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Wanaque, N.J., housing development stalled by new law.
Publication: The Record (Hackensack, New Jersey) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) Publication Date: 15-NOV-04 |
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COPYRIGHT 2004 The Record
Byline: Jan Barry
Nov. 15--WANAQUE, N.J. -- An unfinished housing development near Ramapo Mountain State Forest is now entangled in the web of the new Highlands Act, intended to protect water-generating land.
What protests by neighbors and environmental groups couldn't accomplish, the watershed protection law, signed by Governor McGreevey in August, apparently has done.
At issue is the fate of a 138-acre tract on a wooded ridge off Conklintown Road, where a project of 128 homes called Mountain Lakes Estates was approved by the borough in 1999. That approval was...
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