Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Keeping Mullica Green through the Pinelands Preservation Alliance
Keep Mullica Green recently posted about the work of the Pinelands Preservation Alliance and how their work affects Pinelands communities like Mullica Township. Click link to see full post.
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With pro-development board members and staff members who are also pro-development so that the Pinelands Commission is "balanced", this has created the need for an independent pro-Pinelands organization like the PPA to keep an eye on them to make sure that they're doing their jobs properly. This is indicative of the favorable way that the Pinelands Commission staff responded to political pressure from Local, County and State politicians who wanted to change the zoning in Elwood to allow many more houses there. But for the outright opposition of the PPA and the vocal resistance to the plan by Mullica's citizenry, we undoubtedly would have had a low-income townhouse development in our midst today, with more such housing to come. The residents can't fight the moneyed powers alone and the Pinelands Commission often isn't reliable or much of a help to us without someone holding their feet to the fire.
Don't forget that Chasey wants the Pineslands Commission to add all the land up to and including the Devonshire Motor Inn into the Elwood Village on their new map.
This would open alot more land to be developed if the Elwood rezoning takes place.
The 140-unit townhouse development and the change to the zoning ain't over yet. Chasey and Forman are just biding their time in the expectation that they can appoint more cohorts to the Planning Board next year who will lend support to the plan. Kennedy is no better because, being a lackey, he will going along with them.
If the rezoning goes through, then anyone with 20 acres can do the same thing planned for the Wazsen property. Somebody could go around and buy up smaller lots and combine them into the required acreage to make a development.
The pamphlet mentioned in the article was handed out at the "Dump". This literature angered Cathy Chasey so much that she wrote to Carlton Montgomery the head of the PPA in Sept 2007.
It seems that there has been an on going effort to stop literature from being given to the citizens at the "Dump" ever since that time.
The Pinelands Preservation Alliance is our friend and we need their to help fight the outside developers and the inside politicans from destroying our home. Please consider joining.
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