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Hotel Booking For the second time in three years, voters will be asked to approve a possible increase in the townships open space tax.

Voters are being asked to create an open space, recreation and farmland preservation fund. The issue before voters is a proposed expansion of uses of already approved local open space dollars, to add farmland preservation, maintenance of open space, and paying off open space preservation debt. Residents are being asked to allow the township council to double the open space tax, which could raise a potential $248, 000 next year.

Travel Agency A ballot question, endorsed by the township committee on Monday night, would enable officials to raise the local open space tax from 4 cents to 5 cents per $100 of assessed property value.

The public views setting aside land as open space a priority. That has been proven through the scores of referendums approved by voters at the ballot box. The people, in fact, have said they want to use tax dollars to preserve open space.

Cheap Hotel On the same ballot in November, Morris County freeholders will ask voters countywide to approve an increase in the county open space tax from 3 cents to 5 cents per $100 of assessed value. If approved, the 2-cent hike would generate an additional $10 million annually in open space funding for the county government. The current 3-cent tax raises about $16 million per year.

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Flight Booking The Mendham Township referendum, if approved by voters, would not automatically increase the open space tax, but rather would give the committee the right to implement a 1-cent hike, should members determine an increase is needed.

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Travel Agent In 1998, voters approved a committee request to increase the open space tax from 2 cents to 4 cents. The committee then authorized the 2-cent hike in the following budget.

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Hotel Chicago Four committee members voted to put the open space question on the ballot. Committee member Bob Pierson abstained.

Online Booking "I am very much in favor of open space and the open space tax," Pierson said afterward. "My disagreement was that we shouldnt be doing it at this point, when we dont have specific acquisition projects in front of us."

Travel Health Insurance Township manager Stephen Mountain said a number of acquisition projects would soon be considered. The township and Randolph are hoping to buy the Potts Reservoir Project, owned by the Southeast Morris MUA.

Hotel Reservation Pierson defended his decision to abstain rather than voting no, saying, "I dont want any negative vote ever recorded on open space."

London Hotel Booking A 1-cent hike in the township would add $90,000 annually to its open space fund, which currently has about $1 million, said committee member Jack Schrier, a Morris County freeholder.

Discount Travel This year, township homes assessed at $450,000, the municipalitys average, paid $10,620 in property taxes. Of that, $180 went toward the townships open space fund.

Orlando Hotel A 1-cent increase, under the current tax rate, would mean an additional $45 in the average assessed homeowners bill.

Booking Agency Open space preservation became a key goal of local and county governments statewide as development soared in the 1980s and 1990s. About one in 6 acres in Morris County is permanently protected from development, including the Mahlon Dickerson Reservation in Jefferson and the Great Swamp in Chatham Township.

International Travel Medical The Morris County Open Space and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund Committee is considering 27 applications that would preserve an additional 2,374 acres of open space in the township.

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Daily Record - 8/16/2001

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