New Jersey Statutes 45:22A-46.4. Definitions relative to affordable housing
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 45:22A-46.4
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
“Affordable” means a sales price or rent which meets the criteria for low income or moderate income housing, as defined in section 4 of P.L.1985, c.222 (C. 52:27D-304).
“Approving board” means the municipal or regional planning board, zoning board of adjustment, or joint land use board that issued the initial site plan or subdivision approvals for the given age-restricted development.
“Age-restricted development” means a community that complies with the “housing for older persons” exception from the federal “Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988,” Pub.L.100-430 (42 U.S.C. ss.3601 et seq.) for that community as set forth in Section 100.301 of Title 24, Code of Federal Regulations.
“Attached housing” means housing units that share a common wall.
“Converted development” means a proposed age-restricted development that will be marketed instead with no age restrictions.
“Department” means the Department of Community Affairs.
“Developer” means the legal or beneficial owner or owners of a lot or of any land proposed to be included in a proposed development, including the holder of an option or contract to purchase, or other person having an enforceable proprietary interest in such land.
“Floor area ratio” means the floor area of all buildings and structures on a lot divided by the lot area.
“Fair share plan” means the plan that describes the mechanisms and the funding sources, if applicable, by which a municipality proposes to address its affordable housing obligation as established in the housing element, and includes the draft ordinances necessary to implement that plan in accordance with section 10 of P.L.1985, c.222 (C. 52:27D-310) and the regulations adopted by the Council on Affordable Housing to effectuate that section.
“Final approval” has the same meaning as defined in the “Municipal Land Use Law,” P.L.1975, c.291 (C. 40:55D-1 et seq.).
“Municipality” means any city, borough, town, township, or village.
“Non-restricted status” means the status of an age-restricted development that has received approval to become a converted development.
“Preliminary approval” has the same meaning as defined in the “Municipal Land Use Law,” P.L.1975, c.291 (C. 40:55D-1 et seq.).
“Residential Site Improvement Standards” means the technical site standards promulgated by the Commissioner of Community Affairs pursuant to the authority of P.L.1993, c.32 (C. 40:55D-40.1 et seq.).
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