Victory for Family Battling State Efforts to Steal Their 175-year-old Family Farm by Evoking Eminent Domain
The Gateway Pundit reported on the State of New Jersey’s efforts to bulldoze a 175-year-old family farm in the name of “affordable housing,” stealing the property through “eminent domain.”
NJ.com reported that Chris Henry stood before the Cranbury Township Committee, pleading with officials not to rip his family’s heritage from the soil their great-grandfather purchased in 1850.
The Henry family, whose parents both served in World War II and whose mother’s name is etched into the town’s war memorial, is now watching bureaucrats prepare to seize their 21-acre farm by force.
The family has poured over $200,000 into preserving the historic Middlesex County farm, which is currently leased to a local rancher who raises sheep and cattle.
Despite the property’s agricultural use and historical importance, the Cranbury Township Committee voted unanimously in May to move forward with seizing the land through eminent domain.
All of this—just to meet a state-mandated housing quota pushed by far-left courts and Trenton bureaucrats.
BREAKING: Cranberry, NJ to seize a 175 year old family farm to build affordable housing pic.twitter.com/5JPkeomTmP
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