Wyckoff September 21, 2011 THE VILLADOM TIMES I • Page 5 ShopRite hearing postponed until September 28 The scheduled hearing on the Inserra application for construction of a ShopRite supermarket at the A&P/Walgreen’s site in Wyckoff was cancelled at the last minute last week due to illness. Planning Board Sectary Sue Schilstra said that Gail Price, the attorney representing Stop & Shop, which has raised objections to construction of a major competitor, had called in sick just before the Sept. 14 meeting. A special meeting of the Wyckoff Planning Board to hear the continuation of the ShopRite application has been scheduled for Sept. 28. The Inserra ShopRite legal and professional team recently completed its case after about a year. The applicant has agreed to several changes requested by Wyckoff officials for a more harmonious appearance and more shade trees. Objections from rival Stop & Shop and from the Hekemian Company, landlords of nearby the Boulder Run Shopping Center, and from interested Wyckoff residents, will be considered at future meetings. The major impact of the ShopRite plan so far, according to at least some residents, has been the closing of the Department of Motor Vehicles office that was located in a strip mall diagonally across the parking lot from the defunct A&P, which has been closed for almost a decade. The subject property is located at Wyckoff and Greenwood avenues. The proposed 62,042-square-foot ShopRite would replace a vacant 53,500-squate foot building that occupies one side of a large parking lot. The ShopRite plans, which call for 1,130 new shade trees and shrubs, have been reviewed by the Wyckoff Shade Tree Commission and the Wyckoff Design and Review Commission. The Wyckoff groups recommended a change in exterior to comport with Wyckoff’s general atmosphere, and Inserra complied. Inserra became the long-term lessee of the 7.6-acre site in 2009. James Jaworski, the attorney who is representing the applicant, previously stated that the plans call for a modern-day supermarket that has been designed to fit into the surrounding community and “accords with the zoning setbacks and buffers required from nearby residential neighborhoods.” J. KOSTER