Content about Development

Mthuli Ncube, chief economist and vice president of the African Development Bank, will present a public lecture titled, "Africa: Towards Strong, Sustained, and Inclusive Growth," at the Woodrow Wilson School on Monday, April 9, 2012 at 4:30 p.m.

West Windsor, NJ: New Jersey contractors are invited to register for the EPA Model Renovator Certification training. Mercer County Community College is offering the Lead Renovation, Repair, and Painting (RPP) Program and NJ DCA Rules and Regulations at a one-day class on March 13 at the college’s West Windsor campus, at 1200 Old Trenton Road.

Course content includes NJ DCA rules and regulations, lead based paint health concerns, planning the job, lead dust containment, cleaning, training, non-certified renovation workers, hands-on training, and recordkeeping.

Dr. Mark Peterson of the University of California, Berkeley pulled up a darkened yellow map of the Battle of Princeton on a projector screen at last Thursday’s meeting of the Regional Planning Board.  
 
“You wouldn’t want to use it to find yourself from Trenton to Princeton in the dark, but this primary document was drawn by an anonymous spy for General Washington,” he said. 
 

Princeton University attorneys threatened legal action against the Borough, if the Council were to pass an ordinance that specifies that the area around the Dinky train station - known as Lot 39 - can only be developed for transit purposes or retail related to transit. 

“It didn’t come across as ‘neighborhood,’ ” said one resident. “It came across as ‘Courtyard Marriott hotel.’ ”

This was the sentiment Saturday morning among some of those attending Princeton Future’s meeting on plans to build a mid-rise residential community at the site of the old University Medical Center at Princeton on Witherspoon Street.

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Join a conversation about the new Princeton Medical Center and the development plans for the hospital’s Witherspoon Street site.
Community Room
Sponsored by the library and Princeton Future.

(7/6/2011 update:  The July 14 Board of Education meeting has been cancelled.  At this point it is not clear when or how they will consider the Save the Valley Road School proposal)

The specific agenda has not yet been established, however it will include:
DISCUSSION:
a)    ORDINANCE REFERRALS    Formal Action Expected
[1]    TOWNSHIP: AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE ARTS, EDUCATION AND TRANSIT (“AET”) ZONE WITHIN THE TOWNSHIP OF PRINCETON, COUNTY OF MERCER, STATE OF NEW JERSEY AND AMENDING THE “CODE OF THE TOWNSHIP OF PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, 1968.”

Construction of Princeton University's new High-Performance Computing Research Center is expected to near completion this summer, while work on the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment is scheduled to begin. Several other construction and renovation projects also will continue on campus this summer.

Since we all rely on the services of the Princeton Fire Department, we should know more about  how it operates.  So here’s a pop quiz:
(A) Are Princeton firefighters paid?
(B) What does it cost to run the Fire Department?
(C) How many Fire Companies does Princeton have?
(D) Which fire stations respond to emergency calls?

Should the old Valley Road School building on Witherspoon Street be converted into a community center, or should it be torn down to make way for the expansion of the fire station and emergency services next door?

The memorandum outlines area's of agreement in regard the common desire to assure continuing and improved transportation service along the NJ Transit Princeton Branch. For more on the draft MOU document between the Borough of Princeton, Township of Princeton and Princeton University, click here.

Weeks of negotiations between Princeton University, Borough, and Township over the controversial Arts, Entertainment and Transit Neighborhood have resulted in a Memorandum of Understanding, just published by the Borough.  While there seems to be no change in the University's resolve to move the Dinky station, the MOU does include certain measures to appease critics of its development plans.

The MOU includes:

Princeton Borough residents are one step closer to walking down a rejuvenated Alexander Road in twenty years, after the Borough Council agreed to formally introduce for public discussion the zoning for the Arts, Education and Transit Neighborhood at a meeting on Tuesday night.  

Including new business:

Introduction and Authorization To Publish 2011-04, AN ORDINANCE AMENDING
AND SUPPLEMENTING CHAPTER 17A OF THE CODE OF THE BOROUGH OF PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, 1974 TO CREATE A NEW ZONE DISTRICT KNOWN AS ARTS, ENTERTAINMENT AND TRANSIT

Borough Administrator Bob Bruschi is preparing to present a modified Arts and Transit Zoning Ordinance at tomorrow evening's Borough Council meeting.  In a letter to the Mayor and Council, Bruschi says he will "strongly urge the Council to introduce this ordinance or a version that is substantially similar to it.  While it might not be the final document I think it is important to formally start the process."