PUBLIC CALL TO ACTION TO THE PLANNING BOARD:
SAVE OUR RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS
Mayor Wildes’ planning board is rushing through the Master Plan process as demonstrated by the scheduling of last week’s public hearing. Few of Englewood’s 30,000 residents knew about this city-wide meeting and its importance to the preservation of our neighborhoods.
Sparsely attended Planning Board Public Hearing, Nov. 14, 2024
A Master Plan is an extremely important document mandated by the State that sets the roadmap establishing the guidelines for future real estate and community development. Fundamentally, the Housing Plan, an essential element of the Master Plan, is prepared to preserve a community’s quality of life for its residents. This Planning Board has omitted it.
Why?
Q: What the Mayor Wildes’ Planning Board is not telling the public?
A: That their Housing Plan was already completed over 1 year ago!
This Housing Plan jeopardizes the suburban life style valued by all residents through the overdevelopment of large apartment buildings with an estimated 4,000 units to be built in the backyard of our neighborhoods and in FEMA flood zones. The new draft Master Plan adds thousands more apartment units, including building in more FEMA Flood zones.
The public objections against the Planning Board and the City Council’s Housing Plan were unprecedented, but ignored.
Don’t let them take away our cherished neighborhoods and the quality of life of our community.
CLICK BELOW AND LISTEN TO WHAT RESIDENTS HAVE TO SAY
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
CALL TO ACTION
It is undeniable that the Planning Board already adopted its Housing Plan to develop massive apartment buildings in single-family neighborhoods, FEMA flood zones, next to schools, and affordable housing communities like King Gardens.
It is undeniable that the Planning Board must prepare a new Housing Plan ordered by State Mandates and to be adopted by the Planning Board.
Now is not the time to rush the Master Plan adoption, but to get it right with full transparency and good government.
Now is the time for the Mayor and the Planning Board to listen to the public outcry from the residents -- Set the roadmap to protect our neighborhoods and community from urbanization
Now is the time to correct the mistakes of the past, otherwise it will be too late.
STAND WITH YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS to ensure the preservation of Englewood's identity, our community, and our quality of life.
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