To the Editor:
On Thursday, April 1, the Princeton Planning Board will consider the designation of yet another Area in Need of Redevelopment (ANR), the third such designation for Princeton in fewer than five years. This time it is for properties comprising over 40 acres on or near the Princeton Shopping Center.
As the Planning Board considers this option, we would like to offer a cautionary tale to our friends and neighbors throughout town. The Area in Need of Redevelopment designation will impact all of Princeton, so we would like to encourage all Princetonians to pay close attention.
Almost any neighborhood could be shoehorned into meeting the definition of an Area in Need of Redevelopment, although such a designation is not in the spirit of the statewide law that established this redevelopment framework. Imagine how different the future would be if the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood had been declared an Area in Need of Redevelopment rather than designated our 20