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Hackensack Discussion / Re: Anderson St neighborhood laundromat gone
« on: December 06, 2022, 12:17:32 AM »
The redevelopment project is a done deal, and the pastor of The Gathering Church told me "we have two years to get out". They are renting space to the rear of the Walmart. They fully intend to stay in Hackensack.
1. I don't think these big redevelopment projects with little or no setbacks should be crossing over the railroad. It's setting off too many people's alarms.
2. I don't agree that the block is "blighted"
3. The block that is blighted is to the east, and they only tore down part of that block. They left a row of terrible storefronts on Anderson, they left very old houses and a vacant lot on Park Street, and they left the ugly auto repair shop on Passaic Street. I'm not a fan of Hackensack Market either, it's just a giant bodega with everything very overpriced, and they are just preying on the community. I just don't understand the city's "blight" criteria, where there is real blight, nothing is done. Where there's viable businesses with adequate parking, the city calls that "blighted" and tears it down.
4. The setbacks for these types of projects were intended for Main Street, and maybe State Street. For the rest of Hackensack, we want yards around new buildings complete with landscaping, or we want neighborhoods with houses preserved by the zoning.
5. I also don't like how close the units are going to be to the railroad.
Also, I found out the State is changing their universal building codes, and the days of these 5-story buildings are coming to an end. They will be allowing special types of composite and engineered lumber to be used for at least 10 or 11 stories. So future buildings will probably be massive cement parking garages with 10 or 11 stories of wood above them. I'm sure Hackensack will either change it's zoning to come into conformity with the State, or grant lots of variances to allow them to be built
1. I don't think these big redevelopment projects with little or no setbacks should be crossing over the railroad. It's setting off too many people's alarms.
2. I don't agree that the block is "blighted"
3. The block that is blighted is to the east, and they only tore down part of that block. They left a row of terrible storefronts on Anderson, they left very old houses and a vacant lot on Park Street, and they left the ugly auto repair shop on Passaic Street. I'm not a fan of Hackensack Market either, it's just a giant bodega with everything very overpriced, and they are just preying on the community. I just don't understand the city's "blight" criteria, where there is real blight, nothing is done. Where there's viable businesses with adequate parking, the city calls that "blighted" and tears it down.
4. The setbacks for these types of projects were intended for Main Street, and maybe State Street. For the rest of Hackensack, we want yards around new buildings complete with landscaping, or we want neighborhoods with houses preserved by the zoning.
5. I also don't like how close the units are going to be to the railroad.
Also, I found out the State is changing their universal building codes, and the days of these 5-story buildings are coming to an end. They will be allowing special types of composite and engineered lumber to be used for at least 10 or 11 stories. So future buildings will probably be massive cement parking garages with 10 or 11 stories of wood above them. I'm sure Hackensack will either change it's zoning to come into conformity with the State, or grant lots of variances to allow them to be built