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Council talks city’s rezoning effects, concerns BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
As protestors and news crews crowded the stairs of the third floor of City Hall, their efforts did not interrupt the original meeting planned by the New Brunswick City Council. With a majority of votes, the council passed an ordinance that permits a greater density of people to live in one unit of property, with one nay from council Vice President Rebecca Escobar. The amendment addresses the rezoning proposal, essentially allowing a landowner with limited land to build tall skyscrapers. The rezoning would allow city business owners to arrange property into larger lots by allowing taller buildings to be built, said Glenn Patterson, director of the Department of Planning, Community and Economic Development. “Five thousand square feet is the minimum [property size for a residential area] for New Brunswick, except in for certain zones on the other side of town [opposite of the hospital], “ he said. With taller buildings, more people could live on one piece of property, specifically allowing 50 people per 100 square feet, Patterson said. “It’s not going to change some of the existing properties but some may be affected,” he said. Norma Hoffman, a homeowner on Hardenberg Street, said grants were given to the community to beautify the neighborhood, but this rezone would impede the efforts. “They want to make our quiet, somewhat tree-lined neighborhood into a giant wall, and they want to start by buying a big parking deck on the first floor,” Hoffman said. “Our days of two- to three-story houses are giving way to 25-story apartments.” Hoffman said the neighborhood was once considered peaceful but is no longer because of the construction. “In terms of one giant building budding another 20-story building, where is the parking?” said Jadwiga Karanieviac, a homeowner on Condict Street.
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With support from protestors, civil rights activist Walter Hudson pushes the New Brunswick City Council last night at City Hall to meet ralliers’ demands regarding the shooting of 46-year-old Barry Deloatch.
Protestors storm council meeting BY AMY ROWE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
They came for justice and will not be silenced until it is served. “We’re fired up, and we’re not going to take it no more,” said Walter Hudson, a civil rights activist and friend of the Deloatch family, which two weeks ago lost a brother and a father in a shooting involving two officers from the New Brunswick Police Department. Community members, who protested nearly every day since the police shooting of 46-year-old Barry Deloatch, flooded City Hall last night during its bi-weekly city council meeting and asked council members to meet their demands. Hudson wrote a letter and distributed a copy to the council members, asking them to send a letter of condolence to Deloatch’s
sons on behalf of the city and for the city to cover the cost of Deloatch’s Saturday funeral. “I have no problem sending a letter of condolence,” said Robert Racine, city council president. Although he could not promise that the city could pay for the funeral, he said he would call Mayor Jim Cahill today to ask him if this is something the city could do. “What they need is support in dollars. I’ve spoken with the Deloatch family every day, I am in the fight, and I am in the struggle,” council member Jimmie Cook Jr. said. Cook said the protestors brought back memories of his time protesting in New Brunswick over issues of police brutality years ago. “If you think I’m sitting on the side of this table and not feeling for the family, then you’re wrong,” he said. “This is not a New Brunswick problem but an epidemic across the country.”
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Eric LeGrand shares hope at Project Civility
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Hudson said the protest was moved to the city council meeting because it gives community members an opportunity to see what their elected officials do for them. “We need to see about our elected officials’ incompetence in destroying the safety and welfare of the city,” he said. “We need to pack the meetings each and every time so people can [remind officials] they work for them, not the other way around.” Salaam Ismmail, a civil rights activist who worked in New Brunswick for 20 years, asked the council to arrange a public forum on police misconduct so citizens’ voices could be heard. “It makes you hear the problem and see some long-term actions,” Ismmail said. “Get rid of some of the racist cops that continue to walk the borders of New Brunswick.”
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DAILYTARGUM.COM ESPN Director Kory Kozak and School of Arts and Sciences senior Eric LeGrand join Project Civility last night to present a video of progress over the past year.
What is civility? A student not cutting class short by packing up his things early, bridging the political gap between Jewish and Muslim students on campus or a community rallying around an injured athlete. Project Civility presented its progress over the past year with the help of Kory Kozak and Eric LeGrand last night in an event on Busch campus titled, “Civility Abilities I: We Believe in Eric LeGrand.” “We couldn’t think of anybody who represented transcending a challenge in our community better than Eric LeGrand,” said Senior Dean of Students Mark Schuster as he opened the event, inviting Kozak and LeGrand. Kozak, an ESPN director and University alumnus, presented his feature video of LeGrand, his mother and sister, telling LeGrand’s story from the game against Army a year ago, to his current recovery.
“Seeing how the community rallied around Eric made me come here to do this,” he said. “Eric is a great guy, and I wanted to make sure it came off that way, his strength would come out.” In a familiar air of optimism, LeGrand shared his own story of taking classes at the University and his plans for the future. “I think of the future and all the people I have impacted. It is my responsibility to get better after all these people supported me,” he said. “If it was up to me, I’d up by now, but I have to be patient.” He said he felt the support of everyone around him, and it gave him strength to continue, believing one day he will walk again. LeGrand described his typical day to the audience — therapy, eating, class, TV, relaxing, doing his routine at home, bike and friends.
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