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Category Archives: Smart Growth
‘Great Plant Rescue’ At Old Princeton Hospital Site As Local Residents Sue Planning Board
Here’s some great news! All the plants and landscaping features from around the old Princeton Hospital site on Witherspoon Street are being lifted out and transplanted to new homes! Local residents, Princeton Healthcare Systems staff, the Department of Public Works … Continue reading
Posted in Density, Princeton, Smart Growth, Zoning
Tagged Affordable housing, AvalonBay, Princeton, Princeton Packet, Princeton Planning Board
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Time For A Proper Public Consultation About The 369 Witherspoon Street Site
The future of the 369 Witherspoon Site looks set to be one of the biggest redevelopment questions facing Princeton in the coming years. Competing plans are circulating for re-use of the site, but are any of these plans right? It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Affordability, Density, Princeton, Real estate, Smart Growth, Zoning
Tagged New Jersey, Princeton, Witherspoon Street
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255 Nassau Plan Shows The Extraordinary Difficulty Of Infill Redevelopment in Princeton
The proposed redevelopment of the 255 Nassau Crossfit gym (formerly Wild Oats market) is in doubt as NJDOT regulations, University inflexibility, and municipal red tape combine to stymie the plan. Skeptical officials look set to can the plan, but it … Continue reading
Does Mayor Lempert Really Think That Middle-Class Princeton Workers Should Live In Trenton??
Princeton is suffering an affordability crisis that has seen the town’s middle-class largely driven out in the face of high property prices and taxes. Even junior research staff at the University find it hard to justify the cost of living … Continue reading
Posted in Affordability, Alternative Transportation, Density, Downtown Vibrancy, Local, People, Princeton, Smart Growth, Traffic
Tagged Princeton, Trenton
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Parking Fiasco Exposes Princeton’s Failure To Add Needed Housing
Reporting from Planet Princeton this week exposed an extraordinary scam where employees at local businesses bypassed Princeton parking regulations by placing menus, coasters and receipts from their place of employment in their windshields. Apparently, local parking enforcement did not write … Continue reading
Posted in Affordability, Density, Princeton, Smart Growth, The Parking Question, Traffic
Tagged Commuting, Planet Princeton, Princeton
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How ‘Strong Towns’ Thinking Could Be A Boost For Princeton
Is the way we build towns an unsustainable Ponzi Scheme that will ultimately bankrupt us? That is the striking thesis behind ‘Strong Towns’, an advocacy group that has sprung up out of Brainerd, Minnesota and may just be the best … Continue reading
Posted in Density, Downtown Vibrancy, People, Smart Growth, Trails, Zoning
Tagged New Jersey, Ponzi Scheme, Princeton, Upper Midwest
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More Details On Hillier’s Witherspoon Street Corridor Proposal
As we reported in July, the Studio Hillier architecture practice is seeking feedback on a proposal to update zoning along Witherspoon St to enhance this key Princeton corridor. Many of you will not have seen any details from Mr Hillier’s … Continue reading
One Sure Way To Boost Walking To Work In Princeton
Want to know how to get more people – far more people – walking to work in Princeton? The answer is very simple, and the good news is, it doesn’t have to cost us a cent…
Posted in Alternative Transportation, Biking, Density, Princeton, Smart Growth, Traffic, Transit, Walking, Zoning
Tagged New Jersey, Palmer Square, Plainsboro Township New Jersey, Princeton, Walking
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Happy Labor Day! Here’s Something You Can Do For Princeton-Area Workers…
Happy Labor Day! While many of us spend the day relaxing or sales-shopping, Labor Day originally was about celebrating organized labor. For various reasons, only about 1 in 10 American workers is now a member of a labor union. What … Continue reading
Posted in Affordability, Density, Princeton, Smart Growth, Zoning
Tagged Affordable housing, Labor Day, Princeton
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Exploring Sweden’s Walkable Answer To Princeton
This week, Walkable Princeton is running stories from our recent overseas vacation, focusing on how other towns have found solutions to favor walkability. Previous posts in this series are here, here and here. Our regular local content is back after Labor Day. To … Continue reading
Posted in Density, Downtown Vibrancy, Princeton, Smart Growth, Sustainability, Traffic
Tagged Lund, Lund University, Princeton, Walkability
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