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November 29, 2009
Woodbridge eyes financially troubled Colonia Country Club
The Star-Ledger
by Brent Johnson
Who! Who ever heard of a municipality using eminent domain to stop developers from building something where open space now lies?
Woodbridge officials are looking to buy the financially troubled Colonia Country Club and turn it into a public golf course — an effort to ward off private developers from building on the 104-acre site.
Mayor John McCormac said today the town would even go as far as using eminent domain to acquire the 110-year-old club, which he called one of the last sizeable open space tracts in the state’s sixth-largest municipality. Golf courses are considered open space in New Jersey.
“We don’t want anything to do with development there,” McCormac said.
NoLandGrab: New Jersey is rapidly building a much better record on eminent domain issues than its neighbor across the Hudson, where condemnation appears to be okay for just about anything.
Posted by eric at November 29, 2009 1:50 PM