I think it’s strange that NOTHING has appeared in the mainstream press about the redevelopment project for Petty’s Island and the Pennsauken waterfront. The last buzz was the row over the eaglet that died when a wildlife consultant was contracted to study the impact redevelopment might have on Petty’s Island, but that was ages ago.
Recall that the project was embroiled in politics with pro-development folks extolling the project and conservationists who were opposed. A check of the Pennsauken Tomorrow website that supports the project, has the last news item dated March, 2007. A check of several websites opposing the project were similarly outdated.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer (March, 2007):
Pennsauken has reversed course and decided to back a plan for Petty’s Island that would entail far less development than was originally planned, township officials said last night.
The revised plan for this teardrop-shaped island on the Delaware River eliminates construction of a proposed golf course, and leaves 72 percent of the island undeveloped.
“Tonight’s plan is entirely different,” Mayor Rick Taylor told a group of reporters prior to disclosing the plan to close to 100 residents in the Central Elementary School auditorium. “It calls for a footprint of only 28 percent development.”
That, he said, is 12 percentage points less than the current, controversial footprint proposed by developer Cherokee Pennsauken L.L.C. for the island’s 392 acres.
But he said the details of the new proposal, dubbed the Conservation Development plan, were still to be worked out…
I’ll be checking with Pennsauken officials for details and the status of the revised plan. Stay tuned!
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