NEWARK, NJ - The city will host two community meetings about a zoning ordinance that would allow buildings in the Ironbound to increase in height.

The first meeting kicks off tonight at 6:30 p.m. to discuss the MX-3 zone ordinance. Members of the city’s Economic and Housing Development department will be on hand, city spokesman Frank Baraff said.

“This is part of a process of giving people in the community input before anything is put in stone,” Baraff said.

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City council is slated to vote tomorrow on a new proposal for MX-3 after a Superior Court judge last month overturned the original ordinance, which could have allowed new developments to be built up to 20 stories high. Buildings in the Ironbound can generally only go up to eight stories under the city’s current land use laws.

The judge's ruling made any project approved under the MX-3 ordinance null, putting a 12-story residential development at 28-50 McWhorter St. in jeopardy.

Council members on Nov. 8 postponed a vote for the new iteration of the ordinance, which would have referred the proposal to the city’s planning board for review. The city’s corporation counsel put the proposal up for a vote on the floor, so it was only mentioned in the online agenda after the meeting had ended.

The first community meeting tonight will take place at Mantena Global Care on 294 Ferry St. The second meeting will be held at the Ironbound Early Learning Center at 1 Newark Ave.

City council is scheduled to vote on its latest MX-3 proposal tomorrow at 10 a.m. in the council chambers on the second floor of City Hall.





Note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the time of the city council meeting. It begins at 10 a.m., not 12:30 p.m.

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