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Westwood Mayor Ray Arroyo explains how Trento is attempting to once again overrule local zoning and allow developers of qualifying office parks and shopping centers to redevelop with residential mixed use, sticking taxpayers with the coats of new schools, added police and fire,water, sewage ,traffic and road infrastructure :
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“Courts forcing development on communities that are built out and on environmentally sensitive lands full of threatened and endangered species is really developers owning certain politicians and courts. When re development is used to pave over perfectly good farm ground rather than re build the cities that these laws were suppose to address , you know corruption for profit is a lot of what this game is about. Affordable housing is a noble thing to do but force feeding it into places it does not belong shows the graft and favors being passed out.”
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Wayne NJ, Judge forces over development on Wayne . Judge Thomas Brogan, sitting in state Superior Court in Paterson, ruled that Wayne officials have avoided their responsibility through five-plus years of “bad faith” and “concerted procrastination.” The court decision means Wayne has lost protection from builder’s remedy lawsuits this week after a judge ruled that officials have dragged their feet for too long in their obligation to plan for low-income housing.
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“The question is how come Michael Kasparian, Chairman, Northwest Bergen County Utilities Authority (NBCUA) is a developer on this project. I am sure Saddle River attorney Russell Huntington from Huntington Bailey LLP in Westwood checked all the legalities of this “arrangement” but did he check possible ethics violation? Assemblywoman Holly Schepisi, also an attorney was representing the town of Saddle River in the past as its of counsel but she doesn’t represent Saddle River anymore. Perhaps as an Assemblywoman representing District 5 she could look into those possible ethics violations…”
