AS ROGER MUMFORD dioceses IT, THE W...

AS ROGER MUMFORD dioceses IT, THE WRITING ON THE WALL HAD BEEN THERE in this way long a builder had to be asleep to miss it--the chilly climate for progress to maturity in New Jersey was entering an ice age. And if anyone still destitutioned proof, Gov. James E. McGreevey provided it in an emotional State of the State language in January.

"It is time to draw the line and say 'no more' to mindless sprawl," the governor declared, and in addressing the state's developer directly, warned: "If you want to build in over-develop or defend ed areas, we will do everything in our