Fw: Be involved in a Millburn zoning issue.

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From: "Save Millburn" <He...@SaveMillburn.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:35:59
To: <lis...@aol.com>
Subject: Be involved in a Millburn zoning issue.

If you're on this mailing list, you're aware of the issue. If you wish to educate neighbors and friends, send them the short piece on the bottom of this email.*

Many of you asked, either at meetings or by email, "How can we help".

-Make a donation of any amount to help our organization fight this issue. Contributions, in the form of a check, should be made out to Connell Foley Trust Account, 85 Livingston Avenue, Roseland NJ 07068 Attn: Kevin Coakley. Your contribution will be used to pay legal fees and for expert witnesses and funds will only be distributed with the consent of the Associations trustees.

-Come to public meetings and let the Zoning officers know your feelings. We will post all those meetings on the www.SaveMillburn.com website and send out periodic emails as you requested.

-If you haven't already, send us an email that states your name can be used on the website under Supporters. Email that to He...@SaveMillburn.com

-Send emails to our Mayor, the four Township Committee members and the full time Township Business Administrator. Tell them exactly how you feel about this specific issue and how you feel about town officials allowing
substantial variances or exceptions to the town wide approved zoning code.

Tom McDermott - Mcd...@aol.com
Jim Suell - jsu...@millburntwp.org
Dan Baer - ba...@pbworld.com
Sandy Haimoff - Shhs...@aol.com
Robert Tillotson - rob...@lagottopartners.com
Tim Gordon - tgo...@millburntwp.org

-Send emails and write letters to the reporters and editors of the local newspapers.

TheNewYorkTimesLocal Blog - loisd...@googlemail.com (reporter)
The Alternative Press - Edi...@TheAlternativePress.com (editor)
The Millburn-ShortHillsPatch - j...@patch.com (reporter)
The Milburn Item - DOno...@northjersey.com (reporter)
The Millburn Item - the...@northjersey.com
The Millburn Item - trum...@northjersey.com (editor)
The Independent Press - kell...@comcast.net (reporter)
The Independent Press - mke...@njnpublishing.com (editor)
The Independent Press - iped...@njnpublishing.com
The Star Ledger - rkha...@njns.com (reporter)
The Star Ledger - elet...@starledger.com

-Talk to your neighbors and friends and let them know about the negative impact this major zoning exception could cause to the well being of the community. Pass this website link to your friends and neighbors. That link is
www.SaveMillburn.com

We need you, we need your help, this won't be easy. We have the facts and we believe the law in our favor. Stop Millburn officials from making major zoning exceptions.

Save Millburn. www.SaveMillburn.com

*The Issue
Millburn Township has an approved Zoning Ordinance and land use plan. If the Zoning Ordinance needs changes, by all means it should be updated and amended on a town wide basis in a legal manner. But otherwise, our group doesn't accept special zoning for special interests anywhere in Millburn. Allowing substantial variances can hurt a great town's plan.

In this case, the Chai Center is bringing in a team of lawyers, engineers, architects, planners and traffic experts to the Zoning Board of Adjustment asking for a major variance to the approved Millburn Zoning Ordinance to build their 16,350 square foot building.

The Chai Center is asking for a special variance that would allow them to tear down two current homes and replace them with a massive new building at the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Old Short Hills Road. They are requesting this exception to the town Zoning Ordinance even though they are more than an acre shy of the legal or required size.

This is not a neighborhood story or a religious issue but a fairness issue. If zoning calls for 3 acres to build a large house of worship or any other structure this size, why should an exception be made.
This message was sent by: The Concerned Neighborhood Association of Millburn Township, www.SaveMillburn.com, Millburn, NJ 07041

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