Dashield honored on retirement as Princeton administrator
Dashield honored on retirement as Princeton administrator
If Princeton Municipal Administrator Marc Dashield thought he could retire very quietly, he was sadly mistaken when current and former Princeton Council members and municipal staff gathered online to send him off into the next chapter of his life.
Dashield, whose retirement took effect April 1, was praised for his good nature and calm presence by well-wishers that also included community members at the March 30 Zoom meeting.
Former Mayor Liz Lempert was the first of many to compliment and thank Dashield for his nearly six years of service in Princeton’s top administrative job. He was the second administrator of the newly created town that was formed in 2013 after the merger of the former Princeton Borough and former Princeton Township.
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To the Editor:
As a former member of the Princeton Council, I voted for the December of 2019 affordable housing settlement agreement in which the former Princeton Borough’s 20% set-aside requirement for as-of-right multifamily development was eliminated in favor of set asides only for projects that require some kind of zoning relief, such as a variance. I want to apologize for my mistake.
I only skimmed the document and did not realize the loophole was added to weaken the requirement. There is no excuse for my carelessness. My theory for how the language ended up in the document is that the settlement agreement used boilerplate language and the change was an oversight. Given the length and complexity of the agreement and the many pressing issues that were hashed out near the end, this makes the most sense to me.
A rendering of the new building that will be built on the Griggs Corner parking lo in Princeton across from the library. The project will include shops and eight apartments. None of the units will be affordable housing units.
A former Princeton Borough requirement that all new housing projects include a set aside of 20 percent of the units for affordable housing was inadvertently left out of an agreement that settled a five-year lawsuit between the municipality and the non-profit advocacy group Fair Share Housing.
In 2015, the municipality joined with some other municipalities in the county in filing a lawsuit challenging their affordable housing obligations. All of the other municipalities except West Windsor quickly reached settlements with Fair Share Housing, but Princeton’s lawsuit dragged on and cost the municipality hundreds of thousands of dollars. A Mercer County judge approved a settlement agreement in the matter a year ago.