Last week Michael Perrone, president of the Belleville Historical Society, published an informative (and sobering) post about the rampant overdevelopment in Belleville. Perrone has been a frequent critic of this overdevelopment.While it's all very nice that the Township is getting lump payments from developers to be used for things like parks, what good will those parks be if people take their lives in their hands crossing the street because of all the traffic. How will school-age feel when their classes continue to get bigger, which even outgoing schools superintendent Dr. Richard Tomko tried to warn Belleville about?Back in 2018, Perrone wrote a two-part piece for Essex Watch, Belleville Watch's parent site. The piece was about then 4th ward councilman Michael Melham's nearly-realized plan to declare Belleville's entire Valley section an area of need of redevelopment with possible condemnation powers. This, despite many of the properties having active businesses and/or residents. That piece is linked below.essexwatch.com/blog/7034/melhams-valley-redevelopment-fiasco/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3kM1by7M...www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02m1arN549iBYLLh3AFDxJdUUaMQwLdZ35CZQ4DniEgpVBFeMY...... See MoreSee Less