Late Breaking NJ Shade Tree Scandal.........
Four-Bedroom House Stuck on N.J. Street
Jun 23, 5:56 PM (ET)
CHATHAM TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - A four-bedroom house will continue to block a road at least until Thursday after becoming stuck when a truck moving it to a new lot up the street broke an axle. Police said on Wednesday afternoon that efforts to move the house would resume Thursday morning. The house became stuck on Tuesday.
But that was not the only problem facing its owner, Craig Rieck. Several neighbors were furious that Rieck had more than a dozen trees and countless limbs and branches cut down so he could move the house from its Meyersville Road lot to another site up the road.
Patric Hyland, administrator for the Morris County Shade Tree Commission, said Rieck only had permission to remove three branches on one tree, and questioned why entire trees were removed.
However, Rieck told the Daily Record of Parsippany that he had a permit that allowed him to remove trees within 25 feet of the center of Meyersville Road that blocked the Colonial's travel path.
"I didn't think we would have to move all the trees we had to remove, (but) until you get the house in the street, you don't know how big it will be," Rieck said.
He now lives in another home, but plans to sell that residence and move his family into the home he is moving.
Messages left Wednesday afternoon by The Associated Press for the shade tree commission and for Morris County Administrator James J. Rosenberg were not returned.
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