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Hotel Booking If history holds true to form, Morris County voters will approve a non-binding referendum on the Nov. 6 ballot that could increase the countys Open Space tax 66 percent.

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Travel Agency "If we need to save the space, we need to spend the money," said Janine Denenberg, a Chatham resident interviewed recently on the Morristown Green. "Ive got to imagine (the tax) wont go up that much per person."

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.

Cheap Hotel The referendum asks 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 a year.

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Flight Booking As in the past, the increase likely would be incremental, rising one-half cent each year for the next few years, said Freeholder Jack J. Schrier, whose six colleagues on the board of freeholders unanimously support the jump.

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Travel Agent "I think what were now seeing is the applications coming in are fairly expensive because the price of land is going up," said Walter P. Krich, director of Morris Countys planning and development department.

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Hotel Chicago The largest application received this year came from Parsippany officials, who hope to purchase the development rights to the 17-acre Brookwood Lakes Club at a cost of more than $4 million, half of which they want to the county to foot.

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Travel Health Insurance Forty-five percent of the money about $9.5 million goes directly to municipalities, who initially submitted 28 applications this year for consideration by a special committee. Twenty-four applications seeking $13.2 million in funds still are under consideration.

Hotel Reservation Farmland preservation projects receive 25 percent of the fund, as do Morris County Park Commission and Morris County Municipal Utilities Authority preservation efforts. Another 5 percent is for ancillary costs, officials said.

London Hotel Booking Typically, the countys share of open space funding is coupled with municipal money, state Green Acres cash and, sometimes, federal aid.

Discount Travel Voters in three Morris County municipalities also will be asked to support local open space taxes this year. Chatham wants to establish a tax of up to 1 cent per $100 assessed property value; Pequannock wants to establish one for up to 2 cents; and Mendham Township wants to increase its existing fund by 1 cent.

Orlando Hotel This summer, the Trust for Public Land commissioned a poll for the freeholders that showed 67 percent of Morris County residents favor increasing the county open space tax. The group has been lobbying taxpayers through mailings and advertisements to support the referendum.

Booking Agency And the San Francisco-based nonprofit group, which has its New Jersey office in Morristown, even formed a coalition of other groups, residents and elected officials last month that it calls the Committee for Morris Parks, Open Space and Clean Water.

International Travel Medical "Basically, were really close to getting everyone on board wed hoped to get," said Chris Wells, conservation finance manager for the Trust for Public Land.

New York Hotel Even anti-tax crusaders believe in open space taxes.

Online Travel Booking "For every house you build in a New Jersey community today, if it has two or three children in it, it has to be subsidized by other taxpayers," said Sam Perelli, chairman of United Taxpayers of New Jersey, which supports the measures.

Travel Medical Insurance "The purchase of all available open space to curtail the building of housing in our suburban communities is an advantage to the taxpayers," he said. "We encourage it. Its a taxpayer savings."

Miami Hotel Some 54 referenda similar to Morris Countys will appear on ballots elsewhere in New Jersey. Of those, 36 would give governing bodies the authority to establish new taxes; the other 18 would continue or increase existing ones.

Air Deccan Booking Beginning in 1989, New Jersey authorized counties to assess a special tax to be used for land preservation. To provide incentive, the state provides up to 50 percent of the cost of land acquisition in the form of a grant if the municipality or county doing it has a dedicated open space fund. If not, the maximum grant amount is 25 percent of the cost.

Las Vegas Nevada Travel To date, voters in 146 New Jersey municipalities and 19 counties all but Salem and Hudson have approved the taxes, leading to the conservation of more than 80,000 acres of farmland and open space.

Las Vegas Nv Hotel In Morris County, the trust fund came into existence in 1993 after voters approved the special tax. Since then, some 10,000 acres have been preserved countywide, at a cost of more than $70 million.

Hotel Florence Booking Online In January 2000, more than a year after gaining voter approval, the freeholders voted to increase the tax by a cent.

Orlando Travel Since its inception, the trust fund has supplied financial aid to all but a dozen of Morris Countys 39 municipalities. Some towns never send in requests, said Krich, the county planning director.

Hilton Hotel "Almost every town has land, that could be purchased, that either buffers wetlands or is more of an urban parcel," he said, pointing out that Wharton, Dover, Morris Plains and Morristown all have received county money for open space projects.

Booking Delta Com By James A. Duffy
Daily Record - 10/30/2001

Topic: Campaign 2002

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