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Along the narrow 18 feet wide side roads?”

The Pemberton Township police director pointed out that the roadways in the area of Mirror Lake “are somewhat meandering with limited sight distance.”

Hornickel also disputed CNTPA’s account to council that the parade would only take some 10 minutes to pass through any given point, contending “the time distance between the first and last tractors as reported to us by the CNTPA would be about 30 minutes.”

Some 80 intersections, he emphasized, would be along the parade route, and maintained, “at 6 mph, the traveling tractors would certainly arouse the anger of motorists along the route waiting to travel either of those roads.”

Hornickel, who also emailed this newspaper a statement from Patriarca, noted that the Pemberton Township mayor did not have the “proposed route in hand nor had he had an opportunity to discuss the proposed route with the police chief and EMS coordinator/fire chief” when he “expressed support for the event.”

“My support of the parade and even assisting in identifying a resting area on township property does not mean that the parade organizers and participants are not subject to the safety concerns of the OEM coordinator and chief of police who both have indicated that the parade route proposed by the association would not be safe with available resources,” said

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would be required, although there is always the possibility such an about face could be challenged in a court of law.

“There’s nothing in our rules that preclude someone from trying to resolve an issue by Patriarca in the statement. “For this reason, an alternative route was proposed by the police chief, but the parade organizers were not interested in entertaining it.”

Hornickel also included the letters sent by Watters and Augustoni, with the police chief, in his correspondence, contending that Gina Lounsberry told him there would only be 50 fire policemen available, and after speaking with the head of the Fire Police Association, learned there would only be 12 fire policemen “to cover the streets” both before and after the planned break. The police chief also describes an “extreme safety risk” he believed would be posed to spectators due to the lack of sidewalks and possibly that vehicles might try to pass the tractors, warning of potentially “devastating results.”

Allen, just before the vote, asserted that he “doesn’t want it to get lost in translation that Pemberton Township does not want this great parade for the township,” but that “our emergency management coordinator has concerns.” He emphasized council is “not saying ‘no’” by tabling a decision, but is “suggesting an alternate route over safety concerns,” pointing to the chief’s use of words such as “serious” in his letter.

Burton added that she “hopes we can work with them in the future.” But Bob Lounsberry was emphatic in telling this newspaper that after this experience, so long as he is in charge, “I don’t think I ever will” consider Pemberton Township again for the parade, “at least as not as long as Chief Watters is there.”

“I don’t think he wants us there to tell you the truth,” he declared. “I am pretty sure he made up his mind when I first met him.”

submitting additional information,” he explained. “But at some point, an applicant is going to recognize they’re not resolving or able to address the issue (by continuing to do so).”

Should the applicant in this case request that the matter be referred to the NJ OAL, however, that wouldn’t be the end of it, Horner noted, since the administrative

The farmer further criticized the Pemberton Township police chief, maintaining that the “one thing he didn’t take into account is that his residents have common sense.”

Hornickel, at the June 1 council meeting, in regard to the concerns expressed about Watters, called the latter a “prudent chief.”

“And as a ‘prudent chief,’ he is not going to sign something that he doesn’t get a chance to read and vet,” Hornickel declared. “So that is what he did – he took a copy of the map and then went down to the OEM/fire chief and they both talked it over. And both of them had the same concerns. It’s not like one said this is going to be a problem, and the other said it isn’t.”

The police chief, in his letter, wrote that his “intention is not to interrupt what seems like an event that our community would enjoy,” but that he has “serious concerns about the safety of the participants, the spectators and the general public.”

Bob Lounsberry also maintained to this newspaper that he never met Augustoni, or heard from him, and pointed to a section of Augustoni’s letter in which he wrote “‘being familiar with this event, the one obvious item that must be taken into account is that this parade in all the other townships does not move through a residential area, but mostly through wide roadways.’”

“He didn’t do his homework,” Bob Lounsberry declared. “That guy is so wrong. All he had to do is call me, talk to me.”

Among those who called this newspaper in the last week to describe their “devastation” was a heartbroken man who described that Mirror Lake kids don’t have much to look forward to, but 100 tractors going by their

law judge’s decision would only be a recommendation subject to a vote by the 15 members of the Pinelands Commission. In contrast to a regular commission hearing that would be conducted by a commission staff member, however, the hearing that would follow the ruling by the OAL judge would be presided over by that same judge, which would eliminate the concern about homes “would get them off their computer for an hour” and “wouldn’t cost them a penny.”

Adams, in his initial remarks to council, noted that the tractor parade “has gotten to be quite a community event” and that when “the word has gotten out, residents along those roadways (that are part of the selected route) will develop a picnic for that day and camp out in the front yard and the kids and everybody just enjoy us coming through.”

“We’ve even had freeholders (now referred to as county commissioners) that have driven in the parade, so apparently, they must think it is good thing,” Bob Lounsberry later told this newspaper.

Patriarca, prior to the item being tabled, declared “don’t get me wrong,” pointing out that “I’ve seen the parade” when it came down on Arneys Mount Road (where his residence is located) about 10 years ago, and it was “an awesome display of machinery.”

“I love the parade, and my grandkids love the parade,” he added.

McCartney acknowledged “in hindsight” the police chief and emergency manager should have conversed with the association in February “which would have prevented all this,” but that “unfortunately, that didn’t happen this year.”

“I am little disappointed we may not have a tractor parade,” Detrick declared. I am still trying to be hopeful. Being a tractor driver myself (some time ago), I really would have liked to have seen it. I know I have a grandson who goes nuts over one tractor, so a parade of 100 tractors would have been fantastic.”

the commission staff having a conflict of interest by virtue of being too involved in the case.

The vote taken in such a case, Horner added, would not be in the context of a public hearing in which outsiders could take part, but rather a judicial proceeding that members of the public would simply be free to attend and observe.

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