Re: Jersey City councilwoman in tears
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Seriously - why do you keep living here? You don't have a single positive thing to say about this city or anybody living in it. If you dislike it here that much, why not pack up and move to an area where you'll be happier and people here who do want to have rational discussions on how to make things better can be spared from your misery?
Posted on: 2016/3/16 18:22
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Re: proposal for changing R1 zoning to R5 in Downtown JC
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What was the consensus in doing this Downtown? Are most neighborhood associations generally OK with it?
Posted on: 2016/3/16 17:55
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Re: Jersey City councilwoman in tears
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She will not rest until Jersey City mirrors her urban paradise of half-full surface parking lots and nothing but medical offices. All bars, restaurants and anything even remotely fun or interesting will be driven out in the name of his holiness, Parking, and anybody under the age of 40 will not be allowed to lease or purchase property if she had her way. Baby boomers with multiple SUVs and old people are the only "acceptable" residents to her.
Posted on: 2016/3/16 16:16
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Again...just because you're "really old" and "you've been here a long time" doesn't mean it's incumbent on the city to keep supplying you with free parking. Society changes, demographics change, it can't stay 1970 forever. Get over your sense of entitlement and spare your parking holy wars for some city in the midwest or some other suburb in NJ.
Posted on: 2016/3/16 15:15
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Re: Mayor Fulop Tells Christie to Resign - Establishes Petition
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Your irrational hatred for this mayor makes you say and think some really stupid stuff. If you're that miserable under his mayorship, why not just move?
Posted on: 2016/3/15 18:22
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Re: Mayor Fulop Tells Christie to Resign - Establishes Petition
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He's conducting business related to city when he travels within the state. Christie galavanting across the country is not at all related to state business. Are you really that stupid that you can't tell the difference?
Posted on: 2016/3/15 18:14
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Re: proposal for changing R1 zoning to R5 in Downtown JC
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Interesting...is this data just from your personal observation/memory or from another source? I'd be interested to know what street level retail got removed in my area (VVP).
Posted on: 2016/3/12 4:56
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Re: proposal for changing R1 zoning to R5 in Downtown JC
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Thanks, although I need to really make an effort not to read/post here, it just winds up souring me on this area, which I just moved to. I guess your explanation is why I see a shocking lack of local retail outside of Newark/Grove. I hope the city can amend zoning or incentivize buildings that originally had street front retail to convert. Looks like the trend is correcting itself in the newer construction, but it'd be nice if the historic neighborhoods had more vibrant street life.
Posted on: 2016/3/11 23:02
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Re: Parking Permit to 11:00 PM
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Ignoring the fact that there are many areas of NYC that don't have subway access and are very underserved by mass transit...nobody is obliged to give you free parking. Maybe, just maybe, you didn't realize that there's a large and ever-growing contingent of new residents who have just as much voice as you do and DO want a more urban, NYC-like experience? There are others who don't want city planning held hostage to the needs of a couple entitled NIMBYs who feel the need to hold any progressive development plans hostage to their desire to drive down any street unencumbered by any traffic and waltz into an easy to find, free street parking spot. I just wish the councilwoman showed a little bit of backbone and pushed back against you and your nut job supporters.
Posted on: 2016/3/11 16:34
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Is NYC obliged to provide free parking for anybody that has business at city hall or the council building? No. Is NYC obliged to reimburse Metrocards and taxi fares for people wishing to attend meetings? No. And before you say we're not NYC, Downtown is now at about the same density as NYC, therefore city planning should reflect as such. Your ridiculous comparison to a "poll tax" cheapens and demeans the real ordeals of people in red states that are right now having their voting rights assaulted and taken away for political gain. And believe it or not, most people have real jobs and lives and don't care to moonlight as "community activists" for a living. Most people aren't at City Hall 5 days a week, squawking and barking hyperbolic arguments about god knows what because they think they're entitled to have things remain as they were in 1970. Most people very rarely, if ever, take public transit or have business in city hall that would last over 3 hours. Apparently, the people you managed to drag out to this had no particular trouble getting to city hall that day or else they wouldn't have been able to recite your force fed talking points.
Posted on: 2016/3/11 4:59
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If it were up to you, every other block would a surface-level parking lot. You're not entitled to free parking in a section as dense as Downtown. Get over it.
Posted on: 2016/3/11 0:04
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Re: proposal for changing R1 zoning to R5 in Downtown JC
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I'm not totally familiar with residential zoning, but would this allow for ground floor commercial space? It'd be nice to see more commercial space crop up in these infill projects.
Also, yes, let's wait for all the neighborhood associations to screech about the horror of not having free parking. Quote:
Posted on: 2016/3/8 20:09
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Re: Jersey City planning more initiatives to help small businesses grow
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I think a good thing for small businesses would be, I dunno, actually building retail space for businesses to move into? Once you start walking a couple blocks west of Grove St., the area is a virtual ghost town.
I see plans and renderings for all these proposed developments and I'm shocked by how little street level retail there is.
Posted on: 2016/2/27 16:19
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Re: BRIGHT STREET REDEVELOPMENT needs action
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Almost a year later...are there any updates? Anything is more useful than a fenced off parking lot at this point.
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Point taken. Though one thing the city could do is rezone the area to make it possible to develop in the first place, and DOT would probably have to get involved to break up the superblock and restore the street grid. But I suppose the owner's will ask the city to do that if they have a proposal. Either way, let's just hope *something*, anything, happens soon. That area is quickly becoming a blight on the area and homeless hangout.
Posted on: 2016/2/19 16:54
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Agreed. I think the best best for that area is to replicate what was done with Metro Plaza, albeit with lower-rise buildings to better fit in with the area as well as a restored street grid. 99 Ranch is already coming in, but if a Whole Foods or another high-end store were to anchor the area, that's even better. Who would be the best person to contact about future plans for the area? I wrote the Ward F councilwoman's office (where it technically falls into), but have yet to hear anything back.
Posted on: 2016/2/18 17:14
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Street parking is absolutely not a problem in that area. Perhaps a mixed-use building can include a garage in its basement, but a stand alone multi-level garage is a huge waste of space. If the area is redeveloped right and it gets actual useful stores, car ownership won't even be necessary.
Posted on: 2016/2/18 15:52
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Is there anyone that can be contacted to put pressure on the owners of that lot to come to a redevelopment plan or sell to someone who will? I know there was this proposal from a few years ago, which ended up never coming to light for whatever reason: http://jerseydigs.com/one-bates-street/
The plaza is mostly abandoned stores at this point and a hangout for homeless. The only stuff left is a bodega, a Rent-A-Center and a Popeye's. A serious look should be taken at having some of the old street grid restored and having the whole area razed and redeveloped, like they're doing for the BJ's/StopRite plaza.
Posted on: 2016/2/17 16:18
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