Time for Tough Love
City Council meetings are scheduled this week for Monday (March 5, 2007) and Wednesday (March 7, 2007).
Monday’s agenda session is 7:30 p.m. in City Hall Library, 515 Watchung Ave.. Wednesday’s regular meeting is in Municipal Court, 325 Watchung Ave., at 8 p.m.
There is also a Board of Adjustment meeting Wednesday in City Hall Library.
Besides some important deadlines for redevelopment proposals, next week will also mark the closing date for the Dornoch Plainfield senior center and condo development. If the closing does not take place, the agreement signed Jan. 4 by Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs, the Union County Improvement Authority and Dornoch may be terminated.
But that doesn’t seem likely. Dornoch has moved right along, from the midsummer unveiling of the plan to site plan approval and signing the agreement for the $1 sale of city-owned land.
Meanwhile, AST Development of Lavallette, which still hasn’t met all the Planning Board conditions for the Park-Madison project, has had two deadlines for a proposed supermarket development on the old Marino’s tract on West Front Street. Landmark Development Corp. has also had 90- and 60-day periods to complete its agreement to redevelopment the North Avenue tract by the main train station. Now the tract may be expanded to include the PNC Bank block and part of the block bounded by East Front, Watchung, East Second and Park.
The 90-day time frame for Capodagli Property Company of Pompton Plains to forge an agreement with the city and the UCIA for the East Third/Richmond tract is up soon as well.
My old souvenir Valentine’s Day alarm clock from Macy’s features Cupid pulling back his bow. Instead of numbers, there are letters spelling out “A Time for Love.”
Let’s hope it will be tough love for developers to make sure these deals are solid and good for the city.
--Bernice Paglia
Monday’s agenda session is 7:30 p.m. in City Hall Library, 515 Watchung Ave.. Wednesday’s regular meeting is in Municipal Court, 325 Watchung Ave., at 8 p.m.
There is also a Board of Adjustment meeting Wednesday in City Hall Library.
Besides some important deadlines for redevelopment proposals, next week will also mark the closing date for the Dornoch Plainfield senior center and condo development. If the closing does not take place, the agreement signed Jan. 4 by Mayor Sharon Robinson-Briggs, the Union County Improvement Authority and Dornoch may be terminated.
But that doesn’t seem likely. Dornoch has moved right along, from the midsummer unveiling of the plan to site plan approval and signing the agreement for the $1 sale of city-owned land.
Meanwhile, AST Development of Lavallette, which still hasn’t met all the Planning Board conditions for the Park-Madison project, has had two deadlines for a proposed supermarket development on the old Marino’s tract on West Front Street. Landmark Development Corp. has also had 90- and 60-day periods to complete its agreement to redevelopment the North Avenue tract by the main train station. Now the tract may be expanded to include the PNC Bank block and part of the block bounded by East Front, Watchung, East Second and Park.
The 90-day time frame for Capodagli Property Company of Pompton Plains to forge an agreement with the city and the UCIA for the East Third/Richmond tract is up soon as well.
My old souvenir Valentine’s Day alarm clock from Macy’s features Cupid pulling back his bow. Instead of numbers, there are letters spelling out “A Time for Love.”
Let’s hope it will be tough love for developers to make sure these deals are solid and good for the city.
--Bernice Paglia
posted by Bernice at 8:59 AM
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