Recently Preserved
Since 1999, Peapack-Gladstone Borough and Somerset County have preserved over 390 acres of public or private property in the 5.2-square mile community, nearly 11 percent of the Borough’s total land area. But our work is far from complete, as review of our Open Space Portfolio here reveals.
Saved properties range from environmentally-sensitive natural habitat little-changed from the time of the Leni Lenape to lush historic estates, including one that has been called the “Jewel of New Jersey.” Through it all, our goal has been to preserve a visual, cultural, and environmental legacy that is rapidly vanishing from the Garden State.
Conservation is about more than aesthetic values, however. Residential development that supplants farmland costs a community in rising tax rates, demand for public services, and loss of natural affinity. Open Space preservation is, ultimately, “tax smart” public policy.
Saved properties range from environmentally-sensitive natural habitat little-changed from the time of the Leni Lenape to lush historic estates, including one that has been called the “Jewel of New Jersey.” Through it all, our goal has been to preserve a visual, cultural, and environmental legacy that is rapidly vanishing from the Garden State.
Conservation is about more than aesthetic values, however. Residential development that supplants farmland costs a community in rising tax rates, demand for public services, and loss of natural affinity. Open Space preservation is, ultimately, “tax smart” public policy.
