Nobody can identify the owners of that hot tub?

This area is part of one of the best cross country courses in the Shore Conference. They can't fence that off!

I sure hope people dont think this will be a money saver for the town. The work and the cost to grow trees is alot. The fact that the Township has been unable to keep illegal dumping from happening to this site just tells me that when it comes to protecting the Trees from theft and becoming xmas trees in someones house later as they mature we can expect a massive loss in crop size...So now the township is going into farming?Whats Next?

This is a commendable idea. I am just left appalled that the town can afford a fence for such an unnecessary project but cannot replace the fence that seperates Clearawter park from the parkway. This fence would keep children from wandering onto the parkway, which I think is much more important than protecting trees.

If you watch the twp meeting your will see how Mr McManus had to humiliate Moran and the mayor/ council into action. The first answer was a typical cop-out.."not under our control...blame Southern regional". Then our mayor must have remembered it was less then a month to election day and came up with the only idea he ever has... MORE TREES! But what is amazing is no one has reported the most newsworthy part of the evening...the veteran who was able to get Mayor Spodofora to admit he lied about his military records at the March 20 twp meeting made another appearance to set the record straight about our Mayor's most recent military claims, which are false again. Go to the twp website and watch the Oct 2 meeting.

Mr. Henry,
We at Patch are looking into this and will be reporting more on this matter as part of our election coverage...stay tuned - Colleen

I am glad they are doing something about it. I really hope they consult with the school officials, athletic director and cross country coaches though. As the the cross country course runs through the center of it.

This is totally laughable. Let's analyze this to see all the ways that our school and municipal government can waste the taxpayer's money:
1. Some taxpayer goes to a meeting and complains about illegal dumping on school property. The right and cheapest way to handle this would be for the school maintenance and grounds department to get the trucks that they have, go out to the sight, and clean it up. Take the stuff to the OC landfill and dump it. Or get some of the municipal trash trucks out there to do a "shared service" type of thing. That is what they are paid to do, and do it while they are working please, no overtime.
2. There, area cleaned, complainer happy, end of story.
How our government handles this:
1.Pay municipal workers to clean up the sight. (if the town wants to help the school with the cleanup, that's no problem)
2.Build a fence around the property (taxpayer money)
3 Irrigation system (taxpayer money)
4 Tree farm (taxpayer money)
5 On-going Maintenance of tree farm for years to come (taxpayer money)
Total joke, typical government solution, spend more taxpayer money.
Thanks Stafford

I was under the impression, that except for the area adjacent
to Cedar Bridge Road, the area and the plot known as the Clayton
tract was purchased by The Block Team for over $6+ MILLION.
The property once planned for 150 Kara Homes was found to have
Pine Snakes and Gray Tree Frogs ... the planned construction was
brought down to 5-homes ... Kara Homes appealed with a plan to
construct properties under the zoned area for 1 or more acre plots.
Kara Homes pulled out when that plan was also defeated ...
then comes along a plan to make it into a park ... well the residents
got a petition and defeated that plan ... under John Mc Menamin's
brief term, the site is preserved in perpetuity ... IF THAT MEANS
ANYTHING IN STAFFORD TOWNSHIP ...
Remember our Parkland that was agreed preserved "in Perpetuity"
but was waived for the solely owned Walters Group - Solar 1 LLC
and Solar2 LLC plus wind energy ... not a single watt of that
energy is going to a single resident outside the Stafford Business Park
zone ...nice deal for whom???
Like the idea of planting trees as long as they are not the so called
"INDIGENOUS" PIN OAKS THAT ARE UNHEALTHY AND DYING ...
How about putting the fencing around those storm water basins
within ISLAND WOODS ESTATES ... MAPLEWOOD WHO TOOK OVER
KARA UNDER CHPT 11 has done what?? Concerning that matter??

OOP's that was 50-homes not the five ...
sorry for the error ... all other data are factual
been on this case since building our home
in Island Woods Estates ... talk about drainage
systems the sewers and plumbing dimensions
are huge not a drop in our basements ...

I have traded e-mails with the twp administrator today. He tells me that the cleanup was planned before the local resident complained, that the cleanup will be done by volunteers at very little cost to the town or the school district, and that the nursery will only take up part of that open space, leaving the cross country course intact

I think that it is a money saving idea to grow the trees that would normally be purchased for projects in our community. Although spending for this does not seem as if it balances out. Would it be possible to turn this over to the school for educational purposes. There are various educational opportunities. Students could learn horticulture through growing, planting and taking care of the trees. They could learn through catching rainwater and irrgating with that instead of the burden being on the township to put in irrigation. Students can learn about building fences, getting local businesses to donate wood and supplies. There are many educational opportunities such as enviroment, endangered species,working with the community and engineering. Children learn best with hands on, so watching their planning and hard work come to fruition would be rewarding.