Nishuane Park Deed Does Not Preclude Water Well
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Nishuane Park was given to Montclair more than a 70 years ago as public land, but there are no restriction’s preventing the township from building a proposed water treatment facility on that land, officials said. Township attorney Ira Karasick said on Tuesday there is no language in the parkland’s deed which explicitly restricts the construction of a water treatment facility in Nishuane Park near the intersection of Orange Road and High Street. “That deed has no language in it -- that I can see -- restricting the use of that property,” said Karasick. Nishuane Park and Cary’s Woods are divided into six lots and governed by different deeds. While parts of Cary’s Woods, given to the township in 1935, has a condition of being used as a “…
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Townie
1:05 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
@D-Zone asks "How does the law work? Does the law support the beliefs of residents/taxpayers?" These are philosophical questions. Your comment further above was not philosophical, you wrote that you doubted Ira Karasick's "legal observation". I assume you mean "legal opinion". A deed is a legal document that states some contractual relationship or grants some rights to the use of a property. … more ›