Our First Ten Years

• Helped preserve the 416 acre Chase Tract (which had been slated for residential development) for parkland and farmland in perpetuity.
• Petitioned the Holmdel Township Committee to reject the proposal from Preferred Real Estate Investments to change the Lucent Tract zoning to include housing.
• Initiated formation of Friends of Holmdel Open Space (FOHOS) as a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit organization that raises money to preserve open space.
• Supported Holmdel’s Waste Water Management Plan at Township Committee meetings.
• Testified at the state and county levels to block a planning area designation revision in the State Plan for southern Holmdel that would have allowed a huge village center (double the area of Red Bank) to be developed on environmentally sensitive land.
• Encouraged the Township Committee to appoint an Open Space Committee.
• Encouraged the Township Committee to assign a planner to work with the Holmdel Environmental Commission (HEC) to complete an open space study and develop an open space plan.
• Supported circulation of a petition opposing installation of a multi-million dollar main trunk sewer line in southern Holmdel, as a result of which the citizens voted down sewer construction and the Township withdrew its sewer plan.