In an effort to encourage municipal buy-in to the Highlands master plan, the Highlands Council has agreed to negotiate extensions of up to one year for a municipality to submit its fair share housing plan under the newly-enacted regulations adopted by the Council on Affordable Housing - so long as the municipality adopts the recommendations contained within the Council’s master plan. However, the Department of Community Affairs has not yet approved the plan, which leaves Highlands municipalities in limbo with three months to the deadline for filing a third round plan.

According to the Daily Record:

The New Jersey Highlands Council on Thursday gave its executive director Eileen Swan the ability to negotiate an agreement with the state Council on Affordable Housing that would give communities that announce their intention to conform to the master plan an additional year to draw up new housing plans to meet their COAH obligations.

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However, the Star Ledger is reporting that DCA has not formally approved this agreement.