Fair Lawn is a borough A Borough in the context of New Jersey local government refers to one of five types and one of eleven forms of municipal government in Bergen County Bergen County is the most populous county of the state of New Jersey, United States. As of the 2000 Census, the population was 884,118, growing to 904,037 as of the Census Bureau's 2006 estimate. It is part of the New York Metropolitan Area. Its county seat is Hackensack. Bergen County ranks 18th among the highest-income counties in the United, New Jersey New Jersey (pronounced /nuː ˈdʒɜrzi/ ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, and to the east by the Hudson River, Upper New York Bay, the Kill Van Kull, Newark Bay, the Arthur Kill, Raritan Bay, Sandy Hook Bay, Westchester County, New York City, Long Island, and the Atlantic Ocean, United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the. As of the United States 2000 Census The Twenty-Second United States Census, known as Census 2000 and conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2% over the 248,709,873 persons enumerated during the 1990 Census. This was the twenty-second federal census and the largest single civil, the borough population was 31,637. As of 2007[update], the Census Bureau estimated that the borough had a population of 30,783.[4]
Fair Lawn was incorporated as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature The New Jersey Legislature is the legislative branch of the government of the U.S. state of New Jersey. In its current form, as defined by the New Jersey Constitution of 1947, the Legislature consists of two houses: the General Assembly and the Senate. The Legislature meets in the New Jersey State House, in the state capital of Trenton on March 6, 1924, as "Fairlawn", from portions of Saddle River Township.[8] The name was taken from Fairlawn, David Acker's estate home, that was built in 1865 and later became the Fair Lawn Municipal Building.[9] In 1933, the official spelling of the borough's name was split into its present two-word form as "Fair Lawn" Borough.[8]
Radburn, one of the first planned communities A new town, planned community or planned city is a city, town, or community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed in a previously undeveloped area. This contrasts with settlements that evolve in a more ad hoc fashion in the United States, is an unincorporated community located within Fair Lawn, and was founded in 1929 as "a town for the motor age".[10]
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