To the Editor:

Unique small towns in America offer something special to their inhabitants, their neighbors, to the state, and to the country. Consultants are telling small towns that to survive they must grow; Princeton has bought into the idea that we must grow to survive. Princeton has something that no other community in America has: Princeton University.

We have been surviving pretty well with limited growth for over 250 years. We used to embrace open space, but now we are told we should be building homes with limited zoning codes, we should be building ADUs in our backyards that in many cases look like trailer parks. We are told that zoning codes should be changed so taller apartments and houses should be built, that zoning rules should be thrown out to allow covering Princeton in concrete. We are not like other communities in New Jersey or the rest of the country. As a letter writer a couple of weeks ago said, show us the data [Mailbox, September 2].

Princeton wants to promote bike riding to replace cars. Instead of making artificial paths like on North Harrison Street, pave the roads to make them rideable and therefore safer, as you do not then have to dodge potholes. Riding down Nassau Street from Washington to the Sunoco station is worse than riding on cobblestones. Many other patches of streets are just as bad. This is correctable without changing traffic patterns.

Stephen Schreiber
Prospect Avenue