In December 2021 Council asked the Planning Board to do an investigation of whether the municipal parking lots along Beverly Road behind the Cedar Lane shops to the east of Garrison were an Area In Need of Redevelopment. Importantly, the Resolution 312-2021 which makes this request to the Planning Board BEGINS with citation of the American Legion Drive AINR – suggesting that the two AINRs would be connected.
Planner Keenan Hughes completed his Beverly Road AINR investigation on March 22. On April 14, 2022 the Teaneck Panning Board reviewed two AINR investigation reports conducted by Hughes:
1 ) the Beverly Road municipal parking lots (cracked pavement and all) to see if it constituted a threat to the safety, health and welfare and morals of Teaneck residents; and
2) the Block 6002 Lot 3 (359 Alfred Ave. – formerly he Ledoux metallurgical testing facility) constituted a threat to the safety, health and welfare and morals of Teaneck residents because it was not like other modern industrial facilities.
And that night (April 14) the PB spent nearly all of its 1-hour meeting hearing Hughes explain his AINR investigation reports and conducting a G&W session (instead of the required public hearing) prior to its vote. Any resident interested in how fraught/improper were the Planning Board’s AINR investigation review procedures should take the 45 minutes – beginning at 9min of the video (Click Here) – to hear what occurred at that PB meeting
In the end, the PB unanimously followed the lead of Chairman Bodner and recommended to Council that the 2 designations be made.
In Resolution 148-2022 on May 31, Council did so designate the Beverly Road lots an AINR.

Perhaps most important, interested residents should review the Hughes investigation report – since the Town has subsequently already remedied what Hughes found to be blighted about the Beverly Road lots

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