In a separate lawsuit announced Tuesday against just Mahwah, the state Attorney General’s Office compared Mahwah’s officials to the “1950s-era ‘white flight’ suburbanites who sought to keep African-Americans from moving into their neighborhoods.”
The state lawsuit against Mahwah is different because the state Department of Environmental Protection is seeking to reclaim more than $3.4 million in Green Acres funds that Mahwah used for its parks.
The state’s lawsuit says the utility pole ordinance is akin to housing discrimination because it “Would interfere with the ability of observant Orthodox Jews to live in Mahwah, thereby denying them housing on the basis of religion.”
The state’s lawsuit makes no mention of recent action by the Mahwah council, which introduced a “No-knock” ordinance aimed at pushy real estate solicitors.
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