The city Planning Board pushed back this week on a developer’s request to get a 10-year approval for a preliminary site plan for a two-tower development along the Jersey City-Hoboken border. Had the request been granted, it would have given the developer a decade worth of protection from future changes in local zoning law. The board instead granted the standard three-year approval, with an option for a two-year extension later, if appropriate. Other variances to the project were, however, granted.

The development in question is 660 Grove St., an odd-shaped lot near tracks for the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail. The developer wants to build a mixed-use project with two 17-story residential towers over an 11,947-square foot base for retail that would be just shy of 170 feet in height. Each rental tower will include on-site affordable housing units, in compliance with the city’s inclusionary zoning ordinance. The first tower will have 542 units total, with 15% being affordable, or 81 apartments. Tower two has fewer overall units — 458 — but will have 69 affordable housing units for low- and moderate-income residents. These units will be a mix of studios and one, two, and three-bedroom apartments.

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E. Assata Wright is a staff writer who covers zoning, development, infrastructure, and transit. For six years she covered Hudson County politics and municipal issues as a staff writer for the Hudson Reporter,… More by E. Assata Wright