The Barnegat Light Borough Council at its caucus meeting of Dec. 11 discussed how to bypass the state’s affordable housing mandate.

“We’re not in the business to create affordable housing,” Mayor Kirk Larson said, his rationale being the borough has no property inexpensive enough to develop for that purpose. “We’re the town that doesn’t have the opportunity to do that, so we’re not going to do it. I don’t think we could raise enough money (through builders’ fees) to build much of anything.”