##M:[more]##The hastily devised Hillier plan ignores many of the conclusions from the Penns Neck Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), which was based on years of study, data and analysis by state and federal agencies with public and private input.
The Hillier group has created a massive plan for West Windsor’s redevelopment zone in a few months with only a token nod to the public and without the kind of thoroughness needed to assure the public that the plan would work.
For example, in the latest Hillier drawings, the Vaughn Drive extension no longer uses the jug-handle to smoothly funnel traffic from Washington Road. Instead, Hillier would depend on a bypass going through the Sarnoff property, a bypass that the EIS deemed wrong for the region.
Hillier claims that the bypass is necessary because of the extra traffic that the redevelopment zone will create. However, if its numbers are to be believed, the Hillier plan is supposed to yield fewer square feet of office, retail and residential space (less than 2 million square feet) than current zoning laws would allow (more than 3 million square feet) in the redevelopment zone.
The Hillier plan numbers just don’t add up.
Sandra Shapiro
15 Wycombe Way, Princeton Junction
