An affluent suburb already embroiled in a potentially landmark affordable housing lawsuit will have to decide in the coming weeks whether to let a developer go ahead with a controversial plan to construct 96 apartments , including 12 for lower-than-average-income tenants.

A large contingent of Woodbridge residents is balking at Fountain Ridge LLC’s proposal to build a four-story apartment building near Bishop’s Pond and the Yale Nature Preserve .

The company argues that its project would bring much-needed multifamily housing to a small, wealthy town where spacious, costly single-family houses dominate and there is a regional school district after sixth grade.

The company also contends that it would improve Woodbridge’s remarkably low stock of affordable housing ; the state gove

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