No Environmental Study Needed for Proposed Whole Foods Pizza Shop

Despite some heated discussion and questioning from an attorney, the Morristown zoning board approved the exemption of an environmental impact study for Whole Foods.

That exemption includes the proposed pizza restaurant Whole Foods is looking to open in a nearby vacant retail space, formerly occupied by a dry cleaners.

According to morristowngreen.com, a lawyer for nearby restaurant Suvio’s, was critical of the board for not requiring the study, and also said, in a letter to the board, granting a variance for another pizzeria in a neighborhood where two already sit is “bad planning.”

The board decided that because the property has been 90-percent developed for a number of years, the study did not need to be conducted, the report said.

The public hearing went on for more than two hours Wednesday night, the report said, and is expected to continue Oct. 29.