Filming Permits, New Community Garden on Council Agenda
Town Council meets at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Town Hall.
Tuesday night's Town Council meeting, at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall, is the only council meeting scheduled for August. So, you know it's going to be a packed agenda. Here are five items of particular note (and, be sure to check out the entire agenda, included with this post).
- Filming Permits for the Future? Depending on who you ask, Morristown dodged a bullet when 495 Productions decided to back out of filming the "Snooki & JWoww" Jersey Shore spinoff series here. Legally, they were within their rights and there was nothing Morristown could do, even if they wanted to. That could change should the town put in place some permit regulations for filming in town, which is going to be discussed at the council meeting.
- Growing it Green on MLK: Grow it Green Morristown, which maintains both the Urban Farm at Lafayette and Early Street Community Garden, have been eyeing a piece of town-owned property on Martin Luther King Avenue for a while. If approved by Town Council, it would become the organization's second community garden.
- Bishop Nazery Way: Town Council approved introduction of this–to change Center Street to Bishop Nazery Way, in honor of the first pastor at Bethel AME–at their last meeting, so they are expected to approve the ordinance, making the name change official.
- Parking Problems: Have you ever had issues with parking (or had issues with others parked temporarily where they shouldn't be) in the area of Market and Bank streets, or in the vicinity of the Green? It apparently has been an ongoing issue, so much so that a resolution on the agenda calls for a request of the New Jersey Department of Transportation Bureau of Traffic Engineering and Investigation "to review various changes to on-street parking and loading facilities at various locations along US-202 (Market and Bank streets) and NJ-124 (Park Place/South Street)."
- Demolition: For those keeping up on 20 Hillcrest Ave., which recently was officially preserved by Morristown for a two-acre neighborhood park, a resolution calls for the awarding of a bid to Caravella Contractors Inc. for demolition and site remediation at 20 Hillcrest Ave., in the amount of $14,297.21.
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Morristown Town Hall
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The Urban Farm at Lafayette
31 Hazel St, Morristown, NJ -
Early Street Community Garden
25 Early St, Morristown, NJ (Community Garden) -
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Bethel A.M.E. Church
59 Spring St, Morristown, NJ -
Mayor Shmayor
11:14 am on Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Wow. The Iron Bar is getting bigger now. As if 800 people wasn't enough! Who does this guy know to get these stupid things passed? How does this happen?
jane
11:49 am on Tuesday, August 14, 2012
The Iron Bar expanding is a great idea, it will bring more revenue and people into our beautiful town! Who wouldn't want more people to come here and spend money and drink?! I wish the owners the best of luck and the council should let them go ahead with this.
Liz
11:53 am on Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Jane...two words: "more DUIs"
tommy
2:38 pm on Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Iron bar is a joke anyway. Unless it's friday or saturday night after 1130pm there is nobody in there. On another note, there was a murder at the Iron Bar owner's last bar in Morristown and now he has an 800+ occupancy and he's trying to expand it to 1300??? No other bar in Morristown can have over 400. Is having a murder occur at your place a right of passage??? If the Walsh family had a murder at one of their places could we all be bowling right now? Does this guy know someone or is someone getting paid?
Maura
3:14 pm on Tuesday, August 14, 2012
This is absolutely ludacris! Where are all the big mouthed biddies that supposedly live at 40 Park that been so vocal about opposing a bowling alley? A bowling alley would create an environment where a constructive activity could be carried out amongst friends, while possibly enjoying a bite to eat and a shared pitcher of beer! Instead, people will be congregating in a basement underneath Cups, a family establishment and bring drink? Come on, someone has seriously lost sight of what the owners of the Iron Bar are trying to do! Maybe the owners are trying to get more people to go to a bar that already sucks, that has only 3 bar tenders that cause a patron to wait 45 minutes to order a cocktail. I hope, if thus does happen to pads, which I pray it won't, some of Mary Conte Collins' cronies will make it mandatory that the owners of the Iron Bar ontribute to the fare hike at the Dehart parking garage to cover the cost of having a police officer patrol the grounds. I intend to make some peoples lives difficult if this goes further.
John Dunphy
3:56 pm on Tuesday, August 14, 2012
You have a number of typos in this post, Maura.
Maura
3:16 pm on Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Please excuse my typos, I was typing fast as I annoyed and have been working at the local hospital all night, and I'm sure some jerk would point out my typos.