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PETITION TO MAYOR, TOWN COUNCIL AND PLANNING BOARD

RETHINK THE 14 ACRE ONE WESTFIELD PLACE DEVELOPMENT

We, the undersigned, all residents of Westfield, NJ, ask the Mayor, Town Council and Planning Board to reconsider the Ordinance 2198 redevelopment plan and to reduce the scope and size of One Westfield Place development project to RETHINK and provide ALTERNATIVE PLANS for the town’s residents to review and consider. 

1. This project is much TOO BIG in scope and size; and will irrevocably alter the small town character that all of us love and enjoy.  The plans as proposed will obliterate the idyllic sight lines of trees and church steeples and reduce the amount of open space that brings our residents a sense of tranquility. 

2. This project would increase traffic, pollution and congestion. We feel that the actual impacts of the project (i.e., traffic, PILOTs, business, real estate, neighborhood scale) are insufficiently investigated and being downplayed by the Streetworks developer and our elected officials. 

3. We object to the Town Council’s:

• unreasonable zoning overrides
•  non-competitive sale of our municipal lots to the developer
• lack of a solid basis for this expansive and significant plan
• lack of a full and fair public hearing to form a solid basis for public decision-making
• misuse of Local Housing and Redevelopment Law and,
• misrepresentation of residents’ responses to the Master Plan Reexamination Survey

By This Petition We The Undersigned Demand: 

A well-considered and feasible long-term redevelopment plan that maintains Westfield’s finances, neighborhood character, and quality of life. We urge and demand that the Developer, Mayor and Town Council, Town Administration, and other elected representatives and appointed officials: 

1) PAUSE further approvals and agreements related to Ordinance 2198 and the Streetworks development proposal, and

2) PROVIDE alternative proposals, including other uses for the municipal lots, which reflect a sincere and collaborative process involving the input and ideas of all Town stakeholders and residents and that reduces the size and scope of this development project.