Denville Warehouse Betrays Rockaway and Beaver Brook

Denville Warehouse Betrays Rockaway and Beaver Brook
Will NJDEP undermine Highlands Guidelines?

Mayor Tom Andes believes he has made some great move for Denville in it's finances in the $6 million dollar sale of a environmentally sensitive landscape of the Beaver Brook Watershed. The landscape being in Rockaway seems to have added ease to his feelings of impacts on the residents of Denville. The fact that the landscape is a remaining sensitive one within a residential community area in Rockaway and would be considered outside the guideline created for warehouse construction seems not to bother him at all. Here we see the typical political so called conservative, with no concepts of ecology, and the future health of our water and natural resources. The Beaver Brook to him, and the Denville Municipal officials had a price tag for corporate developers, that like the mayor could care less about environmental impacts and future cumulative impacts.

This land was purchased back in the 1950s, a different time of seemingly abundant land, and natural places. The fact that a regional effort has not tried to protect this landscape, or at least rezone it properly for conservation is telling, and disturbing. What the Denville mayor did is sadly typical of a false paradigm of economic interest over all other aspects of life, or economy in a vacuum, outside the laws of nature. Whereas today within the crisis of climate change caused by humans, pollution of chemicals and plastics in a myth of progress that is seeping into our waters and soils we keep making the world worse, not better.

Denville, and Rockaway are NJ Highlands communities both in conformance, (and even if not) This terrible allowance of a single municipal official to ignore guidelines and actual landscape character to construct a warehouse should be stopped, the land saved for water recharge conservation within the Beaver Brook Watershed.

Right now Parsippany has recently approved 3-warehouses with thirty year PILOT Deals. Why does Denville did another warehouse in such close proximity? Are we about to allow warehouse overkill like what occurred with office-space and malls?

NJDEP must not undermine Highlands Rules and guidelines, This warehouse must be rejected, and monies gotten for Green Acres preservation. Denville, like Parsippany has a water deficit, and depends of water diversions as it's aquifers are insufficient to maintain "firm capacity".

If the Denville Mayor and others deem themselves financial wizards, they should be advocating in their municipal alliances against the regressive tax system imposed on the citizens of this nation. What is $6-million dollars compared to the future of our water, and remaining nature. Why do people really live in places like Denville, or Rockaway?

Never in the history of democratic societies has the populace been more removed from the decision making process than it is today. Our Collective Global future is being made behind closed doors by trade representatives-appointed officials with the blessing of amorphous, transnational corporations.

Local Politicians that betrayal their entrusted communities with one aspect thinking of finance short-term thinking must be voted out. Money is their drug of choice, they add and assist financial elites that are beyond any economy. Plenty of vacant already developed lands are available for warehouses, the Beaver Brook watershed is not one such place. Ecology is economy endless growth impossible.