Amajority of the Upper Freehold Township Committee deserves a big thank you for increasing building lot sizes from the current 3 and 5 acres to the new 6 and 10 acres.

Their passage of this important zoning change and several other master plan ordinances on Sept. 4 represents the culmination of months of hard work by the Township Committee. It also represents the end of nearly seven years of divisive debate and endless expensive studies of the issue of increased lot sizes.

At long last, the 99 percent of the taxpayers who don't have an economic stake in putting McMansions on their property and leaving the rest of us to pay for the infrastructure and services, have been heard. Finally, the monopoly control of municipal government by a handful of self-interested landowners has been decisively broken by three leaders elected by and for the majority.

The township faces many other difficult issues in the months to come. Among them is the issue of how to handle Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) requirements that have been greatly magnified by the number of houses built during the reign of the developer/landowner gang.

Hopefully, we as a community can unite behind the majority on the Township Committee and get the job done.

Thank you, Mayor Steve Alexander, Deputy Mayor Robert Faber, and Committeewoman Lori Horsnall Mount.
Chris Berzinski
Upper Freehold