Pinelands Commission certified Manchester's Amended Fourth Round Housing Element and Fair Share Plan and Ordinances 26-23, 26-24 and 26-31, including the Ridgeway Boulevard PAF-2 rezoning, by a 9 to 0 vote.
Project phase
- Application filed
- Hearing held
- Approved
- State permits pending
- Under construction
- Fully built
- Town
- Manchester Township
- County
- Ocean County
- Type
- Residential
- Latest step
- Jul 10, 2026
The project
Manchester Township's 2026 Housing Element and Fair Share Plan rezones about 83 acres along Ridgeway Boulevard into a new Pinelands Affordable Housing-2 zone, out of the office, research and light industrial zone it sits in now. Two properties there are expected to provide about 530 residential units, roughly 107 of them affordable. The new zone allows mixed-use inclusionary development at up to 8.65 dwelling units an acre, sets a 20 percent affordable set-aside, and requires Pinelands Development Credits to be redeemed for 30 percent of the market-rate homes. Maximum building height is 40 feet, and staff told the committee public water and sewer would be available.
What usually comes next
The board usually votes once its questions are answered, then puts the decision in writing in a resolution.
Pinelands packet memo describes the two Ridgeway Boulevard sites: 214 units with 43 affordable at 2582 Ridgeway Boulevard and 317 units with 64 affordable at 2590 Ridgeway Boulevard, rezoned to PAF-2 by Ordinance 26-23.
The CMP Policy and Implementation Committee voted unanimously to recommend that the full Commission certify Manchester Township's 2026 Housing Element and Fair Share Plan along with Ordinances 26-23, 26-24 and 26-31. Staff reported no comments were received during the public hearing or the written comment period, and concluded the plan and ordinances are consistent with the Comprehensive Management Plan.
Manchester Township Planning Board voted 7 to 0 at a special meeting to approve an amendment to the township's Fair Share Housing Plan. The township's planner said Ridgeway Boulevard lot 17 has 214 units, 43 of them affordable, and lot 8 has 317 units, 64 of them affordable, and that the developer is trying to acquire two other lots there.
Pinelands Commission minutes report Manchester introduced Ordinance 26-9 to repeal the 2024 ban on townhouses in the POR-LI zone and is adding two inclusionary sites there (531 units, 107 affordable); staff said Certificates of Filing have been issued for applications on both sites.
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