Budget committees in both houses of the Legislature advanced a bill Monday to redevelop Liberty State Park in Jersey City, despite protests from environmentalists and some lawmakers in the Assembly.
The 17-member task force would investigate short- and long-term plans to improve the park’s amenities. The bill was amended to ensure limited privatization by banning a proposed casino from being opened on the parkland and reducing the appropriation from the original $250 million — amendments opponents praised but said didn’t go far enough.
Representatives from the Liberty State Park For All Coalition, as well as the People’s Park Foundation, which is funded in part by Fireman, spoke in favor of the bill on Monday, arguing that new sports facilities and park improvements would benefit Jersey City. “I would like to state for the record that if there is ever an effort by the DEP to sell off Caven Point or develop it, or divert it for any inappropriate use, it will be contrary to federal law and I will sue DEP … and I suspect we’ll win,” he said.
“I think that we need to focus on what we’re trying to do,” he said. “Establish a task force, clean up the park, build some athletic facilities, and that’s it.”“Not having protective language about this area in the park doesn’t really make sense if you’re not trying to develop it,” she said in the Assembly committee.
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