Sensitive Decisions/Actions and Their Impacts on the Community
Princeton Perspectives, Issue #62, April 15, 2025
Editor’s Note
There’s a common saying: a compromise is good when both parties are unhappy. But no one wants to live life with constant unhappiness. So, often when decisions are made within a community, they are done so with the best intensions in mind – hoping to solve a problem and create a better situation for most. Sometimes the actions lead to fallout that was not expected.
This month, in the April issue of Princeton Perspectives, we delve into a variety of Sensitive Decisions/Actions and Their Impacts on the Community. From affordable housing to roadway safety, cannabis stores and becoming more sustainable, how are initiatives rolling out and what effects are they having on those that live here.
In This Issue
- Pulse of Princeton: What are you doing to help the community be more green?
- Does Increased Affordable Housing Mean that Housing is Affordable for All?
- Vision Zero: Working Together Toward Safer Streets Across the Region
- The Cannabis Store Expansion: Has it Proven Prosperous or Problematic?
- It Takes a Community to Be More Green
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The Pulse of Princeton: What are you doing to help the community be more green?
- Does Increased Affordable Housing Mean that Housing is Affordable for All? - It would be hard to argue that recent municipal leadership has not been all in on efforts to create more affordable housing around Princeton. This creates opportunities where moderate, (defined as those… Read more...
- Vision Zero: Working Together Toward Safer Streets Across the Region - In March, the Princeton community was shaken when a 74-year-old pedestrian was struck by a driver while walking along Wiggins Street near Sylvia Beach Way. More than 430 people were killed in… Read more...
- The Cannabis Store Expansion: Has it Proven Prosperous or Problematic? - When the cannabis industry became legal in New Jersey four years ago, municipalities were given the option to opt out. A majority did at the time. Since sales began in April 2022,… Read more...
- It Takes a Community to Be More Green - Building a sustainable community takes, well, a community. Over the past few weeks and in the month ahead, local individuals, organizations and the municipality are all taking more steps towards greater sustainability.… Read more...
Perspectives Revisited
Planning to vote in the June primary? As we explained in Perspectives Revisited in March, legislation was underway to decide the layout for all ballots. Block format (that which was seen on last June’s Democratic ballots) is the manner in which all ballots will go forward for the June 10th primary election. To do so, random drawings took place and in Mercer County, that means the Democratic ballot will list candidates in the order of Fulop, Spiller, Gottheimer, Sherrill, Sweeney then Baraka. On the Republican ballot, Barbera will have top listing, followed by Spadea, Ciattarelli, Bramnick and Kranjac. If you will be unable to appear in person, take note that June 3rd will be the last day to apply for a vote by mail ballot for the primary election.
Every year, like last November in the issue Vote! Your Comprehensive Guide to the 2024 General Election!(October 2024), we share all the details that you need to vote informed. But who is actually going out to vote? AARP just released a report that details the power of the older voter. In it, a study is detailed that shows non-Presidential elections are often influenced most in New Jersey by those aged 50+. The report further shows that a minimum of 51.4% and up to 67.6% of Mercer County voters over the past five years have been 50 or older. This is counter to Presidential election years, that seem to have a wider age group of voters. When it comes to state voting district, Princeton’s District 16 saw 65% of voters in 2023 were older than 49.