Officially, the Zoning Board is not legally supposed to consider whether a facility is tax-paying or not. Unofficially, that's another story.
There's lots of reasons to deny the application, and I have little doubt that it will be denied. The only question is what happens when the applicant sues the city. There really needs to be massive public testimony.
I saw the opposition's flyer, and I completely disagree with their tactics. The final meeting is not the time to sit there are read a book.
Every single person in objection needs to do one little thing. Get on line to speak, stand up to the microphone, state their name and address, and state that they are opposed to the application. That's it, easy, done. If they don't want to elaborate, it'll all be over in 10 or 15 seconds or less of public speaking. Everyone should be told that they can handle that, and that they need to do it for the betterment of Hackensack. The more names on record as testifying in objection, the more it will influence the court. It doesn't matter if each objector is repeating the same thing. NUMBERS OF SPEAKERS IN OPPOSITION is the only thing that counts, and if they only speak 10 seconds each, that's not a problem.