Morristown Daily Record
MORRISTOWN The operators of a Dehart Street bar are the latest to sue the township for inconsistencies in decisions and delays in getting public records.
Tashmoo Bar and Restaurant operators DeHart Associates and WCGP said Morristown s formula to determine its maximum occupancy load for their bar expansion is unreasonable, states the lawsuit filed in Morris County Superior Court. The bar also claims the town s clerk failed to honor requests for certificates of occupancy and other documents. Defendants’ arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable decision-making is worse than garden-variety incompetence, reads the lawsuit filed by the operators.
DeHart Associates has owned and operated Tashmoo for the last 15 years and in 2016, began the process to expand into the adjacent lot at 10 DeHart Street. Bar owner Billy Walsh is not named as a plaintiff in the lawsuit.
Morristown Daily Record
MORRISTOWN The township failed to hand over public records requested through the Open Public Records Act in a timely manner, claims a lawsuit filed by a developer.
Speedwell LLC, in its lawsuit, states the documents it requested are wanted to show “apparent corruption” by the town in connection with development in the Speedwell area.
Also known as Speedwell Associates, the builder filed the complaint in Morris County Superior Court in response to the town s failure to provide all the documents requested, which caused an eight-month delay in the records request. This is the second time the developer sued the town. The suit seeks a series of documents related to the sale of three publicly owned parcels of land at 104 Speedwell Ave. and 90 – 96 Speedwell Ave. to developer Mill Creek Residential in 2012, 2015 and 2016.