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10-14-2023 12:58pm
Letter to the Editor, by Jeff shore of West Windsor: Thoughts on this Important Election, Nov 7th
Stacey Fox
Editor
Dear Editor, neighbors and friends,
We residents of West Windsor are at a crossroads and what we do now willdetermine the future of WW and the surrounding townships forever. Our current mayor, town council and planning board have all made it plainthat industrializing and bringing in big business to West Windsor is their numberone priority with anything else taking a distant second.
This November Dan Weiss, Stacey Fox and Ben Finkelstein are running for theWest Windsor Town Council, a body of lawmakers. Their goal is to protect West Windsor from over-development and large scale industrialization that will depress our propertyvalues, raise safety concerns and damage our environment. As climate changeaffects us more and more, they want to take actions to improve our infrastructureso as to prevent flooding, loss of life and property. Dan, Stacey and Ben want to prevent our roads from being over run bymassive 18 wheel trucks. They also vow to listen to the concerns of the residents and be more transparent in communicating, something which ourcurrent leadership has not always done effectively.
The Penns Neck Redevelopment Project, which would have demolished tenresidential lots along Route 1 between Washington Road and Mather Avenue inorder to put up a convenience store, a huge gas station and some fast foodrestaurants, was thankfully voted down at the July 17 West Windsor Town Council meetingdue in large part to Ben Finkelstein and Stacey Fox speaking up against it,echoing the sentiments of many West Windsor residents.
For the last few years one of the current administration’s pet projects is BridgePoint 8. It is a huge (5 1/2 times the size of Quakerbridge Mall)distribution warehouse complex proposed for the 653 acre parcel ofundeveloped land, including 64 acres of preciouswetlands, at the intersection of QuakerbridgeRoad and Clarksville Road. Despite the fact that this project would be a logisticaland environmental nightmare in so many ways, having been designed using long outdated stormwater data,the powers that be in WestWindsor at the time, with only two dissenting voices, were all for it.
Stacey Fox organized and rallied the community to stop this project, even goingso far as to found a nonprofit organization to address thepotential disasters of bad planningin Mercer County. It isnow going through channels on the county level and Dan, Stacey and Ben are atthe forefront in trying to protect West Windsor fromthe catastrophic impacts ofthis project.
This November we have a clear choice - we can either vote for the incumbentsand let West Windsor lose much of its bucolic charm to warehouses, fast fooddrive-throughs and gas stations with all of the environmental and safety hazards theywill cause or we can vote for Dan Weiss, Stacey Fox and Ben Finkelstein, whohave a more realistic view of what is best for West Windsor going forward. Iencourage everyone to visit to learn moreabout them and to vote Column E thisNovember. Protect our way of life.
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Jeff Shore
