October 5, 2011 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 13 Wyckoff ShopRite hearings rescheduled for October by John Koster The Wyckoff Planning Board’s ongoing hearing of the Inserra application for a new ShopRite supermarket at the abandoned A&P site at Wyckoff and Greenwood avenues has been canceled due to the Jewish High Holy Days. The hearing will continue on Oct. 3 and continue on Oct. 27. Both meetings will begin at 7 p.m. at Wyckoff Town Hall. At press time, the Wyckoff Planning Board was considering another special meeting on the application, which has been before the board for more than a year. The Sept. 14 session was also canceled due to illness on the part of Gail Price, the attorney for Stop & Shop. Stop & Shop operates a large supermarket at the Boulder Run Shopping Center at the site of the former Grand Union Supermarket. Boulder Run is adjacent to the proposed ShopRite location. A&P, which was a competitor of Grand Union, closed more than a decade ago and the lot has stood largely unused except for a small strip mall that had included a Department of Motor Vehicles office, which recently closed. Stop & Shop is one of the objectors to the ShopRite application. The Hekemian Company which owns Boulder Run is also an objector, and neighbors have also raised some questions about the application. Inserra ShopRite concluded its formal presentation of the application after apparently answering all the planning board’s questions about parking, exits, and landscaping, and had changed the exterior design of the building in compliance with requests from the Wyckoff Design Review Committee. Leaf collections to begin next week Wyckoff’s annual autumn leaf pickup will begin Oct. 17 and will cycle through three rounds. In preparation for this year’s collection, Wyckoff Department of Public Works Director Scott Fisher encouraged residents to take advantage of the first two cycles and make sure not to hold back their fallen leaves for the third cycle. “Do not wait until late November or December to rake leaves to the curb,” Fisher urged last week. “Use rounds one and two for leaves already fallen.” Fisher said that leaves are to be raked to the edge of the lawn and spread along the entire frontage, but no leaves should be raked into the street. “Leaves must be free of branches and twigs,” he said. “If your leaves contain branches or twigs, they will not be collected,” Leaves must be kept at least 10 feet from storm sewer drains, Fisher added, and should not be raked to the curb more than seven days before the work crews are scheduled to arrive. Wyckoff Town Hall has schedules available for residents and will keep them updated. If the schedule is inconvenient, residents may wish to bring their own leaves to the township recycling area on West Main Street. “The goal of this effort is to collect leaves before the first snowfall,” Fisher said. “Residents should rake leaves in the first and second rounds. This will aid in getting the most leaves collected before the arrival of snow.” Fisher and the entire DPW crew recently received accolades from the Wyckoff Township Committee for their dedicated (continued on page 18) Inserra became the long-term lessee of the 7.6-acre site in 2009. The applicant is proposing a 62,042-square-foot ShopRite that would replace the vacant 53,500squate foot building that occupies one side of a large parking lot. James Jaworski, the attorney who is representing the applicant, previously said that the applicant is planning a modern-day supermarket designed to fit into the surrounding community and “accords with the zoning setbacks and buffers required from nearby residential neighborhoods.” Landscaping plans call for 1,130 new shade trees and shrubs.