tommyc_37 wrote:

Question - how can those of us who are for a more urban environment, pedestrian friendliness, less parking in developments, etc - how can we organize our voices?

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Suntime wrote:
While i respect your opinion and i myself lived carless for many years (almost a decade) in jersey city, i can tell you that if you have children, you have to have a car in this city. It is a must. If you want to drive out (no pun intended) all of the families from the city, then go ahead and advocate for a carless/car unfriendly policies. Families make good neighbors and are often the folks who are doing great work to improve the city and its services, keep it clean, supporting local business, volunteering. Quality of life for families is important too.

As a single person, i often didn't enjoy not having a car. I often felt kinda stuck. I like to be able to get out of the city on occasion and take road trips to other places, including visiting family and friends. Let's not fool ourselves - this isn't Europe where there is amazing rail service and other public transport that can easily take you to many different cities and even countries with relative ease. The train is great for nyc area and maybe some parts of jersey, but thats about it. I ofen see many people who grew up in a city and rarely left it - i dont enjoy that lifestyle.

I for one am not arguing that YOU can't have a car, or that many parents and others who find they need cars can't have them.

The policies we're talking about aren't designed to drive you out, they're designed so that the new people we attract are more likely to be those without cars.

That's vital for your sake as much as anyone's, because while off-street parking space can be expanded, on-street driving space can't.

As the city grows, we MUST decrease the per-capita rate of car ownership, or we'll just have more and more people competing to drive more and more cars in the same, finite amount of street space?and ultimately, you, the driver, will suffer as much from that as anyone, maybe more.

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Yvonne wrote:
You are imposing your view on others. I have live in Hudson County, especially JC longer than most people on this board have been alive. Why should we change to accommodate others? You moved into a city that had parking. Developers along with city hall changed the rules. These rules were changed without public input. Who are you to tell me what to believe?

Translation: She?s old and has lived here a long time. Therefore, she believes that everyone should be forced to follow her wishes, nothing should ever change and the entire city should accommodate her based purely on the fact that she lived here a long time.

If you want your definitely of self-absorbed attention whore? There it is!

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OneSkirt wrote:
Key word is AVAILABLE. Once the off-street parking is full, shut out residents are eligible for street permits.

OK, so back to DATA rather than hysteria! What is the average car ownership rate in Downtown new construction? Has ANY Downtown development topped out it's parking?

As I've said before, the traffic doomsayers about the Home Depot are my touchstone in being very skeptical about the next Development Apocalypse.

Household car ownership in Jersey City is 62%. I've not seen numbers for downtown specifically but one could only imagine it's lower.

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Wishful_Thinking wrote:
YES to a Marion PATH station.

Why should everyone along the PATH line lose 10 minutes, because a small group of JC residents don't want to walk 10 minutes to JSQ?

Ridiculous.

It's closer to 90 seconds, no? Maybe less. And it's not everyone along the PATH line. Just folks traveling to or from Newark or Harrison will be impacted.

Of course the real reason is the billions in economic activity that could occur by redevelopment. Developers that own own lands next to the site of the Marion PATH station that can now make the argument for extreme densities and Journal Square II.

The day I read Puccini's Restaurant was purchased was the day I knew lobbying for a Marion Station was underway.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... _west_side_with_19_m.html

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JERSEY CITY -- Puccini's Restaurant, the famed Italian eatery and catering hall on the city's West Side, sold earlier this month along with six adjacent parcels for $19.5 million, The Jersey Journal has learned.

The site is already zoned for multi-family, mid-rise buildings, so Amerestate would need no special permits from the city to construct up to eight stories (or 85 feet) and as many as 580 residential units.

If a PATH station is built, the land likely gets rezoned and it's worth a hell of a lot more than the purchase price. 580 units easily becomes a couple thousand.

Yvonne wrote:
B) 75 Liberty ave - cheapest of the condos, you can get a 2br for a decent price. Downsides 1) Location is same as canco loft b) It's not a highrise building, only a few floors, and units all require extensive renovation

I don't agree with your statement about 75 Liberty Avenue. These are condos which means they are private units not rentals. Some have been renovated with new kitchens and baths and others have not. It came online in the late 1980s, St. Johns is even older. One thing I can say about St. Johns and 75 Liberty, they both have large spaces. I have a friend who live at 75 Liberty and they have 1700 square feet for a two bedroom.

Yvonne wrote:
The KRE has all sort of perks from city hall, McLaughlin does not. The fact their building is next to the funeral home is outrageous. It does not allow the owner to do maintenance on their building. I heard from a source, KRE dropped a heavy piece of equipment on McLaughlin's roof. Tall buildings should have set back and open space. I find the building ugly not up to the modern standards. It looks like a heavy wind will tear off the white laminate pasted on the exterior of the building. Journal Square has no open space so new construction should provide this. If you are receiving redevelopment loans, 30 year tax abatement and the closest space to the PATH, give something back to the community.

nafco wrote:
This is a LRV or PATH Proposal I made for my thesis a few years back that would connect all the west side of JC to SI and potentially the City. Included were street mockups which allowed for street parking on off-peak hours like other major thoroughfares already do. Of course its cost prohibitive but theres no reason the city cant implement a plan like the Select Bus service which runs North-South in Brooklyn with limited stops in an articulated bus. It resembles a light rail at a fraction of the cost. With a dedicated lane, this would improve reliability and speed like it already has proven to in Brooklyn.

elsquid wrote:
There's another HUGE reason why these things don't get built.

You've already noted that the car culture is an obstacle because it hangs on to virtually free street parking space, and utterly free street driving space, like grim death, leaving little room for any other mode in existing right-of-ways.

But it also saps the demand, real and projected, for mass transit.

The streetcar companies knew they could could win public and governmental approval for building their systems, and could then attract riders, because the inland alternatives were walking or horse carriages. Even when cars came in, at first they were for only the wealthy few and not much competition.

Anyone who wants more mass transit in JC needs to make hard choices to move us at least a little closer to that environment again at the same time. We have to stop shoveling so much public money into subsidizing driving and private car ownership.

We should start by doubling the residential parking permit fee to $30, and signaling that it will go up incrementally in the future. That would begin to recoup some of the true cost of our massive street parking giveaway of prime publicly owned and maintained land.

But it would also help create a bigger constituency for the mass transit projects that the city actually needs, and increasingly will need, as it grows.

user1111 wrote:
I am a 5 min drive to Bayonne... you people think Bayonne is far LMAO... it takes me 20 min to get WTC why would you think coming from Bayonne take eternity? Bayonne also has the a flyer on the lightrail that zips them to Hoboken in 15 min...

Also during Sandy when the light rail was out I drove to Bayonne sometimes to catch the bus to Wall street which took 40 min and sometimes less. Other times I caught the ferry at Port Liberte. There are plenty of reasons to dislike Bayonne but its distance from Manhattan is not one of them.

iGreg wrote:
https://www.redfin.com/NJ/Jersey-City/ ... 7306/unit-5/home/61370634

I tried buying this but was too late with actually moving on it, location is 3 blocks from JSQ Path and it was 159k - peanuts for a cash buyer like myself, you'd better jump if you see anything near the PATH in Journal Square area - it will prove a viable and sound investment either as a rental unit or place to live until you decide to flip it.

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Many people ask about the rules and regulations during the hearing and was told they would be written after the adoption of the ordinance. I attended many hearings and that was a common answer. Downtown do not have have wooden homes, their regulations do not apply.

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MDM wrote:

Is it possible to just get a "just the facts" summary of the dispute?

1. What exactly (in detail) is the reason for the work stoppage order? Is it because of the home owner's choice of siding does not meet historic district standards?

2. If it is an issue with the material choice, what materials are acceptable per the Building Department? If fiber cement board is acceptable, then the home owner should easily be able to switch to it instead of vinyl (more expensive but it really looks good... like wood but way more durable).

If the Building Department won't respond in writing or respond period, did the homeowner make a complaint to the DCA (trust me.. they DO respond)?

As much as I despise the JC Building Department, they don't operate in a vacuum... there has to be a reason for the work stoppage.

Here's as much information as I know. The video isn't clear as the individual isn't specific with dates. And much of this was based on the information I knew before watching that absurdity.

1. Individual received a permit from the city for work.
2. Contractor purchased vinyl siding and other materials not historic.
3. City stopped construction when it saw the materials.

Items left unclear:
1. When, specifically, was the permit applied for? Was it applied for before or after the designation?
2. Did the permit mention the specific siding to be used?

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HeightsBrat wrote:
Oh dear, I guess this puts a crimp in a former assemblyman's lifelong plan to increase parking by allowing people to park in bus stops over night.

That's the de-facto rule in the Heights now as far as I can see. Personally, I think we should just get rid of the stops. No bus actually pulls far enough to the curb for traffic to pass, they just block traffic so they don't have to wait to merge back in from a stop. One of the reasons I'd love a dashcam is to document the non-use of JC bus stops.

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OneSkirt wrote:
The homeowner's issue is not cut and dry. The city issued him a permit to go ahead with the siding, then reneged on it.

EXACTLY

ANYONE can See that Carlos' project [46 Bentley Ave.] was ISSUED a Permit for Vinyl Siding in AUGUST 2015 & that His project is/remains STALLED since then in UR[Under Review] Status, at the Check Construction Permits Portal on the City's Website.

What ANYONE Cannot See on this Portal is the Sequence of Subsequent Events that happened to Him & His Wife starting 3 DAYS into the project that has Literally Driven Him to the Brink & forced him into attendance at Public Meetings.

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Dog runs are toxic places. They're magnate for owners that treat their dogs as accessories. Whatever happened to taking your dog for a walk?

1st world problems ?

The Horror, The Horror.

The overly small dog run at Needle Park, you Yups call it Van Vorst Park dezz days, ranks of piss stank - it's horrible and a nasty blight on that stretch of little oasis.

The dog run in Hamilton Park, mainly the section for the large dogs, stanks of piss - who the hell wants piss stank wafting around their nostrils when trying to max and relax in the oasis that public parks should be.

bodhipooh wrote:

Did you read the article? It's just theaters for the masses. All the authorities are doing is requiring that names be disclosed. They are not going after anyone; they are just creating a record of these transactions. Truly corrupt will never have their name divulged...

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Wishful_Thinking wrote:
Does anyone know what is going on with Noches de Columbia, which is supposed to open on Central and Manhattan Avenues? The renovation seems to be taking forever, and now the windows are just boarded over.

Have you not read all the other threads in JCLIST about perpetually delayed construction projects of restaurants and bars??