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Council
decides to
demolish
farmhouse
By HEATHER FIORE
The West Windsor Sun
After more than a year of de-
bate about the fate of the 138-year-
old Grover farmhouse, the West
Windsor Township Council has
decided to demolish it.
The decision was made at the
councils July 8 meeting. Council
President George Borek and
members Kamal Khanna and
Linda Geevers were in favor of
demolishing the building. Coun-
cil members Kristina Samonte
and Bryan Maher voted against
the demolition.
The majority of the residents
who attended were also against
the councils decision, including
the various members of the
Grover Farmstead Restoration
Committee, who voiced their out-
rage and dissatisfaction with the
decision, since they spent the last
year conducting studies, devising
plans and relaying recommenda-
tions to the council as to how to
save and restore the house.
Pete Weale, chair of the Grover
Farmstead Restoration Commit-
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Majority of residents at
meeting against
decision to demolish
tee, felt those who voted for the
demolition were cowards,
while those who voted in favor of
keeping it were heroes.
This meeting, for me, as a mil-
itary guy, is like attending a mili-
tary funeral, he said. The
Grover house has more character
and integrity than some of the
politicians the mayor and the
administration in the town-
ship.
Maher, the only council mem-
ber who continuously voiced his
support of keeping the Grover
farmhouse throughout the last
year, said the decision to demol-
ish the house is a travesty.
This was a farming communi-
ty; theres not a bigger, more visi-
ble farm that people drive by
every day and see than this, he
said. I just cant believe that this
town and the people on this dais
would go and tear that down. Its
not financially viable hogwash.
Even if we didnt have $400,000 to
fix it up, you could rent it out and
cover the mortgage costs. You
could spend the $53,000 and put
windows in, fix doors and seal it
up so it doesnt deteriorate and
give the Grover Committee a year
or two to try to raise the money to
fix it. Im just offended that we
would tear it down to begin with.
Although against demolition,
Samonte had other reasons to
back her decision, most notably
that she believes more studies
couldve been done to make a
proper decision.
The necessary information to
properly evaluate the resolution
has not been provided, she said.
Id like to see any future open
space and land purchases careful-
ly reviewed to avert these types of
situations.
Members who were in support
of the demolition all cited the in-
MAJORITY
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