Significantly lower taxes for everyone. Make the users of the services pay a fee. For example, the parents should be held responsible for the education of their children, including their "special needs" children. Wayne has the custom and policy of taxing the residents to pay for these freebies. The end result has been a total disaster, with home prices declining and businesses leaving.

Stop allowing a few whiny residents to prevent the development of quality tax ratables. When Loews wanted to build on route 23, they would've paid millions in taxes and created local jobs. But a few whiners from Packanack screamed and yelled that they would have to hear the store. You bought your house along a major highway! Stores get built on highways. Now Butler is getting all that tax money and we still have a busy, noisy highway, but without a huge tax ratble. The council needs to approve these stores that will help the whole town and stop listening to the few who chose their home location poorly.

So long as the political leadership of Wayne remains in the hands of those who would run the township as though it were a private club, there will be no need to anticipate any changes in the direction the township has historicaly been on.
Take as an example the conduct of council over the last few years where businesses who were attempting to conduct their activities under the rules and the laws found them selves the target of what came across as an anti business front of NO votes? Those who could afford it went to court and they were upheld by those courts, the township appealed and yet again the businesses were carried by the courts. What sort of message doe this send to many others who might consider doing business in any township who deliberately does things like this?
Look at the strip mall in Mountainview, time and again the area flooded, and despite the tens of millions of dollars the township got from FEMA we saw no improvement projects to mitigate the problem and 80% of those businesses after years have thrown it in, turn now to the Willowbrook Mall? Never mind...
Until the leadership in this town assumes the correct philosophy of being a partner with business and not a adversary there will be no incentive for entrepanuers to do business here in a marjet where other townships are competing for the same business.

IT'S TOO LATE PEOPLE! You had your chance to vote in a COMPETANT business/money man but instead chose a devout(proven) socialist. Now we all BURN!

It is not just the jobs that are lost but money not spent on local merchants or paying traffic tickets.

Poll should have had the Letter E: "ALL OF THE ABOVE' - Tax incentives for businesses to move here, Lower taxes, Do more to help small businesses AND Encourage development!

Unfortunately it's not only a local but state problem as well. With tax rates among the highest in the nation, why would you even consider starting a business in NJ or the Northeast for that matter since this state and others (NY, CT, Mass) are run primarily by the Democratic machine that is public sector/entitlement driven and not driven by individuality, accountability and entrepreneurship?

New Jersey, New York, California, and Illinois are all Anti-Capitalist states that discourage living and working in them. Literally, millions of people are leaving these states each year. Firms are relocating or originating in Florida, Nevada, and Texas. The are leaving due to tax rates that burden producers with taxes, and offer benefits to illegals, slugs, and socialistic actions. It's taxes and socialistic policies that are driving workers, firms, and investors to other states.

Corrected comment: New Jersey, New York, California, and Illinois are all Anti-Capitalist states that discourage living and working in them. Literally, millions of people are leaving these states each year. Firms are relocating or originating in Florida, Nevada, and Texas. These groups are leaving due to tax rates that burden producers, investors, labor, and firms with outrageous taxes, and offer benefits to illegals, slugs, and socialistic actions. It's taxes and socialistic policies that are driving workers, firms, and investors to other states.

Get rid of the fire inspection fees per square foot and occupancy. Outrageous for a town without a paid fire department.

You need to incentivize high tech or growing businesses to come here first. Be 'business friendly' and everything else comes with it. NYC is a growing tech corridor, attracting businesses that are growing should be easy and would not cost the township much at all.

We bow to the zekeman. There is however just a little more to the story than just the BAE job loss situation. Defense contractors are about to enter into an unprecedented round of job cuts. So what you are seeing is going to make this look like a walk in the park. Suggest you check google to see that Lockheed will be eliminating 25K jobs in the Washington DC area, just as the Pentagon begins cuts of 46K civilian employees of the militarty. Recession round 4. Consumer confidence dropped again. We have a systemic economic problem, it is not local to Wayne alone.

Wayne is not at fault here. If you want to cast blame look no further than President Obama.

What do you mean about geography? The lots that back up to where Loews was proposed are absolutely part of Packanack and it was almost entirely they, and other residents of Packanack, who killed the Loews proposal. Who cares if it was about noise or traffic? Route 23 is a major highway. If you live next to it, there is going to be traffic. Why should we all lose an excellent ratable because some in one neighborhood don't like that reality?

Whatever. Obviously I was off on the exact borders of Packanack proper. However, as Reasonsble pointed out, there were a small number of packanack who loudly opposed Loews due to potential associated traffic. My point was never against Packanack. The point is a small number of people, who chose to live in an area near a major highway, killed a legitimate business and great tax ratable for everyone else. The same was done on the other side of route 23 where a local business owner wanted to build a funplex on land he already owned, in a commercial area, along a major highway. People on nearby streets, who chose to buy lots that back up to a highway, complained. The town gave the businessman a hard time until it just wasn't worth it. Another great tax ratable in a zoned commercial area shot down because of a few whiners.

This is definately a buisness and taxpayer unfriendly Township. Wayne is in a state of fianancial meltdown. Buisnesses leaving, taxpayers leaving, houses in foreclosure and losing over 28 million in tax money from tax appeals this year alone. But they keep spending and hiring. Obviously cost increase we know tha but they are always hiring and purchasing alot of unneeded equipment and always hiring new people. How about getting by with less or increasing productivity from Township employees? Thats a novel idea! Get some of the high paid supevisors out on the road to supervise thier employees, not hard to find them look around 7-11, Dunkin Donuts, behind firehouses etc