Where has common sense and simple reasoning gone in East Brunswick?
Six-acre zoning was put into effect to protect our land from overdevelopment.
Now, a developer comes to town with this "great" proposal. He has four pieces of property, totaling 209 acres, in different sections of East Brunswick, but he wants to build 56 houses on only one of these pieces that is only 92.87 acres. The size of these lots will be at least 30,000 square feet, or about 3/4 of an acre, in an area zoned for one home per 6 acres.
This plan cannot sustain individual septic systems. Therefore, the builder wants to bring all the wastewater (sewage) of 56 homes from one side of Fresh Ponds Road to the open fields on the other side and make a wastewater treatment facility there, using almost 58 acres for this facility. This area is designated as "rural preservation."
Why do we allow the trees in this area to be bulldozed when the builder is going to use 58 open acres for a septic field? We need the woods for oxygen, cleaning the air and for the habitat of the wildlife that lives there now.
Because this builder is "donating" two parcels of land — one consisting of 7.7 acres that is not accessible, and the other consisting of 68.1 acres, some of which are swampy — the township is asked to permit this ludicrous idea.
The total acreage involved with this deal is 209. Divide 5 into 209 and you get approximately 3.5 acres per house that is built on 3/4 of an acre. Does this mean the buyers of these houses own 2.75 acres on the other parcels of land?
Keep cutting the trees and we all will be wearing portable oxygen tanks. New Jersey has the worst pollution, the most overpopulation, and we just keep destroying.
Marie Meier
East Brunswick