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[quote="Cranbury Conservative"]In the best interest of our town….

Once again here in Cranbury the agenda of a few is taking our focus off of our fight against the unfair COAH / Affordable Housing obligation we face.
 
Regarding our library here in Cranbury an important fact to realize is we have less then 4000 residents in Cranbury and the library has a $700,000 budget surplus. Does the Cranbury Police Department or the School run that kind of surplus? The answer is NO.

For 40 year the library and school have had a very successful agreement for a shared library space which has been very beneficial to the taxpayers of Cranbury and the need for a new stand alone library appears to only have become a “MAJOR” issue since the new head of the library has taken over.

From what I have heard some of the major “Issues” for the library currently appear to be space limitations as well as new concerns over some restricted hours by the school. I was also told recently the library and the school now each has their own lawyers which are getting paid with our tax dollars to solve the disputes they are having because of space and hours. In the case of the library I guess that is how they choose to use the surplus of our tax dollars.

In the end who wins? THE LAWYERS WIN!!! Yes that is right the lawyers not the residents of Cranbury. What we need is for everyone involved to step back and do what is best for the town and that is for us all to focus on COAH AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING as Cranbury’s number one issue. Because if we have to build what COAH wants our town to build then Cranbury will cease to exist as we know it today. If we choose to focus on the library’s supporters needs and not the needs of the community as a whole then we will have one of two things that will happen to the library here in Cranbury….

In our first scenario if the COAH / Affordable Housing build out occurs as is then our towns population will soar to somewhere between 6,000 and 8,000 residents. The library supporters will then be able to justify their need for a stand alone library. Unfortunately in this scenario since we were so focused on the library’s needs and not the needs of our town in its fight against our unjust Affordable Housing obligation our town will have changed in such a way that it does not look anything like it does today. We will either need to build a new school or send our children to others town’s schools due to the lack of space available in our current school. Further we won’t be able to add on to the school because by that time the TC will have preserved the West Property which will have handcuffed the school from being able to expand. We will also have lost our agreement with Princeton because we will have exceeded the limit of students they have said we can send without their needing to expand. Our taxes will probable be 2 to 3 times what they are today, which will force many of our current residents out of our town.

In the second scenario if the COAH / Affordable Housing build out occurs and the population soars to somewhere between 6,000 and 8,000 residents and then we will not need a stand alone library because our town won’t be called Cranbury anymore. Our town will be called Plainsboro. We will then be able to use our new state of the art library that our new town is building right now. We will have consolidated with Plainsboro because the tax burden will have become so high that we will not be able to run our town independently. It will also make the States case easier against us as a town that should consolidate with another community.

Is this what we want to happen to our town? Further we are trying to make a case as a community that our COAH obligation is unfair and would be a terrible burden on the taxpayers of Cranbury. Can the library supporters stop and ask themselves how it makes our town look when we say we can’t afford Affordable Housing yet a town of less then 4000 people can afford a brand new library. Can our town look any worse by doing this?

So please for the good of our community, can the library and the school work these issues out? Can you please put your personal agendas aside for the good of the town? Can the Township Committee do the same? For the greater good of our community we need to resolve our library issues, and make use of the existing agreement as is. We then need to focus back on our #1 priority COAH / Affordable Housing.

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