Home Rule in Land Use Planning Wishes to Ignore This.

  Why; How can Parsippany Justify 'Home Rule' in Land use Law and Zoning when this Great Opportunity Awaits Us. No More Waterview, No fear, No More I would Like it, or I wish it could be; from Forge Pond, Waterview and Graystone Park. Let us Proceed in this common goal of land and community enhancement and best practices. This is a real human evolutionary, organically linked, life-giving Plan of Tomorrow, full of benefits and funding, it requires our life's breath as our water and land need our protections. America, where are you now?  No more anxiety about deals with developers, regain the public trust. NJ Highlands Master Plan Conformance, its that simple. Anything less is supporting private interest over the public good. It's so obvious. The "outside force" as stated by one Councilman is not the State Of New Jersey, but the private corporate developer who sues the town when he cannot get his own way is altering our vulnerable Municipal Master Plan, then like RD goes back to the State of Delaware where over development leaves him no room.

From the 2004 Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act
(PL 2004 Chapter 120, C.13:20-2) 

            “…The Legislature further finds and declares that, since 1984, 65,000 acres, or over 100 square miles, of the New Jersey Highlands have been lost to development; that sprawl and the pace of development in the region has dramatically increased, with the rate of loss of forested lands and wetlands more than doubling since 1995; that the New Jersey Highlands, because of its proximity to rapidly expanding suburban areas, is at serious risk of being fragmented and consumed by unplanned development; and that the existing land use and environmental regulation system cannot protect the water and natural resources of the New Jersey Highlands against the environmental impacts of sprawl development.

            The Legislature further finds and declares that the protection of the New Jersey Highlands, because of its vital link to the future of the State's drinking water supplies and other key natural resources, is an issue of State level importance that cannot be left to the uncoordinated land use decisions of 88 municipalities, seven counties, and a myriad of private landowners…”