MONTCLAIR, NJ – One of Montclair’s resident celebrities, stage and television actress Janet Hubert, was the star of her own show at the Montclair firehouse.
On September 23, Hubert organized and led a community meeting to deal with the plans for an eight-unit townhouse development at 400 Orange Road, the site of the former Wallwood Gardens nursery. Hubert, whose house is across from Wallwood Gardens, and several of her neighbors have been opposed to the planned development, and many of them feel that the Montclair Zoning Board of Adjustment and Planning Director Janice Talley have been unresponsive to their concerns about the developer, who is a defendant in two lawsuits. Hubert had her lawyer, Clarence Bauknight, present.
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Hubert noted that when she came to Montclair, she had nothing to her name upon settling in the working-class South End, and now she finds herself dealing with the town and with a developer at a good deal of expense. She acknowledged that many people think her celebrity has made her well off.