Since Mayor Meir Lichtenstein is just DYING for his name to be in the Media, I figured I’ll help him out a bit..

APP:

A legal opinion on whether the township can make its downtown a no-stopping zone — effectively banning day laborers from lining up for work — could be ready in a couple of weeks.”Hopefully, we’ll have something prepared for us by the end of the month,” Mayor Meir Lichtenstein said at last week’s Township Committee meeting.Lichtenstein said township attorney Steven Secare and Public Safety Director Al Peters have been researching the proposed ordinance, which the township has pursued since last month, when it dropped a plan to create an official muster zone in a parking lot between Route 9 and Clifton Avenue.The new rule would likely ban stopping, standing, cruising, double-parking or picking people up in the downtown area, which usually includes the area of Clifton Avenue from Route 88 to Fifth Street.Issues that could have an affect on the ordinance could include whether delivery trucks could briefly double park or whether a driver could stop and pick up a spouse who had been shopping.Township officials say they must do something because downtown merchants often complain that men waiting for per-diem work can impede pedestrian traffic, intimidate customers and give the downtown a poor public image.