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New York City Metropolitan Area

Chatham

New Jersey

Turf Block $150      UNIT DIMENSIONS=24" X 16"...

DRIVEWAY - PATIO - WALKWAY - ENTRANCE Turf block for driving, walking surface or stepping stones etc. BUYER TAKES ALL.$150. 

Turf Block $150      UNIT DIMENSIONS=24" X 16" X 3"

An Essex County home inspector has built a free website that lets anyone look up the public records behind a New Jersey property &mdash; building permits, flood zones, fire history, oil tanks and contamination sites, property taxes, and more &mdash; by typing in an address.
The site, <a href="https://oprasearch.app/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Permit &amp; Parcel</a>, covers all 564 New Jersey municipalities and brings together records from official sources, including state and county databases, FEMA flood maps, and the towns&rsquo; own municipal codes. No account or email is required, and there&rsquo;s no cost. Since launching this spring it has handled more than 18,000 searches from every county in the state.
&ldquo;I kept watching buyers fall in love with a house before anyone checked the paper trail &mdash; the open permits, the flood zone, what the town actually requires when a home changes hands,&rdquo; said Leo Betancor, a Certified Master Inspector based in Cedar Grove and the founder of the site. &ldquo;All of that is public record. It just wasn&rsquo;t in one place anyone could actually use.&rdquo;
&ldquo;And it isn&rsquo;t only for buyers,&rdquo; Betancor added. &ldquo;With rates where they are, a lot of people are staying put. The house you already own has a paper trail too &mdash; an old oil tank, a flood zone change, a lead service line &mdash; and most owners have never seen it.&rdquo;
Alongside the main lookup, the site includes free single-purpose tools: a <a href="https://oprasearch.app/tools/contamination/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">contamination and tank lookup</a> showing known spill sites and registered tanks near any address, a <a href="https://oprasearch.app/tools/lead-pipes/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">lead water pipe check</a>, a <a href="https://oprasearch.app/tools/lead-safe/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">lead-safe inspection lookup</a> showing which of the two state-required inspection methods each town uses under New Jersey&rsquo;s lead paint law, a searchable <a href="https://oprasearch.app/lead-contractors/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">directory of DCA-certified lead evaluation and abatement contractors</a> sorted by distance, a <a href="https://oprasearch.app/tools/fire/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">fire-incident map</a> built from more than 40 years of state fire records, and a <a href="https://oprasearch.app/tools/radon/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">radon map</a> covering every municipality.
Homeowners can also <a href="https://oprasearch.app/tools/tax/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">look up property taxes and assessments</a>, <a href="https://oprasearch.app/tools/hvac-age/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">check the age of a furnace, air conditioner or water heater</a>using its serial number, and <a href="https://oprasearch.app/tools/co/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">find their town&rsquo;s certificate-of-occupancy requirements</a> before selling or renting a home.
A companion site, <a href="https://njflood.zone/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">njflood.zone</a>, gives instant FEMA flood-zone answers for any New Jersey address &mdash; built after the federal government shutdown left FEMA&rsquo;s own map site unreliable &mdash; running on the site&rsquo;s own servers with the complete flood map data for the state loaded locally.
Permit &amp; Parcel carries no advertising and is funded entirely by Smart Choice Inspections, Betancor&rsquo;s Cedar Grove home inspection company. Readers who find the site useful and need an inspection can claim <a href="https://callsmartchoice.com/patch" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">$100 off a qualifying home inspection</a>, or learn more on <a href="https://callsmartchoice.com/leobetancor/?gift=credit100&amp;campaign=patch" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Betancor&rsquo;s page</a>.
The project was recently featured in <a href="https://www.tapinto.net/towns/east-hanover-slash-florham-park/columns/at-home-with-holly/articles/deep-dive-conversations-what-the-house-won-t-tell-you" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">TAPinto</a>. Both sites are free at <a href="https://oprasearch.app/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">oprasearch.app</a> and <a href="https://njflood.zone/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">njflood.zone</a>.

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Chatham Township and its insurers paid $700,000 to end the suits from two women alleging sexual harassment in the Chatham Township Construction Office.&nbsp; &nbsp;
Township keeps defendants including Construction Official John &ldquo;Jack&rdquo; Daniels and Administrator Ziad Shehady. 
Mayor Jennifer Rowland&rsquo;s is ultimately responsible for the Township's action and was elected from the initial filing in 2024 until the Township settlement.&nbsp; Rowland, as Mayor, is responsible for all public agendas and for calling a vote of the municipal government.

Despite NJ's "Sunshine Laws" the Sexual Harassment Settlement was made with no public notice or public discussion, not even after it was authorized nor after it was paid.&nbsp; No 2026 public agenda lists this settlement or even the matter.
Mayor Rowland&rsquo;s exclusion of this settlement from any public meeting agenda is not from prior practice.&nbsp; A smaller, less than $6,000 past employee settlement was put to a vote in a 2022 Township public meeting. Mayor Rowland refused to make this settlement a matter of public business despite the settlement sum of $700,000 - an unprecedented payment of this type. 
New Jersey treats settlements as public records, with a deep case law.&nbsp;&nbsp;&ldquo;Sunshine Laws&rdquo; bind disposal of public business, so settlements should not vanish from public agendas. The Open Public Meetings Act still requires official action in the open. 
 Mayor Jennifer Rowland&rsquo;s term on the Chatham Township Committee concludes this year unless she is re-elected.
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