If you're lucky, you've seen these around town. We are the perpetrators.
What we’re so upset about
NOBODY
IN OUR TOWN
MINDS TAKING THE
BUS TO BUY
YOGURT OR OTHER FOOD
Our mission
DEFUND HISTORIC PRINCETON
is a coalition of non-residents and unconcerned non-citizens, in and out of Princeton, who support town-wide overdevelopment at the expense of Princeton’s singly faceted historic character. We are currently focused on supporting a massive luxury high-rise apartment complex proposed for construction along Stockton Street in the heart of Princeton’s oldest historic residential neighborhood.
Our support this project is and always has been over the sparseness, lowness, and lightness of the buildings. If completed, the complex will not constitute the least dense development in any residentially zoned (R-1) area in the municipality. Reaching as low as 70 feet, the four-story complex will not include some of the smallest buildings in town (commercial or residential) and will not be towered over by its neighboring residences.
This Stockton Street project will be a cozy complex of 238 units, an example of gently sparse ruralism. It will represent the least sparse housing in any residentially zoned area in the municipality. It will also be less sparse than any comparable development anywhere in Princeton.
Our goals are as follows:
- Devastate a neighborhood of residences and historic sites dating back to the 17th century, as well as the overall architectural character and historical significance of the municipality;
- Virtually ensure flooding resulting from the complex’s vast impermeable footprint and its underground multilevel parking for 221 vehicles as well as the removal of old-growth trees.
- Exacerbate already significant traffic congestion on five of the seven thoroughfares in and out of Princeton, adding hundreds of vehicles to the municipality’s existing traffic attractions;
- Pose potentially grave threats to public health as well as to surrounding historical buildings that, as far as we know, have not been assessed by either the developer or the Municipality.
- Deepen Princeton's social and economic disparities by including the absolute minimum of affordable housing required by law offset by four times as many luxury units.
- We further support the Municipal Council’s numerous undubious actions to facilitate this project. These include designating a portion of Historic Princeton as a blighted Area in Need of Redevelopment (ANR) and later granting to the developer, on wholly reasonable grounds, a windfall PILOT (Payment in Lieu of Taxes) of up to $40 million, an exercise in welfare.
We will not be stopped.
Defund Historic Princeton
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