Politics

Hudson County officials announce extension for Jersey City property owners to file tax appeals.

The state’s Assembly advanced a bill that would create two new types of licenses for restaurants without bar areas, which would give eateries cheaper booze-serving options.

The council’s recently passed ordinance outlaws rent increases through at least August at many properties that have four apartments or less and at all rent-controlled units.

The first step has been taken to revitalize a theater in the Raritan Valley town that has been vacant for almost two decades.

Both candidates in the city’s mayoral race discuss affordable housing, what’s currently being done to support it, and what they want to see moving forward.

Agendas and minutes from Newark’s planning, zoning, and landmarks meetings have not been published online since March. This comes after the website was down for nearly the entire winter.

A few years after embracing short-term rentals, the city council is weighing an ordinance that would place heavy restrictions on them in the name of combating a housing shortage.

The West Orange town council passed a resolution this week to designate an office park an “area in need of redevelopment.” The 4-1 vote stands at odds with the wave of public criticism during the meeting against the designation, which paves the way for a windfall tax abatement.

Mayor Fulop announced yesterday that he’s taken the first in creating an Exchange Place Special Improvement District (SID). Once created it will become the city’s sixth SID.

Financial delays and politics put One Journal Square in limbo. But a new investor and political meetings promise to bring the project back to life.