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Thursday, April 18, 2013

Planning Board Preparing to Review Master Plan

10-year review of the master plan to begin just in time for the potential rehab of the Brookchester Garden apartments.

The New Milford Planning Board is gearing up for its 10-year review of the master plan due for completion in 2014. Master plans chart the course between where a municipality is and where it envisions itself in the future. Unlike a blueprint that is fixed, master plans are flexible guidelines that are adaptable to change. Master plans designate the permitted uses of land based on mapped zones which separate one set of land uses from another. In reviewing the master plan, zoning can be amended to reflect potential changes in land-use. During Tuesday's meeting, Mayor Ann Subrizi informed the Planning Board of Brunetti's proposal to rehabilitate, replace and extensively repair approximately 750 units in Brookchester that front Boulevard. In …

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Planning Board Reappoints Board Attorney to Another One-Year Term

After considering three applicants, Board decides to reappoint Board Attorney, Richard Abrahamsen.

At January's reorganization of the Planning Board, the board decided to reissue RFQ's (request for qualification/quotation) for more candidates for the position of Board Attorney because there was only one submission for consideration.  In order to do this, the Board authorized a 60-day extension to Richard Abrahamsen, who was initially appointed to the position of Board Attorney in January 2012. Abrahamsen is a partner in the Englewood Cliffs law firm Sekas & Abrahamsen. At Tuesday's meeting, Chairman Angelo DeCarlo said that there were three viable candidates: the law firm of Eric Bernstein and Associates from Warren, New Jersey; Zoning Board Attorney Scott Sproviero; and Abrahamsen. Deciding that they would prefer to go with a …

Tomasina Schwarz

12:17 pm on Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Abrahamsen was hired for a year and almost let go? Confused about this article. Why was the 60 day extension given and then he was appointed? Seems like they didn't really want to keep him, why?   more ›

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