MonreoNow: Monroe Mayor concerned about warehouse in Cranbury

[anon-425s]

Monroe’s Mayor issued a press release yesterday condemning Cranbury’s allowance of a warehouse on the Monroe border. He also submitted a detailed report from the Monroe planner that recommended housing instead of warehouses be built on the Cranbury property. He threatened to take whatever action is necessary against Cranbury.

Cranbury’s Mayor Taylor issued a scathing response calling out Monroe’s Mayor Tamburro for his failed planning processes that lead to unchecked residential growth, higher taxes for Monroe residents, a $146 million school referendum and traffic from Monroe residents that impacts Cranbury.

Article below:

https://www.monroenow.com/news/local_government/monroe-mayor-concerned-about-possible-warehouse-in-cranbury-cranbury-mayor/article_4667d542-6df0-11e9-9af9-6f3740d4f83f.html

[anon-54q6]

Totally legitimate concerns raised by Monroe. Seniors are concerned with impact of traffic and quality of life. Monroe has a large portion of residents with disposable income that will stop supporting our local businesses because of traffic concerns.
More warehouses, more trucks, and a 10-acre truck rental will not help main street businesses.

[anon-7666]

Lol. You must be a Monroe resident who lives there. Because not even most Monroe residents support what the Mayor of Monroe did. Seniors in Monroe are not making impacting the survivability of our Main Street businesses and they certainly won’t stop buying a slice of pizza. The revenue from the warehouses has a greater impact on our businesses because it reduces their taxes. Further, why would trucks turn right and go into Monroe? They won’t they will go out to Rt 130 as we all see and down to Exit 8 or 8 A.

What about the thousands of Monroe cars increasing our traffic.

Also, why in the world would any sane resident of a cranbury advocate for housing there unless you lived there? Talk to anyone who lives in Monroe and you will see their suffering. If we had housing there we’d lose Princeton, need a middle school and maybe our own HS. Our taxes would Amy rocket.

[anon-nn27]

I don’t remember Cranbury having any input when Monroe started massively over developing their former farmland into residential housing. I am glad the mayor of Monroe wants Cranbury to change our master plan and put in residential housing so we have to increase the size of our schools and raise our property taxes exponentially. He should stick to governing his town.

[anon-7666]

My relatives in Clearbrook let me know this article is circulating around Monroe via different email groups and political groups including Democratic groups. They are saying this is proof that the Mayor does not understand finances and is purely trying to find votes and laughing that Jay would call it in such clear terms. Most Monroe residents are upset that they are missing these ratables Cranbury is getting and suffering from residential growth with traffic and tax increases.