Now that the Borough has the all-important Certificate of Compliance, permitting the Mayor & Council to consider improving their Fair Share plan, when will they schedule the long-awaited public forum to answer basic, unanswered questions about their choice to pave over the green, taxpayer-owned parcel at 58 North Passaic Avenue, right next to Memorial Park?
Details: https://chathamchoice.org/2026/07/great-news-2/
What are the alternatives? If buying another lot to preserve 58 North Passaic would cost the average homeowner no more than $122 per year for ten years, is it worth the price?
Now that the Borough has scheduled a crew to pave the west end of Front Street, “from Washington Avenue to the dead end” on Monday, August 10, 2026, when will the Mayor stop claiming that #39 Front Street, about a block from the train station, is somehow “inaccessible,” and as such unsuitable for affordable housing?
Details: https://chathamchoice.org/2026/08/inaccessible/ and https://chathamchoice.org/2026/06/debunking-the-myths/ & https://chathamborough.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=1&clip_id=530
Face it: if you allow the Mayor & Council to sacrifice a green, taxpayer-owned parcel without answering even basic questions in public, you will have given up any claim to have any say in local government.
Tell your elected representatives you expect them to schedule a public forum BEFORE they hire a contractor to chop down the trees and pave 58 North Passaic Avenue:
bhargrove@chathamborough.org cdempsey@chathamborough.org
jstrickland@chathamborough.org
kkoronkiewicz@chathamborough.org
mayorcouncil@chathamborough.org
Visit the next Council meeting, set for Monday, August 10, 2026 at 7:30 pm, either:
- in-person, Borough Hall, 54 Fairmount Avenue, or
- virtually, using details to follow at chathamborough.org.
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