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FROM: Ellen Horak, Borou.ghClerk

DATE: December 4, 2008

As per your request. attached hereto please find a copy of Resolution 210-08 andResolution 211-08 adopted by the Governing Body on November 25,2008. Resolution 210-08reflects the Governing Body's intent to petition the Highlands Council for plan conformance andResolution 211-08 reflects the Governing Body's request for an extension of the deadline topetition COAH for substantive certification.

You win be receiving an original certifi.edcopy of Resolurion 210-08 in the mail shortly.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

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RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF

ST ANHOPE SEEKING AN EXTENSJON OF THE DEADLINE To

PETITION FOR SUBSTANTIVE CERTIFICATION PURSUANT

To EXECUTIVE ORDER 114 AND THE MEMORAND1.1M OF

UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE HIGHLANDS COUNCIL

AND THE COUNCIL ON AFFORDABLE HOUS,ING

WHEREAS, on September 5, 2008, Governor Corzine sign,cd Executive Order 114 whichrequites the CounciJ on Affordable ,Housing (COAH) and the New Jersey Highlands Council(Highlands) ro corer imo a Memorandum of Unde1:~tanding (MOU) dc:;igued to coordinate theregulations of both agcoc,ie:; by maximizing affordable housing opportunities while preserviogcritical environmental resources: and

WHEREAS, COAH and thcHighland!1 have prepared such an MOO, which was adoptedby COAH on Ocrober 29,2008 and by the Highlands Counc,i],on Oct.ober 30, 2008; and

WHEREAS, conformance with thc Highlands Regional Master Plan (plan Confor.mance)reqUlres tevlsIons to mU!l1ctpal and county m3.$tet plans and development regulations as applicableto the development and lIse of land to align them with the goals, requlrement:;, and px:c:>vi~jomof theRegIonal Ma:;ter Plan; -and

WHEREAS, COAH regulations establish a December 31.,2008 deadline for municipalitiescw:reotly under ~he jll1i:;d1ction of COAH to submlt thud round petitions fOl ~ub:;tancivccettlficatlon of a mumcipal hou8ing clement and fair share plan; and

WHEREAS, the MOV C9t3blishes a procedure mat murucipilities under the jurisdic60n ofboth CGAB and the New Jersey HIghlands Water Protection ilnd Planning Act may follow to seekan exteMlO.o to the Decembel 31, 2008 deadline set by COAH for the submls~ion of third tOl.lnd

peritiom for substantive certificattOn of a murucipal housing element and fair share plan; and

WHEREAS, the MOU providcs for an extension of the December 31, 2008 deadline toDecember 8, 2009 for any Highlands municipality under COAH's jUtlSdlctiOn that, beforeDecember 31, 2008: 1) submits a duly adopted Notice of Intent to Pennon in accordance WIththeHIghlands Council's Plan Conformance Guidelines; and 2) submm a duly adopted resolutionnotifying COAI-I of its iiltcnc to petition COAH no later (han December 8, 2009; and

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WHEREAS, on November 25, 200R, the governing body of the Borough of Stanhope

adopted :J.xesol,ut\on notifying the Highlands tbat the BOt<:1Ughof Stanhope has sct December 8,2009 a~ the target date for $Ubmisslon of a Petition for Plan Conformance.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the governing body of the Borough ofStanhope hereby agtees that its deadline for rhe submission of a Hous111gElement and F:m SharePlan pursuant to N.1.A.C. 5:96,16 is extended from December 31, 200B to December 8, 2009; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED tbat the govetmng body of the Borough of Stanhopehereby directs me Borough Clerk [0 1mmcctiately transmlt a slgned and sealed copy of thJS resolution[0 COAH; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the governing body of the Borough of Stanhope

hereby duects the Borough Cletk to lInm,ediatcly U:ansmtt II signed A.nd $cakd copy of theNovember 25, 2008 duly adopted Notice of Intcnr ro Petirion 111accordance wiili the HighlandsCouncil's Pb[1 Conforlnance Guidelines to CGAH; aDd

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the governing body of the Borough of Stanhopeintends to submit a pcrition for substatlttve certtfication of a third round Housing Element and FairSh~xePlan to COAH (lot late,(than Dcc.crobe.J:8, 2009,

I certIfy this is a true copy of the Resolution adopted by the Mayor aod CouncIl of theBorough of Stanhope on November 25, 2008.

~. ~a-£Ellen Horak, RMCBorough Clerk

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