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Kinnelon Explores Saving Open Land

Hotel Booking Four river basins, two mountains, one reservoir and at least a half-dozen lakes. There's a lot of green space remaining within the borough's 18 square miles.

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Travel Agency Finding ways - and the money - to ensure that much of that green space isn't developed is the subject of a new report drafted by residents and a local conservation group, now available at Borough Hall.

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Cheap Hotel The 80-page Open Space and Recreation Plan envisions Kinnelon as a series of four interconnected green belts that stem from the Pequannock and Rockaway rivers basins, the Waughaw Mountain range and the Stone House Brook. It recommends that Kinnelon partner with neighboring towns such as Pequannock, West Milford and Montville to buy up ecologically-sensitive land that is threatened with development.

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Flight Booking Two thirds of Kinnelon's land is covered by forest, much of it watershed property that provides 379 million gallons of drinking water a day. Because it is ecologically sensitive, much of the land is already off limits to anything but the lightest development following the state's adoption of the Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act last summer.

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Travel Agent Still, the report notes, the more than 2,500 acres of vacant land includes large parcels owned by real estate companies. Among the biggest parcels is a 515-acre tract owned by Long Meadow Realty in the northwestern reaches of town near the Rockaway Township border. Another is a 456-acre tract near the Butler Reservoir owned by Pepperidge Tree Realty.

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Hotel Chicago The report was drafted by the non-profit Morris Land Conservancy and the Kinnelon Open Space Advisory Committee. It is based on a survey of more than 900 households last fall - more than one-quarter of all the households in the borough.

Online Booking In that sample, better than two thirds of the respondents agreed that Kinnelon ought to raise its municipal open space tax so it can buy more land. Currently, the tax is 5 cents for every $100 of assessed valuation and raises about $78,000 annually. Respondents to the survey favored doubling the tax.

Travel Health Insurance "I find that significant, that an overwhelming number of people would be in favor of raising the tax," said Barbara Davis of the Morris Land Conservancy, who helped write the report.

Hotel Reservation The report does not list specific tracts of land to be purchased for conservation. Davis said that list will come later, once Kinnelon finds out from the state Green Acres funding program how much money it has to spend for land acquisition.

London Hotel Booking By Richard Cowen
Bergen Record - 2/10/2005

Topic: Highlands

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