Join us on Monday, August 21, at 7:30 p.m. for an Emergency Town Hall Meeting at the Bergen Performing Arts Center to learn about the City Council’s plan to develop up to 4,000 apartments. Their misguided plan to satisfy the City’s affordable housing obligation to overdevelop would undoubtedly place unnecessary burdens on our neighborhoods, schools, and each resident’s quality of life, FOREVER.

The result of the City’s plan to build this magnitude of high-density housing in the wrong places will create runaway tax increases, congestion, and a deterioration in the property values of our homes. The City has no plan on how it will serve an additional 10,000 residents on an already strained school system, infrastructure, and the uncontrollable flooding problems in our neighborhoods,

This meeting will finally give our Englewood Community the opportunity it deserves to get the facts on this plan from experts involved with the project. Lead planner Peter Steck will present the eye-opening report he was prevented from sharing at the last council meeting, giving residents a chance to learn and grasp the full impact of this project.

Presenters will also include Former Mayor Frank Huttle III Emeritus, Former Councilwoman and Council President Lynne Algrant, Professor David Colman and other community leaders from all four wards.

An overwhelming number of concerned residents attended the last council meeting on Aug. 8 to express their concerns, and were ultimately stonewalled by the council and our voices were not heard. Public comment was limited to a mere three minutes per person; many were denied entry due to capacity limitations; and the council refused to answer questions about this massive project that would impact the lives of every Englewood resident.

But they can’t ignore us this time; Monday’s Emergency Town Hall will be video recorded and sent to the Council so that the voices of Englewood can finally be heard. All attendees will be allowed to speak freely and ask questions of the experts.

As valued members of our community, your opinion MATTERS. Please join us and send a message to the Council and the Mayor that we in Englewood value transparency, decency, and open government

WHO: Englewood One Community Corp. an independent non-profit organization

WHAT: Emergency Town Hall on City’s proposed Affordable Housing Overlay Zones to overdevelop up to 4,000 apartment units

WHEN: Monday, August 21, at 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Bergen Performing Arts Center, 30 North Van Brunt Street

WHY: Send our message to the City Council and the Mayor: We will NOT be silenced!

IMPORTANT: Our town hall recording will be delivered prior to the Council’s final vote on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. via Zoom. No longer will the Council shut down our residents’ right for their voices to be heard.