2016-11-05 - The Jackson Times

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TIMES

MICROMEDIA PUBLICATIONS, INC.

T H E JAC K S O N

Vol. 17 - No. 23

Your FREE Weekly Hometown Newspaper | Serving All of Jackson Township

50 GROUPS HELP CLEAN UP JACKSON STREETS

By Jennifer Peacock JACKSON –The township just got a little cleaner. Fifty groups—a record high, according to acting director of recreation and senior services Sheri Silversmith—have been participating in the Clean Communities fall cleanup, collecting litter from most of the major roads throughout town. The groups are nonprofits and school groups, ranging from the Boy Scouts to cheerleaders to a roller derby league, Silversmith said. Rather than designating one day for the cleanup, the township decided to let each group choose a day in October to clean a stretch of road. A statewide litter abatement program, New Jersey Clean Communities is a program created through the Clean Communities Act of 1986. According to the program website, about $20 million is raised through taxes each year on businesses that make litter-generating products and those funds are

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Jackson Agrees To Affordable Housing Obligations

By Jennifer Peacock JACKSON – An agreement has been reached regarding the township’s affordable housing obligations, but not all officials approve. Councilman Barry Calogero voted against the agreement with the Fair Share Housing Center to build 657 affordable housing units in six separate developments, and 20 percent set aside requirement in RG-2 and (Housins - See Page 6)

–Photo courtesy Jersey Junior Roller Derby Members of the Jersey Junior Roller Derby cleaned two miles of road in Jackson in October as part of Clean Communities month. dispersed: 80 percent to municipalities; 10 percent to counties; and 10 percent to state parks service. The Clean Commu-

nities Council gets $375,000. The council works closely with other state agencies to disperse those funds.

Ocean County has received $244,853.44 in grant money, the most of any county in the state. (Cleanup - See Page 6)

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By Jennifer Peacock M A NCH ESTER – One councilman sought to answer residents’ questions about a highly controversial project that will land in Manchester. Councilman Brendan Weiner took the lead at the last Manchester council meeting to address questions about New Jersey Natural Gas’s Southern Reliability Link, a 30-mile gas pipeline that will through Burlington, Monmouth and Ocean counties, from Chesterfield Township to a connection in Manchester, running through Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Plumsted, Jackson

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and Manchester. Rumors about the project have swirled around the project, with two being discussed at council’s first October meeting. Township residents were most concerned about the purpose of the pipeline, which some had heard would be used for exporting gas, while others raised concerns about reports that a compressor station was being built at Colonial Drive and Route 70. “Council, as well as the mayor, have gone to meetings, reviewed the plans…of the Southern Reliability Link and the impacts it will have on Manchester,” Weiner said.

“And to date, [the compressor] was nowhere in these plans, so I was surprised.” It turns out both concerns are unfounded, Weiner confirmed with NJNG officials. Weiner contacted the gas company immediately after the October 11 council meeting, and researched the project to see if any changes had been made to the plans he, council, and the township administration had reviewed. “I did not find anything,” Weiner said about the issues raised by residents. Weiner received an email from NJNG’s chief of staff Linda Kellner October 12, in which

she dispelled the rumors. “We will not export natural gas outside of the United States. In fact, as a regulated New Jersey local distribution company, we are not permitted to export natural gas. Any statement to the contrary is untrue,” Kellner wrote. “We are not building a new facility at the corner of Route 70 and Colonial Drive. Rather, we will connect our transmission line, which is located underground, to our existing transmission system at this location. Additionally, our existing facility, which is secured by a perimeter fence, (Pipeline - See Page 5)

–Photo by Micromedia Publications Perrineville Road is one location in town where affordable housing units will be placed. Those 128 units were carried over from a prior round.

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