Acting on recommendations in the new downtown strategic plan, City Council is poised to eliminate the prohibition of tattoo parlors and limits on personal service uses within downtown and eliminate the need for Planning Board approval for conforming permitted uses.
Continue reading Downtown limits to be lifted on tattoo studios, personal services
The Rahway River is both a strength, for its green spaces and identity that it brings to the city, as well as threat, given the flooding that it creates, as recently as Hurricane Ida in September.
City Council is expected to approve a new zoning map at its next meeting, the first revision of the zoning map in more than a decade.
A former Burger King property on Routes 1/9 received use variances that would allow a liquor store and office space on the property.
The city’s total assessed value inched up again last year for the second year in a row, led by a nearly 3% increase in assessed value of Class 4C Apartment.
City Council is pursing another recommendation from the 2019 master plan re-examination that would encourage mixed-use development with apartments above ground-floor commercial and office uses along West Grand Avenue.
Continue reading Council pursues overlay zone for West Grand
It’s not often you get to have some input in the direction of your town, besides public comments at council meetings and the like. Now, you have an opportunity to have some say from the comfort of your home computer or smartphone.
As part of efforts to create a downtown strategic vision, the city is soliciting feedback over the next few weeks via a survey.