Waterview Latest Example of 'Uncaring Corporate Sameness'

To the Editor:

I just returned from a two-week trip to Glacier National Park in Montana; Blackfeet Indian Land. The beauty was over-powering, especially the wildflowers of the snow on mountains trails, waving wild grasses and trees. Not having been out west since the 1970s and early 1980s, it was quite obvious our America is being overdone by corporate sprawl and fast food chains and shopping malls. It is quite depressing in comparison to the earlier trips.

It becomes harder to find Real America along the interstates, which have become dominantly truck-ways not High-ways bringing products of mass consumption to the stores of impervious earth maul sprawl; parts of the Interstates actually looked more like airport runways than normal highways. The economic stimulus providing labor for road works is not really such a positive way to expend labor labor resources.

Returning to Parsippany,  Waterview development was on my mind wondering what had happened at the previously scheduled Town Meeting on July 16; having no cellphone or email while on the trip. Turning off Route 80 East on the Denville exit we passed the land threatened by the developer along Route 46.

In all honesty it looks so fitting and beautiful in its place along the State Highway, its tress making it realm of appearance greater its emanates some special setting in its threshold as ones drives down into the valley of Parsipanny or Pa-Sippo-nong its original name from the Munsee Indians. Then it really dawned how this unwanted, unnecessary development stems from the same corporate demise of our very once great and caring America. The same uncaring corporate sameness that erases local stores and mom and pa places of the people across the nation.

Is from sea to shining sea, really Burger King or Wal-Mart from sea to sea? This corporate culture of consumption is, has ruined our unique and beautiful land, spreading litter, ruining local communities and turning us all into consumers not citizens or even real human-beings.

It does not bring us as a people closer but further alienated from others, ourselves and our sacred landscapes. Waterview is a continuation of this social demise taking place in our Nation. Editor:  The meeting of July 16 was postponed, why? are the Town Officials playing a games with us?

The Community has spoken. The developer should of been dismissed long ago for not having his plans in order at the Town Meetings, for asking the community for some unreasonable goal, dishonoring previously agreements and threatening a natural resource that benefits all of us, a last mature forest, original ridge line over-looking Troy Brook including its cemetery and most of all a aquifer recharge area. The Mayor refuses to believe and has convinced council members that NO Water Crisis exists. This is not true.

It is sorry to see the Mayor and his cronies have chosen their self-interest over the community and see politics as mere opinions. They do not apparently believe in the functions of good government, but in private interests and profits. In their world anything can be believed but nothing known. People such as this should stay out of government and return to their business.

Their election spells opportunity for them and demise for us, they are not our overseers but privateers benefiting themselves. The do not believe in the power of the most for the many rather the most for the few. They certainly do not love the land their Country. Pride in Parsipanny would be seeing the need to maintain balance, rather they ignore criteria already established to maintain important resources, use already developed areas rather than develop more.

Time to stop being thinking like consumers and start being American Citizens. Land and People. Mayor Barberio concern yourself with Town Matters when it comes to jobs, our community could use more care in just keeping it clean from corporate litter. We need you not to sponsor work projects for the private interest that demand unreasonable profits and inflict accumulative effects of a negative nature upon our already abused landscapes. Waterview will be Waterloo for the officials who have ignored the community.

Nick Homyak
Lake Hiawatha