Building a Better Branchburg

The Route 202 Corridor has seen too many properties abandoned and allowed to become overgrown. Property owners can leave overgrown lots for decades at little cost. We will send Building Code officers to require all properties are up to code, save, and support our tax base.

We support the creation of a 10 acre park along Easton Tpk on the Station Road property, and then the sale and development of the remaining 27 acres to recover the bulk of the $20M loan. All access to the development would be from 22, and there would be no concert hall or festival venue to bother the North Branch village residents.

Our hometown has many trees reaching the end of their time that drop twigs, branches, and limbs with each increasingly violent storm.  Unfortunately, trash companies won’t take them and bonfires are illegal. Dan and Nathan will work to implement a regular Branchburg Branch Pickup at least three times a year.

Electing Dan and Nathan means immediately saving Branchburg taxpayers the $31K spend on Tom Young's Cadillac health insurance plan. If Young is re-elected we will immediately propose to eliminate paying for health insurance for part-time politicians, saving about $100K over their first three year term.

Whether it's affordable housing, warehouses, or economic development the current gov't talks a lot, lays blame with other people, and then rushes to a last minute solution that winds up costing the residents in rising property taxes, poorly planned growth, and a lowered quality of life.

In 2023 Branchburg's property taxpayers paid a whopping $11.9 million in property taxes, and then-Mayor David Owens claimed they used strong budgeting to protect taxes. Two years later we pay $15 million, and increase of 20% or $210 for every man, woman, and child in Branchburg.

For decades Branchburg has been reacting to developers instead of taking action to stop over-development. Dan and Nathan will work with  community and experts to develop plans and strategies to block bad projects and ensure all developments benefit our residents.

The regular blackouts homeowners and businesses experience whenever a strong wind blows are like an added tax, requiring them to buy generators for light, refrigerators, and water. Dan and Nathan will demand JCP&L does an inventory of their delivery systems and then invest significantly to prevent future blackouts.

Whether the Rt. 22/28/206 corridor, removal of meeting spaces from White Oak Park, or affordable housing numbers Branchburg's electeds wait to the last minute, then hold emergency meetings and vote on half measures. Dan and Nathan will hold public sessions for every major issue facing the community.