Another Redevelopment Deadline
The City Council is scheduled to hold an agenda session at 7:30 p.m. tonight in City Hall Library. Check back later for an update on what’s on the agenda.
One possible item may be an extension of a redeveopment designation.
A 90-day deadline for conditional designation of Capodagli Property Company as redeveloper of the East Third/Richmond tract expired earlier this month. The developer proposes 352 residential units in five buildings at East Third and Richmond streets, with 700 parking spaces at ground level. The Pompton Plains company plans to phase in development, starting with the former Cozzoli Machinery site.
Blog readers may recall the confusing Sept. 7 Planning Board meeting when the board approved a needs study while a full-blown redevelopment plan dated Aug. 23 was at each member’s place the same night. Normally, if the board approves the study, it goes to the council, which may then ask the board to prepare a redevelopment plan.
The board sent the study to the council, where it was rejected because certain Planning Board recommendations were not included. A flurry of meetings ensued, including an emergency Saturday morning council meeting without prior public notice. The meeting notice was published a week later.
Both the study and the plan were then approved.
After the Capodagli Property Company made its presentation to the council in October, it came out in the wash that a principal in the firm was on the state’s debarment list under another company name. Debarment means a firm cannot do public works or Economic Development Authority projects. The three-year debarment expires next month.
At the time of the conditional designation in December, Corporation Counsel Dan Williamson said the council had received information clearing up the matter in regard to the local proposal.
Other issues regarding the East Third/Richmond project include what will happen to the west portion of one target block and the Plainfield Municipal Utilities Authority’s plans for property it owns on the designated site.
--Bernice Paglia
One possible item may be an extension of a redeveopment designation.
A 90-day deadline for conditional designation of Capodagli Property Company as redeveloper of the East Third/Richmond tract expired earlier this month. The developer proposes 352 residential units in five buildings at East Third and Richmond streets, with 700 parking spaces at ground level. The Pompton Plains company plans to phase in development, starting with the former Cozzoli Machinery site.
Blog readers may recall the confusing Sept. 7 Planning Board meeting when the board approved a needs study while a full-blown redevelopment plan dated Aug. 23 was at each member’s place the same night. Normally, if the board approves the study, it goes to the council, which may then ask the board to prepare a redevelopment plan.
The board sent the study to the council, where it was rejected because certain Planning Board recommendations were not included. A flurry of meetings ensued, including an emergency Saturday morning council meeting without prior public notice. The meeting notice was published a week later.
Both the study and the plan were then approved.
After the Capodagli Property Company made its presentation to the council in October, it came out in the wash that a principal in the firm was on the state’s debarment list under another company name. Debarment means a firm cannot do public works or Economic Development Authority projects. The three-year debarment expires next month.
At the time of the conditional designation in December, Corporation Counsel Dan Williamson said the council had received information clearing up the matter in regard to the local proposal.
Other issues regarding the East Third/Richmond project include what will happen to the west portion of one target block and the Plainfield Municipal Utilities Authority’s plans for property it owns on the designated site.
--Bernice Paglia
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