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Waterview. Individual verses Collective Screen Play

If only Jonathan would unite with Paul Carifi as advocates for Parsipanny's quality of life in opposing 'impractical overdevelopment' at Waterview. Corporatism is not America. We need to defend our American Landscapes. Ecology can be the new economy. Show the people, Waterview is not a "done deal" between the Town and RDR. Don't pass the buck to DEP; vote No on Rezone.Sense of place and Home is worth more than money, clean water, clean air, lets not make things worse. No further studies are needed and RDR has had plenty of time and demonstrated nothing but arrogance and perhaps bribery.?. Barberio, DePierro, have hardened their hearts against their community; hopefully Ferrara will not side with RDR. In a small Municipal Government there is no excuse why the voices of the people should be ignored.  RDR in their threatening letter of March 18, 2013, stated; "while RDR recognizes that any proposal will face some resident opposition, it believes that this is the best development option for the Township and the regional area". Letter goes on with more of their assumptions. This letter seems to be the screen-play for the Administration. RDR is part of a mass phenomena of corporate sprawl that is ruining our American Landscapes from sea to shining  sea, ripping the guts out of real culture. It effects are contributing to Climate Change. When Inglesino stated to the Woman the night of August 20 that bringing Hurricane Sandy (just one of many odd weather events over recent time) into the argument, was mixing oranges and apples, he was wrong, its known as accumulative effect and it all adds up. Destruction of more forest, more water resources, impervious surface and additional expansion of life by automobile. Life is a interconnected web; connected not separate. As they divide the web of life, so they have separated themselves from the citizens.  We look back on what happened to the Native Americans, what was done to them is now being done to us all; from the Mackseta Cohunge Purchase 1709-1714 out of which Pa-Sippo-Nong was established; our Parsipanny; until today we have learned little, but taken much.  Perhaps the Columbus Statue at Town-Hall need be replaced by a local Indian Person many are known.

And the wind shall say:here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls. The author: GRAHAM GREENE

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