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Palisades Park NJ, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal and the Division on Civil Rights announced today that the Division has issued a Finding of Probable Cause (FPC) against a North Jersey real estate agency that allegedly failed to show a prospective renter an apartment on the basis of the renter’s national origin and spoken language.

KayMax Realty, Inc., the agency that handled the Bergen County rental unit, is listed as a Respondent in the Finding of Probable Cause along with the couple who owns the dwelling.

KayMax and the couple are accused of violating the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (LAD) in 2018 by declining to rent a four-bedroom apartment to prospective tenant Anna Ceylan, who was seeking to move to New Jersey from New York City, and by making statements indicating that they would only rent to a person who was Korean or spoke Korean.

DECEMBER 28, 2015, 11:12 PM LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2015, 11:16 PM
BY NICHOLAS PUGLIESE
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD

Good fences make good neighbors — unless there is bamboo involved. In that case, neighbors might curse, sue or move altogether, leaving behind hard feelings and a yard overtaken by the rapidly spreading plant.

Bamboo — sometimes used instead of a fence to mark property lines or lend privacy to a home — has quietly emerged as a divisive issue in suburban North Jersey, where homeowners have joined local and state officials in debating how to regulate the plant. In the process, they have had to grapple with questions about enforcement, property rights and even the role of government itself.

The growing consensus: There is no easy fix.

More than a dozen municipalities across the state — including Wayne, Emerson, Hillsdale, Palisades Park and Rockleigh — have some sort of bamboo regulation in place.

Others, like Washington Township, have considered adopting an ordinance to regulate bamboo, only to abandon the effort after concluding that it would be difficult to enforce, or that it was not the place of government to interfere with the rights of property owners or to mediate in disputes among neighbors.

“Bamboo is a problem between two neighbors,” said Mayor Max Arnowitz of Hillsdale, who is critical of the bamboo ordinance the Borough Council adopted earlier this year. “We usually say, ‘If you have a problem with your neighbor, you have to go to court.’ ”

Bamboo of the genus Phyllostachys — there are upward of 75 different kinds — is commonly called “running bamboo” because, if left unchecked, it can leap from yard to yard through a system of underground stems. Those stems are known to spread several feet in a matter of days, in defiance of property lines, and support canes — or culms, as they are properly known — that can grow as tall as 50 feet.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/as-bamboo-grows-so-do-neighborly-feuds-1.1481622

NJ Attorney General ,Couple Denied Palisades Park Apartment Because They Were Not Korean

As bamboo grows, so do neighborly feuds