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[quote="Cranbury Conservative"]Senator   Jennifer Beck

Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon

Assemblywoman Caroline Casagrande

-12th Legislative District-

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 7, 2009

CORZINE SHOULD ABANDON COAH LEGAL DEFENSE

Governor Should Admit Blunder and Work on Bi-Partisan Solution

Senator Jennifer Beck (R-12) called on the Corzine Administration to abandon its legal defense of its failed subsidized housing policies of the Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) and work with legislators of both political parties on bi-partisan solution to the escalating COAH debacle.

The New Jersey State League of Municipalities has gone to court to challenge the administration’s COAH housing plans, which would result in “overwhelming financial burdens on property taxpayers.”  The league lawsuit also challenges as flawed and inaccurate the underlying assumptions that essentially doubled the projected growth share obligations of municipalities, as well as the methodology used to allocate the obligation to municipalities.

“I applaud the League of Municipalities for standing up to an administration that has tossed out two decades of cooperation on housing issues in favor of inflexible confrontation.  It is truly unfortunate that the Governor is in court essentially arguing for his right to destroy New Jersey’s economy,” said Beck.  “He needs to abandon his taxpayer-funded legal defense of what is clearly an indefensible and disastrous policy, and instead work with legislators and local officials of both parties to devise new housing policies that do not punish taxpayers in a time when the State faces unprecedented economic challenges.”

Senate Republicans have proposed legislation (S-2292) to overhaul of the byzantine tangle of COAH rules and regulations and encourage job growth, preserve open space and farmland, end overcrowding in our schools and stimulate the construction of more affordable housing.

“The Governor has unleashed a housing policy that is little more than a tangle of expensive, contradictory, unintelligible and unworkable bureaucratic red tape,” said Beck.  Our municipalities desperately need relief from this nightmarish mandate before our taxpayers are forced to pay the bill for yet another failed policy choice from this administration.”

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Senator Jennifer Beck

Assemblywoman Caroline Casagrande

Assemblyman Declan O'Scanlon[/quote]

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