There is a Planning Board Meeting tonight, Wednesday, October 6th at 7:30 PM, Town Hall. This meeting is open to the public.
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
PLANNING BOARD MEETING-TONIGHT, OCTOBER 6th, 7:30 PM
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Any idea what's on the agenda?
Township website is down and has been for two days, so no agenda is available unless you go into the Township and ask for one.
Halfway house.
Halfway house??????? Are they trying to bring that Galloway mess into our town??? Months ago there was an article here about a guy applying to the Pineslands Commission to run a halfway house in the old Devonshire Inn. I don't remember what month it was published. I don't think our citizens will approve of this idea. I do not want criminals deliberately brought into this town.
4:40 PM-this was posted over a year ago.
http://gadfly01.blogspot.com/2009/09/legal-notice-press-of-ac-9102009.html
re 6:01pm
Thanks for the link.
The legal notice and the comments made the hair on my arms stand up.
The proposal was overwhelmingly voted down last night by Mullica's Planning Board, despite the attempted snowjob of the smooth-talking hired hands of the property owner. It was determined that a halfway house, as it was presented, did not meet the primary needs of the Forest Area and that teaching forestry to the inhabitants/patients/paroles/convicts -no one seemed to know what population the halfway house would serve- was an adjunct activity to the main purpose of such a facility. It was also unclear how a halfway house would primarily serve the needs of the people living Mullica's FAR zone, as required under the Pinelands regulations for the Forest Area.
They knew the clientele. They wouldn't be spending all this money if they didn't have someone already lined up to buy the property for a halfway house. So why the secrecy?
The half-way house, had it been approved, would have been built on less than 13 acres, little more than half of the 25-acre requirement for a single-family private home in the FAR zone, the presumption being that the partially built building would somehow permit them to build on less acreage. So, not only would they have been able to circumvent the spirit of the law but also our zoning requirments that are designed to protect the forest from overdevelopment and pollution of our drinking water.
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