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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Whole Foods Market Waterview Plan: What Do You Think?

A battle is raging at Planning Board meetings over a plan to place a mixed-use development to Waterview Plaza.

The Planning Board has endured two meetings worth of fighting over a proposed plan to put a mixed-use development including a Whole Foods Market and an upscale townhome community on the wooded lot that now makes up Waterview Plaza. Residents of the Intervale area argue that the land should stay as is. They add that any development would have a negative impact on traffic, schools, infrastructure and quality of life in general. Others argue that Parsippany needs rateables for economic development and that upscale townhomes would benefit the community. What do you think? Take the Parsippany Patch poll and expand on your views in comments.

Annie

6:59 am on Thursday, January 17, 2013

@Tricia Vanderhoof-do you remember what year this happened in? Some residents have said the land was NOT given to the town and was sold to developers directly from the Dodge Estate. So we continue to recieve conflicting information. If we could determine a year, we could look up old newspaper articles that covered her death, her will and the legal struggle over the land. If you are a Facebook …   more ›

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