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TRENTON – Senator Stephen M. Sweeney today predicted that comprehensive improvements in a new bill he has introduced will make the Smart Growth Law a national model for sensible development and preservation in the war against sprawl.

“I believe now – more than ever before – that the Smart Growth Law will prove incredibly instrumental to the public interest of preserving precious open space, fighting sprawl and focusing development on where it is needed,” Senator Sweeney said. “In fact, I have every confidence that New Jersey’s Smart Growth Law will be a model for the nation.”

TRENTON – Senator Stephen M. Sweeney, the Senate sponsor of the Smart Growth Law, today vowed to fight the attacks of “wisdom-resistant, no-growth zealots” who have misinformed some of his legislative colleagues about the law’s impact.

“There’s no way I will roll over and let them try to ‘fast track’ the repeal of a good law,” Senator Sweeney said.