Planning Board OKs Exchange Place Pedestrian Mall two weeks after rejecting it

The Jersey City Planning Board has approved plans to transform the area around iconic Katyn Monument into a Downtown pedestrian mall, just two weeks after rejecting the exact same plan.

On April 26, the planning board voted 6-0-1 against the Exchange Place Pedestrian Mall, which would sit on the eastern end of Montgomery Street from Hudson Street to the waterfront. Planning board members sided with about a dozen speakers who were concerned over safety and designs around the Katyn memorial.

https://www.nj.com/hudson/2022/05/plan ... s-after-rejecting-it.html

Jersey City Planning Board rejects Exchange Place Redevelopment Plan

By Daniel Ulloa/Hudson County View

Jersey City Planning Board Chair Christopher Langston noted their vote on the plan was non-binding, while Commissioner Joyce Watterman, also the council president who sits on the Exchange Place Alliance board, recused herself.

Board attorney Santo Alampi noted it is a Section 31 review whereby the review is limited in scope.

“We are proposing a pedestrian plaza. Three years ago, when we began this process… the area surrounding the Katyn monument was essentially a parking lot,” said attorney Donald Pepe for the Exchange Place Alliance. He also sits on their board.

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