A trial judge has ruled that a Hunterdon County township’s claimed environmental purpose for condemning land owned by a local airport was actually a “ploy” to thwart the airport’s expansion plans.
In a sharply worded, 54-page ruling issued May 4, Somerset County Superior Court Judge Paul Armstrong invalidated Readington Township’s taking of the property on which Solberg-Hunterdon Airport sits as a “manifest abuse of the power of eminent domain.”
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