On December 14, 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 (AINR). Strangely – and without explanation – Resolution 312-2021 which makes this request to the Planning Board BEGINS by citing the existence of the American Legion Drive AINR – suggesting that the two AINRs are connected. (Click Here to review that resolution)
Town Planner Keenan Hughes completed his Beverly Road AINR investigation just 3 months later – on March 20, 2022. On April 14, 2022 the Teaneck Planning Board reviewed Hughes’ AINR investigation:
The Beverly Road municipal parking lots (primarily its cracked pavement) to see if it constituted a threat to the safety, health and welfare and morals of Teaneck residents; and

And that night (April 14) the PB spent nearly all of its 1-hour meeting 1) hearing Hughes explain his AINR investigation reports and 2) conducting what the Chair defined as a G&W session (instead of the required public hearing) prior to its vote.
Residents 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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