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By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Montclair High School students have their own ideas on what should become of Lackawanna Plaza. A town square-like space, with gardens, or a playground for children. Housing units that would incorporate trees, green space, and other sustainable features, and which would have an affordable housing component...

Priscilla Eshelman leads an informal tour of the proposed Lackawanna Plaza redevelopment project with about two dozen concerned neighbors, ending with an informed discussion of alternatives in the Glenridge Avenue loading docks on Saturday, April 27...

by TINA PAPPAS for Montclair Local The council passed two ordinances regulating affordable housing with the goal of keeping the quota of 20 percent within any new Montclair development, creating flexibility of where affordable housing would be constructed and invoking a local preference for those who live or work in Montclair...

By TINA PAPPAS for Montclair Local The township Zoning Board of Adjustment approved a use variance Wednesday night to convert a mixed-use residential building and medical office on Plymouth Street into a two-family dwelling. The application was submitted by Henry Liedtka, owner of Sustainable Sanctuary Homes, who purchased the property, located in the R1 single family zone, in order to renovate it

by TINA PAPPAS for Montclair Local An emphasis on maintaining a suburban feel to curb appeal and safety measures is what Township Planning Board members want prioritized in the Complete Streets Implementation Plan, which was presented at the planning board meeting on Monday, Feb...

By LINDA MOSS moss@montclairlocal.news The Montclair Planning Board on Monday night sounded off over the Township Council taking control of one major redevelopment project in town, and sent a traffic-impact study on a second project slated for Bloomfield Avenue back to the drawing board...

By LINDA MOSS moss@montclairlocal.news The first draft of a redevelopment plan for Lackawanna Plaza was submitted to township officials last week, and some critics are already claiming that the 92-page document basically rubber-stamps what developers have controversially proposed for the 8-acre parcel on Bloomfield Avenue ...

By LINDA MOSS moss@montclairlocal.news The first draft of a redevelopment plan, a 92-page document, for Lackawanna Plaza has been submitted to township officials, and it would permit 350 apartment units to be built on the site. The municipality posted the plan on its website Thursday...

By LINDA MOSS moss@montclairlocal.news Montclair is experiencing a commercial real estate boom, with roughly 1,000 residential units either under construction, approved or proposed for the Bloomfield Avenue corridor. And the question of whether these apartments and mixed-use projects constitute over-development has become a recurring, and divisive, topic for local officials and residents ... Read