Over the last few years Lakewood has experienced many challenges b"h mainly due to its explosive growth. Quality of life has changed from a quiet suburbia to a busy city with traffic congestion and sky rocketing property taxes. Speak to anyone you meet ask them how long it takes them to get from point A to point B compared to just a few years ago.
How many hours a day are they wasting sitting stuck on the roads. How many daily car accidents. Speak to young couples who cant afford to buy a home anymore in Lakewood.
You would think there would be a listening ear or at least an attempt to fix the problems and take on the issues. Instead, they cleverly embarked on a campaign of deceit deflection and diversion. How can we continue to fool the tzibbur with slogans catch phrases and articles that we care about them but at the same time ignore their plight and continue lining our pockets. Instead of tackling and trying to fix, they put time and effort and money to keep themselves relevant and stay in power.
They cleverly created a narrative of playing up the anti semitism card, something that was ignored and not taken on for 15 years. Thousands of residents came and spoke up at the masterplan meetings and the majority who had no financial gain all said a resounding NO to the proposed density. The committee members promised No Density, yet they went ahead and approved it. NOt only did 4 0ut of 5 committeemen approve but they left out important clauses that the Planning board put in. There was no mention of widening Cross street from Massachusetts to route 9. There was no mentioning of fixing rt 9 or charging impact fees to developers.
The governing body who are elected and representative of the people have all but ignored the general needs of the public, the will of the community only to favor special interests and those who control them.They promise one thing in front of you and than behind closed doors do something else. Yet, they continue to put out fake news articles about how great they are highlighting stories of kindness that they did. The parshiyos we read now talk about the trickery of Esav and of Lavan, lets hope that we continue in the ways of our forefather yaakov תתן אמת ליעקבץ
How many hours a day are they wasting sitting stuck on the roads. How many daily car accidents. Speak to young couples who cant afford to buy a home anymore in Lakewood.
You would think there would be a listening ear or at least an attempt to fix the problems and take on the issues. Instead, they cleverly embarked on a campaign of deceit deflection and diversion. How can we continue to fool the tzibbur with slogans catch phrases and articles that we care about them but at the same time ignore their plight and continue lining our pockets. Instead of tackling and trying to fix, they put time and effort and money to keep themselves relevant and stay in power.
They cleverly created a narrative of playing up the anti semitism card, something that was ignored and not taken on for 15 years. Thousands of residents came and spoke up at the masterplan meetings and the majority who had no financial gain all said a resounding NO to the proposed density. The committee members promised No Density, yet they went ahead and approved it. NOt only did 4 0ut of 5 committeemen approve but they left out important clauses that the Planning board put in. There was no mention of widening Cross street from Massachusetts to route 9. There was no mentioning of fixing rt 9 or charging impact fees to developers.
The governing body who are elected and representative of the people have all but ignored the general needs of the public, the will of the community only to favor special interests and those who control them.They promise one thing in front of you and than behind closed doors do something else. Yet, they continue to put out fake news articles about how great they are highlighting stories of kindness that they did. The parshiyos we read now talk about the trickery of Esav and of Lavan, lets hope that we continue in the ways of our forefather yaakov תתן אמת ליעקבץ
