Dear Editor: As most readers of your publication know, Roseland Properties has submitted plans to the Weehawken Planning Board to build a mega-development on Weehawken’s waterfront. Many citizens of the township and citizen’s groups are opposing the proposed development in its current form, which includes high-rise residential and office towers set upon contaminated soil, which we are told will be “capped” with a liner and 18 inches worth of soil to make it safe for humans. Enough about the specifics of the development, though. I am here to write about what occurred at the Weehawken Planning Board meeting on Thursday, January 13. The developer’s fiscal impact expert was being crossed examined by James Segreto, an attorney representing Friends of the Weehawken Waterfront, a citizen’s group opposing the development. During this cross-examination, the fiscal impact expert revealed that he had had a meeting in December 1999, in the Weehawken Municipal Building, with Thomas Dunn, the attorney for the Weehawken Planning Board; others were at this meeting as well, (according to Mayor Turner, he was not present.) At this meeting, the fiscal impact expert was given the name of a real estate appraiser, who has many clients in Hudson County on both the municipal and private side, to use as a resource when writing his report on fiscal impact. I always thought that a planning board and its attorney were supposed to be impartial. Mr. Dunn’s salary is being paid by the taxpayers of Weehawken, but I am wondering whose interests he is really serving? Thomas Kralik