Courier-Post from Camden, New Jersey • Page 28

COURIER-POST, Tuesday, June 11, 1985 Hearing postponed for housing plan on blighted land By WAYNE J. OAWKINS Of the Courier-Post MOORESTOWN The township council last night extended hearings on a plan to build low-cost housing on land that has been declared blighted. The hearing was extended to July 22 because the governing body was waiting for the outcome of a June 27 planning board hearing that should decide whether a section of Borton's Landing Road and a section of Bridgeboro Road in Moorestown's northern end will be declared blighted. state Supreme Court Mount LaueUl decision requiring developing communities to provide a fair share of low- and moderate-income housing. i The township officials were considering areas blighted according to some of toe state's legal definitions: vacant land that remained that way for 10 years and was unlikely to be developed with private captial, and valuable land not utilized properly because of thecondi-tion of the titled or diverse ownership.

Nevertheless, use of the term blight struck property owners In this affluent community as an unseemly label. Last night, resident Robert Pagley recommended that a 65-acre patchwork quilt of private and township-owned land in the South Valley section be rearranged into uniform blocks through consolidation and trading. "I'd like to offer this as a viable, alternative instead of this pell-mell rush," he said. Paglee. who owns about nine acres in the area, suggested lots be pooled into a limited partnership.

Property owners would receive shares of the partnership. The township could sell its share of lots and private owners could get money back for their land. Paglee said this system could protect land possibly being condemned. About 20 people attended last night's meeting and a half-dozen commented on the redevelopment plan. Tonight, a group of residents, who filed suit to protest the township's plan for distributing low-and moderate-income housing through Moorestown, is meeting.

Citizens Advocating Reasonableand Equitable Zoning will meet at 7 p.m. in the South Valley School on Stanwick Road. MOORESTOWN The planning board last montii voted 6-2 to declare most of the South Valley section off Route 38 a blighted area. The "blighted designation allows a municipality to condemn and purchase privately owned land under its right of eminent domain. Recerit actions are related to a township plan to build 670 units of low-cost housing around Moorestown.

This is to comply with the 1983 Board buys out su contract due to policy dispute 2C perintendent' from Page 1C It said Prato's conduct has been professional and acceptable to ihe board, but (the) differences are expected to erode the educational ef fi- ciency of the district." Neither PratO nor the board would specific differences, but in the past they have clashed over the dis-ju trict's overcrowding problem. The district is pres he came out strongly in favor of letting Winslow form Its own district while building a new school for the remaining towns. A letter to the editor of the Courier-Post on May 31 by Spurgeon Butler of Sicklerville charged that Prato was being removed by the predominately Democratic board because he was the Republican candidate opposing Cherry Hill Mayor Maria B. Green-wald in last month's municipal elec ently 800 students over capacity. Officials from the regional district and seven sending districts Winslow, Waterford.

Chesilhurst, Lindenwold, Pine Hill. Clementon and Berlin Township have not been able to agree on whether to break up the district or build a new school. Since the talks between the sending districts began nearly two years ago, Pratohasbeen urging the towns to stop fighting and act quickly, and recently tion. Prato said he knows Butler, whose children attend the district, but had not talked to him about the buy-out. When asked if the buy-out was politically motivated, board president Joanne Pallidino said 'absolutely not." "Obviously there is a conflict of philosophy." said Prato, who also said the buy-out was not connected to his political activity.

He said he had tenure and could not be forced out if he did not tion, said that was just a "Band-Aid approach. He and other teachers said the district suffered from overcrowding, low teacher morale, poorcotfimu-nication with the administration, shortages of textbooks and supplies and tardiness in paying its billsi "We are all living in a situation that is becoming intolerable." saidj Shelia Williams, vice-president jof the teacher's association. She said the board should go to the state education commissioner for permission to build a new school if the voters; turn it down. Administators said the 'district's billing and purchasing procedures had been overhauled, and the board voted to set upacommittee to study the overcrowding problem. School- officials also said they expected an appraisal of the district's assets, a key factor in a decision to break up the system, by the end of the month.

want to go. Barnes and McClain said the board was paying too much money to get rid of a good superintendent. Prato said he had no solid plans for the future. "I'll probably take some timeof and think about what I want to do when I grow up and get out of school. I've been in school no for 4 5 yea rs." But the parents and teachers at the meeting, mostly from the two Over-brook schools, said the regional district needed to make plans for its future and soon.

The Overbrook group said their schools, particularly the senior high school, had more serious overcrowding than the two Edgewood schools. The board plans to divide several large Overbrook classrooms into smaller rooms and end the school's sewing program to create more space, but Brian Poaches, president of the Lower Camden County Education Associa Council torn whether to renew liquor license Under the law, which was enacted in 1947, each municipality in the state is allowed one license for every 3,000 residents. Cherry Hill, with 68,000 residents, is entitled to 22 licenses; it has 38 licenses. Kmiec said theextra licenses werein existence before the law was enacted andwereallowedtostayineffect.Once they are not renewed, though, they cease to exist. The council members, however, were not happy with Kmiec's explanation of why the license should be ren-, ewed.

Nor were they happy with the proposed resolution, even though it contained a clause which said that the license would not be issued until either the question of the Italian conviction was resolved or Gambino is no longer involved In operating the license. Continued from Page 1C The ABC must approve transfers of licenses that have not been in use for at jeast two years. In addition, said Kmiec, the ABC said if the 1984-85 renewal was not granted, the license will cease to exist June 30 since Cherry Hill already has 16 more licenses than it should under present state law. Cm; mm PS lU ft PRIVATE FANTASY BOOTH NOWAMAMNO OVER SOO XXX FILMS VIDEO a ADULT MAGAZINES ft NOVEITKS MICKI DEE MOM thru SAT. va -TJfX-- -e- -7 3 firms selected to bid on trash plant V''l LIVE NUDE WRESTLING I IIVI THwrft.

ana Sat. CMrlm NUD1 tMowts IC CONTIST 11 I 30 1 1 liJI I iz 30.1 a toau "As I remember, our purpose was to defeat this renewal last year," said Councilman Michael Bristow. "It was held up then because of questions. I don't think this answers those Council president N. John Amato told Kmiec he thought council members were worried that the purchaser "is possibly a front for Joe (Giuseppe) Gambino." While Councilwoman Mary Anne Tamm said she thought it was "ridicu-: lous" to even consider the resolution, Councilman Joseph Hassman said he would feel more comfortable if the whole matter was put off until the council's June 24 meeting.

Only Councilman Bernard Piatt suggested approving the resolution "for purposes of saving it for a good But he joined his colleagues in voting unanimously to table it until the June 24 meeting. Gambino. a Cherry Hill resident, could not be reached last night for comment. Pierce, however, confirmed the pending sale but refused to disclose the identity of the purchaser. "Although settlement has not taken place, we have a firm agreement of sale and a very, very substantial down payment has been made," he said.

He said the purchaser is a partnership from out of the area, with a "very good reputation in the business He also said he understood the coun-cil'sconcernthatnoonehadyetapplied to the township for, a liquor license transfer, butsaid he thought that would happen "by the end of the week." He added, "When this is completed, Giuseppe Gambino will be out of the liquor business in Cherry Hill." BjgSLVTaU Continued from Page 1C Gary Smith, vice-president of told the freeholders at yesterday's caucus session that there is t.jw price on the project yet. "We'requitesuretherewillbealotof if. vying for this project and we expect a competitive price," he said. A local firm Camden Resource Recovery Corp. of Haddonfield was -eliminated from competition because -i the engineers said thefirmdidnot meet tithe technical standards of having a operating for at least two 'years.

Some companies are not in the for the project because they failed to meet financial standards. According to Rudi. the company had to have a net worth of at least $80 million measured, an average net income of at least $10 million and working capital of 1 0 million Over the last three fiscal years. Also eliminated from the list of prospective bidders was Alcor Energy Recycling Systems of Cedar Grove. of Newark and San Francisco, Blount Energy Resource Corp.

of Montgomery. Weslingh-ouse Electric Corp of Madison, Pa and Combustion Engineering Inc. of Windsor, Conn. In a related development, solid waste administrator Purves is asking the freeholders for authorization to apply for part of a $200,000 state recy- Always Off-Price Specialty Brand Short Sleeve Knit Shirts riL-ml strip. nn cling grant already committed to the county.

Part of the funds are for a $48,500 contract with engineering firm James Anderson Associates of Mount Holly for the design of a recycling plant called an intermediate processing facility to recycle pre-sorted glass nd cans for sale. After abandoning the initial plan of building a countywide facility, solid wasteofficials began negotitatingwith a Camden firm to lease its scrap metal company on Mount Ephraim Avenue and convert it to a recycling plant. Purves said the county will negotiate a lease and then begin the process of locating a vendor to operate the facility. Thecounty will purchase theequip-ment but be reimbursed out of revenues from the sale of the recycled materials. The freeholders are expected to approve the selection of the three vendors for the resource recovery plant and the grant authorization for the recycling plant at tonight's 8 p.m.

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snd A T. ores. We help students In all grades do better In school. 428-9550 4II IhmII, Ckwtf Hill VOORHEES Viniar said he found the Main Street project preferable to a landfill or the possibility of low-income housing. He said the township will have tight Control over the Main Street project because of a new general business zoning requirement for Canuso.

The new zoning law will allow the tow nship to control the type of architecture used by Canuso and how the project traffic flow affects neighboring housing developments, said Viniar. The public hearing and final adopt-ingof the new zoning ordinance is sche-duled for July 8 at 8 p.m. in the Haddonfield-Berlin Road municipal building. VOORHEES Several residents to the proposed Main Street development at last night's township committee meeting. Many of the 12 residents attending the meeting were concerned the acre project would overburden local streets.

i They particularly complained that Evesham Road would become more congested and hazardous to travel. Mayor Robert Pilkauskas said the state plans to widen Evesham Road to r.i our lanes enabling it to handle addi- traffic created by the develop- E'ment. Developer John B. Canuso plans to approximately 350 townhouses -and several stores on the site, located off Kresson and Evesham roads. Some of the residents suggested the iand could be better used as a township park or recreation area.

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