City Gov to Seize 175-Year-Old Farm by Eminent Domain, Replace with Affordable Housing

agweb.com ^ | June 11, 2025 | Chris Bennett

[Secret Agent Man]

This kind of crap is why people loathe government.

[Ken H]

I wonder how much federal $$$ Cranbury Township will get out of this.

[kiryandil]

Taxachusetts.

[ridesthemiles]

A RERUN OF THE KELO DECISION???

CITY IS WRONG

[doc maverick]

I don’t see how the Cranbury Township Committee can’t force someone to sell.

[Paladin2]

Where does Trump come down on this situation?

[heartwood]

NJ.

[Clay Moore]

And you wonder why a guy armors up a Komatsu bulldozer and seeks revenge?

[eastexsteve]

Now, here's a guy that has no concept of the life he can give his offspring if he sold that property. $20-30 million for a 21-acre farm? Heck, Andy, shoot me an Email and maybe your buyers and myself can reach a deal on a 160-acre farm I have in Oklahoma that's been around since the land rush. Heck, if they want to give me 30 million for what I have, they can have that, and I can go buy myself and each of my kids a 100 acre farm on the shores of Toledo Bend or Lake-of-the-Pines, and I'll still have money to put in the bank.

(Pssssttt Andy - you can't take it with you.)

[T.B. Yoits]

Seize the land of every member of the Cranbury Township Committee. No “laws for thee but not for me”.

[heartwood]

Mount Laurel decision. NJ Supreme Court required towns to build affordable housing. Legislature set quotas to comply. If a town doesn’t build housing or pay another town to build housing, builders can sue to force the town to let them develop and include affordable housing. After 20 years or so, affordable reverts to market-rate, and the town needs to build more.

The state is so brilliant that the median strip of the Garden State Parkway has been counted as buildable acreage.

[T.B. Yoits]

Donate the land to a "church" that will continue to lease out the land for agri-business.

Checkmate.

[NorthMountain]

Now, here's a guy that thinks differently from you, so he must be an idiot.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Looks like a few of the selectmen of the township need to wake up with horse's heads in their beds.

[NorthMountain]

NJ Supreme Court required towns to build affordable housing.

The President can't legislate by fiat ... that power is reserved to judges.

[PGR88]

all while buyout offers ballooned to $20-30 million.

"affordable housing" is another scam. The developer figured out he could spend 1/4 of that buying some local town politicians, and he could get the land after all.

[T.B. Yoits]

After 20 years or so, affordable reverts to market-rate, and the town needs to build more.

That's their excuse. If they want to maintain the ratio of "low income housing", let them knock down their own houses. That'll increase the ratio because you know they aren't living in low-income housing.

[nopardons]

NEW JERSEY; NOT Mass.!

[Repeal The 17th]

New Jersey.