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Liberal fury over billionaire developer's plan to turn pristine New Jersey woods into affordable hou
« on: March 19, 2025, 07:04:39 am »

Liberal fury over billionaire developer's plan to turn pristine New Jersey woods into affordable housing
Story by Alyssa Guzman For Dailymail.Com • 15h

New Jersey residents are furious that a billionaire developer wants to bulldoze a 120-acre wooded area to build affordable housing in the predominately liberal town.

The Wilf family - which includes Minnesota Vikings co-owner Zygi Wilf - have been given the greenlight to build a large affordable housing development in a forest on top of a mountain in West Orange, New Jersey, near Newark.
 
The wealthy clan owns the wooded area, where they are proposing to build 500 apartments - 100 of them dedicated to affordable housing - which would significantly help West Orange's state-mandated obligation to build low-income housing, according to Gothamist.

However, the extremely liberal area - where Democrats outweigh Republics five-to-one - isn't welcoming the idea of knocking trees in favor of concrete, as locals worry about the risk of flooding.

 https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/liberal-fury-over-billionaire-developer-s-plan-to-turn-pristine-new-jersey-woods-into-affordable-housing/ar-AA1Bbj4p?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=c1980edda4c541a8bff2752a33d30884&ei=29
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Re: Liberal fury over billionaire developer's plan to turn pristine New Jersey woods into affordable
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2025, 07:07:26 am »
Fury, huh?  Democrats probably had their eyes on the property for use to make something really beneficial to lower income people, like an EV battery production factory. :whistle:
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Re: Liberal fury over billionaire developer's plan to turn pristine New Jersey woods into affordable
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2025, 04:37:10 pm »
West Orange?
That's suburban Jersey -- crowded now, and not really where I'd want to be.

More development?
Might make it a little worse.
But not all that much "worse" than the place is now...
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Re: Liberal fury over billionaire developer's plan to turn pristine New Jersey woods into affordable
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2025, 04:44:27 pm »
Same idiots will be opposed to this will turn around and complain about affordable housing in the next breath.
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Re: Liberal fury over billionaire developer's plan to turn pristine New Jersey woods into affordable
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2025, 04:55:45 pm »
So very NIMBYish.
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Re: Liberal fury over billionaire developer's plan to turn pristine New Jersey woods into affordable
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2025, 05:02:48 pm »
Hypothetically ... is arborcide a crime?


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Re: Liberal fury over billionaire developer's plan to turn pristine New Jersey woods into affordable
« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2025, 06:01:11 pm »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on March 19, 2025, 04:44:27 pm
Same idiots will be opposed to this will turn around and complain about affordable housing in the next breath.


I think that is absolutely true. It's like a couple of wives I have known in the past. They want gobs of money but want their husbands home all the time.
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Re: Liberal fury over billionaire developer's plan to turn pristine New Jersey woods into affordable
« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2025, 08:46:34 pm »
Quote from: DefiantMassRINO on March 19, 2025, 05:02:48 pm
Hypothetically ... is arborcide a crime?


It is west of the Mississippi...

You have to wait for them to burn on the hoof.
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Re: Liberal fury over billionaire developer's plan to turn pristine New Jersey woods into affordable
« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2025, 08:48:06 pm »
Quote from: berdie on March 19, 2025, 06:01:11 pm

I think that is absolutely true. It's like a couple of wives I have known in the past. They want gobs of money but want their husbands home all the time.
BTDT. Thankfully, Mrs. Joe wasn't like that. (How could she miss me if I didn't go away?)
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