Monthly Archives: September 2024

The great spinmeister

Jocelyn Mathiasen is running for a third term on the Borough Council, trying to position herself as a mainstream opponent of overdevelopment, just as she did In 2018, when she first ran for Council using the slogan “Keep Chatham Chatham.”

https://patch.com/new-jersey/chatham/post-office-plaza-another-reason-vote-dems-tomorrow

Ms Mathiasen’s anti-overdevelopment posture is totally inconsistent with her six-year tenure on the Council.

During that time, she has never opposed, or even failed to promote and vote for, any step toward every overdevelopment scheme that has ever come along, including at Post Office Plaza and River Road.

There is no reason to believe she has changed.

Wait. Another big project on River Road??!

Yes!

At its Monday, September 23 meeting, the Borough Council will reveal plans to use your money to pay a planner to draft a redevelopment plan for yet another huge project on River Road – a 500-unit apartment project – twice as big as the Ivy at the corner of Watchung Avenue.

Start at 1:49:45 here: https://chathamborough.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=1&clip_id=268

ChatGPT must be a real estate shark! Despite repeated demands, Chat GPT refused to generate an image of a four story building, but only a taller building like this.

UPDATE Here’s what the Tap had to say about the meeting: https://www.newsbreak.com/share/3608817195691-chatham-borough-council-president-we-re-taking-baby-steps-on-redevelopment-plan-for-river-road-residents-wary-of-a-pilot?_f=app_share&pd=0EKN9Y6I&lang=en_US&send_time=1727313832&trans_data=%7B%22platform%22%3A0%2C%22cv%22%3A%2224.38.2.6%22%2C%22languages%22%3A%22en%22%7D&sep=ns_foryou_recall_exp_24q3-v7%2Cns_local_strategy_24q3_exp-v15%2Cns_summary_v1-v2%2Cns_foryou_rank_exp_24q3-v1%2Cns_xjk-v1%2Cns_foryou_blend_exp_24q4-v5%2Cns_foryou_model_exp_24q4-v3&s=i1&fbclid=IwY2xjawFiQs9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHUgHWE-FFDK_3-l0U0A6tM4HsHuKY1O8Xy3X_lG09ZZJdAtwirK_kYzWRA_aem_RO5Av1Ni9fx4WSmylJDheQ