Why is it a free-for-all in JC?

The city should threaten to take away their tax abatement. Still amazed how they took up the 4 parking spots for years by putting up a fake NO PARKING sign on the light pole and painting the curb yellow. Nice it was finally spotted by a SeeClickFix poster, and the city removed it all. But the balls on them for continuing with the dumpsters. Outrageous!

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Tax-abated Jersey City building leasing up fast

Published: May. 06, 2016, 6:16 p.m. nj . com

JERSEY CITY -- A rental building that generated controversy in 2014 when it was granted a 20-year tax abatement is finished and filling up fast, the developer announced.

The building, known by its address, 25 Senate Place, features 265 units ranging from studios to 2-bedroom duplexes with outdoor space. Rents start at $1,695 a month, according to the building's developer, Senate Place Urban Renewal.
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The project generated controversy in early 2014, when residents angered by the abatement turned out in protest for two City Council meetings when the 20-year tax break was approved on first and second reading. Their basic complaint was that the abatement was not necessary in the city's already hot real estate market, and that it was unfair to individual homeowners who had blazed a trail into the neighborhood in a corner of the city's western slope years earlier but got no such break.
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"The people that were here before that put their time in are getting shafted," one resident said during a meeting in March 2014.

The city needs to take this seriously. We have opened countless tickets on this matter and it is constantly getting closed. Now I see Osman gave them a warning and this happens again basically immediately afterward. What they are doing is illegal and the residents of the area should not have to ask for help over and over again. Its truly a slap in the face to law abiding, tax paying constituents.

this shows many of the past tickets AND the "response" from Osman just yesterday:
https://seeclickfix.com/web_portal/PTzvqioTdUqpwQchKJx1dMyo/issues/16228467

Someone has it out for this building. I’m not sure how they are supposed handle the garbage.

How so? Just imagine if every apartment house, business, and house in the city put their garage containers, cans, dumpsters in a legal parking spot in front of their property. Not good. Why does 25 Senate do it over and over.

From a previous issue on 25 Senate…

Division of Sanitation - Frank Lamparelli (Verified Official)
Good afternoon, they do not have permission to put dumpsters in street unless Traffic and engineering issued permits which i doubt because they would need them every time they put garbage out. This complaint has to be redirected to code enforcement. An inspector has to go and talk to management and advise them to keep the dumpsters in driveway until truck gets there to empty them.

03/15/2024 ·

Again, provide a solution as to how the building is supposed to take care of the garbage.

Either they put it on bins or put it on plastic bags on the sidewalk where is an invitation for mice and other rodents. Every other house or building puts plastic bags on the sidewalk and the sidewalk is littered with garbage. Take Newark between tonnelle and jfk as an example.

Here is THE solution follow the law like everyone else does. Don’t take up the very few public street parking spaces in the area. Don’t put out cones reserving them for private use.

From a previous CLF :

wardsee (Registered User)
Municipal Code § 287-28 (“Duties of building owners and lessees”) states that “receptacles shall be kept within the building or in the rear of the premises until the time for the removal of the substances, when the receptacles shall be placed on the sidewalk close to the curb.” That sub-section further states that “[f]or any building with more than ten (10) units using trash services provided by the city, no receptacles shall be placed on the sidewalk close to the curb before the hour of 10:00 p.m. of the day prior to the scheduled for removal by the designated agency.” For private pickup, “receptacles shall be placed on the sidewalk close to the curb more than two (2) hours before pick-up time.” Finally, “immediately after which the reusable receptacles shall be returned to the building or to the rear of the premises where the reusable receptacles shall be kept, at all times, covered with, a tight-fitting cover.”
03/14/2024

It would be great if the city could go back and get monies for all the days 25 Senate “reserved” the spots. It opened in 2015 Googling it looks like the sign and yellow curb is there in 2018. (doesn’t have pictures for 2017 2016 2015) So let’s just said a daily temporary NO PARKING sign from the city is $25. (guessing)

2024 – 2015 = 8 years 8 x 365 = 2920 days 2920 x $25 = $73,000

Wow that 73k in the Jersey City’s coffers could have maybe lessened the property tax burden on NON TAX ABATED property owners a little bit.

The only time this issue ever got attention was when it was reported as construction on the street. When its opened as litter, the office of compliance closes it immediately the next morning.

Totally out of control.
The people getting away with everything while the good citizens are doing the right thing, are developers and out of town landlords.

I wish you walked down Newark Ave and had the same level of care for the businesses that dump trash all over the sidewalk each night. Or the “grocery” stores that block the sidewalk with their boxes/goods. Jersey City is a free for all and needs some actual enforcement.

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