I attended the public hearing for 55 union. They were required to put in run off mitigation measures that include a green / sedum roof that acts to absorb rain water. By my calculation, the biggest contributor to access runoff in this neighborhood are errant home owners who pave over their back yards in violation of code. Not to mention all the illegal extension that increase the built up area on a standard lot. What are you going to do about that?

As for schools, any shortfall in school taxes at the local level will get partially offset by state subsidies as required by law under the Abbot ruling. Look up any article on spend per head by school district in NJ and you will see Newarks spend match or exceed the wealthiest suburbs that surround us. We have an annual budget in access of a billion dollars yet the performance of our schools is nothing short of abysmal. How much more money must we spend before we finally admit that money is not the problem? Even if the developer were to pay taxes the school board is so corrupt that they would just turn around and give the money away to a different developer(for a cut of the profits of course) Just look at how this deal is structured 🤣🤣. What a clown world we live in where people are though to blindly hate developers because they make profits while worshiping criminally corrupt politicians who literally get bribed with those profits.

Tax abatements granted to residential properties that are forced by law to offer subsidized housing is in effect an housing subsidy. The developer is acting as a pass through. I personally don’t approve of this approach. I would rather public housing be public ally owned and operated. I just don’t understand how this simple and basic concept is so difficult for people to comprehend. I guess that’s what happens when have an education system that brainwashes children into being unthinking and uncritical drones; who never question the state sponsored narrative.