Title
Dept/ Agency: Economic and Housing Development
Action: ( ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing ( ) Amending
Type of Service: Filing of Final Green Acres Application by the Department of Economic and Housing Development.
Purpose: Resolution Supporting the Department of Economic and Housing Development's State House Commission Final Application to NJDEP's Office of Transactions and Public Land Administration for a Major Diversion of Portion of Minish Park.
List of Property:
(Address/Block/Lot/Ward)
932-948 McCarter Highway/Block 1/Lot 60/Central Ward
950-964 McCarter Highway/Block 2/Lot 29/Central Ward
Additional Information:
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WHEREAS, Block 1, Lot 60 and Block 2, Lot 29 are part of the City of Newark's ("City") Minish Park (the "Diversion Parcels"), and each is encumbered with restrictions against disposal or diversion from recreation and conservation uses ("Green Acres Restrictions") by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's ("NJDEP") Office of Transactions and Public Land Administration ("OTPLA"); and
WHEREAS, to enable the City to grant an easement through the Diversion Parcels to allow a private redeveloper (the "Redeveloper") to access an adjacent parcel (Block 1, Lot 46.02) to construct a mixed-use residential redevelopment project with a 20 percent affordable housing component, it is necessary for the City to remove the Green Acres Restrictions from an approximately 0.075-acre (3,260 sf) portion of Block 1, Lot 60 and an approximately 0.080-acre (3,498 sf) portion of Block 2, Lot 29 at Minish Park; and
WHEREAS, in order to facilitate construction of the access driveway through the Diversion Parcels, the Redeveloper will also be granted temporary construction easement rights over an approximately 0.114-acre (4,947 sf) portion of Block 1, Lot 60 and an approximately 0.011-acre (482 sf) portion of Block 2, Lot 29 as a temporary staging and laydown area; and
WHEREAS, the removal of Green Acres Restr...
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