The Mayors and Council Members in nearby Towns in Burlington County recently resolved and addressed their respective affordable/low income housing obligations wisely. I wonder if our Council will do the same, or why the Mayors and Council Members in other towns listened to their constituents, while the Moorestown residents who have signed this Petition are ignored? For instance, according to recent reports in the Burlington County Times, last week Bordentown Township settled (in part) its affordable housing lawsuit by agreeing to a multi-use/inclusionary commercial and housing development on Route 130 and Rising Sun Road. That development will include restaurants, retail shops and mixed housing units which will include approximately 36 affordable housing units mixed in with an additional 185 market rate units. This approach makes sense since the development will be mixed use (or inclusionary), will have retail shops and will be located next to a major highway, Route 130 in Bordentown. Likewise, Medford Township resolved its affordable housing litigation last December (in part) with a 120 unit development on a major highway (Route 70) with a shopping center across the street, a bank, a CVS and a gas station. Marlton placed its 104 low income units (which pay $0 in property taxes) in 2009 on a parcel of land nowhere near its established, long-term residential neighborhoods. These types of developments seem to make sense, if you assume that we are not going to be able to resist the type of low income rental housing that the Council is trying to approve in our Town. The Council Members in Medford, Bordentown, and Marlton understand that the location of a low income housing development matters to its residents. The other Towns' leaders seem to recognize and keep their residents' interests in mind. These other Council's did not decide to place 100% low income high-density housing projects in an area of their Town where there are long-established aesthetically pleasing neighborhoods and where there are no restaurants and other retail shops within walking distance. Why don't the Moorestown Council Members get this? Why are they so insistent upon placing a 150 unit 100% low income rental apartment project whose tenants will pay monthly rents of between $310-800 (and most likely pay $0 in taxes to Moorestown if the developer is a "non-profit" entity) at 200 Hartford Road? This Group has been trying to convince the Mayor and Council to reconsider this decision or to provide us with more information and transparency on this important topic since September 2017. WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT. We raised sufficient funds to retain an attorney. We need additional funds to retain a qualified professional planner who will review the Township's master housing and affordable/low income housing plans. Please contribute to "gofundme.com" (the link is below) or mail a check made payable to "MARIFHO Group, LLC", to me at 146 Oakmont Dr., Moorestown NJ 08057 or to our Treasurer at 207 Eagle Ct., Moorestown NJ 08057. Thank you. https://www.gofundme.com/moorestownhousing