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“So many of our few remaining
parcels of open space are very much at risk for development,
and we want to do all that we can to save as much as
we can.”
— Hamilton Mayor
Glen Gilmore, during his weekly address on radio station
WBUD
Feb. 26 2003
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Welcome to the Klockner Woodlands...
You've reached the online home of Klockner
Woodlands, a neighborhood organization dedicated
to the preservation of a 90-acre tract of wooded wetlands
located on Klockner Road in Hamilton Township, Mercer
County, New Jersey. Our goal is to stop residential
or commercial development in the Woodlands, and to preserve
the entire acreage as a natural habitat park, as described
in the current Hamilton Township Open Space and Recreation
plan. To
view a map of the area, click here.
Next Meeting Monday, June 16...
In lieu of a formal meeting, we
will meet again on Monday, June 16 at
8pm at the Hamilton Township
Council Meeting, to be held at the Hamilton
Municipal Building, 2090 Greenwood Avenue.
Council meetings are held on the 2nd floor.
NOTE: The Hamilton Council
will be voting on a resolution in support of purchase
of the woods at their next meeting. Please attend
and speak in support of the resolution. This is
another opportunity to keep the issue prominent.
This will replace our usual meeting.
We NEED your attendance at
this meeting, to demonstrate our strong committment
to saving the Woodlands to our elected officials!
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We believe that this area should be
preserved because it is one of the last remaining wooded
areas in Hamilton, where 82% of the land is already
developed. These woodlands have great inherent value.
They support wildlife, add to the natural diversity
of the community, interrupt the monotony of urban sprawl,
and, as a wetland and floodplain, protect surrounding
developed areas.
Development of this area will have
serious, long-term, and irreversible negative effects
including: increased traffic and pollution, generally,
and particularly on Klockner Road and Nebraska Avenue;
resultant increased hazard to school children who walk
or board their buses on Klockner Road; negative impact
on the marketability of housing adjacent to the development;
drainage problems in surrounding neighborhoods; and
increased infrastructure costs for police, fire, emergency
medical services, etc., which will very likely result
in increased property taxes. To download a printable
petition in support of our plan, please click here.
The meeting will be held in the school
library. Please enter from the right side of the school
as you face the school from Klockner Road.
Yahoo
Groups Registration...
For
ease in communicating ith the group, we have set up
a Klockner Woodlands group in Yahoo Groups.
You can register to send and receive group email and
view any documents which have been uploaded to our section.
See below for details. To access the group, you can
use the links below, or enter it from the Yahoo! Groups
"My Groups" page.
Learn
More ...
To learn more about the Klockner Woodlands,
or to learn about how you can help with this project,
please contact Rocky
Swingle. You can also contact the webmaster,
Dave Orban, with any other questions you may
have, or with information that you'd like to have included
on the site.
Please be aware that site is currently
"under construction," but please bookmark
the site, and check back frequently as it will be updated
on a regular basis.
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