Fellowship Baptist Church’s Pine Hills project would use 10 acres behind its campus under Orange County’s housing program for religious land.
Residents escaped safely after an early Monday blaze spread fast through a South Jersey apartment building and left some tenants facing major water and fire damage.
A neighbor’s challenge says the city failed to weigh evacuation access and emergency response before clearing the project.
The initiative ties Milwaukee construction to a nationwide push for 250 homes and comes amid the city’s Year of Housing focus.
Commissioners voted to reconsider an earlier rejection of the 6.15-acre proposal and will take it up again next month.
Residents were displaced but no one was injured after crews battled the attic fire and kept the building from spreading further.