent with the Master Plan, February 25, 2026\. [https://warrennj.org/DocumentCenter/View/11350/Planning-Board-Resolution](https://warrennj.org/DocumentCenter/View/11350/Planning-Board-Resolution?ref=blog.johnmangini.com) ![John Mangini](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f9/d2/f9d2e72e-65c9-4e98-ba1e-1a7bc528bfaa/content/images/2026/08/john-headshot.jpg) John Mangini Broker / Owner, NextHome Premier Warren Township resident and full time broker, serving clients since 1999\. Warren 07059 is written from live Garden State MLS data, township records and primary sources. Every figure is traceable to a source listed above. 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