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[quote="Guest"]Cranbury Retrospective Friday, September 14, 2007 5:01 PM EDT 10 Years Ago • The bridge carrying Old Trenton Road over the Millstone River has reopened after round-the-clock emergency repairs. Previously slated to be closed until a replacement is finished in early 1998, the structure was able to reopen after state Sen. Peter Inverso stepped in. He contacted state Department of Transportation Commissioner John Haley to ask that funds be released for emergency repairs. After the commissioner authorized the money, workers from IEW Construction put in 12-hour days to weld in extra steel supports to augment the critically rusted supports on the 1942 span. With a smiling and waving Assemblywoman Barbara Wright in the passenger seat, Sen. Inverso drove the first car over the bridge. 25 Years Ago • Cranbury’s Planning Board took a decisive step in its efforts to reserve 4,000 acres of township farmland for exclusively agricultural proposed by approving a new land use plan which incorporates the controversial theory of transferring development credits. The vote was 6 to 2. Mayor Thomas Weidner, representing the majority of the board members, stated that there are no guarantees that land values would not drop, but “it seems that this is the only possible plan that will work. It seems reasonable and the best thing for the majority of Cranbury residents for the next 20 years,” he added. Mayor Weidner plans to appoint a committee to review the land use plan and the affect it has on Cranbury, on a yearly or bi-yearly basis. Now the plan must be translated into zoning ordinances for the township’s future development. According to Planning Board Chairman Don Swanagan, the acceptance of the land use plan is a recommendation to the Township Committee. ... http://www.packetonline.com/articles/2007/09/17/cranbury_press/lifestyle/doc46eaf53cab5e4778704252.prt[/quote]
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Posted: Mon, Sep 17 2007, 3:51 pm EDT
Post subject: Cranbury Retrospective
Cranbury Retrospective
Friday, September 14, 2007 5:01 PM EDT
10 Years Ago
• The bridge carrying Old Trenton Road over the Millstone River has reopened after round-the-clock emergency repairs. Previously slated to be closed until a replacement is finished in early 1998, the structure was able to reopen after state Sen. Peter Inverso stepped in.
He contacted state Department of Transportation Commissioner John Haley to ask that funds be released for emergency repairs. After the commissioner authorized the money, workers from IEW Construction put in 12-hour days to weld in extra steel supports to augment the critically rusted supports on the 1942 span. With a smiling and waving Assemblywoman Barbara Wright in the passenger seat, Sen. Inverso drove the first car over the bridge.
25 Years Ago
• Cranbury’s Planning Board took a decisive step in its efforts to reserve 4,000 acres of township farmland for exclusively agricultural proposed by approving a new land use plan which incorporates the controversial theory of transferring development credits. The vote was 6 to 2. Mayor Thomas Weidner, representing the majority of the board members, stated that there are no guarantees that land values would not drop, but “it seems that this is the only possible plan that will work. It seems reasonable and the best thing for the majority of Cranbury residents for the next 20 years,” he added.
Mayor Weidner plans to appoint a committee to review the land use plan and the affect it has on Cranbury, on a yearly or bi-yearly basis. Now the plan must be translated into zoning ordinances for the township’s future development. According to Planning Board Chairman Don Swanagan, the acceptance of the land use plan is a recommendation to the Township Committee.
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