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Preventing Colon Cancer: What You Should Know

Preventing Colon Cancer: What You Should Know

Maximizing Brain Health

Maximizing Brain Health

Thursday, March 30, 2023 | 6 p.m.

Location: Zoom Meeting

Thursday, March 30, 2023 | 6 p.m. Location: Zoom Meeting

If you’re concerned that you are not as sharp as you used to be, there are steps you can take right now to reduce cognitive decline. DR. RAJIV VYAS from Capital Health – Behavioral Health Specialists will share strategies to keep your brain focused and reduce memory loss.

If you’re concerned that you are not as sharp as you used to be, there are steps you can take right now to reduce cognitive decline. DR. RAJIV VYAS from Capital Health – Behavioral Health Specialists will share strategies to keep your brain focused and reduce memory loss.

Thursday, March 16, 2023 | 6 p.m.

Thursday, March 16, 2023 | 6 p.m. Location: Zoom Meeting

Location: Zoom Meeting you can’t turn left out of the warehouse onto Clarksville Road, and our lawyer has told us that we can enforce that condition whether the county agrees with it or not (Clarksville Road is under the county’s jurisdiction).

To help you take charge of your health, join DR. ASHLEE GODSHALK RUGGLES, a colorectal surgeon from Capital Health Surgical Group, and DR. MARK SAXENA from Capital Health – Gastroenterology Specialists. They’ll discuss the risk factors for colon cancer, options for screening, and how screening reduces the risk for colon cancer.

To help you take charge of your health, join DR. ASHLEE GODSHALK RUGGLES, a colorectal surgeon from Capital Health Surgical Group, and DR. MARK SAXENA from Capital Health – Gastroenterology Specialists. They’ll discuss the risk factors for colon cancer, options for screening, and how screening reduces the risk for colon cancer.

The planning board will require the developer to do a different and a more detailed traffic study before they come for the phase two approval of the project. The three warehouses in phase one are not going to open at the same time, so as we go along we will learn and work with the developer to mitigate traffic issues.

Whether you are a truck driver, somebody who is leasing the warehouse, or the owner of the warehouse, you don’t want to spend nonproductive time fighting with the township or fighting with the police. So we will work with them to figure out ways to mitigate the traffic impacts within West Windsor. People keep talking about trucks, but there’s going to be cars too, and that’s why we allow them only a single exit on Clarksville Road as opposed to the five or six that they wanted. We are hoping that with most of the cars—if you’re not living in West Windsor, there’s no reason for you to drive through West Windsor. You can drive on Route 1 or you can drive on Quakerbridge Road to go wherever you want to go.

WWP: The other thing is that planning and zoning processes are not exact sciences, and there are a lot of market-driven forces out there. As you said, there’s a glut of warehouses right now, because everybody’s building warehouses. I cover five towns and all five towns are talking about approving warehouses. You can’t have a state that’s just ware- house central. So is it possible that this site is not developed as currently approved, and it may need adjustments down the road?

HM: Oh, it’s very much possible. And I’ve always told people that I am open to negotiations on any aspect as long as it’s in the best interest of West Windsor.

The example I give is the Avalon Development (transit village) near the train station that was approved in 2007, and then the financial crisis happened and it’s just been 15 years. Whereas if you approve houses, they get built overnight. Literally.

Almost everybody we have approved for housing has done some activity. So it’s very, very possible that the site never gets developed fully as it’s currently envisioned by the developer, because the economic conditions change and they need a significant amount of investment on Quakerbridge Road and on Clarksville

Road and on Route one before they can open even the first warehouse. If the economic conditions change— and they definitely seem to be changing— the money is no longer free and the interest rates are going up. It’s very much possible the developer may decide to build one at a time and see how he leases that one rather than building all three.

That may slow down phase two, and then in that case, the township has an option of talking to them. If they come to me and say, “hey, this doesn’t seem to be viable,” at least then we have a stronger hand in negotiation, because now we have an agreement, and we have kept our part of the agreement, so then we can negotiate better.

WWP: The truth is that American Cyanamid closed on that site many, many, years ago. There’s been talk about developing that site, but it hasn’t happened. The SRI-Sarnoff property down the road is a similar site. It’s located on Route 1 and has a lot of available land. That was approved for a general development plan about 20 years ago and nothing has happened there at all.

HM: Yeah, I believe it’s approved for 3 million square feet of commercial space.

WWP: The plans even changed when the owner of that property decided to take the whole front portion and sell it to Princeton University. The instant they did that, the approval was bound to change. So that just goes to show that even though there’s an approval, there’s no guarantee it will happen.

HM: Exactly. That’s an excellent example. They could have built 3 million square feet there and nothing happened, because those decisions are driven more by economics and the economics definitely favor housing, because there’s a shortage of housing and rents keep going up and house prices keeps going up.

So people need to understand that if you approve housing, that will definitely get built sooner as opposed to a commercial project, which takes time because it depends on economic conditions and other things.

WWP: And as you know, having been school board president, building houses equals building schools down the road. And that’s expensive.

HM: Absolutely. When we moved here in 1994, they opened two schools in two consecutive years—I think Village and High School North. I remember the taxes went up almost 10% every year.

The one thing never goes down per pupil costs, and the majority of it comes from local taxpayers, because we are one of the wealthiest districts, we get very little school aid from the state.