Medford Preservation

[james ungehajer]

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/112-08052008-1572742.html

Great news to hear as always, preservation of 10 more acres from the developers.

I also think that Tansborough is spelled incorrectly, it should be Tansboro.

Jim

 

[Teegate]

You are thinking of the town and not the road in Medford. It is spelled correctly.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=....624204,94.306641&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=16&iwloc=addr


Guy

 

[mike242424]

burlington county was number one in the state last year for the amount of acres they preserved right?

 

[Boyd]

Well, there's preservation, then there's "preservation". This one sounds like a winner. But all too often, it's a sweetheart deal where some wealthy (and politically connected) landowner gets paid not to sell his farm to developers, which he probably wouldn't do anyway. Medford certainly has its share of those deals. They preserve open space in farmers fields, but don't provide any access to the public. New Jersey has quite a history of this - read The Soprano State.

They cite examples of wealthy people in North Jersey avoiding thousands in property taxes by calling their estates "farms" because they sell a couple cords of firewood per year too. Even Malcolm Forbes tried this until it became a political embarrassment.