Althea wrote:
Actually the parts of the sewer system that are damaged are being fixed and we don't have to wait generations. While I agree that storm water retention is important, the lack of overall planning as far as new developments surrounding older housing stock thereby creating a bathtub effect is of even more concern.

You are on the inside now Dan. You are at the table and you therefore have the ability to make a real impact by demanding to know what the plan is to protect the existing homes rather than allow for these huge foundations to be built on top of mini hills that will divert water around them and only collect storm run off for their "stand alone" buildings.

Clearly the fact that the administration has had many meetings with developers to push their projects (new ratables) forward and none for the public must cause you great alarm and is surely something you can change right now.

Councilman Fulop and I started the pressure 18 months ago to help alleviate flooding to the Van Vorst Park and Paulus Hook area and these fixes are the only thing that the administration has to hang their hat on and will come nearly 2 years after Irene.

Exactly when do you stop with the lines "it will take generations" and everything is crumbling and actually start doing, instead of telling people what they can do to help the City that is not doing their job? The people of downtown deserve a candidate that is going to start fixing the situation and not just hand out a brochure telling them what they should be doing because they won't see relief in their life time.



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http://onejerseycity.com/?p=170


Water ? A Plan to Minimize Impacts of Stormwater

Our aged sewer system is inadequate and crumbling, resulting in flooding and sewer backups. Breaches create underground streams that force water through building foundations.

Fixing the system will likely take generations. A long-term capital plan must be created to plan repairs and upgrades. Steps can be taken now, however, to minimize the impact of stormwater on our sewer system during periods of heavy rain.

?Water ? A Plan to Minimize the Impacts of Stormwater? is a plan that focuses on slowing stormwater runoff from entering the sewer system during storm conditions. The plan recommends:

Creation of a Municipal Utilities Authority Master Plan for infrastructure improvements:

-Increased use of High Level Storm Sewers (HLSS)

-Maximum use of green space

-Low-impact development

-Green parking lots, streets, and highways

-Green roofs for new tax-abated development

-Rain Gardens

-Larger tree pits

The plan may be viewed at: Water ? A Plan to Minimize Impacts of Stormwater ? Click to Open PDF

November 17th, 2008 | Category: Environment, Health and Pollution

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heights wrote:

Plus on Ocean Ave. there has always been a pattern there, not really news anymore. Iit's like crying wolf.

This type of thinking got us here, It is a crises and hopefully our next mayor can pull us out of it. Too many govt, and residents feel the same way, its Ocean ave oh well that's what expected. A Wayne street women was carjacked just the other night on Ocean... oh well she was on Ocean.

Fletch4JC wrote:
This goes out to Magnus...

1) I do have a thread... but reserve the right to comment wherever I see fit and when it might be relevant. And I am on a few threads now. I have commented on Dan's thread and the "ELECTION" general thread as well. Should not matter.

2) What has Candice done, INDEPENDENTLY Outside of WORKING for Steven Fulop? Before Hurricane Sandy? I think I hear silence.

The world didn't just start in October of 2012.... when Mr. Fulop was planning his campaign back in 2011. I'd tell any potential candidate to get their "A**" out there as well to make a name for themselves.

The face of the matter is, I have been out there looking out for Ward E long before Candice.

Fletch

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bobm wrote:
Dixon Leasing, which has an office in Exchange Place, is a subsidiary of Dixon Advisory, a huge financial services firm based in Australia. They have bought and manage several residential properties in JC, including the Hamilton Park brownstone where I rent the basement studio. They are attempting to raise my rent by over 60 percent.

60%!?!?! Is that legal? Your rent must be really cheap or they're trying to get you out of there b/c that kind of increase is outrageous.

My guess is the rent is pretty cheap, all the homes they purchased around here they raised the rents from 50-70% which is not bad since the original rents were like 800 bucks a month. However every home they purchased they did major work so a three bedroom renovated house with parking is worth $1400 a month. I have nothing but love for these guys. They have made the surrounding area a little more beautiful, its a breath of fresh air from the typical absent, section 8 collecting, south jersey landlord.

saroyan wrote:
I'm just interested, if anyone knows, what are the precise filming sites in Jersey City for Ghost Dog.

If you know, please pass your info along.

Thanks in advance.

Saroyan

borisp wrote:

Well, please, do provide. And, in any case it reminds me an old Russian anecdote: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this... - Well, don't do that!" If we provide subsidies, - we should stop providing them. Problem solved. Next question.

BorisP wrote:
Now, this is most definitely factually wrong. Mr. Obama gave HUGE credits to most his supporters in the renewable energy business. That industry totally outstripped any fossil fuels business in the amount of government help it got.
And they went belly up in droves.

Borisp wrote:

None of those timelines ends in this century or even the next one.

Borisp wrote:

I agree. Let's cut off all subsidies, - and let the technology that is more needed by consumers -- as opposed to politicians, -- prevail.

Borisp wrote:

It is. If your model can't make any testable prediction - it is not science, period.

Borisp wrote:

For a while there was no experimental proof for the Theory of Relativity, but I never said that "science is something that has experimental proof". I said, - "Science is something that makes TESTABLE PREDICTIONS".

The theory of relativity DID make testable predictions. And those predictions could be tested. And that means that the Theory of Relativity was a "scientific hypothesis"

Eventually the predictions WERE tested, and that upgraded the Theory of relativity from "scientific hypothesis" to "tested scientific theory".

BTW, you do realize that it did not make The Relativity Theory anything like "science is settled"? You do know that the science is never settled, unlike "junk science" which frequently is?