To the Editor:

I have followed closely over the last five years, the developments around the IAS (Institute for Advanced Study) plans before the Princeton Planning Board to build 15 units of housing for their visiting professors. I attended all the latest Planning Board meetings and wrote letters occasionally to this paper about the meetings. So upset about the possibility of construction on the Revolutionary War battlefield was I, that I joined the Princeton Battlefield Society.

The Delaware and Raritan Canal Commission voted against this development plan and I believed that the issue was resolved. Now, a mostly new Board is supposed to decide the fate of this historical gem without hearing all the testimony of the experts. The questioning of and comments from the experts will also be lost.

Further, this is not a new amendment to the plan already proposed. At the last round of hearings, the IAS counsel showed slight changes to gain approval. That is not this plan, this is a new plan. It should be dismissed — better, it should not be heard.

J. Carney

Glenwood N.J.