Richest NJ ZIP Code Fights Plan for Low-Cost Homes on Toxic Dump

Josh Bauers has long had his sights set on the town dump in Millburn.

Bauers wants to put 75 affordable apartments on the site where piles of Styrofoam and food scraps lie in heaps.

But that’s a bridge too far for many residents of New Jersey’s richest ZIP code, Short Hills, where multimillion dollar Tudor and colonial-style mansions are perched atop grassy hillocks less than an hour’s commute from Manhattan.

Millburn’s town dump, where 75 units of affordable housing may be built.

Photographer: Nacha Cattan/Bloomberg

Many in the community, favored by finance types and lawyers, are up in arms over the development’s potential effect on the environment and its highly-rated schools. But the ...