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Letters: Neighbors claim school’s proposed artificial turf field plan attempts to circumvent Princeton zoning standards
February 4, 2021
“The preservation and protection of the natural environment must be an integral part of all plans and designs for improvements and changes in land use. Examples include rezoning of The Princeton Ridge”
-Princeton Community Master Plan
We all live nearby one of the region’s most environmentally fragile and ecologically diverse habitats. The Princeton Ridge is home of many threatened and endangered species, while playing an important role in Princeton’s delicate ecosystem. Measures have always been taken to protect this important land.
Common calendar, Packet papers, January 8
Common calendar, Packet papers, January 8
Ongoing
While decorating for the holidays is a tradition, too often strings of burnt out or damaged holiday lights end up being tossed out with household garbage.
There is a greener way to properly dispose of these decorations. Instead of discarding non-working lights in the trash, the Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders want residents to give them a second life by bringing them to the county’s Resource Recovery Complex, where a permanent electronics disposal center is staffed from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays and from 7-11:30 a.m. Saturdays.
Princeton Academy is a private boys’ school for grades K-8 that was founded in 1998. Currently, students at the school play soccer, lacrosse and baseball, participate in physical education classes, and enjoy recess playtime on two grass fields. The proposed turf project would convert the existing grass athletic fields in the northeast corner of Princeton Academy’s campus into turf fields. The turf fields would primarily be for soccer, lacrosse, and baseball. The Princeton Soccer Association would lease the turf fields, using them on weekdays from 6 to 9:30 p.m. and on weekends until 7 p.m.
At the planning board’s public virtual meeting on Dec. 10, about 100 people were on Zoom for the public hearing on the academy’s proposed fields, but the board reviewed another project first, and that review took three hours, leaving only half an hour for the review of the school’s application.