From the Courier News:
Hundreds of housing units set for landfill
The Landfill Redevelopment Committee will present its vision for the former borough landfill to borough officials at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Somerset County Court House jurors room.
The committee’s plan calls for about 1,200 housing units, 80 acres of open space, 45,000 square feet of retail space, a 25,000-square-foot inn and conference center, 25,000 square feet of office space, and considerable room for civic uses and a cinema or cultural center.
The plan has been developed during the last year as professional planners and volunteers in the borough met and invited the public to give input. Now, it’s ready to be presented to a joint meeting of the Borough Council and Planning Board.
Colin Driver, the borough’s director of economic development, said the exact details of the plan, presented last week at a Stakeholder Committee meeting, are subject to change.
The 160 acres of the Landfill Redevelopment Site include the old landfill along Route 206, NJ Transit property and other adjacent land.
One of the highlights of the plan is a mixed-use transportation building near the train station, Driver said.
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Driver said the current plans for housing on the site would bring in about 1,900 new residents to the borough, including 80 children, based on data from similar housing developments. There would be no restriction on families with children, he said.