Court orders Hawthorne Mayor and Developer to be deposed by July 29th
6/13/13
A Sign of things to come in the Village ?
Superior Court Judge Anthony J. Graziano has ordered the depositions of Mayor Richard Goldberg and developer Gerald Bedrin by Hawthorne Deserves Better to be completed by July 29th. A complaint challenging ordinances passed in 2011 was consolidated with a separate case challenging ordinances from 2000 and 2008.
Hawthorne Deserves Better has claimed that the Borough illegally adopted ordinances in 2011 to benefit a single developer proposing to build a Walmart supermarket on Wagaraw Road in Hawthorne. Walmart has since decided to back out of the deal, but the ordinances written for the developer remain on the books.
A New Jersey Appellate Court agreed with a Superior Court Judge that Hawthorne Deserves Betterâs challenge to two ordinances furthers the interests of justice and is in the best interests of the public and should not be dismissed. The Borough wasted taxpayersâ dollars in filing appeals which lacked merit and which were denied by both the Superior Court Law Division and the Appellate Division.
Hawthorne Deserves Better looks forward to exposing what really happened with the adoption of these ordinances. HDB advocates for zoning laws that reflect input from the community, provide badly needed tax relief and preserve our quality of life.
Wow this sounds an awful like what Bernie Walsh was complaining about a few months back with our Mayor and Deputy Mayor.
Corruption in Hawthorne ?
Well, the triumvirate on the council had best watch out…..
Nice # 3 That describe our three council members
Hawthorne went through this a decade ago with home depo, . This sounds very much like the Bay Head case, It will be real interesting to see how this goes.
If walmart opened up a store on Route 20/McLean Blvd in Paterson it would be a big winner, due to the 3.5% sales tax deal that is part of the state program for shitty urban areas.
Does it make you feel superior to refer to urban areas as “shitty”? You should be able to make a point by using acceptable language. I bet that people in “urban” areas could now argue that you are a “shitty” person for referring to their city that way.
Crappy might be a better word. LOL
Who are you? the grammar police? I think you’re a shitty person for making an off topic post.
I’d love to depose the Mayor and his posse. I also bet that the 2010 Planning Board would have some interesting answers about how it was influenced by Valley.
From the Village’s perspective, the prospect of rewriting the Master Plan is an act comparable to rewriting the U.S. Constitution. It should not even be considered for any reason currently on the table.
Maybe the courts will have to figure out why these projects are even being considered.