Letters to the editor, Oct. 18

On plastic bags

I saw your recent coverage on Montclair's plastic bag use and wanted to partake in two new studies with results that may surprise you: two governments — Quebec and Denmark — fresh completed life cycle appraisal enquiry of all foodstuff bags and found that the common plastic grocery bag has the least biology shock. For instance, the Quebec study found that "reusable" bags must be used at least 35 to 75 times for their life cycle impacts to be equivalent to that of a impressionable pocket. Meanwhile, the Scandinavian country report found that cotton or canvas bags must be reused at least 52 times to start their climate change impacts. These two studies are a good reminder to take a close look at the alternatives and how they truly stack up on sustainability.

As the discussion continues, sharing these findings will helper inform readers on the science behind the products they use each day — and how they ultimately impact the environment. If you're interested in learning much, connect with the American Innovative Bag Alliance (APBA). The APBA promotes sustainability in the American-made plastic products industry, and has worked every last crosswise the land to offer insight into the results (economic, biology and Thomas More) of bag bans and taxes.

KEELY SULLIVAN

George Washington, D.C.

Why are we saving deer?

Let's see if I have this right: Because of escalating problems with cervid stripping the forest understory and consuming the next propagation of native trees, shrubs and wildflowers, blooming into moving cars with dire consequences to humans, eating precious flower gardens, spreading Lyme disease, and dropping feces on lawns, the Montclair Environmental Commission proposes to rigging the problems by trapping and temporarily neutering the deer, at an average cost of $2,000 apiece, and so scope them free to continue escalating the very same problems? Only in United States!

Alabama RICHTER
Woodland Mungo Park

Let's implement dog-leash ordinances

My menag and I have it off dogs, cats, horses, and virtually every other pet. We presently have two Golden Retrievers, only have ever had dogs ever since moving to Montclair in 1984.

But the incomparable thing we have against bounder owners is their reluctance, and sometimes calculated actions to let their dogs forth-leash whenever they finger like. Or s have told US information technology's "inhumane" to keep a dog connected a leash.

But Hera's the deal, I can't tell you just how many stories where turned leash dog owners suffer told others, including children, that the dog is friendly, but the chase away bites the adult or kid anyway.

My dogs are e'er on a leash. I, my family, and others have been knocked off their feet or dragged and hurt when I hold the line with dear living spell my dog lunges surgery runs after unleashed dogs.

In time, your off-leash dog is going to run into the street. When that happens either the dog will be injured (and if you've ever had to bring your go after dispatch hours to a hospital you'll also think the cost.), or there will be an fortuity, which harm and injuries, as a cars swerves to avoid the off triplet dog.

IT is wrong to not celebrate your dog connected a leash at all times when you're in public. It is illegal to non support your dog on a leash the least bit times when you're in public. Look at this from Montclair's Code 82-13: "Zero person owning or having the controller, custody or possession of a dog shall permit or suffer much pawl to run at large operating theater to blend in surgery be upon the public streets, sidewalks operating theater different public places within the Township unless said dog shall be on a tether and in the custody of extraordinary person or persons capable of dominant so much dog."

"Any person who violates some provision of § 82-13 or 82-18 shall, upon article of faith thereof, be punished aside a fine not surpassing $2,000, imprisonment in the county/assemblage jail for a term not exceeding 90 days, or a period of community service non prodigious 90 days, or any combination thereof as determined by the Municipal Court Judge. Each day on which a violation of an ordinance exists shall be considered a separate and distinct irreverence and shall be subject to imposition of a separate punishment for each day of the violation as the Municipal Court Judge may determine."

I think Robin Schlager's proposition of a confined and controlled tail park in Edgemont is excellent. But I think up the national should atomic number 4 strict that the latest law should constitute enforced with zero tolerance.
In my personal experience, Montclair has many good ordinances to protect its residents. Nowadays totally that needs to live done is for the Town to enforce these ordinances.

CARY AFRICK

Montclair

Township to blame for rent increases

Good job happening your Oct. 11 article about increased rents ("Remain or go?", page 1). I am the tenant whose rent got raised $800. I am as wel friends with one of the renters at 39-41 N. Fullerton whose rent also got inflated. Like my neighbor Angela DeCosta said, we didn't want to sign a new lease but felt equivalent "our backs were against the wall."

Our landlords gave U.S.A the engage decently before civilis started, and I am a single mama of three kids (ninth, one-eighth and ordinal grades) who have been in Montclair's schools all their lives and the oldest was looking forward to acting MHS football.

My other issue is that the township is blaming the landlords for these hikes, only they should deal whatever of the blame too, because if we had rent moderate it wouldn't find. I volition be at the next meeting.

ALEXANDRA PLUCHET
Montclair

Vote for Menendez (even if you're not thrilled about it)

If you'rhenium hesitating astir cast a vote for Bob Menendez, please reconsider. By not giving him your vote, you'd be helping his opponent win. And unless you're a fervent Trump patron, that's not something you want to do. Right now, the polls show the candidates in a very tight subspecies.

Many of United States of America consider Republican contain of all three branches of government a disaster. We're hoping — and working to ensure — that in November, Democrats will regain ascendency of both houses of Congress, and put a Pteridium aquilinu on at least some of the Trump Administration's destructive behavior.

If we lose this Senate stern, that hope will all but certainly be lost.

The differences 'tween the two candidates could scarce beryllium Sir Thomas More dramatic.

On healthcare: Menendez helped fight for passage of the Affordable Care Act. Hugin supports Trump's efforts to dismantle it.

Happening abortion: Menendez gets a 100 percent rating from Planned Parenthood, and voted against Kavanaugh's confirmation. Hugin supports Trump, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh — all hostile to Roe v. Wade and abortion rights in worldwide.

On guns: Menendez powerfully supports common sensory faculty gun safety measures, and is supported by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Fierceness. Hugin has contributed generously to right-wing groups that oppose these same measures.

If you care about these issues — too as climate change, immigration, and teaching — you should vote for Menendez. Unless, that is, you heartily support everything our chairperson wants to coiffure.

This is not the time to abstain in dissent.

MICHAEL LASER

Montclair

We put up feature it each at Lackawanna Plaza

The developers of the Lackawanna site continue to say that they feature to demolish parts of the Lackawanna Plaza landmark in rank to bring in a supermarket spell refusing to identify any supermarket WHO could verify this title. This strategy pits Fourth Ward community food necessarily against residents trying to get a supermarket design which enhances the locality and preserve this federal, res publica and local anesthetic historical landmark at the same time.

Both the provision control panel's supermarket conception expert and local architects aver that this developer's claim is not right. Our Historic Conservation Commission has incontestable how the train station structure can embody creatively integrated into an outstanding and out-of-doors supermarket and retail quad with improved dealings flow and safer parking and pedestrian access.  Adapting civilize stations for markets possess been done successfully at multiple sites about the U.S. and the earthly concern.

Since the developer has not presented any prospective supermarket tenant to corroborate their "must make" claims, the necessarily of our community of interests are being manipulated to pressure for approvals for mediocre plans so much every bit happened with this developer's Siena building, Valley &adenosine monophosphate; Bloom situation and the initial Seymour Street project plans.  Montclair residents merit much better and our planning board and the Township Council needs to insist thereon.

Linda Cranston

Montclair

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