Dear Editor: The North Bergen Board of Education will be launching a public relations offensive to get the community to give up 10-12 acres of parkland in the northwest corner of James J. Braddock/North Hudson Park in order to build a new 3 or 4 story high school. They will be polling only some residents of North Bergen asking for feedback. If they really want to know what the community thinks, they should have a public meeting on the subject and invite the residents of all of Hudson County to express their views. After all, North Hudson Park does not belong to North Bergen, but to all county residents and any decision affects all of us. Regardless of the need for a new school, (I don’t know if they need it or not), I argue that the park is not the place for it. We all know that Hudson County is overdeveloped and overpopulated and, in fact, Hudson County’s Strategic Revitalization Plan indicates that we should “increase land dedicated to parks and open space by 5 percent by 2005 and 10 percent by 2010.” Yet, the town of North Bergen wants to take Aonly 7 percent” of the existing parkland for a non-recreational use that will benefit only a handful of residents. In addition, the impact on the surrounding area will be quite significant as they must ask the Dept. of Transportation to reroute vehicular traffic around the structure, thereby eliminating the park’s northern entrance. They are required by Green Acres law to replace parkland with “lands of equal or greater market value and of reasonably equivalent size, quality, location and usefulness for recreation and conservation purposes.” Therefore, they have found a parcel of undeveloped marshland located off the New Jersey Turnpike in Secaucus that has no road access and obviously does not meet the above-mentioned Green Acres criteria. The Friends of Hudson County’s Braddock Park are asking County Executive Robert Janiszewski and the mayors of Hudson County’s towns to stop this shocking land grab and to urge the North Bergen Board of Education to explore other alternatives to this devastating plan. P. Keefe