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Peter Candia is the Food + Drink Editor at New Jersey Digest. A graduate of The Culinary Institute of America, Peter found a passion for writing midway through school and never looked back. He is a former line cook, server and bartender at top-rated restaurants in the tri-state area. In addition to food, Peter enjoys politics, music, sports and anything New Jersey.
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Near me in Ocean and Monmouth County it is horrible. There are hundreds of acres being cut down. Many of which I know for a fact have bald eagles living in them, herring and many many more animals that are now displaced. People by me say what garden state, we are the lets cut all the trees and take farmland to build on, build build build. Unfortunately I constantly hear people trying to move out of state. So many new people come and do not like the nature and country feel, then don’t move here. Us locals live here for a reason.
You had time to take a shot at Trump, but you didn’t have time to research the environmental practices in effect at his club, not did you note that it had long been a wealthy man’s estate- DeLorean just before Trump. Also, what’s killing our farmland and viewscape now is the forced urbanization driven by Mt. Laurel and its progeny. Drive down 206 from Bridgewater to Princeton and you will see the massive development of a historic agricultural region. This development is forced on our towns by the state, the courts, and the ideological push for “equity.” We are also seeing massive warehouse developments being pushed into our beautiful towns with the accompanying massive increase in 18-wheeler traffic as the Amazon business model destroys brick and mortar. We will come to rue this idiocy. Who benefits? Local control of our development and zoning is dead. Forced urbanization is the state program.
All of New Jersey farms are being converted into these large Condo Units and single-family home complexes. All townships in New Jersey need to take a look at what all this development is doing to the state. It is a disgrace what the government is doing to New Jersey. Phil Murphy needs to wake up and stop this development and look at the pollution levels that are also increasing from all the cars on the roads. Looking at 206 south from Bridgewater to Princeton going through Hillsborough is a nightmare there is so much car volume from all the housing being built up in Hillsborough township. STOP the Housing Construction on Farms this is causing an infrastructure NIGHTMARE!