Opponents of the location of a land swap that will allow a new Monroe high school to be built on land that is now part of Thompson Park need to turn their attention to something else.
Their latest salvo — a letter to the DEP complaining about missed deadlines — is nothing more than a nuisance filing that offers little benefit to anyone. The best they can realistically hope for — as their lawyer, Richard Webster, admits — is to slow down a project down that will be built.
”It is unlikely that this will derail the project, but it is a possibility. At the minimum it should delay it,” Mr. Webster said Thursday. “We fully expect to get a letter from the DEP saying that township will have to go back to the state and get a new approval.”
If that occurs, then no one benefits — not the environmentalists, because the trade will still go through; not the taxpayers, because the delay likely will mean increased costs; and not the students, who will be forced to continue attending class under crowded conditions.
I’m sure there are bigger dragons for the environmental groups to slay.
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