[CPEO-BIF] Chatham (NJ) lawsuit over gas station redevelopment

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Residents file lawsuit to stop Dunkin Donuts

By MARIANNE IVERS
Independent Pres (NJ)
May 9, 2007

CHATHAM -- A resident group called "Hedges & Main Advocacy Group" has 
filed a lawsuit against the Borough of Chatham, Planning Board and 
Shailja LLC, owner of the Dunkin Donut/Baskin Robbins (DD/BR) franchise 
that is in the process of turning the old Amoco gas station into a fast 
food shop. The lawsuit calls the board's Feb. 20 decision to allow the 
franchise in Chatham "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable."

The advocacy group, consisting of four borough residents: Rob Goldberg, 
Hans Dekker, Martin Selzer and Bernie Vella, filed the lawsuit on 
traffic and safety concern grounds. Other reasons behind the lawsuit are 
the group's claim that the board had not adequately provided for proof 
that the site has been sufficiently cleaned up prior to allowing any 
construction to start.

The former Amoco station as well as the residential lot behind it is a 
registered contaminated site with the New Jersey Department of 
Environmental Protection (DEP). In February the board decided to waive 
"the letter of no further action" by the DEP that would indicate that 
the remediation process of the contaminated former gas station site has 
been completed.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/independent/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1178727529263970.xml&coll=18

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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