-The Perrine Avenue building was even rejected at 5 stories, which was its by-right allowed height. The owners of the three homes that would be part of that development have already sued the city. A couple of years and hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars in legal fees from today, it will get built because it was completely allowed under the zoning. Fulop and Boggiano were doing political grandstanding at the expense of taxpayer money.
-The HAP case is currently before the NJ Supreme Court pending its final appeal, and there is at least a 90%
chance that the developer will win it. A decision on the city's petition for an appeal will probably come out in the next 30 days, and, if the court rules against them, the project will be fully cleared to proceed from a legal standpoint.
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The mega projects cost so much more money and smaller developers may be worried about financing and not biting off something larger than they can chew.
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In the wake of the Perrine debacle, small-time builders also have to worry about the city breaking the law and arbitrarily rejecting as-of-right projects too. It's not as big a deal for the big-time developers who have staffs of lawyers and for whom legal costs are just a tiny part of the construction budget.
I agree that it's time to have better transit to get from one part of JC/Hudson to another part.
As far as the construction at Journal Squared, I'm not sure it's for the park. They are digging a very huge, very expensive hole, and I don't see how it would be useful for a park. Maybe they're putting in the foundations for phases II and III simultaneously?