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Hotel Booking Mark Valva has lived in Morris County his entire life. The 32-year-old man remembers well tromping around in the woods as a child on his family's 10-acre property in Denville.

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Online Booking "We're looking for feedback in regards to the open space plan as a whole," he said. "We're looking for suggestions across the board."

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Hotel Reservation The land previously was owned by the New Jersey American Water Co. The $222,000 purchase, finalized on Dec. 8, was fully funded through a Morris County Open Space grant and a Green Acres grant, Plambeck said.

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Orlando Hotel "The vision is because of its nature, we're not going to do anything major down there," he said. "My thought is it's going to be very low impact."

Booking Agency With this most recent purchase, Chatham now owns about 245 acres of open space, which represent 16 percent of the borough's total land area, Plambeck said.

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New York Hotel Chatham's commitment to protecting land from development certainly sits well with Jack Feeney, a commercial real-estate broker who works in Edison and has lived in Chatham for 40 years.

Online Travel Booking Feeney said he and his family love the outdoors and sometimes travel to the Poconos to hike. Closer to home, they enjoy hanging out in Loantaka Brook Reservation in Chatham Township.

Travel Medical Insurance "I love it," he said. "My wife runs and I bring the kids and the bicycles there all the time."

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Air Deccan Booking "I don't mind development in places where it's zoned," he said, "but it needs to be controlled."

Las Vegas Nevada Travel Matthew Blasi agreed. The 24-year-old, who moved to Chatham one year ago from neighboring Summit, said he generally is not in favor of building.

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Hotel Florence Booking Online "We had a little patch of woods on our property where I grew up," he said. "I appreciate having them there to look at. It's nice not to look everywhere and see buildings."

Orlando Travel Don Wenner, a 37-year-old who moved to Chatham three years ago from Pennsylvania, said he wishes there were more open space. He also wishes it were open to hunters.

Hilton Hotel "There's lots of open space around here that isn't accessible," he said. "They need to open it up more to hunters."

Booking Delta Com Plambeck said state law prohibits hunting within 450 feet of a residence. "There aren't many places in Chatham where there's not a residence within 450 feet," he said.

Travel Insurance Online By Jenna M. McKnight
Daily Record - 12/20/2004

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