September 29, 2010 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 25 Park Windmill Baseball association to meet The Midland Park Baseball Association will hold its monthly baseball meeting on Monday, Oct. 4 at 7:30 p.m. at the Midland Park Public Library. Coaches and parents are encouraged to attend. For more information, e-mail midlandparkbaseball@gm ail.com. MPFD to host Open House The Midland Park Volunteer Firefighters will host the Annual Open House on Wednesday, Oct. 6 for Fire Prevention Week 2010. The National Fire Protection Association has designated the theme for this year’s program, “Smoke Alarms: A Sound You Can Live With!” The Open House is hosted for elemen- tary school children (and younger) and their families. The MPFD will have educational activities and fire truck rides from 7 to 9 p.m. at fire headquarters, 45 Witte Drive. Board of education meets The Midland Park Board of Education will meet on Tuesday, Oct. 5 at 8 p.m. The meeting will be held in the August C. DePreker Media Center at Highland Elementary School. Church hosts Garage Sale The Midland Park United Methodist Church, 269 Godwin Avenue, will hold a Garage Sale Saturday, Oct. 2 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Shoppers may also purchase baked goods, soup, sausages, meat balls, and hot dogs. CAA debunks pet food myths Companion Animal Advocates will hold a free education presentation, Pet Food Myths Debunked, at the Midland Park Library on Tuesday, Oct. 5 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. CAA, Dr. Fischer, and Susan Weinrich will provide information about making the best nutritional choices for your pets. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions. For more information, or to register, call (201) 706-7666, or visit www. CompanionAnimalAdvocates.org. The Midland Park Memorial Library is located at 250 Godwin Avenue. Shred Day set Residents who have confidential personal papers they would like to destroy are invited to Midland Park’s Free Mobile Paper Shredding Event, scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 13 in the municipal parking lot, 280 Godwin Avenue from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. The event is geared to preventing identity theft and saving trees by recycling. All paper documents will be shredded on site. No binders, plastic, metal or X-rays are permitted. Hardcover books, magazines, newspapers and photographs are not acceptable as well. For more information or directions, call borough hall at (201) 445-5720. The program is sponsored by the Bergen County Utilities Authority. Fall tennis program offered Midland Park Recreation is offering a fall tennis program for children in kindergarten through grade nine. Sessions will be held at the Dairy Street Tennis Courts on Saturday mornings, Oct. 2 through 23. Fourth through sixth grade (intermediate) and seventh through ninth grade (advanced) classes will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. A clinic for students in kindergarten through third grade will be held from noon to 1 p.m. The cost is $40 per child, with a $70 maximum per family. Classes are designed to make learning tennis an enjoyable experience using skill-building drills, which teach players basic skills and rules of the game. Registration forms may be downloaded at mpjn.com. For more information, call (201) 652-2747. Softball association to meet The Midland Park Softball Association will meet on Thursday, Oct. 7 at 7 p.m. in the Midland Park Public Library. Association President Mike Sasso urges all parents to attend this meeting. The library is located at 250 Godwin Avenue. MPHS Class of 1970 plans reunion The Midland Park High School Class of 1970 is holding its 40th Class Reunion on Saturday, Nov. 27 at the Hotel Westminster in Livingston. Reunion organizers still have 35 classmates missing. To attend the event, class members may call (973) 477-2492 or e-mail MPHS40thClassReunion@gmail. com. Tap dance classes for seniors available Tap dancing classes for seniors are held every morning at the Northwest Bergen Regional Senior Center, 46-50 Center Street Midland Park. Classes range in skill level from beginner to performing level. Call the senior center for more information and class schedules. The Senior Center is open to all Bergen County residents age 60 and up. Call (201) 445-5690 for further information. Master plan (continued from page 12) reexamination. The borough commissioned the preparation of this master plan reexamination earlier this year in order to address certain land use issues facing the borough. The reexamination report includes five sections. One outlines major problems and objectives relating to land development in the municipality at the time of the adoption of the last reexamination report, and another describes the extent to which such problems and objectives have been reduced or have increased subsequent to that date. A third section discusses the extent to which there have been significant changes in the assumptions, policies, and objectives forming the basis for the master plan or development regulations as last revised, with particular regard to the density and distribution of population and land uses, housing conditions, circulation, conservation of natural resources, energy conservation, collection, disposition and recycling of designated recyclable materials, and changes in state, county, and municipal policies and objectives. A fourth section sets forth the recommended changes to the master plan or development regulations, including the underlying objectives, policies, and standards, or whether a new plan or regulations should be prepared. The fifth section sets forth the recommendations of the planning board concerning the incorporation of redevelopment plans adopted pursuant to the Local Redevelopment and Housing Law into the land use plan element of the municipal master plan, with recommended changes, in the local development regulations necessary to effect the redevelopment plans of the municipality. The report indicates there are some issues facing the borough, such as the fact that the amount of vacant and underused land in the community has been substantially reduced due to continued residential development. In addition, the report states that the borough’s central business district could benefit from improvements, and there is a need to maintain the viability of the non-residential tax base. In addition, the report states that changes to the borough’s zoning map are needed to address inconsistencies between land use classifications, zoning designations, and actual land uses. There has also been an ongoing need to respond to changes in state affordable housing mandates, and, more broadly, changes in economy have had impacts at the local level, the document states. The document includes recommendations for both small and large changes that can be implemented through amendments to the borough’s zoning ordinances. Key ideas and initiatives in the report include: certain modifications to the master plan’s goals and objectives to reflect current conditions; the borough’s recently adopted Environmental Resource Inventory has been incorporated into the master plan with particular emphasis on its resource protection goals; an “Existing Zoning Map” has been prepared that accurately shows all of the zoning districts in the municipality, including the MF-AH1 multi-family affordable housing district, the MF-AH2 senior citizen multi-family affordable housing district; the REC recreation zones have been mapped; and the two lots at the end of Tice Road that were recently rezoned from I-2 to RB are shown in their new zoning district. The report also recommends the name of the MF-AH2 zone be amended to reflect the change in status of the development in that zoning district that resulted from a recent change in state law. In addition, the report recommends that the existing RB retail business zone be divided into two separate zones that better reflect the particular characters of those zones, and various changes are proposed to the use and bulk standards for one of those new zones known as the RB-1 district. Another recommendation would have the rear portion of the Franklin Crossing Shopping Center, which is currently located in the I-1 zone, placed in the same zone as the front portion of the property which is retail business, or the new RB-1 zone if such a zone is created. The document also recommends that the borough’s two existing industrial zones be consolidated into one zone that would retain the I-1 industrial designation, and a number of changes are suggested for the permitted uses in this zone. 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