The 2006 Master Plan reexamination Environment General Recommendation #17 to conduct a build-out analysis to determine at what point our growth tips the scale and the environmental costs become too high was not implemented.
The evidence that we have surpassed the tipping point is overwhelming. Revised ordinances require the installation of very expensive sophisticated water retention and filtration systems for any construction project, to combat flooding caused by the increase in impervious coverage in Montclair and surrounding towns coupled with increasing storm intensity. Impervious coverage has increased exponentially due to the Planner’s actions to undermine the Environmental goals of the community, which in turn has exponentially increased the cost of living.
The installation of expensive stormwater infrastructure is borne by buyers and renters. Developers build that cost into their pricing structure.
Conservation recommendation #7 added by the 2016 reexamination report shifted the recommendation to the Environmental Commission, and twenty years later, this analysis has still not been accomplished.
The Planner has failed to implement every essential recommendation in favor of overdevelopment that ultimately transfers wealth from the community to out-of-town developers.
Read Part X, the next installment in the series Planning for Failure: Conclusion – Part X of Planning for Failure
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