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They moved the meeting up that good. Everyone who wants development, everyone who wants buildings in Newark, everyone who wants to see our beautiful city stand out and make Jersey city it’s shadow come to this meeting. If halo tower 3 can do it this can too.

Good post, I'll do my best to make it

Is there any specific procedure for speaking? I'd love to lend my voice in support, but I'm not especially familiar with the operations of these sorts of meetings.

There should be a public comment period after the professional testimony. Members of the public get like 3 or 5 minutes to speak. You can’t question the attorneys or other members. It’s just your comments on the application.

This is the Landmarks Commission so they will likely be hearing two applications. One for the demo of the existing buildings and one for the design of the new tower. They will be grilling the applicant on why the existing buildings need to be demolished and how the new building fits the character of the community. So your comments should try to support those items. You’ll get a feel for what the commissioners think during their questions.

They want to demolish this?

https://goo.gl/maps/P2jvjGf3KphBaFwg9

No thanks, they are free to build on one of the many parking lots

Wrong building. The building to be demolished is the plain one at the corner of Broad and Central.

This one?

https://goo.gl/maps/Pb9FT4bbH1UrLbtT8

Yeah thats fine nuke it

Yep, that's the one.

Goddamn, what a shitshow. The Landmarks Commission and the lawyer are all so unprofessional. I'm for the tower, and the lawyer is doing such a terrible job at presenting his case and holding his temper. If I were the developer, I'd fire him immediately after this meeting.

Yo, did you speak? Was Halloway beating you up?

Yeah, very interesting, but rough to listen to. I was honestly shocked about how mad the lawyer was getting.

Okay, this was a community meeting not the landmarks commission meeting. That’s why it’s so tense and a free for all. They hate Calvin because he’s always trying to build stuff that isn’t just row houses.

I was wrong. This isn’t the landmarks commission. It’s the community meeting with mostly residents from James St. This is what they do to everyone.

Yep she sure did, Ig that’s how they treat teenagers who support a project like this.

Guys idk about this tower, like I want to be very positive about this. They people in the meeting were complaining about the height were halo tower 3 is literally one story less than this tower even though this tower is 520 feet and not 485. If halo can do it this can too, praying the November second meeting goes well, if it doesn’t get approved maybe instead of making the tower all glass maybe they can add some art deco to it. Because the people of James street are crazy.

Typical NIMBY bullshit. I wish I was there to speak. I thought the next meeting was in November. I think we should start organizing a Newark YIMBY group to attend any and all such meetings and provide a counterweight to this nonsense.

Didn’t members of that James St group also oppose the new NJIT dorm, Maple Hall, because NJIT was replacing an empty burned out old school school? Those people act as though Newark was a site of ancient ruins to be preserved for archeologists.

Reminds me of the NIMBYs who opposed the 1 South Willow development in Montclair. They preferred a long vacated social security building, a parking lot and a tire shop to a six story mixed use development. That new development has totally transformed that corner, breathing new life into what had been one of Montclair’s uglier blocks.

The collective impact of NIMBYism is a major reason why housing is so expensive. We must find ways to limit their perverse impact every way we can.

See for example: https://www.econtalk.org/katherine-levine-einstein-on-neighborhood-defenders/

Facts