Councilwoman Tiffanie Fisher highlights major issues in community newsletter

Here's a link to the Councilwoman Tiffanie Fisher community newsletter. She's currently a candidate for Hoboken mayor but here the broad issues cited from development, backroom dealing and Team Bhalla's action against resident parking around City Hall and excessive Washington Street enforcement without sufficient business and community input. 

Or as Councilwoman Emily Jabbour urges, 'shorter runways.' Government is the center of life, the people must abide, obey and pay homage to the government. 

These citations are made available based on the substance highlighted in these and related issues; a complete counter to the politics first approach by Ravi Bhalla and the Ravibot team featuring Emily Jabbour and Joe Quintero.

https://mailchi.mp/tiffanieforhoboken/a-big-newsletter-big-projects-big-politics?e=48e642e98b 


Excerpt:

PROPOSED HOSPITAL REDEVELOPMENT PLAN




Although it didn’t make the agenda due to lack of City Council sponsorship (other than Mike Russo), Mayor Bhalla proposed a redevelopment plan for the properties affiliated with Hudson Regional Health’s acquisition of CarePoint — Hoboken University Medical Center, the midtown garage, 307 Willow, and 122 Clinton.  It had not been presented to the entire City Council, nor to the public.


When neighbors learned earlier in the week that the plan would include an 11-story residential building at 122 Clinton, on a block where zoning caps height at 4–5 stories, emails started pouring in.  After conversations with Jim Doyle and Paul Presinzano (who then spoke to Ruben Ramos) we had enough votes to keep the ordinance from getting on the agenda until there was more transparency and input from the City Council and a public meeting which is set for September 30th.

Background: the Planning Board found that 122 Clinton did not qualify for redevelopment standards. But the City Council overrode them and included it anyway. Other than Jim, who sits on the Planning Board, I was the only Council member to speak at the time and raise concerns.  But with others all voting yes, I used my vote - a yes - to keep dialogue open because I chair the board of Hoboken Hospital, and keeping our hospital open is a top priority for me.

Following, there were a series of meetings with neighboring residents where they asked mayoral candidates if they would support removing 122 Clinton from the redevelopment plan.  Paul and Ruben have committed to sponsoring this legislation, which I will support — as I voiced the night of the initial vote.


Regarding the overall plan, my position hasn’t changed: keeping our hospital open is my top priority.  Any upzoning has to come with transparency, public meetings, and ironclad conditions that guarantee the hospital’s future in Hoboken. HRH has already made meaningful investments in Hoboken’s hospital and I am excited to see what is next.  But they have to navigate a complex ownership structure and we should work closely with them for our shared goals - keeping the hospital open.  What we don’t need is a mayor - current or potentially future - cutting backroom deals that give away Hoboken’s leverage and put that very goal at risk.

For the complete newsletter, please see:

https://mailchi.mp/tiffanieforhoboken/a-big-newsletter-big-projects-big-politics?e=48e642e98b 


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