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RPM Development receives approval to build affordable housing RPM Development receives approval to build affordable housing Eight meetings and seven months later, RPM Development LLC’s application for a 54-unit affordable housing development – next to the Lawrence Shopping Center – has gained the approval of the Lawrence Township Zoning Board of Adjustment. The zoning board approved RPM Development LLC’s request for a use variance at a special meeting on April 28, and also granted preliminary site plan approval. The applicant must return to the zoning board for final site plan approval at a later date. The zoning board also granted preliminary and final major subdivision approval, which means RPM Development LLC can go ahead with its purchase of a 4.3-acre lot from the owners of the Lawrence Shopping Center. The lot will be subdivided from the shopping center.
The fate of an affordable housing development, proposed for a 4.3-acre parcel next to the Lawrence Shopping Center, will be decided at the Lawrence Township Zoning Board of Adjustment’s March 17 meeting. The zoning board heard three hours’ worth of testimony and public comment at a special meeting March 10, but ran out of time to complete the public hearing on RPM Development LLC’s proposed 70-unit affordable housing development. All of the units, with the exception of one that would be set aside for the onsite superintendent, would be affordable to low- and moderate-income households. RPM Development LLC needs a use variance because duplex and multi-family housing developments are not permitted in the Highway Commercial and Residential-4 zones. Most of the parcel is zoned Highway Commercial, but a sliver of it is zoned R-4.