No Trashing Trailers Say NJ Courts

From The Star-Ledger:
An appeals court rejected an effort by Lodi officials to force two private trailer parks to move and replace them with upscale housing and shops.

The ruling effectively ends a bitter four-year eminent domain battle between low- and fixed-income mobile home residents and municipal officials in the Bergen County community. It backs a 2005 Superior Court ruling that found the borough failed to provide evidence in deeming the two properties blighted and in need of redevelopment.

Trailer park residents and their supporters today described their plight as a David-and-Goliath struggle with a better-financed adversary. Others said that the ruling will help save a communal way of life that is quickly vanishing in North Jersey. They said the parks represent a rare affordable housing option in costly Bergen County.