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R. William Potter
On Jan. 14, 2021, Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, in her day job as commissioner of the Department of Community Affairs (DCA), sent a one-page letter to the mayor of Franklin Township in Warren County, rejecting his ill-conceived designation of 100-plus acres of prime farmland continuously tilled for nearly a century as “blighted.”
Every mayor and municipal governing body should read this letter before initiating the formal process for declaring private property an “area in need of redevelopment” the statutory euphemism for “blighted area” when there is no sign of “actual blight.” All too often the real motivation is to gain access to those extraordinary powers constitutionally limited for eradication of blight.