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IN THE NEWS SPORTS Saturday Diesel night Trucking block party Nationals Page 3 Page 24 SEPTEMBER 5, 1997 40 CENTS Tax break decision delayed Mayor not swayed by proponents' arguments BY JOHN P. DOWCIN Staff Writer esearch presented by South Brunswick Committeeman Ted R Van Hessen at Tuesday's regular Township Committee meeting may show that a proposed development's request for a tax abatement would benefit the town- ship. A vote on the abatement, which the committee had tabled until Tuesday at its regular Aug. 26 meeting, was once again postponed until the Sept. 16 meeting, at which time further information on the matter will have been provided by the pro- ject's developer, Constantine Velcides III. Owners of the planned Buckingham Place assisted-living facility have request- ed permission to pay South Brunswick Peg Warms (I), a sixth-grade teacher at South Brunswick's Upper Elementary School (formerly Crossroads Middle School), Township 6.28 percent of the develop- meets with one of her new pupils, 10 year-old Lindsay Heimlich, and her mother Diane on Wednesday. Classes for Lindsay ment's total revenue in lieu of municipal, and her schoolmates will begin Monday. (Jackie Pollack/Greater Media) county, and school taxes over the next 30 years. Buckingham Place's blueprints include 24 affordable housing units, which would Smoking ban approved 8-0 provide 31 credits toward the township's restrict smokeless tobacco products such ingness to rush the project. "While it has affordable housing quota as mandated by BY JOHN P. DOWCIN as chewing tobacco or snuff, as well as taken the board some time to reach a final the state's Council On Affordable Housing possession of any smoking paraphernalia, draft, I believe that was appropriate for (COAH). Staff Writer including lighters, on school property really doing hard-nosed work of putting According to a study presented by hanks to a policy approved by the during the hours of the ban. It also something like this in place and making it Committeeman David Schaefer at the Board of Education at its Aug. 25 expressly prohibits smoking on school work," he noted. committee's Aug. 26 meeting, a tax abate- meeting, smoking will be prohib- buses or school-sponsored trips. Board member Robert Long said that ment for the development would yield vir- T ited on all South Brunswick school dis- "By putting this policy into effect, the while he supports the new policy, he tually the same amount of revenue for the trict properties, indoor and out, while Board of Education ... feels we should do hopes that it won't be treated as a cure-all. township, but would cost the school board classes are in session. everything we can to protect our students "You can write effective policies, but and the county approximately $10 million The resolution, which passed by a from this debilitating and honestly deadly I think it would behoove us to push on over the next 30 years. unanimous 8-0 vote, restricts both stu- disease," Laurita said. with any educational programs we have," However, Van Hessen decided to con- dents and teachers from lighting up any- Board Policy Chairman Harry he said. duct his own research into the conse- where on district grounds during the Delgado said that two additional factors "Writing these (policies) is one thing, quences of an abatement, remarking that school day, which is defined for the poli- regarding the policy are still under con- but educational efforts, I think, will be Schaefer had only examined one side of cy's purposes as 7 a.m. until 6 p.m., sideration: a possible township ordinance the benchmark of our success," Long the issue. Monday through Friday. reiterating the ban, and a "standard oper- added. "We needed, in my opinion in any "This is something quite a long time ating procedure" outlining the conse- Along with the implementation of the event,... to look at the Buckingham Place in the making," Board President Brian quences for school faculty who violate new policy, the township Board of Health proposal from the standpoint not only of Laurita said following the vote. "I look the rule. and local chapters of the American revenue, but of expenses," Van Hessen forward to seeing our students without The policy underwent two draft revi- Cancer Society will be offering cessation explained. "Mr. Schaefer's spreadsheet cigarettes." sions before being put into effect, which programs to help district faculty members The resolution goes on to specifically Laurita attributed to the board's unwill- quit smoking. 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Page 10 a subcommittee to examine the entire cor- The recommendations are to rezone a • Editorials would rezone 445 acres ridor and recommend changes. total of 445 acres for office-park use, in- • Letters Page 10 for office-park use The phase 1 area, the subject of the cluding the entire planned residential de- • Police Beat Page 21 hearing, totals 912 acres, with 259 acres velopment and industrial zones, 90 acres • Real Estate Page 23 BYJERRYDESARNO on the southbound side and 653 acres on of commercial zones and 139 acres of of- the northbound side. It includes 2.9 miles fice-research zones. • Sports Page 24 G o r re s p o n d e n t of Route 1, about 44 percent of South A total of 411 acres would remain Brunswick's 6.7-mile section of the road. zoned for office research and 56 acres for SOUTH BRUNSWICK — The Plan- Planning Director Robert Hal! said the general retail commercial. ning Board will continue a public hearing Planning Board subcommittee, which Although the report suggests the next week on rezoning much of the Route worked on the "comprehensive report," office-park zone permit minimum lot sizes 1 corridor from Whispering Woods based its recommendations under assump- of three acres, with minimum setbacks of Phone numbers: Boulevard and Wynwood Drive to the 100 feet, and limit building heights to one Plainsboro boundary for office parks. tions that Route 1 will be widened to six Editorial lanes and that median openings will be story, established large office-research fa- At the first hearing July 9, developers closed and overpasses will be installed at cilities such as Dow Jones and Princeton 254-7000 Ext. 226 and Islamic religious leaders voiced con- FAX 254-0486 various locations.