After Teaneck Voices last published, a new set of meeting dates and notices for the Teaneck Planning Board (PB) was posted on June 26.
We first note that an added July meeting – July 10 - is now posted to the Calendar And with it is notice that the long-awaited meeting to review and vote on whether to adopt the Open Space & Recreation Plan (OSRP) was added as the primary agenda for this July 10 “special meeting” of the PB. Again, it is to occur on Thursday, July 10. This meeting – like all of the subsequent 2024 PB meetings – is to begin at 7:30 pm and be held at the Rodda Center in MP-1. It may be watched at Click Here with a passcode of 516852 – but no interactive internet is provided
Voices has confirmed that the author of the never-actually approved 2019 OSRP (Barbara Heskins Davis, VP of the NJ Nature Conservancy) plans to attend this 7/10 meeting. The Town website currently includes a very convoluted explanation of the cross-country trek of the document to be reviewed by the PB at this meeting. The Town’s explanation is found if you Click Here.
For years Voices has covered the unwillingness of the Planning Board to review and approve the 2019 draft of this OSRP. The explanation offered by PB leadership was that the original draft ORSP had erroneously listed many open space parcels of land as Town open space that were not authentic open space.
In fact, earlier Councils (beginning in 1966) HAD identified those properties to the state as being protected. The Township this Spring 2024 has finally acknowledged the authenticity of these open space parcels in submissions to the state’s Green Acres program.
The OSRP to be reviewed by the current Planning Board on Wednesday, July 10 is updated to include all those open space properties – many of which line the Route 4 Greenbelt. The new OSRP is well worth reading if you Click Here
Additionally, the PB has announced that it will hold a second meeting in July (on July 18) then two meetings in August {August 6 and 22), and again two in September (September 12 and 26). To reiterate, these and all additional 2024 PB meetings are currently scheduled to begin at 7:30 pm at the Rodda Center.
Agenda items expected to be on the PB agendas late in the summer are a proposed site plan review for a cannabis facility on Alfred Avenue and, of course, an eventual publication for public review/input of a new draft Master Plan from the PB.
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