CITY OF PATERSON FIRST WARD REDEVELOPMENT PLAN CITY OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY PREPARED BY: HEYER, GRUEL & ASSOCIATES November 2017 HEYER, GRUEL & ASSOCIATES FIRST WARD REDEVELOPMENT PLAN CITY OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Mayor Jane E. Williams-Warren City of Paterson, City Council City of Paterson, Planning Board Ruby Cotton, President Janice Northrop, Chairperson Luis Velez, Vice President Dr. Lilisa Mimms, Vice-Chairperson Maritza Davila Ala Abdelaziz Shahin Khalique Willamae Brooks William McKoy Harry M. Cavallos Domingo “Alex” Mendez Mark Fischer Ken Morris, Jr. Eddie Gonzalez Michael Jackson Jesus R. Castro Andre Sayegh Maritza Davila Hector L. Nieves, Jr. Stacey A. Coleman Alfred V. Acquaviva, Esq., Board Counsel City of Paterson, Department of Economic Development Margarita “Maggie” Rodriguez, Board Secretary Ruben Gomez, Director Heyer, Gruel & Associates City of Paterson, Division of Planning & Zoning Susan S. Gruel, PP, Principal Michael Deutsch, PP/AICP, Director Fred Heyer, PP/AICP, LEED AP-ND, CNUa, Principal John Barree, PP/AICP Senior Planner Elena Gable, Assistant Planner/ GIS Specialist NOVEMBER 2017 HEYER, GRUEL & ASSOCIATES FIRST WARD REDEVELOPMENT PLAN CITY OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION DESIGN STANDARDS 1 49 General Design Standards PLANNING CONTEXT Residential Architectural Design Standards 7 Description of Area Commercial Architectural Design Standards Land Use Streetscape Standards Community Facilities Landscaping Standards Transportation Signage Standards Parking and Circulation Standards GOALS AND OBJECTIVES Lighting Standards 23 Crime Prevention through Environmental DISTRICT STANDARDS Design Principals 27 Relationship to City’s Land Development Regulations 69 ACTION PLAN RA-1 Residential District Opportunities orf Strategic Development RA-2 Residential District Circulation Improvements S-R Senior Residential District C-1 Neighborhood Commercial District 83 RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER PLANS C-2 General Commercial District P-U Public Use District OTHER STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS A-R Adaptive Reuse Mixed Use District 91 O-S Open Space District IMPLEMENTATION R-4 High Density Residential District 95 Administrative Procedures NPGD National Park Gateway District Funding Opportunities LW Live/Work Community Overlay District NOVEMBER 2017 HEYER, GRUEL & ASSOCIATES FIRST WARD REDEVELOPMENT PLAN CITY OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY INTRODUCTION PATERSON FIRST WARD NOVEMBER 2017 1 INTRODUCTION 2 HEYER, GRUEL & ASSOCIATES FIRST WARD REDEVELOPMENT PLAN CITY OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY INTRODUCTION in 2008 and resulting housing foreclosure crisis had a major impact on the City of Paterson’s First Ward on the north side of the Paterson, including many properties in the Passaic River, is a 200+ acre area of the City First Ward. This has contributed to the high which has been plagued by issues of neglect and number of residences in the Area that are abandonment for many years. The First Ward either boarded up or abandoned. Neighborhood between the Passaic River, North 7th Street, West Broadway, and Totowa Avenue, is • Flooding events of Hurricane Irene and in need of new investment and revitalization. The Super-storm Sandy City of Paterson for many years has had a history Recent storm events that brought heavy of using Redevelopment as a tool for proactively rainfall to the region have resulted in planning the City’s future, and stimulating devastating floods that left many homes and First Ward Redevelopment Area new development in neighborhoods that need businesses in the Area damaged. improvements. The First Ward Redevelopment Plan serves as a guide for new development in the • Development of a Northside Neighborhood Northside of the City. Plan A revitalization plan for the Northside Redevelopment as a planning tool for municipalities neighborhood, which occupies the areas such as Paterson provides a number of benefits. east of West Broadway, and south of 7th Redevelopment allows the City to take a more Street within the First Ward Redevelopment proactive approach to development, and attract Area, was developed in order to provide for the right type of development it seeks to benefit economic development opportunities, and the neighborhoods. Redevelopment also provides quality of life improvements for residents. financial incentives for potential developers that may not be available otherwise. Developers can • Development of a New Master Plan for the First Ward Redevelopment Area qualify for long-term tax abatement and low- City interest loans to offset the costs of development, The City adopted a new Master Plan in which can help stimulate growth where it otherwise April of 2014 which updated the goals and may not occur. objectives from the previous Master Plan. The new Master Plan also made specific This Plan is an update to the First Ward recommendations for the First Ward Redevelopment Plan. Since the original adoption Redevelopment Area. of the First Ward Redevelopment Plan in October of 2003, the following significant events have taken • Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park place, which have impacted the First Ward Area: The National Park Service has recently adopted a General Management Plan for the • Economic Recession National Historical Park. The national economic recession that began First Ward Redevelopment Area NOVEMBER 2017 3 INTRODUCTION CONTENTS OF A REDEVELOPMENT PLAN the “State Planning Act” P.L. 1985,C.398 (N.J.S.A.52:18A-196 et seq.). The Redevelopment Plan becomes the formal 6. As of the date of the adoption of the planning document guiding the redevelopment resolution finding the area to be in need of and revitalization of the Redevelopment Area. redevelopment, an inventory of all housing The Redevelopment Plan is statutorily required to units affordable to low and moderate include an outline for the planning, development, income households, as defined pursuant to redevelopment or rehabilitation of the section 4 of P.L. 1985 c.222 (C.52:27D-304), Redevelopment Area sufficient to indicate: that are to be removed as a result of implementation of the redevelopment plan, 1. Its relationship to definitive local objectives whether as a result of subsidies or market Abandoned Building as to appropriate land uses, density of conditions listed by affordability level, population and improved traffic and public number of bedrooms, and tenure. transportation, public utilities, recreational 7. A plan for the provision, through new and community facilities and other public construction or substantial rehabilitation of improvements. one comparable, affordable replacement 2. Proposed land uses and building housing unit for each affordable housing requirements in the redevelopment area. unit that has been occupied at any time 3. Adequate provision for the temporary and within the last 18 months, that is subject to permanent relocation, as necessary, of affordability controls and that is identified as residents in the redevelopment area that to be removed as a result of implementation will be displaced including an estimate of the of the redevelopment plan. extent to which decent, safe and sanitary dwelling units affordable to displaced Homes and Businesses in the First Ward residents will be available to them in the This Redevelopment Plan provides a detailed guide existing local housing market. for the revitalization of this area of Paterson. The 4. An identification of any property within following is a review of the area, the basis for the Redevelopment Area that is proposed the development of the Plan in the Master Plan, to be acquired in accordance with the and the District land use standards. This Plan Redevelopment Plan. also provides the administrative procedures and 5. Any significant relationship of the requirements for the implementation of the Plan. Redevelopment Plan to: a. The Master Plans of contiguous municipalities; b. The Master Plan of the County in which the municipality is located; and c. The State Development and Redevelopment Plan adopted pursuant to Historic Mill in the First Ward 4 HEYER, GRUEL & ASSOCIATES FIRST WARD REDEVELOPMENT PLAN CITY OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY PROCESS computers and adult education classes would be very welcome, and could replace the The First Ward Redevelopment Area was library and its previous functions. originally designated as an “an area in need of • Abandoned properties are troublesome redevelopment” in May of 2003, along with throughout the neighborhood. areas in the Fourth and Fifth Wards of the City. • There is a need to plan for future flood events. These redevelopment area designations came as a result of the City’s 2003 Master Plan, which recommended that many of the City’s central Together North Jersey, a collaborative planning residential neighborhoods be investigated for their initiative has sponsored two recent studies in potential to be designated as “areas in need on the First Ward Redevelopment Area. A Crime redevelopment” to help catalyze revitalization. Prevention Through Environmental Design audit This resulted in the Planning Board undertaking was completed in April 2015, and the Northside formal redevelopment studies to examine each Community Action Plan was completed in February of these areas, and it was determined at that 2015. time that these areas were statutorily in need of redevelopment. This update to the First Ward Redevelopment Plan is a direct output of the 2014 Master Planning After the redevelopment designation, a formal process and seeks to build on the other planning Redevelopment Plan for the First