In Middletown’s race to meet a deadline set forth by the state Council on Affordable Housing to accommodate an irrational number of required housing units, the Middletown Township Committee has done a grave disservice to the residents of Lincroft by allowing a 342-unit townhouse and apartment complex development to be built at the Avaya property on Middletown-Lincroft Road.
Township Committee members are singularly responsible for this fiasco, since they alone changed the zoning to accommodate such a massive development. They reassured the residents this would not come to fruition.
To further allay our concerns, they promised they would rezone as soon as they were able. They said it would never be built due to the down economy. They said there are no developers on the horizon interested in such a large project.
They were wrong. And now here we are with the owner of the property proposing a development with 342 townhouses and rental apartment buildings, three stories high, which will forever change the landscape and character of Lincroft Village.
The Township Committee must right this inexcusable wrong and do whatever is necessary to block this development.
Walter L. Horan
MIDDLETOWN
4 comments:
Why would anyone trust what the Middletown Township Committee members have said in recent years. No one on that dais is capable of the unadulterated truth. NO ONE !1
The law doesn't mean a thing to this group as they cheat to win repeatedly and civility to the citizens of this community is never practiced.
Here we go again. Just add this to the list of promises made and broken.
Do any of these guys ever tell the truth?
What the hell. Who voted these horrible humans into office? Last I checked this town has allowed all public property to look like a 3rd world country. Has anyone looked at our jughandles, tennis courts, woods & parks? It is filled with garbage, fallen trees & overgrown weeds. Has anyone tried to get a permit to use one of our 33 parks? Don't bother. There is no staff. No summer camps for our 100,000 children. No programs for the teens or adult programs like Yoga, computer classes etc. They have raped and pillaged the Library for their excess funds & now want to close the Cultural Center. Now they are going to add 342 low-income houses. Middletown's top-50 places to live in Money magazine will now be added to the bottom of the barrel. Thank you Township Committee. Thank you politicians.
Route 520 is already a death trap averaging one death a year in auto related fatalities. The 520 super highway to Brookdale is like a drag strip.
Now add 342 units?
What about the police staff laid off recently? We're adding to the population?
Our schools have the highest teacher to student ratios in the state, now we are adding more?
The profit machine is in full swing and no one cares except those who will profit.
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