Dear Editor:
Surprise! Surprise!
The Parsippany Zoning Board of Adjustment has once again granted the Islamic Community Cultural Center another of a yearlong series of delays and so has postponed a long-scheduled June 10th public meeting. Apparently, the Islamic Community Cultural Center asked for yet another delay as it again wants to make several changes to its application for the zoning variances that it needs to be able to construct an apartment building in the midst of a residential Parsippany neighborhood.
What has become clear is that after failing to present a single coherent response to the environmental, traffic, public safety and parking concerns expressed by the hundreds of Parsippany residents who have faithfully attended the public sessions over the past year, the Islamic Community Cultural Center has decided that its only go forward strategy is to keep stalling in the hope that neighborhood opposition will ultimately fade away.
What is not clear is why, after more than a year, the Parsippany Zoning Board of Adjustment continues to grant the Islamic Community Cultural Center and its lawyer meeting delays. And what is not clear is why the Zoning Board of Adjustment continues to permit the hours long testimony of the Islamic Community Cultural Center’s “expert” witnesses who have proven to be clueless and unable to answer the most rudimentary questions.
To be sure it is the Zoning Board of Adjustment’s responsibility to ensure that the Islamic Community Cultural Center gets a fair hearing. However, it is also the Zoning Board of Adjustment’s responsibility to actually take charge of that hearing and stop being led around by their collective noses by an applicant determined to waste their and the public’s time
Enough is enough!!
Bob Crawford
