ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS In its latest challenge to affordable housing mandates, the borough has filed to invalidate a settlement that was years in the making.
In the paperwork filed in Superior Court in Bergen County on Friday, Borough Attorney Eric Bernstein requests that Judge Christine Farrington declare that former council members Deborah Tsabari and Ed Aversa had conflicts of interest in the litigation.
The filing seeks to void all council votes at the Oct. 4, 2020, and Jan. 10, 2019, meetings and void any settlement agreements with the Fair Share Housing Center and Normandy Real Estate Partners, the developer looking to build on the former Unilever campus at 800 Sylvan Ave.
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS The borough’s new affordable housing attorney is the latest in a string of departures over the past week, bringing the total to five people who have resigned or retired from municipal posts since April 8.
Paperwork has been filed with state Superior Court in Bergen County to remove Michael Jedziniak as the attorney of record on a suit against four attorneys who had previously served the borough.
Jedziniak, of the Toms River-based firm Carluccio, Leone, Dimon, Doyle & Sacks, alleges that he was appointed “exclusively” as the affordable housing counsel but that he was instructed by Mayor Mario Kranjac to file the suit against the four attorneys a task “outside the scope” of the appointment and only “tenuously related” to affordable housing.