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[quote="guestzone"][quote="Process"][quote="Boss Hogg"]If you think it's bad now just wait until the new warehouses on Brickyard open up. An additional 300 trucks per day, good job t.c. once again you failed us.[/quote]

How us this the TC's fault?  The PB adopted a master plan years ago that zoned this as warehouse area. To date no one developed it.  The developer has a legal right to build there.

Further developers don't come to the TC for approval they go to the planning board.

If you want to complain then at least understand the process.[/quote]

Technically the former TC at the time needed to approve the specific ordinances that enacted Planning Board's revised master plan making the Planning Board more of the recommending body and not the final say.  Just saying, since you note the process needs to be understood.

That said, all of this was done mostly by people not even serving Cranbury anymore.  The entire TC now has been in office less than 3 years, far less than the time since this decision.  There are a few people left on Planning and Zoning from those days but not the majority.  And as others have noted, it's not like the Planning or Zoning Boards or TC can just outright prevent development.  Landowners have a legal right to use or develop their properties or sell to others who will.  Short of spending a lot more taxpayer money to acquire all these properties and convert them to protected farmland, which would have cost taxpayers a fortune, you had to make a choice.  Did you want thousands of homes or a commercial district?  That commercial district pays almost half our taxes and used to pay a majority.  But it hasn’t added any burden on our school, which would have required us to board new schools and probably would have made our ongoing relationship with Princeton impossible.  It would be nice if a Township could just declare that most of the privately owned land in its boundaries couldn’t be developed but it doesn’t work that way.

Besides, even if Cranbury had spent hundreds-of-millions preserving the land or allowed thousands of homes, it wouldn’t have prevented Monroe, South Brunswick and East Windsor from allowing commercial development which would have still resulted in thousands of trucks using Route 130, which is not in the Township’s control.  So we would have still faced most of the burden with little tax benefit to show for it.  Due to the proximity to Exit 8A, commercial use was the inevitable and best use for the land.

Now perhaps you can criticize these previous Boards and Committee’s for not trying to do more to extract money from the developers that could have been used to fund traffic improvements, but it’s unclear what would have been viable.  I’m certainly not inclined to second guess these volunteers.[/quote]

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