The talk on the floor of the Atlantic Builders Convention in Atlantic City, N.J., last week was decidedly hostile to Gov. James E. McGreevey and his smart growth ideas, the New York Times reported April 3. (Briefly Noted).(Brief Article)

Land Use Law Report, April, 2003

THE TALK ON THE FLOOR of the Atlantic Builders Convention in Atlantic City, N.J., last week was decidedly hostile to Gov. James E. McGreevey and his smart growth ideas, the New York Times reported April 3. For the most part, developers, and the contractors and vendors who depend on them, think McGreevey's crusade to stamp out sprawl, laid out in his "state of the state" address in January, is a bad idea.

Patrick O'Keefe, chief executive of the New Jersey Builders Association, labeled McGreevey and his supporters "enviro-elitists." In a letter to the governor released April 2, Kent Conine, president of the National Association of Home Builders, charged the governor's program fails to recognize the need for more housing to accommodate the state's growing...

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