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Bill Zapcic
It’s time for long-dead towns to find a buddy and reincorporate
Home News Tribune Online 05/15/07
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So how many municipal units should New Jersey have? We cram 8,724,560 people onto 7,417.34 square miles. (That’s about a half-acre for each of us, as long as you don’t mind being the person standing in the meadowlands or on the white stripe near Interchange 11 of the Turnpike.) Take out the biggest cities’ combined 700,000 people, and that leaves 8 million. Some of our more efficient municipalities, and those with lower property taxes than the state average, have 80,000 people. That’s a nice number.
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Oh yeah, “big” municipalities have worked out so well for the taxpayers of Nu Jerzee. Try and vote out some one in Newark or Camden. It ain’t gonna happen in your lifetime. Smaller is better. I’d like to break everything down into smaller granules. Even South Brunswick is too big to influence.
If we had smaller administrative units, then we could be “heard”. Certainly my neighbors are better served by a block representative than the South Brunswick – Middlesex County – Trenton -WashingtonDC paradigm.
When the revolution comes, it will be small units that will win because the politicians won’t be able to “escape” from their neighbors.
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