The following comments are another way to view the news about the election sweep of the “Best 4 West Windsor” slate.
##M:[more]##“Best 4 West Windsor” may have won in the election but are their motives contrary to the public interest? When Mr. Mike Epstein was quoted as saying “We want to control the number of children in our public schools” he surely does not speak for me. I live in Plainsboro and pay taxes that support the West Windsor Plainsboro school system. I have none but should have a say in the transit village.
Clearly, I am part of a case of taxation without representation. Besides my denial of rights, there is a greater moral question, and that is the denial by a vocal minority that adversely affect the tens of thousand of railroad and road commuters as well as occasional railroad and road travelers.
The “Best 4 West Windsor” slate has a Me, Me, Me feel and a disregard for the greater community that is within a 10-mile radius. They have an apparent disregard for experts who, they say, don’t count. But that is in fact a way to say they don’t want to grow the economy, they want to deny the old to exist without automobile, and to deny the young an affordable home to begin a family without the burden of an automobile.
Mr. Hillier and his organization are world class experts who understand smart growth where density is concentrated with self sustaining economies near mass transit. Sprawl can be controlled by thinning the housing density in the outer suburbs.
One would hope “Best 4 West Windsor” would become introspective and see they are against the grain of humanity.
Harold Switzgable
5 Linden Lane South, Plainsboro
