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Solomon's affordable housing plan basically abolishes by-right zoning in JC. Every single big building will be subject to a city council vote on a PILOT in order to make it financially viable. There will be shakedowns for more parking and scaling down plans, as well as opportunities for corruption.

I guess @citibikenyc.bsky.social listened too well! Zero parking available at all the stations below.

Meanwhile over in Communipaw it’s the exact opposite. The stations either never have bikes or have very few. System definitely needs some better management. @citibikenyc.bsky.social

I thought this one fell through?

We should be building this stuff in NJ. Traffic is awful, trains are overcapacity and poor air quality is making us sick. @mikiesherrill.bsky.social we’re just wasting lots and lots of money demolishing an expressway and rebuilding it just to add a lane - which will just make traffic worse!

Just imagine @mikiesherrill.bsky.social, what we could accomplish if we ran frequent service, expanded service to the Ironbound and Newark Penn, fix PATH, improve bus service - then we won’t need to waste billions to demolish a highway & rebuild it just to add ONE lane of traffic.

Mandating projects over 2 units to have 25% affordable units is absolutely wild. Basically pointless to upzone at that point.

Meeting on street safety and street redesign in Communipaw/Lafayette

Great thread covering Solomon’s housing platform - as well as some nice counter points from @3underscores.bsky.social

Another parking lot finally bites the dust. 680 homes & retail on just half the parking lot at 242 Hudson St. 68-story tower. The other half is destined for another apartment building.

This project was stalled for almost 5 years.

Dirt desire path showing need for stairs and ramp

Google map photo of pedestrian route around a parking lot

Yeah it’s a horrible pedestrian experience all around. There’s no stairs or ramp to the parking lot from Maple street on the opposite side. Most folks walk up a dirt desire path. The alternative is walking all the way around.

Ground-floor rendering of Namdar's first 48-story towers in Journal Square. Will bring about 1,700 apartments with no parking to Summit Ave between Pavonia and Van Reipen. Two other towers are already under construction on the same block.

In reaction to a recent pedestrian death, JC’s downtown councilman and mayoral candidate, Solomon, is coming out swinging on street safety reform with a bunch of suggestions for improvement.

Unsurprising, but disheartening. This was a cool project.

Single-Stair Reform: A Solution for New Jersey's Housing Crisis Explore how single-stair reform in New Jersey can reduce housing costs, enhance safety, and improve community walkability.

A bill before the New Jersey legislature sponsored by LD-31's Assemblywoman McCann-Stamato could lead to greater housing affordability in New Jersey.

New York, Austin, and Denver all do it. Why can't NJ?

Read why we need it by @3underscores.bsky.social

betterblocksnj.org/2025/06/01/s...

This is why I’m concerned about pretty much all JC mayoral candidates’ housing plans.

Eamonn T. Dundon @etdundon Follow back •@CityPortland's 2024 Housing Report confirms what many feared: raising IZ from 10% to 25% in 2021 didn't spark affordability — it torched production. From 900+ units in 2021 to barely a trickle since. Inclusionary zoning with exclusionary results.

“Inclusionary zoning” is one of those policies that sounds great at first but then when you look at the actual impact it ends up just being a massive tax on new apartments that exempts single family homes, accomplishing the exact opposite of the intended effect

I absolutely love all of the neo-art deco that’s been built in NYC recently

Great rally, thank you to our elected leaders and community members for standing up and fighting back. Two of tonight's many highlights:
1. 👏 Mayor @stevenfulop.bsky.social promised litigation to slow down and stop this project
2. ❤️ Our youngest advocate & speaker an 11-year old LCCS student!

The Juniper Paradox - Oregon Natural Desert Association Both iconic and beloved in Oregon's high desert, western juniper is a fascinating, hardy species with a dual nature

Likely a clear and real depiction of how Oregon is managing the damage of invasive juniper better than Cali

onda.org/the-juniper-...

NJ is having a primary right now - and there are still a lot of candidates who are staying quiet or supporting the Turnpike Expansion.

This is an $11B project to DOUBLE the size of a highway. The next governor will decide if this is how NJ residents money should be spent.

This is an exciting project, should it materialize.

But @3underscores.bsky.social sent me down a rabbit hole around why there’s so few 3-br’s in modern apartment construction. I honestly thought it was mostly market dynamics at play, but had no idea how difficult code/zoning has made things.

JC mayoral candidate Bill O'Dea said at a mayoral forum today that he wants to weaponize historic preservation to stop 'overdevelopment' according to two people who attended

New Jersey single-stair fans – sign this petition for A4972! And if you’ve got time, reach out to your state legislators directly about it and ask them for their support! It’s tragic that Jersey City has floor plans like this, let’s fix it for the whole state! actionnetwork.org/letters/sing...

Phil Murphy’s insistence on building a >$11B highway widening and opposing congestion pricing is a legacy-defining failure.

New Jersey needs to elect @stevenfulop.bsky.social to clean up Murphy’s mess and build a sustainable New Jersey

yes, we should build on federal land, but the best way to do that is by building on top of VA parking lots, post offices, and other federal land in already-built up areas rather than just going deeper into exurban sprawl

here’s the VA parking lot in the Bronx just a short walk from the subway

Did a car write this?

Baraka Takes Aim at Jersey City’s $2,000 Rents Jersey City, NJ — Newark Mayor and NJ Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ras Baraka took direct aim at Jersey City’s housing market during a recent visit to Hudson County. After speaking […]

hudpost.com/baraka-takes... Ras Baraka should stop running as a NIMBY. Claiming that Jersey City hasn't built affordable housing is a straight up lie, it's built *far* more than Newark. Let's start with the fact that Newark did not enforce its inclusionary zoning ordinance for years.

Great news!
Wishful thinking, but I’d love to see some sort of pedestrian easement through the middle of this section. The only options today are Communipaw or all the way over to Johnston.

NJ RESIDENTS: There's a very important bill in the NJ Assembly, which would make incremental growth via small 4-to-5-story buildings more feasible & allow new apartments to have more light & air: A4972 would allow towns to permit single-stair buildings <6 floors.

njleg.state.nj.us/bill-search/...