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Green Generators There isn't much "green" left on the 4.5-acre lot known as Park- Madison Green in downtown Plainfield. What was once a park with grass and trees is now a dusty fenced-off lot, and the sounds of children playing have been replaced by the mechanical growls of bulldozers and backhoes.

The Sierra Club, having concluded that the legislation does not apply to the Plainfield site, filed a request for a declaratory judgment with the DEP.

Solar Panel After years of wrangling over the land, the city of Plainfield and the Union County Improvement Authority finally broke ground in May on a $30 million retail and office complex. City and county officials are hoping the project will revitalize the downtown area by bringing new jobs and businesses to the once-fallow block.

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Epa Greenpower But in the latest chapter of the Park-Madison Green development saga, the New Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club has filed a lawsuit to stop construction and revert the site to parkland.

There is a proposal to build a suburban style office building, strip mall and parking deck in Park Madison in the middle of the City of Plainfield.

Wind Energy "We very much believe that urban parks and parks within neighborhoods make neighborhoods better," said Jeffrey Tittel, president of the Sierra Club's New Jersey chapter. Environmentalists would rather see the space remain green and develop the sites around Park-Madison Green for office buildings.

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Solar Construction at the site proceeded only after a bill was signed by Gov. James E. McGreevey in December. Plainfield was allowed to build, so long as it had not used state funds to build the park and provided that it work with environmentalists in finding an alternate site for a park in the city.

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Nuclear Power Until recently, environmentalists had been working with the city to find other open lots of equal or greater value in the city to establish a park, according to Tittel. However, the Sierra Club resorted to filing the suit when this negotiation process broke down.

Greenpower Inc The Sierra Club is now arguing that the bill passed in December does not apply to Plainfield because state funds were originally used to develop the park, according to Tom Borden of the Rutgers Environmental Law Clinic, lawyers for the group.

Solar Electricity Lawyers for the Union County Improvement Authority could not be reached for comment.

Power Greene While the plot of land was a park in its former life, city officials have long contended that the site was always tagged for redevelopment.

Green Electric In 1965, the site was cleared as part of an urban renewal plan and languished until 1992, when Urban Enterprise Zone funds were used to transform the eyesore into a green space, bringing trees, a gazebo and playground to the area.

Am Greenpower Last year, civic groups successfully blocked the redevelopment project by winning a lawsuit. They argued that Plainfield had used the land as a park for a number of years and that it was protected by the Green Acres legislation.

Renewable Electricity The court ruled in their favor. However, McGreevey's statute allowed Plainfield to get around the ruling.

Green Company "We went back to court because the council hasn't worked with us in good faith," said Tittel. "Either go through the process and do things legally or come up with a plan to actually put parks within the community."

Led Greenpower By June Kim
Star-Ledger - 7/10/2003

Topic: Sprawl

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