1. This was clearly illegal from day 1.
2. The city still has lots of ways to slow this down for years.
3. I don't trust HRH.
4. The best way to have a hospital on site is to subsidize it with market rate housing.
Upzone New Jersey 🏗️
Jersey City's council was warned by the city's own planning division that banning senior housing at the Christ Hospital site would invite a lawsuit. They passed it anyway. Now a court has struck it down as arbitrary and capricious.
What comes next?
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betterblocksnj.org
A judicial ruling has rolled back a downzoning that was passed last year to block redevelopment of the Christ Hospital site. Last December, then-councilmen Richard Boggiano and James Solomon propos…
