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Dept/ Agency: Economic and Housing Development
Action: ( ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Resolution Endorsing
Purpose: Resolution Supporting the Essex-Hudson Greenway Project and authorizing the City of Newark to seek various grants for the Newark portion of the Greenway Project.
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WHEREAS, the Open Space Institute Land Trust, Inc., has entered into a Purchase and Sale Agreement with Norfolk Southern Railway Company, to acquire the 8.63-mile rail right-of-way of the former New York & Greenwood Lake Railroad, beginning at the point of abandonment in Montclair Township, and lying within the municipalities of Glen Ridge Borough, Bloomfield Township, Belleville Township, and the City of Newark in Essex County and the Town of Kearny, The Town of Secaucus to the point of abandonment in the City of Jersey City in Hudson County; and
WHEREAS, the right-of-way passes through portions of two (2) counties and eight (8) municipalities, and will connect users to a myriad of schools, businesses, transit stations, and facilities providing a safe corridor of travel for students and commuters alike; and
WHEREAS, the Counties of Essex and Hudson seek to create a linear park and greenway along this abandoned rail right-of-way; and
WHEREAS, the Counties of Essex and Hudson seek to acquire ownership of the entire 8.63-mile right-of-way for the purpose of conservation and recreation and to enable the establishment and construction of a multi-use trail along the right-of-way to be known as the Essex-Hudson Greenway; and
WHEREAS, the proposed Essex-Hudson Greenway enters Newark along the northern end of the Branchburg Park, runs parallel to Verona Avenue and intersects with Mt. Prospect Avenue, Broadway and McCarter Highway as shown on the map attached hereto; and
WHEREAS, the Newark section of the Essex-Hudson Greenway...
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