Indeed, the administration of Gov. Christie Whitman has made acrusade of preserving open space, but without upsetting theeconomic development apple cart.

Under a new proposal, companies would receive the benefits ofEDA's structured financing (relief from sales taxes and other costsby using state funding to pay for certain major expenses) only ifthey comply with the state's plan to stay away from open spacestargeted for preservation. Compliance with the state plan has beenvoluntary - and largely ignored - and this would be the first timecompliance would be specifically written into the codes.

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