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At the minimum we can ask for flexibility. The current zoning allows these two unit boxes. It can be tweaked to allow 4 units with a more interesting design, like the R5 zoning did downtown. 4 units with a more interesting design is more profitable than a two unit Bayonne Box.

This is a the right direction, how to lever people without taking away their rights. If you allow more units if it conforms to some sort of aesthetic review, it's win win. We don't necessarily want to create what the conservators call "fake historic", but to create some guidelines to work within, like conform to the facade setback of the neighbors and have similar roofline. There's plenty of DT & Hoboken infill that has modern elements yet fits in to the streetscape.

Here's a question: Is the 4th st house below better or worse than a brickfaced BB for our streetscape? It wasn't cheap.

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For all of JC, assessments are way off -- they're 27% of market value. And most of that is downtown.

That didn't happen overnight; it's taken decades. There should be no question whatsoever that it is a tax break, and one that is unfair to our neighbors. Why should the rest of NJ help out JC, when its residents basically refuse to pay its taxes?
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i hear scumbag is looking at tweaking obama care and dodd-frank....not repealing it.

ACA can't be 'tweaked'. It's too far along in crashing, which was its goal by design: make single-payer the "only option".

I expect by 2017, record numbers of healthy people will just pay the fine.. or be smart, reduce their withholding enough that the IRS cannot collect the fine.

Insurance companies will be left with nothing but the sick. This btw is exactly what happened in NY, NJ, and VT when they did their own versions of Obamacare (minus the mandatory purchases of insurance).

Trump will have three choices:

1. Single-payer (IMO.. won't happen since Medicare is already cash flow negative).
2. Deregulate (repeal ACA and allow insurance to be purchased across state lines).
2. Move to something like a Singapore system (mandatory HSAs), but with a more open insurance market in option #2.

Trump signals flexibility on ObamaCare. Yeah, babby!
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/art ... e-citing-oval-office-talk

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I don't have a car in JC, but I definitely have noticed that the parking situation in the HP area has gotten worse over the last year or two.
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Why don't you guys give it 24 hours to relax before you start trying to drag down the next presidency?

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AlexC wrote:
If he wins, I hope you Trump supporters cashed in your IRA or SEP's or any stocks you have that are based on the Dow, SP500 or NASDAQ

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I hope to GOD he is our next president.

Hillary was a heavy favorite so I won't get too excited until he hits 270. But Trump is looking good so far.

A clear demonstration that the American people have risen up against "progressives," the bullshit they spew in our media, and political correctness. If he wins, it will be one of the greatest days in American history. Certainly the most rapid and unexpected political rise in American history.

Just like with Brexit?

Yvonne wrote:
Only in JC where one third of the population who live in tax abated buildings will vote to raise the taxes on the remaining 2/3 of the population. NOT one person in any tax abated building will an increase in rents/taxes if this goes through. The 1/3 figure in in the "friendly budget" on the municipal end and in the county figures.

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http://www.gicinc.org/PDFs/Jersey_City_Report.pdf



Planting trees on city streets, with no plan, is idiocy. Let's have REAL plans, and not just numbers.

This kind of reply is why I'm reluctant to post here. Read my paragraphs 3 and 7, survival is a priority within our initiative.

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Has Fulup backed any of the candidates so far?

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The plague, the printing press and Byzantine influence did more to rekindle western civilisation than the classics copied by the Irish monks - who arguably weren't even part of the Roman Catholic church.

To elaborate on your mention of Byzantium, far too little credit is given to the influence of the Islamic Golden Age, they were exploring math and science while the Church was keeping European princes at each others throats to consolidate their own power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age

Sadly, pogroms and genocide will continue while we have folks like Yvonne in our global idiocracy.

At least I don't hide behind a phony name trashing someone. Actually, ISIS terrorists do the same thing, they cover their faces when speaking on video. So you and ISIS are cut from the same cloth with your phony name.

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The plague, the printing press and Byzantine influence did more to rekindle western civilisation than the classics copied by the Irish monks - who arguably weren't even part of the Roman Catholic church.

To elaborate on your mention of Byzantium, far too little credit is given to the influence of the Islamic Golden Age, they were exploring math and science while the Church was keeping European princes at each others throats to consolidate their own power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age

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When the barbarians were going across Europe burning and tearing down institutions all knowledge was lost. However, they did not travel to Ireland. The Irish monks there saved Western Civilization because they had copies of manuscripts of Religion, Science, Philosophy, Mathematics, etc. You are clueless about what the Church has done and choose to remain in ignorance. Every civilization builds on the past, the Church was instrumental in the progress of mankind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Irish_Saved_Civilization

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Culture as we know it, art, music, architecture, science, universities, even law came from the Catholic Church. Robert Ballarmine wrote about the dignity of mankind. His writings were found in Thomas Jefferson library. Jefferson actually lifted his writing on the 3 different branches of government. The problem here, people do not know history.

The Ancient Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, Romans and Han Chinese say hi.

http://nobeliefs.com/comments10.htm

Dark ages? Are you kidding, universities were created in the so called Dark Ages by the Catholic Church. This is from a non Catholic source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_university

Some of the inventions under the guise of Christian scientists were spectacles, windmill, and improvements in farming.

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Culture as we know it, art, music, architecture, science, universities, even law came from the Catholic Church. Robert Ballarmine wrote about the dignity of mankind. His writings were found in Thomas Jefferson library. Jefferson actually lifted his writing on the 3 different branches of government. The problem here, people do not know history.

The Ancient Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, Romans and Han Chinese say hi.

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and if you are beyond the mileage distance for free bus tickets, 2 miles for middle school and 2 1/2 miles for high school, there are nj transit bus tickets offered for 1/3 off, $1.10, but there is no place in jersey city to purchase them.
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I am sure you would have a small revolt on your hands if you the city tried to close off local streets around schools during school hours! Have you seen how some Cordero parents *love* to double park all over Erie to drop off their kids!? That street is a cluster*ck every morning in between the self-entitled dolts that leave their cars running while double parked (sometimes with their doors open!) and the useless crossing guards.

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That was exactly my point.
Big carfree cities are not realistic. However, carfree neighborhood/area should be created and mass transportation infrastructure should be developed to decrease the reliance on cars.

Agree in full. The ped plaza (and before that, turning Newark Ave. into a fire road through Grove Plaza) is a good start on making the densest areas car-free, at least at some hours.

Neighborhood streets in Amsterdam and other cities in northern Europe, while they do allow cars, often have segments carved out of them that are totally car-free. These serve as short-cuts for bikes and peds. I would welcome that solution for, say, Downtown JC, rather than trying to make whole streets or neighborhoods completely car-free, at least in the near future.

But hey, if you can get my Hamilton Park neighborhood to be completely car-free, I ain't mad at ya!

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I need to take the 126 NJT Bus from Hamilton Park to PABT tomorrow.

Can anyone tell me how much the bus fare is these days? I know you need exact change. Was $4.25 last time I took it, I think...

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Stevens has the surge at only ~1.7 feet right now. Hope it stays there.

http://hudson.dl.stevens-tech.edu/sfas/d/index.shtml?station=N017

For comparison, how high were the surges during Sandy?

The monitoring equipment failed when the surge hit 12 ft at Battery Park. I read it was up to 14 ft in places.

Just to be clear for the newbies, there's 2 metrics used, peak high water, and "surge over predicted tide". The number I posted was the latter. During Sandy the news confused the hell out of people mixing them up. The SURGE over the normal predicted tide was 9', HIGH WATER was 14. To be even more confusing, there's 2 baselines that might be used, Mean Low Water, the most common, vs Average Height.

So for those of you who are good at parsing these numbers, what's your best sense of flooding potential downtown? It doesn't sound anything close to the scope of Sandy, but how bad is it likely to get for flood-prone streets or those who live in garden-level apartments?

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Does City Hall have a plan to fix the sewer issues? If they're going to continue to give tax breaks for thousands of new apartments you'd think that would be part of the equation . . .