Cranbury Forum | Bulletin | Info Sharing
[Click here to bookmark this page: http://cranbury.info]
▪
Cranbury School
▪
Cranbury Township
▪
Cranbury Library
▪
Cranbury.org
▪
Cranburyhistory.org
(Press Ctrl and = keys to increase font size)
Search
Register (optional)
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
[http://cranbury.info]
->
News | Events
Post a reply
Username
Subject
Message body
Emoticons
Font colour:
Default
Dark Red
Red
Orange
Brown
Yellow
Green
Olive
Cyan
Blue
Dark Blue
Indigo
Violet
White
Black
Font size:
Tiny
Small
Normal
Large
Huge
Close Tags
Options
HTML is
ON
BBCode
is
ON
Smilies are
ON
Disable HTML in this post
Disable BBCode in this post
Disable Smilies in this post
All times are GMT - 4 Hours
Jump to:
Select a forum
Topics
----------------
News | Events
School | Parenting
Blogs by Cranbury Residents
Shopping | Good Deals | Price Talk
Home Sweet Home
House For Sale
Home Sales Pricing Records
Financial | Stocks | Mutual Funds
Cool Bytes & Bits
Garage Sale | ForSale Ads | Things to Trade
Tech Related (PC, Internet, HDTV, etc.)
Interesing and Fun Stuff to Share
What's Your Favorite?
Interests | Hobbies
Cranbury History
Radom Thoughts | Sports | Kitchen Sink
Amazon Deals
Local Business Info
----------------
Local Business Ads (FREE)
Support
----------------
Daily Sponsored Message & Amazon Ads
About Us | Your Privacy | Suggestion | Sponsored
Test Area (Practice your posting skills here)
Topic review
<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%" class="forumline"> <tr> <th class="thCornerL" width="22%" height="26">Author</th> <th class="thCornerR">Message</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Fri, Oct 29 2010, 2:51 pm EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: Candidates discuss the issues</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">I dind't know Pari was still on the TC.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Yeah, that was a pretty dumb mix up on the Press' part...</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Fri, Oct 29 2010, 1:52 pm EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: CRANBURY: Candidates discuss the issues</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">I dind't know Pari was still on the TC.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Fri, Oct 29 2010, 10:00 am EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: CRANBURY: Candidates discuss the issues</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">CRANBURY — Candidates for Township Committee promised to try and keep taxes low by attracting new ratables and limiting spending. <br /> <br /> The three candidates — Republican Art Hasselbach, Democrat Glenn Johnson and Republican Dan Mulligan — are seeking two, three-year seats on the Township Committee. They spoke Tuesday at Candidates Night and also provided written statements to The Cranbury Press. <br /> <br /> Incumbent Democrats Pari Stave and Richard Stannard are not seeking re-election. <br /> <br /> In their statements and at Candidates Night, the hopefuls also spoke about their opposition to the way in which the state imposes its affordable housing rules on municipalities and said the township needs to address traffic and parking concerns raised by residents. <br /> <br /> Candidates Night was organized by The Woman’s Club of Cranbury Public Affairs and Social Services Department. <br />Art Hasselbach, Republican <br /> <br /> Republican candidate Art Hasselbach, who has been elected twice to the Township Committee in the past, owns Hasselbach Property Management and Beta Crafts. He has lived in the township for about 50 years, and has two daughters with his wife Carol. <br /> <br /> He has been involved with the Cranbury Lions Club for many years, and is currently on the Zoning Board of Adjustment, which he has also previously served on for 12 years. He was also on the Development Review Committee for three years. <br /> <br /> Mr. Hasselbach’s father was also involved with the township, having been a member on both the zoning and planning boards and the Township Committee. <br /> <br /> In his written statement, Mr. Hasselbach said he is running again because he believes Cranbury needs a businessman’s point of few. In addition, he said he grew up in town and watched it evolve from the farmland it was many years ago. <br /> <br /> ”I want to make sure we make (the township) sustainable and affordable,” Mr. Hasselbach said. “I’m not going to be on the job training.” <br /> <br /> If problems would arise down the road for the township, Mr. Hasselbach said he’d have more experience in dealing with them. <br /> <br /> ”What I have is the history,” he said. <br /> <br /> According to Mr. Hasselbach, a potential problem that may arise could be a resulting tax burden on residents if the former Aetna Insurance Building, located at Cranbury South River Road and Prospect Plains Road, is demolished by its owner. <br /> <br /> This is so because the building provides the township with about $600,000 in revenue, Mr. Hasselbach said. <br /> <br /> Mr. Hasselbach said that the Council on Affordable Housing, COAH, is also big issue in Cranbury because Cranbury currently is required to buy land to meet its state requirement. <br /> <br /> ”Hopefully, they’ll change regulations,” Mr. Hasselbach added at Candidates’ Night. <br /> <br /> Mr. Hasselbach responded to residents’ concerns about parking by saying that he had been involved with adding parking spaces on Main Street. <br /> <br /> As for traffic, he wanted to see the traffic that cuts through Cranbury routed elsewhere. <br /> <br /> ”I’d like to see some that get out of here,” Mr. Hasselbach said. <br /> He suggested that creating a bypass or bridge would be beneficial to the township, but there is no money available to do so. <br /> <br />Glenn Johnson, Democrat <br /> <br /> Democrat Glenn Johnson has been a writer and editor for Bloomberg Financial Markets for the last 20 years. He lives with his wife of 35 years, Phyllis. <br /> <br /> He has served on the Zoning Board of Adjustment for five years, and is involved with the Cranbury Lions Club and the Cranbury United Methodist Church. <br /> <br /> ”My goals are to protect the village, preserve farmland, and hold the line on property taxes,” he said in his statement. <br /> <br /> ”My biggest concern for the near future is the reduced tax receipts due to commercial tax appeals,” Mr. Johnson said. “It will be important to attract new ratables to replace those we lose.” <br /> <br /> Specifically, Mr. Johnson said that there are two parcels of land within the township that could “be developed if they are given the appropriate permitted use.” <br /> <br /> If developed, they could eventually then produce ratables for the township, Mr. Johnson said. <br /> <br /> At Candidates’ Night, Mr. Johnson said that the township should continue to follow the strategy of accepting guidance from COAH in order to avoid a Builder’s Remedy Lawsuit. <br /> <br /> He also said, regarding parking concerns, that signs that would direct people where to park would be beneficial. Mr. Johnson added that speaking with Main Street business owners in order to develop a plan where employees would park elsewhere, rather than on Main Street, could help with freeing up parking spaces. <br /> <br /> Mr. Johnson said that additional signs to direct trucks out of the village, and creating a stronger police presence during the hours kids are going to and from school, would be beneficial. <br /> <br />Dan Mulligan, Republican <br /> <br /> Republican Dan Mulligan is a senior messaging and collaboration infrastructure engineer at Ernst & Young and is married to Brenda Dreyling Mulligan. They have two children. <br /> <br /> He is active in the greater community through his work with his son’s Boy Scout troop, his coaching position in the Cranbury-Plainsboro Little League, and his volunteer work as a chief information officer for Ed Randall’s Fans for the Cure Prostate Cancer Charity. <br /> <br /> In his written statement, Mr. Mulligan said, “Over the last several years, I have been an active and vocal participant at Township Committee meetings, township budget planning meetings and various other board meetings where I have advocated on behalf of residents whose thoughts and concerns were important to those discussions.” <br /> ”This experience and knowledge along with my business background and community involvement prepares me to represent Cranbury on the Township Committee,” Mr. Mulligan said. <br /> <br /> Mr. Mulligan said in his statement that maintaining low taxes in Cranbury, stopping speeders, increasing ratables by working with the business association, and maintaining the township’s historical character are all important issues in Cranbury. <br /> <br /> Another big issue is that COAH could eventually put Cranbury into more debt, Mr. Mulligan said. <br /> <br /> ”With regard to this issue we need to continue to make our case of how well Cranbury has provided affordable housing to our legislative leaders at the state level so they can act and change the current laws through legislation,” Mr. Mulligan said. <br /> <br /> Mr. Mulligan added at Candidates Night that, until the legislation is changed, the township needs to continue to play within the rules because of Builder’s Remedy Lawsuits. <br /> On parking, Mr. Mulligan said that now since the township’s Master Plan is being reopened, there is an opportunity to discuss parking because it is a problem that will only get worse. <br /> <br /> Mr. Mulligan said that he would speak with neighbors and police in order to do something about the “cut-through” community that Cranbury has become. <br /> <br /><a href="http://centraljersey.com/articles/2010/10/22/cranbury_press/news/doc4cbf70800e2ec598610295.txt" target="_blank">http://centraljersey.com/articles/2010/10/22/cranbury_press/news/doc4cbf70800e2ec598610295.txt</a></span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> </table>
Search
Register (optional)
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
Search
Register (optional)
Log in to check your private messages
Log in