Who is paying for the consultant hired to do the environmental impact studies of the downtown dorm? Were they hired to just do financial feasibility studies or a full environmental impact? Parking,

congestion, 200 bus trips a day over the four miles between down town and the campus etc..... The township of Montclair? or the developer?

I for one feel this level of congestion is too great a price. All legal parking on orange road and Hillside Avenue that is used by parents of the Community Pre K and Hillside during drop off and pick up and residents will be taken by college students; If parking rules

are changed there to keep students out of the parking spaces you keep parents out of those spaces during drop off and pick up too. (A problem now being experienced by the parents and residents around the

Bradford school; an area l complicated by the presence of MSU and without dorms. These students will board their busses making a total of 200 trips to campus joining the existing school bus traffic complicating the safety of walkers trying to get across Bloomfield

Avenue from Park Street, Orange Road to get to Hillside etc. Without the dorms it is busy and congested and sometimes dangerous already.

The scale of the proposed dorm building is 8 stories (way out of scale of anything there now). Capstone development, experts at building these dorms will be building the dorms if they proceed. This is a

company very experienced with exactly this task. If you were going to develop a dormitory in a downtown area they are who you would want to do it. Visit their website it is impressive. However all of their

projects without exception if you look at their financials page on their website all have built into the deal selling the property back to the University after a designated period of time. Our downtown

commercial space should never not ever become state owned under any circumstances and I hope the consultants who are paid by the 37,000 taxpayers are doing their job right now; I hope they are looking for

ways to be the only exception to Capstones mode of doing business.

Selling the development back to the University after 20 years if this project goes forward.