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[email protected] SEVENTY FIVE CENTS WF Board Approves 16-Townhouse Development at Grove and Myrtle By DELL SIMEONE said there is a plateau there that Mr. Quinn also said there would Specially Written for The Westfield Leader drops off six feet, and it is adjacent be two ingresses and two egresses, WESTFIELD – The Westfield to isolated wetlands. He said there and 37 off-street parking spaces on Board of Adjustment on Tuesday is the Garwood brook there that the site. He said there would be a night approved a 16-townhouse de- cuts into the corner of one of the retaining wall along the Garwood velopment at the corner of Grove lots in question. He also said there line that would be six feet high and Street and Myrtle Avenue. is a flood hazard elevation, but there five feet off the property line. A principal in C.W.M.&P., the has been no flood study and there is Westfield Town Planner Bill Drew applicant, is David L. Kervick, an a culvert on the other side. The said that for every foot of wall height attorney-developer. applicant has not yet sought a flood there has to be a foot of setback. Mr. Tom Quinn, site engineer for the hazard permit from the New Jersey Quinn said we would address that applicant, showed the board an Department of Environmental Pro- issue.