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3rd District Candidates Square Off in Debate Over Virus Response Richter Claims He is ‘Generally’ Pro-Choice and Will Not Support Repeal of Obamacare; Kim Defends Voting for U.S. House Speaker

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A vacant building off Taunton Boulevard that used to be occupied by Medford TrueValue Hardware Store, before the business relocated to the Taunton Forge Shopping Center.

Redevelopment Plan Approved for ‘Unique’ Area of Taunton Boulevard and Tuckerton Road That Calls for ‘Underutilized’ Commercial Zone with ‘Pattern of Vacancy’ to Be Rehabilitated

By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

MEDFORD—A redevelopment plan for the area of Taunton Boulevard and Tuckerton roads, deemed by Medford Township Council in need of “rehabilitation” with purportedly a number of vacant buildings and lots, has been adopted by the governing body.

Council adopted the plan by a unanimous vote on Oct. 6, with Mayor Charles “Chuck” Watson and Councilman Frank Czekay, also Medford Township Planning Board members, among the governing body members who voted in the affirmative.

“This is sort of a unique neighborhood, commercial zone,” said Township Planner

Scott Taylor, of Taylor Design Group, during a July 22 planning board meeting. “This is not like the Stokes Road corridor, or like Route 70. This has a much smaller, intimate feel; part of a neighborhood in this southern area (of Medford) and sort of nestled in the middle of a couple, almost village-like neighborhoods.”

Council’s vote on the redevelopment plan was followed by the July 22 planning board session, in which that public body heard the results of a redevelopment study, or a “land use analysis and designation” of the 123-acre area, from Taylor. The study was an “administrative step,” whereas the redevelopment plan sets forth design standards and modifications to zoning,

according to Taylor. According to a copy of the redevelopment plan, by council adopting it, the township has established a new zoning district for a portion of the study area, and rezoned some parcels within it.

“In my opinion, there is clearly a pattern of vacancy, abandonment and underutilization of properties in this area,” Taylor said.

Taylor contended that there has been “almost no reinvest ment ” or “lit tle reinvestment or revitalization” in the area of Taunton and Tuckerton roads over the last 30 years.

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MOUNT HOLLY—In an Oct. 4 virtual debate that, although barbed with mutual accusations, remained civil and respectful enough in tone, the main contenders for New Jersey’s 3rd Congressional District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, Democratic incumbent Andy Kim and his Republican challenger, former Hill international CEO David Richter, again talked up their qualifications for the job.

But while many of the points they made weren’t exactly new, the rhetorical contest did produce some rather surprising declarations on the part of Richter, who, while continuing to be a big booster of Republican President Donald J. Trump in his bid for re-election, sharply diverged from the president’s continued determination to overturn the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and latter-day opposition to a woman’s right to an abortion.

He also appeared to have reconsidered a previously stated position that the COVID-19 pandemic was “pretty much behind us here in New Jersey,” as he told the Pine Barrens Tribune last month, stating that “the virus is not going away anytime soon.”

In a subsequent phone interview, Richter further modified previous predictions he had made to this newspaper that Trump would easily trounce former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, the Democratic nominee for president, in a debate and perhaps even win the popular vote as a result. He expressed disappointment in the president’s “aggressive” performance in the televised one held on Sept. 29 and said See DISTRICT/ Page 10

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Pinelands Commission Gives Approval to NJDEP to Use Portion of Former School as Office Space

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By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

WA S H I N G T O N — T h e P i n e l a n d s Commission has authorized a change of use “to office space” for a portion of the former Green Bank School in Washington Township, and in giving the approval, accepted a Certificate of Approval, something that the public body, which traditionally mandates a Certificate of Occupancy, had never done before.

The 15.5-acre Green Bank School property was sold by Washington Township to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) for $1.25 million in December 2017.

The sale came after the township acquired the property for just $1 in August 2017 from the Washington Township School District, which had become a send-receive district in September 2016.

The 25,321-square foot former school building, which has the capacity for 250 people, was built in 2006 for $5.4 million.

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NJDEP, shortly after the closing of the sale, told this newspaper that NJDEP’s Green Acres Program acquired the school for use as offices for the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife and New Jersey State Park Police.

Since that time, the NJDEP made application to the Pinelands Commission for a change of use from an educational facility to “occupy 9,000 square feet of the building for office space.”

According to Paul Leaken, a spokesman for the Pinelands Commission, one of the public body’s conditions of approval for granting a change of use requires an applicant to submit a copy of a Certificate of Occupancy (CO) for the proposed use, specially limiting occupancy for the portion of the building at issue.

However, because a state agency is occupying the building, the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA) issues permits, according to Leaken.

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By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer

SOUTHAMPTON—Lt. Richard Gilman, who has served as the station commander of the Red Lion Barracks of the New Jersey State Police since January 2018, has been transferred to another part of the agency.

State Troopers from the Red Lion Barracks, which is one of several that comprise of Troop C, provide police protection and conduct traffic enforcement in Shamong, Southampton, Tabernacle and Woodland townships, as these municipalities do not have local police departments. They also periodically conduct other operations to support local police departments throughout the Pinelands.

Gilman, based on correspondence obtained by this newspaper, told at least some local officials that he was being “transferred” to a role at Troop C headquarters, in Hamilton, on Aug. 31. The transfer, according to Gilman, was to take effect Sept. 5.

“The new Red Lion station commander will

be Lt. Brian Godley,” Gilman wrote.

The Pine Barrens Tribune had published on Aug. 22 a report that residents in the LeisureTow ne section of Southampton were distressed over a lack of information surrounding a July 1 trooper-involved crash in the retirement community that killed one resident. Few details about what led up to the July 1 crash have been released by state police.

John Goudy, a close friend to the victim, Barry Reingold, 77, was featured in the report for calling on the township and LeisureTowne Board of Trustees to engage and collaborate with the local barracks, with a specific request that officials encourage State Troopers to monitor the roads to “address speeding, and other violators of traffic laws, including those who run stop signs, pass on double lines, drive recklessly and drive drunk.” Goudy said that there has been a traffic and speeding problem on the retirement community’s main streets

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PEMBERTON—Pre-kindergarten through 6th grade students are expected to return to school buildings for in-person instruction beginning Oct. 13 in the Pemberton Township School District, as originally anticipated, but older students in grades 7 through 12 will unexpectedly have to wait, and continue to learn at home until a future date that has yet to be determined, according to a recent announcement from Pemberton Township School District administration.

Interim Superintendent Paul Spaventa attributed the delay in the upper grades’ return to regular classes to “a difficulty with hiring interim teachers and substitutes” in an Oct. 5 telephone interview with this newspaper.

The indefinite postponement came about despite the district receiving all its needed personal protective equipment (PPE) to protect against the Coronavirus, which initially had been one of the main reasons the district decided to start the school year on Sept. 8 in an all-remote format rather than allowing students to return to classroom settings.

“I don’t think this is a problem unique to Pemberton,” Spaventa said. “We are all fighting for the same pool of teachers.”

After experiencing delays in PPE orders, Spaventa was previously confident at the end of September that the district would be ready to roll on Oct. 13, as the final protective barriers were being installed and disinfecting wipes distributed. However, an official final decision on reopening wasn’t slated to be

made public until Oct. 1.

Over the summer, this newspaper learned that about 50 percent of students were enrolled in a hybrid learning program, a mix of virtual and in-person instruction. The district serves approximately 5,000 students from Pemberton Township, Pemberton Borough and Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.

It cost the district approximately $2 million in additional funding to reopen schools in this new environment created by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Business Administrator Dan Smith. However, the district did receive $685,947 back in May from an emergency federal relief fund, part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Spaventa previously hinted to this newspaper that if there was to be one obstacle that could put a hitch in its plans for reopening, it would be related to staffing, with pending leaves of absence requests continuing to be processed.

This has proven to be the case. In a district video posted online Oct. 1, Spaventa said the hybrid learning program was being modified, and that the best way to begin in-person learning was bringing students back in three phases, with the younger group’s return being dubbed “Phase One.” There is one exception. Any student currently involved in a specialized program, no matter the grade, will return to school buildings five days per week, starting Oct. 13, Spaventa said.

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LRHSD Expects to Save $1 Million in Debt Service Authorized by 2005 Voter-Approved Referendum

By Andy Milone Staff Writer

SHAMONG—The Lenape Regional High School District (LRHSD) anticipates taking advantage of lower interest rates and saving purportedly upwards of $1 million through the refinancing of bonds related to a voter-approved referendum question in 2005 that facilitated major construction projects at its schools.

“This will result in a direct savings to our taxpayers,” said Business Administrator Connie Stewart at a Sept. 16 meeting of the LRHSD Board of Education.

The board, during its Sept. 16 meeting, adopted a “refunding bond ordinance” to refinance the bonds, while also approving a corresponding form and sale resolution, all by an 8-0 vote. Board members Dr. Robert Bende, Margaret Estlow and Sam Green were absent.

District Spokesperson Allyson Roberts, when asked on Oct. 5 if the district will be able to pursue any other projects or initiatives as a result of the expected savings, ruled out this possibility, and added that the district does not have the power to move money saved in its debt service fund to its operating fund.

“It will go back to the taxpayers,” Roberts said.

The $89,040,359 referendum, supported by nearly three-fifths of those who cast votes on it 15 years ago, authorized various renovations and improvements to Lenape, Shawnee, and Cherokee high schools, as well as to the former location for the Sequoia Alternative Program.

Additions to Lenape and Shawnee high schools were also included.

In 2013, the district refunded all of the outstanding 2005 bonds associated with this referendum, Stewart explained at the meeting, and is “currently looking at refunding all, or a portion of our 2013 current outstanding bonds,” due to the interest-rate environment creating a net present value debt service savings of at least 3 percent of the principal amount.

Specifically, it has been deter mined savings are possible through refunding

all, or a portion of a $22,550,000 principal amount of the outstanding 2013 refunded bonds, scheduled to mature on March 15 of e a c h ye a r b e g i n n i n g w i t h 2 0 2 4 through 2030.

When the present debt service value savings is over 3 percent, districts are “required to refinance their bonds,” according to Stewart.

“Right now, the net present value savings is over 4 percent,” she said. “With that, we are expecting to reduce the debt service interest payments in excess of $1 million dollars over the remaining term of these bonds.”

The refunding of these bonds will be paid off in accordance with the original terms, and the payment schedule will not be extended, Stewart added.

The district expects to pay $1 million less in future debt service interest payments for the remaining term of these refunding bonds, which are listed as being sold and issued at an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $26 million.

According to Stewart, the district will make its final scheduled payment in 2030. The Fed sees interest rates staying near zero through at least 2022.

The board approved its school year 2020-21 budget totaling $164.1 million earlier this year, with an increase in regional school taxes in five of the eight LRHSD sending towns. The debt service fund makes up $7.4 million of this budget, nearly 89 percent, or $6.6 million of which is covered by the debt service tax levy, which decreased by $116,413 from last year.

State debt service aid covers the remaining $831,029 of this fund.

The debt service fund is one of three funds within the district’s annual budget. The largest fund, its general (operating) fund, is $154,014,361.

“The savings realized in connection with the reduced debt service interest payments will directly reduce the debt service portion of the district’s tax levy,” wrote the district in a statement to this newspaper.

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modification to the original plan, but as I have said before, the situation remains fluid and we must be prepared for change at every turn,” Spaventa declared. “As educators, we are faced with a barrage of decisions, regarding not only our students’ education, but their health and well-being. While I promise you, we will leave no voice unheard or no stone unturned, as we deliberate, debate, and investigate our options, there is simply no easy answer to many of the challenges we face during this pandemic.”

As part of the return to in-person instruction, students will attend in-person schooling on opposite days, either as part of an assigned Green or Gold team. For one week, students will attend Monday, Wednesday, Friday. During the

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Students in grades 7 and 8 (Phase Two), and grades 9 through 12 (Phase Three) will remain in remote learning until a future date, listed as “two subsequent phases” on the district website. Those enrolled students, Spaventa said, would then enter the hybrid program, with all staff and students to be notified two weeks prior to that taking place.

As for the number of interim teachers and substitutes needing to be hired to move onto these next phases, this is an “uncertain” figure, Spaventa told this newspaper. He pointed out that professionals are not just needed for academic class coverage, but for maintaining the safety of students in various ways, such as making sure all protocols, wearing a mask, social distancing, etc., are followed.

Such “uncertainty” is a reason for this “staggered” approach, he added.

Students in grades 6 and lower were chosen to return to buildings before the older students because these lower-grade teaching positions “are easier to cover” than some at upper grade levels, Spaventa said, requiring more specialized certifications.

Asked if younger students having a tougher time than older ones with remote learning was a factor in deciding to have them begin the hybrid learning program earlier than those in upper grades, Spaventa said this “generalization” was considered, “but it wasn’t the main reason.”

As for the number of professionals taking leaves of absences, he declined to give an exact figure, but said, “it is significant enough to take a pause before opening seventh and eighth grade, and grades 9 through 12.”

The expected decision to move forward with the hybrid program beginning on Oct. 13 has been met with some resistance at recent Pemberton Township Board of Education meetings from school district employees.

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“I am concerned when I look on the agenda at the hires of custodians,” said Kathy Vogel, president of the Pemberton Township Education Association (PTEA), at the most recent board meeting, Sept 24. “Are we truly staffed enough to clean the buildings for the safety of the students and staff every day as we move into this hybrid model?”

Vogel noted that it is not just the in-person learning component drawing concern, and described the “astronomical” workload for those teachers leading classes online.

“They are spending hours at night,” she said.

“I am getting phone calls of teachers crying that they want to give up what they love to do.”

Vogel urged the administration to resolve a list of concerns that included teachers not having the necessary technology and equipment to properly educate students remotely, as well as classrooms not being able to support the proper social distance in some classes, which she said have 12 to 15 students.

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(Continued from Page 2) “After discussing the matter with the DCA, a DCA Certificate of Approval will be issued,” Leaken said. “As such, the commission staff added language to its Aug. 14 approval letter, noting that for the purposes of the commission’s approval, the commission agreed that a Certificate of Occupancy is the equivalent of a Certificate of Approval.”

The commission, during a recent meeting, granted the change of use, accepting a Certificate of Approval, by a 9-0 vote.

Commissioner Edward Lloyd asked if the public body had ever done this (accepting a Certificate of Approval in place of a Certificate of Occupancy) before. Chuck Horner, the commission's director of Regulatory Programs, replied, “no,” adding that the Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan (CMP) “does not speak to either document.”

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(Continued from Page 2) that has been going on for at least 15 years.

Sgt. Lawrence Peele, a spokesman for the state police, when asked if Gilman’s transfer was related to the LeisureTowne matter, replied Oct. 7 that the “transfer of state police personnel is based on the operational needs of the division.”

Gilman, according to Peele, enlisted with the state police on Sept. 23, 1994 as a member of the 114th Class.

Peele contended Gilman served as station commander at Red Lion from January 2018 through July of this year.

Gilman, in June 2019, toured flood-damaged properties in Southampton Township, alongside Col. Patrick J. Callahan, superintendent of the state police, and Democratic Governor Phil Murphy.

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Hajna told this newspaper on Oct. 7 that the state park police will move into the facility by end of this year. It was previously expected that the law enforcement agency would occupy the building in January 2019. He added that the police force’s “district operations” will operate from the facility.

As the building “continues to be adapted,” he said, the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife’s Bureau of Law Enforcement will begin running its regional operations from the facility. He told this newspaper that will occur next year.

“In the third phase, after classrooms are converted to labs, the NJDEP’s Bureau of Marine Water Monitoring’s Water Monitoring prog ram will also operate within the facility to implement the National Shellfish Sanitation Program, coastal bathing beach monitoring, and monitoring and evaluation of the ecological health of coastal waters,” Hajna said.

Horner, during the recent commission meeting, noted that there will be less office personnel utilizing the building than there were students when it was a school. municipality.

“On behalf of all our Shamong residents, we thank you, and your Troopers, for your support of Shamong during your leadership time with us,” wrote Michael Di Croce, mayor of Shamong, after learning of Gilman’s transfer. “I will always remember the great night we honored you for your awesome, common sense and loyal service to our community.”

Di Croce was apparently so impressed with Gilman’s dedication to the community, he asked, “Why don't you move to Shamong?”, adding “I hope that this is a promotion and brings you great new challenges.”

According to a LinkedIn profile page for Gilman, the 26-year law enforcement veteran is now a lieutenant for the state police’s Tactical Patrol Unit based out of Troop C headquarters in Hamilton.

As for Godley, Peele told this newspaper that the new station commander enlisted with the state police on Oct. 19, 2001 as a member of the 124th Class.

“He has served in various assignments throughout our Field Operations Branch,” said Peele of Godley’s law enforcement career.

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(Continued from Page 1) afforded to the municipality under the Local Redevelopment and Housing Law, to try to improve segments of the community,” Taylor said. “We believe this (the redevelopment study) is an appropriate first step to try and effectuate those goals to be able to have a discussion about design standards, or other standards to allow revitalization of the community, consistent with the Municipal Master Plan for decades.”

The redevelopment study performed by Taylor Design Group investigated 28 separate parcels in the area of Taunton and Tuckerton roads to see if they meet the state’s statutory criterion of an area in need of redevelopment, which Taylor has since concluded has been met.

Council selected the parcels for investigation during a Nov. 19, 2019 meeting, and during ones held on Feb. 18 and March 17 of this year.

According to Taylor, nine of the 28 parcels have been determined through the redevelopment study to be vacant.

The Village of Taunton Forge Shopping Center, a 32.03-acre lot which sits at the intersection of Taunton and Tuckerton roads, said to be “the largest parcel in the study area,” was deemed, according to Taylor, as an “occupied parcel,” but is noted as having multiple vacant units, including its anchor store, which is a former grocery store.

“The supermarket on site has been vacant since 2014, and the center has seen significant vacancies over the last several years,” Taylor contended. “The southern portions of the center have undergone renovations over the last five years, attracting some new tenants in the process. The Rite Aid pad site, along the Taunton Boulevard frontage, was completed and opened in 2017.

“Two pad sites along the Tuckerton Road frontage, approved by the planning board in 2014, have yet to be developed. An existing drive-through bank pad site remains vacant, as do multiple in-line stores. There is a clear pattern of vacancy and underutilization in the shopping center, particularly at the anchor tenant supermarket space, and the bank.”

David DePetris, one of the owners of the shopping center, as noted in a previous report by this newspaper, has “been in negotiations” with both local grocers and grocery store chains to find an occupant for the anchor store. However, he has yet to make any formal announcement.

Murphy’s Fresh Markets, owned by local proprietor Ron Murphy, was the anchor store’s last tenant, but at one time it was a Shop N Bag. Jim DePetris, in an interview last year with this newspaper, said that his family “could have rented the vacant store many times,” but his dad, Joseph DePetris, founder of the Village of Taunton Forge, “always wanted a food market at the center” for “one-stop shopping.”

David DePetris pointed out during the planning board’s public hearing on the redevelopment study that his family has

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The Village of Taunton Forge’s anchor store (right), which remains vacant. invested some $7 million into the shopping center since the 2014 closure of the grocery store to reverse a “downward spiral” that “was not benefiting the community.”

“Six years ago, in September 2014, we came before this board, and things were bad,” David DePetris said. “We were 60 percent vacant at the shopping center, with things probably soon to be much worse. … The board made, what I believe to be, a very courageous and wise decision by approving our site plan (for improvements).”

He noted that part of the $7 million investment into the shopping center included relocating a RiteAid Pharmacy to a new standalone structure versus an in-line store that was otherwise bound to close, “bringing in a Mexican restaurant” (Tacos el Tio), establishing outdoor seating for Illiano Cucina Mediterranea restaurant, and moving a hardware store’s (Medford TrueValue) operation from across the street and “saving it” from going “obsolete.”

David DePetris asserted that there was “an 18-month delay” in getting started with the shopping center revitalization project, which started in May 2016, because of an

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“It has been a process,” he said. “It takes time. It was supposed to be a little tweaking, and a little tweaking took 18 months. We have made a lot of progress.”

But some area residents attending the public hearing asserted that they thought the municipality should be “applying some more pressure” on the DePetris family to “make them more responsible for the Taunton Forge Shopping Center.”

“We are not done yet,” replied David DePetris during the July 22 public hearing.

“We know there is a part of the shopping center that has not been renovated. We are intending to finish that renovation, but we have two empty boxes and it doesn’t make sense to build that.”

Among the other parcels deter mined to be vacant in the study area include a predominately wooded .88-acre lot without wetlands; .94-acre lot that purportedly had its dwelling demolished sometime between 2011 and 2013; .17-acre lot attained by Medford Township through foreclosure that was said

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to have been predominately used for parking by the now-shuttered Beau Steak and Seafood; .43-acre lot that contains the shuttered seafood restaurant, which also was home to Beau Rivage, “one of the finest French restaurants in the region,” and Pinewood Restaurant; .66acre lot that was the site of Medford TrueValue Hardware Store until 2018; a .92-acre lot that was most recently a PNC Bank until it ceased operations in 2017; a 10.10-acre lot that consists of mature woodlands and is entirely freshwater wetlands; a 14.24-acre lot that is predominately freshwater wetlands, which at one time was used for the cultivation of blueberries until sometime in the 1960s, but has been vacant since and become mature woodlands; and a 9.38-acre lot that “tax data shows” as vacant, but “appears to be occupied as a residence.”

According to Taylor, nearly all of the 28 parcels studied lack sidewalks along their road frontage.

“One of the reasons this shopping center, Village of Taunton Forge, has not succeeded, is that while it is part of the community, the way the roads and sidewalks were designed, or in this case not designed, people who live within a few hundred yards have to get in their cars to get to the shopping center,” one resident contended during the redevelopment study’s public hearing.

Taylor, also during the redevelopment study unveiling, contended that many of the properties studied, both vacant and currently occupied, are either “existing non-conforming uses,” considered “undersized lots,” or have other zoning conflicts (which the redevelopment plan will now resolve, in part, with the creation of a new zoning district and rezoning).

An .89-acre lot with an office building, known as the Patriot Building, which houses Doctor Travel, a local travel agency, among other businesses; .69-acre lot, which is an Exxon Gas Station; the former seafood restaurant site; .78-acre lot that has an office building that currently contains the offices for Weichert Realty, .52-acre lot now occupied

by Riviera Pizza, a nail salon, and a retail store; .73-acre lot that contains a Wawa food market and Lake Pine Dry Cleaners; .45-acre lot that contains a repair garage and closed Amera service station; the former hardware store lot; the former bank lot; and a .92-acre lot that contains an office building, known as the Braddock Building; were determined to fall within the township’s “CC- Community Commercial District,” according to Taylor, where “1-acre lots are required.”

A .74-acre lot that contains a structure known as the Cedarbrook Building, with a mixture of medical and general offices, was determined to be located within the municipality’s “GD Growth District,” Taylor said, “where offices are not permitted.”

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(Continued from Page 7) are located within the CC- Community Commercial District.

“Residential uses are not a permitted use in the zone,” he said.

Also “not permitted uses” in the CCCommunity Commercial District are service stations and repair garages—with Taylor pointing the Exxon service station and former Amera service station, contending that they are therefore “existing nonconforming uses.”

Taylor, during the redevelopment study’s public hearing, contended that council was “very specific” in its request that the planning board evaluate a non-condemnation redevelopment area or a rehabilitation area designation, versus a condemnation redevelopment area, which does allow for eminent domain.

“This project, as it moves forward in any capacity, has no ability for the governing body to exercise any eminent domain on any property within the area,” Taylor said.

Taylor contended that the redevelopment plan is what can address “modified zoning, design standards and architectural guidelines.”

The planner, in response to a question posed by a planning board member that asked if that body would have the option to “modify zoning” around the findings of Taylor Design Group, to make all of the existing lots and uses “confor ming,” replied, “these are all great topics as part of the next step, the redevelopment phase.”

“The next step (redevelopment plan) allows us to look at that,” said Taylor, noting a subcommittee had been established by council to study redevelopment of the area too. “Those are things we would recommend subcommittee clean up to actually conform.”

The adopted redevelopment plan, obtained by this newspaper, creates and establishes “the Taunton & Tuckerton Rehabilitation Area (TTRA) Zoning District,” which is “applicable to and shall govern the development of the properties within said district.”

“The standards contained within this redevelopment plan shall supersede the development regulations of the existing township code, where specifically indicated, particularly in the instance of permitted uses, bulk standards, off-street parking and loading requirements, and general design standards in the Taunton & Tuckerton Rehabilitation Area (TTRA) Zoning District. Where regulations of this plan conflict with the township’s development regulations, this plan shall control; where they do not conflict, the township’s development regulations shall apply.”

Additionally, the redevelopment plan “rezones” the residential properties that were in the CC-Community Commercial District to the “RS-2 Rural Suburban 2 Zoning District,” thereby also making them conforming uses.

Taylor, on Ju ly 22 , noted t hat t he redevelopment study also found two “unique”

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A .92-acre lot that was most recently a PNC Bank until it ceased operations in 2017. established, single-family residential lots located in the Oakwood Lakes community, part of the GD-Growth District, each with related “small, separate tax lots” located to their rear that are located within the CC-Community Commercial District.

“Because each of these rear lots is an undersized lot in common ownership with the Oakwood Residential lot, they are considered merged or combined from a land use standpoint,” the study states. “To avoid a split lot zoning condition, which can raise zoning non-conformity issues, the subcommittee desired to include those lots in this study area so that a redevelopment plan could potentially rezone the rear wedges out of the CC-Community Commercial Zone, and into the GD-Growth District Zone to match the zoning of the Holly Drive residential lots.”

Taylor said the unique situation was discovered while officials were pulling data and tax information for the study.

“We realized the owners of the tenth of an acre properties were owners of the residential properties next to them in the Oakwood Lakes community,” he said. “This creates a split lot zone condition.

“In talking to the township attorney, it is never a good idea to have lots located in two zones. It can impact any improvements a resident wants to do to a house, and can impact any resale. Banks do not like split lot zoning properties. So, we made a suggestion that the existing residential lots and ‘rear wedges’ be included in this study, so if the project moves forward, the township could consider rezoning the small wedges to residential zoning, or the GD-Growth District zone.”

The adopted redevelopment plan rezones the small wedges to the GD-Growth District.

In order for the entire study area to be considered an area in need of rehabilitation, one of six statutory criterion has to be met, either a significant portion of the structures studied within that area must be deteriorated or in substandard condition, more than half of the housing stock in the delineated area must

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be at least 50 years old, there must be a pattern of vacancy, abandonment or underutilization of properties in the study area, there has to be a persistent arrearage of property tax payments on properties in the area; environmental contamination must discourage improvements and investment in properties in the area, or a majority of the water and sewer infrastructure in the delineated area is at least 50 years old and is in need of repair or substantial maintenance.

Taylor concluded that while “we believe underutilization and pattern of vacancy is the most dramatic” criteria that has been met, five of six of the residential homes in the study area are 50 years old or older, and the former Amera service station site has potential environmental contamination due to an underground storage tank.

He added that the township engineer has provided him with a letter that identified that a portion of the water main infrastructure in the study area “is greater than 50 years old and requires replacement,” and further, that all sanitary sewer mains are “at least 50 years old and that there have been ongoing repairs in the past, and that need for periodic repairs will continue in future.” He further contended that a “portion” of the water main infrastructure in combination with “all” sanitary sewer mains meets the last criteria as those items, when combined, arrive at a “majority” of the water and sewer infrastructure in the delineated area as being at least 50 years old and requiring repair.

“In our opinion, all 28 lots do in fact qualify as area in need of rehabilitation as set forth under the Local Redevelopment and Housing Law, and should the Planning Board concur with the findings, we do recommend it should be adopted by council to designate the area as a rehabilitation area,” Taylor said.

The Planning Board agreed with the findings of the rehabilitation study on July 22, and on Sept. 23, conducted a review and unanimous referral to council of “the redevelopment plan” for “Taunton and Tuckerton Rehabilitation Area,” also prepared by Taylor Design Group,

resulting in the governing body’s Oct. 6 approval of it.

The redevelopment plan’s adoption has codified some 22 permitted uses in the Taunton & Tuckerton Rehabilitation Area (TTRA) Zoning District, and some nine building and site design standards. Township Solicitor Timothy Prime, in an Oct. 6 interview with this newspaper, noted the existing landowners are not obligated to conform to the new design standards, unless they want to pursue tax relief.

Taylor contended on July 22 that a rehabilitation area does allow for “fiveyear tax exemption and abatement only on improvements made to properties.”

“So, there would be no reduction in taxes on any existing properties, but what it can do if a property redevelops, is it can be a tax exemption and abatement,” Taylor said. “That can stimulate businesses to come into town. …

It (the money not going to the township) can be used as incentive for property owners to invest in property, or to reduce rents for tenants to stimulate growth. … Another benefit to the town is we get revitalized areas. When that area revitalizes, property values in the area then increase.”

Bruce Goldman, in his capacity as chair of the Medford Township Democratic Club, contended during the redevelopment study’s July 22 public hearing that there is “no shortage of retail” in the state and he “does not believe there is any need for tax incentives to induce more retail.”

“I don’t think it makes any sense of picking winners and losers in Medford with respect to possible use of the tax code,” he said. “It doesn’t make sense to push more traffic through that failing intersection. And, frankly, I don’t think it makes sense to be rewarding folks who haven’t really invested in their properties, and whose website details that their principals are in a company that is a major real estate company that provides full services to over 70 properties in the Philly marketplace, Taunton Forge ownership.”

Goldman added the Wawa was recently remodeled and the Exxon, which had been shuttered for a time, is “no longer vacant” and that of the 28 properties studied, the “only one in deterioration” was the property owned by township.

“People are putting money out,” Goldman said.

Goldman also expressed concern that the rehabilitation study failed to address how any incentives could impact other shopping areas in Medford “that wouldn’t have incentives.” He added that having vacant properties is “not a bad thing,” because the majority of them are wetlands, and he “happens to like open space.”

Taylor replied, in part, that the rehabilitation is meant to “bolster economic viability of the community.”

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The zoning board denied both DePetris applications.

The DePetris family appealed both decisions in Superior Court, but failed to overturn the zoning board’s denials.

“It’s so discouraging,” Davis DePetris told this newspaper following council’s decision.

“A lot of time and money spent for what?

The approved outparcel in the center remains vacant and the former PNC remains an old bank building. How does this benefit the community?

It is hard to understand, especially when zoning relief was previously granted to the Starbuck on Stokes Road, and the Dunkin on Medford-Mt Holly Road, all within the same CC-Community Commercial District.”

Taylor made no mention of the DePetris family’s effort at either site during the July 22 redevelopment study’s unveiling, but the Dunkin’ Donuts application was briefly cited during its public hearing. In the newly created zoning district, in which the disputed lot would fall under, “no limited Service- take out/carry out restaurant shall include a drive through window for ordering and/or pick up.”

“The drive-thru (prohibition) will remain as it is today,” said Taylor during the Oct. 6 council meeting. “It is not a permitted use.”

Members of the DePetris family, during the Oct. 6 council meeting, noted that they appreciated the municipality “acknowledging the problems at the intersection,” but contended that the redevelopment plan “falls short” with respect to one, key component: uses.

David DePetris pointed out that new, expanded uses for the area are needed, and that it should not be necessarily based on the municipal masterplan, which he contended was adopted in 2008 and amended in 2014.

“It is 90’s speaking so-to-speak,” said David DePetris of the masterplan, contending that

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Jim DePetris asserted that other commercial intersections in the municipality have a broader range of permitted uses that the intersection of Taunton Boulevard and Tuckerton Road does not have, putting it at a disadvantage. David DePetris called the purported characterization by a township official that the Taunton Boulevard and Tuckerton Road area is a “hamlet,” the apparent reason for the more limited usage, “misguided.”

During the redevelopment study’s July 22 unveiling, the planner contended that the municipality used the Local Redevelopment and Housing Law “most notably in the Village of Medford,” to declare downtown portion of the municipality a rehabilitation area.

“That was done because there was an identification that there had been a lack of investment in that area,” Taylor said. “The rehabilitation designation, which can allow for short-term tax exemption and abatement, can help to stimulate growth in an area that may be otherwise stagnant. One of the results of doing that in the Village, is shortly thereafter, the Pop Shop actually came into town and successfully (overhauled) a bank building (into a restaurant) that had been vacant for some time.”

He added that the township has also “used redevelopment effectively” to “effectuate” the township’s court-mandated affordable housing application.

“If the project does not move forward, every property would remain exactly as it is today,” Taylor said. “The conditions would exist as they are today. And the township would not be afforded the ability to implement design standards, architectural standards, lighting standards or any modified zoning parameters for the study area.”

The area surrounding the rehabilitation area from the northwest to southeast is comprised primarily of established residential neighborhoods.

Hoot Owl is located to the northwest, Taunton Trace is located to the north, Oakwood Lakes is located to the east, Ashley Court and Victoria Court is located to the southeast, and Lake Pine is located to the south.

Watson, on Oct. 6, after the DePetris family spoke, contended that municipal officials had worked on the redevelopment plan “for a while” and he thought “this is a good first step.”

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that Biden had done somewhat better than he had expected, assigning both presidential candidates a “C.” However, when called a second time, he declined to find fault with the president for having ordered, upon returning from Walter Reed Medical Center, where he was being treated for Coronavirus, that negotiations over a new stimulus package be suspended until after he wins the election. Instead, Richter identified congressional Democrats, including Kim, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as the real culprits in the current impasse.

Pelosi, in fact, was a major focus for Richter in the debate, which was hosted by the New Jersey Globe’s David Wildstein. On repeated occasions, the Republican candidate emphasized the fact that his opponent had promised district voters he wouldn’t support Pelosi’s leadership role in the House, then turned around and did exactly that upon taking his seat in Congress at the start of last year, something Richter cited as a “terrific example” of a politician engaging in “false promises” and “empty talk about what they were going to do if they got elected.”

Kim indicated that he applied the practice known as “realpolitik,” in which practical considerations, such as obtaining certain direct benefits for one’s constituents, sometimes take priority over ideological ones.

Responding to the debate moderator’s query as to whether he would vote for Pelosi to serve as Speaker of the House again, for example, he maintained that, “I make no promises to any leadership; my promise is to this district,” and

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that promise involves “looking out for their health care” and “protecting people with preexisting conditions.”

“I support leadership that focuses on the issues we are dealing with, and when that leadership is doing something that I don’t support, I vote against it,” Kim contended. “So, it is about making sure we are always stepping up for this district and prioritizing the needs, here, not just getting caught up with partisan politics like my opponent, who says that he runs with and is for Donald Trump. I run for the people of Burlington and Ocean counties.”

By way of rebuttal, Richter acknowledged, “I support President Trump— I’ve endorsed him and he’s endorsed me,” but denied “running for him,” proclaiming that he, too, is “running for the people of the 3rd district.”

It was a query from the debate moderator to Richter, in fact, that prompted the latter to make a point of his support for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, in spite of Trump’s current petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, scheduled to be heard next month, to have the act that was considered his predecessor’s crowning achievement overturned.

“I care very deeply about everyone having access to the best possible health care, and contrary to what Mr. Kim has said on the campaign trail, I do not support repealing Obamacare,” Richter said. “I support reforms to it and improvements to it, but I do not support repealing it.

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has “reversed the way he talks about this,” but contended it is “again just in words when he is supporting a president that has made it his mission to repeal the ACA.” Kim pointed to health care legislation, which had passed the House (in 2017, prior to Democratic control) and nearly passed the Senate (being defeated by a single vote from the late Sen. John McCain), that Trump previously supported, which the congressman claimed “would have gutted preexisting condition protections.”

Richter’s claim of being “generally prochoice,” although opposed to government funding of abortions, along with late-term and partial-birth procedures, also came in response to a question from the moderator regarding whether he would support a constitutional amendment to legalize abortion if Roe vs.

Wade, the decades-old ruling in its favor, were to be reversed by a more conservative Supreme Court that might include Trump’s latest nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, a Roman Catholic who has been known to oppose it.

“I would support anything that would continue giving women the right to control their own bodies and to have early term abortions,” replied the GOP challenger.

Richter added, however, that he didn’t believe the landmark decision was going to be overturned, given that “the court has respected the precedent of that case from 50 years ago.”

That last assertion prompted Kim to accuse his opponent of failing to understand that getting “Roe” reversed “is exactly the intent of President Trump and this is exactly the type of concern that women and all of us across this country have right now.” The congressman also charged that if Barrett, whom Richter said he fully supported for the court, is confirmed,

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there is a “very good chance that she will work with others to overturn the ACA,” in which case “millions of Americans will lose their health care.”

Richter was somewhat less decisive in his response to a question about whether, in light of the Coronavirus having stricken Trump and so many members of his administration in recent days, he was still in favor of removing all restrictions on the opening of bars and restaurants in the state.

“The pandemic is not behind us, there is no question about that,” said Richter, backtracking from an opinion he previously expressed to this newspaper than the Coronavirus is “pretty much behind us here in New Jersey.”

Richter, while recognizing that “more people are going to get sick and more people are going to die,” contended that “we need to do everything we can to minimize the impact from COVID-19.” He reiterated past criticism directed at Democratic Governor Phil Murphy for his mandatory business closure and capacity orders, which he contended harmed small businesses (although, as before, Richter contended he thought they were appropriate during the spring when the outbreak in the state was at its worst).

“I think the steps that they (restaurant owners) can take, and have taken, to keep their guests safe need to continue,” Richter said. “We need to do everything else we can to see that a business reopens, but in a safe and appropriate manner.”

Kim, in replying to that statement, said that while he is “worried about a second wave” of the pandemic, he also shared “the desire to get businesses back up and running,” which is why he had supported the HEROES Act (for Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions) in “trying to get hundreds of millions of dollars back into this district.”

Kim contended that his opponent “opposes getting federal resources into our state.”

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religion and loving kindness rather than punishment, methods which came to be known as the Silesian Preventive System. For those of us who have some role to play in the education and upbringing of children we do well to remember that kindness and reason are more effective teachers than harsh punishment. For instance, when children lie, it is far better to explain to them the deleterious effects of lying (i.e., that they will damage their reputation and people will not trust them), than to punish them harshly.

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Other allegations made during the exchange were more or less repetitions or variations of what have by now become familiar themes to anyone following this race.

For example, in the same way that Kim used every opportunity during the debate to associate Richter with Trump’s policies, the ex-CEO kept coming back to the charge that the congressman, while posing as a moderate, is actually aligned with the Progressive Caucus, which he described as consisting of radical, far-left elements of the Democratic party that want to institute policies such as Medicare For All and the Green New Deal that will “cost taxpayers trillions of dollars,” and “doesn’t represent the values of South Jersey.”

To that allegation, Kim shot back that the Progressive Caucus is just one of 37 different caucuses of which he is a member, 34 of which he claimed are bipartisan, and that he works with this particular one on the issue of campaign finance reform.

“It is about building coalitions, it is about trying to engage with people across the political, ideological spectrum,” Kim contended. “Sometimes they are very liberal, sometimes they are very conservative, but I still need to be able to work with them, and it is about building those types of coalitions to try to get things done. Do I agree with them on 100 percent of everything? Of course not. I fight for this district, and these issues are not dictated by any single caucus or any single membership.”

Another recurring issue introduced by the debate moderator was that of Richter’s residency status.

“You have lived in the Princeton area, you moved to Cape May County to run again congressman (Jeff) Van Drew (who at the time was a Democrat), then you moved to Ocean County to challenge Mr. Kim,” the moderator said in reference to Richter. “Somewhere, along the way, you had registered to vote in Miami. So, my question is where do you and

your family live? And if you are elected to Congress, will you sell your home in Lawrence Township to obviate any issues pertaining to your residency?”

Richter responded by emphasizing his having grown up in Burlington County, where his family’s business was located for 40 years, that he was “a South Jersey guy” by virtue of having lived in the area most of his life, and that he and his wife were prepared to move back to the district if elected, whereas his opponent “spent his entire adult life outside New Jersey “between graduating high school and deciding he wanted to replace Tom McArthur in Congress.”

Kim, however, maintained that Richter’s saying “he won’t move into the district until he sees whether or not he wins this election” showed “a real lack of commitment to the district.” He also noted that Richter was at the helm of Hill International “when they took a $1.7 million tax incentive to move his family business out of our district, in fact out of our state,” moving its headquarters to Philadelphia “and taking 150 jobs with them.”

Richter’s reply to that charge was that the move Kim referred to was simply a consolidation in which “not a single job was lost.” But he then took the opportunity to level criticism at the way New Jersey is run and the Murphy administration, with which he said his opponent “works very closely,” for making it “very difficult to do business” in the state— for example, by instituting a “millionaire’s tax that is going to drive more high-earning professionals out of New Jersey.”

He then went on to criticize Kim as someone who has “never run a business” and thus “doesn’t know the challenges that business people face in trying to stay alive, trying to make a profit, trying to keep their employees employed and working to satisfy their customers,” but “only See DISTRICT/ Page 14

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By the same token, Kim chided Richter that “you don’t seem to understand how national security works” after the latter assailed his rival’s role as a foreign policy adviser, claiming “he is tied directly to the two biggest policy failures of the Obama administration,” those being “the rise of ISIS, which took over large chunks of Iraq and Syria” and what he described as “the disastrous Iran nuclear deal,” which was subsequently scuttled by Trump.

“We know that foreign policy successes and failures hinge on not any individual, not even just the president,” said Kim, denouncing Richter’s remarks critical of his foreign policy role as “offensive and repugnant,” and further contending that they were attempts to denigrate his career and reputation.

“I have lost people that I know to ISIS,” Kim added.

Richter, too, was put in the position of having to defend his professional reputation after the debate moderator pointed out “you tout your private sector experience as your qualification for congress,” noting that during his final year with Hill International in 2017, it was reported that the company lost more than $10 million and paid a half million dollar fine to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

“Why did your board of directors remove you as the chief executive officer?” the debate moderator asked.

Richter replied that it was a “mutual decision.” The ex-CEO then described how he had helped bring the company from the verge of bankruptcy to prosperity and increased its workforce from 300 to 4,300, but that taking it public had resulted in “activist shareholders” gaining control of the board and attempting to “slash and burn the company and prepare it for sale,” at which point he left because “we had difficulty working together.”

Kim, however, commented that he found it “unbelievable” how Richter’s company “under his watch” was fined $500,000 for “accounting fraud” for keeping information about millions of dollars’ worth of losses from shareholders.

“I have looked it up, his name and signature is there accounting for every single dollar, saying ‘I’ve reviewed the accounting of our company,’ so it falls squarely on his shoulders here and that is something he continues to avoid

talking about,” Kim declared. “But, look, how many business owners in this district have been fined half a million dollars by the United States government for accounting fraud? This is not normal, and it is indicative of poor leadership at the helm.”

Richter replied that “once again the congressman doesn’t know what he is talking,” contending that “it wasn’t accounting fraud.”

“From the moment I joined it until I left, there was no evidence of fraud and no fraud ever occurred,” Richter said. “The fact is that when you build a business like I did, integrity is very important and that is one of my core values, integrity and honesty, and I don’t like having my integrity questioned. There was a fine paid, it was not for fraud and it didn’t relate to me, it related to two accountants in our financial department, and I was not part of that.”

A contrast to such personal recriminations was provided by one of the responses to a question from the debate moderator in regard to what each candidate would tell the other’s child “if they approached you and asked why do you say such bad things about my father?”

Richter answered the question by noting that his campaign “is running a 100 percent positive campaign” about him and his qualifications for Congress.

“You have not seen a Richter for Congress campaign ad that attacks Andy Kim in any way,” Richter said. “The fact is we are in the middle of a debate and this is our opportunity to question each other and challenge each other on the issues.”

Richter then charged that “you’ve seen the exact opposite campaign for Andy,” claiming, “I’ve had people on the campaign trail constantly ask me why I’m getting so much junk mail from the Kim campaign, it is all negative.”

Kim, in response to the same question, said he knows that he has a lot of disagreements with Richter, but he “does respect people who throw their hat into the arena.”

“It is a tough to place yourself in the public eye and to try to ask your neighbor for their support,” Kim contended. “When all’s said and done, I have an enormous amount of respect for Mr. Richter and I’m sure he does for me, and I hope that we can continue to focus on these issues and make sure we can present to the people of this district that we do not want to reflect the deep divisiveness in our country and instead show that there is a better way to be able to do this.”

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